Avoid Soy for These 4 Reasons
Soy protein products come in many different shapes and textures and are falsely marketed to us as health food. But soy products are not actually healthy. Here are four reasons why: • Soy contains...
Your Health. Your Lifestyle. Vitamins and Minerals
Fall in Line
Even if that curb catches you off guard, your stumble doesn’t have to. Stuntmen, athletes, martial artists, and performers learn the art of plunging with poise. You can too. Program your body to properly...
Practice Yoga for Excellent Health
Yoga originated more than five thousand years ago in India, where it was seen as a complete mental and physical training to help one reach spiritual enlightenment. In recent years yoga has become extremely...
Practice Pilates for a Lean, Strong and Flexible Body
The Pilates method is a series of controlled movements that strengthen the core through the use of a range of apparatuses. The goal of Pilates is to increase your strength, flexibility and control of...
Avoid BPAs
An expert panel of researchers has found that plastic made with a chemical called bisphenol A (commonly known as BPA) is highly toxic and can easily leach into your food and drink. It is...
Do Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) dates back five thousand years. Unlike in Western medicine, where doctors focus on the body part giving you trouble, in TCM your body is seen as an integrated web of...
Do the Alexander Technique
A medical doctor first recommended that I do the Alexander technique when I was fourteen and suffering from a back injury. Not only did it help my back, but it also taught me how...
See a Chiropractor for Back Pain
Eight out of ten people suffer from some form of back pain in their lifetime, due either to poor muscle tone, bad posture, athletic or other injuries, disk problems, or a problem in the...
Use Acupressure for Common Ailments
Acupressure is based on the same concept as acupuncture, but without the needles. Instead of inserting needles, you apply pressure with your fingers and hands on meridian pathways to restore the normal flow of...
Do Acupuncture
Acupuncture has been around for thousands of years and it really works. Acupuncture has to do with energy, or chi, in the body. Energy flows along pathways (meridians) in your body. Each pathway corresponds...
Be Smart about Antibiotics
Antibiotics are amazing, lifesaving substances when used properly. The problem is that we tend to overuse antibiotics these days, taking them at the first sign of a cold or other illness. Antibiotics only treat...
Use Your Language to Help You Lose Weight
Many people don’t realize how large a role language plays in their ability to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight. For instance, most people have an innate fear of dying, so it is...
Scan Size-Up
Advances in medical technology are credited with early disease detection — which means higher survival rates and better prognoses. But are some diagnostic tools causing the illnesses they aim to expose? According to findings...
Fat Chance Omega-3 Fatty Acids
A Superstar nutrient you should get to know better Behind My Name You may think I’m another calorie hog, but there’s much more to me than meets the eye. I am actually a healthy,...
Get These Essential Vitamins and Minerals
Ideally, we’d get all our essential vitamins and minerals from the foods we eat and our environment. But depending on your diet, you may need to supplement with vitamins and minerals. Here’s everything you...
Take the Right Kind of Supplements
If you decide to take supplements, it’s important to know which kind to take. Not all supplements are the same quality, and many of the vitamins available on the market are synthetic and are...
Take Vitamin D3 Supplements
Determining the vitamins and minerals that you need to take all depends on your diet and your won particular deficiencies. However, regardless of your diet there is one vitamin that is essential for anyone...
Achieve Your Ideal Weight with These Easy and Unusual Tricks
It doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated to achieve your optimum size. Here are three uncommon pieces of advice to help make it easy. 1. Put a mirror on your fridge. This will...
Mind Matter
Just as your body needs physical stimulation to stay fit, your mind requires engagement to maintain edge. Activate your neural center with fun activities that flex your brain. Tax your cerebral connections. Try Bingo....
Use News to Lose
The News Before you bite into that juicy burger topped with blue cheese, thick bacon and fried onions, consider this: One in five restaurant calorie listings are incorrect and have at least 100 more...
Take Charge of Your Own Health
Even though we now have access to advanced Western medicine and have so many amazing choices when it comes to health care, good health does not start with your doctor. It starts with you!...
First Things First
It’s the start of a brand new year. Like most, you’re probably hoping your resolutions will produce a thicker wallet and slimmer waistline. Too often, though, the novelty just gathers dust. Give your plans...
Excessive Fat
The average American diet contains about 34.1 percent of calories from fat. Animal experiments and human epidemiologic studies have revealed that this level of fat consumption may increase the risk of certain types of...
Drugged Driving
A study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed an increase in deaths from impaired driving crashes during the holiday season. The analysis states “fatalities associated with impaired driving, expressed as number of...
The immune system and Antioxidants
The immune system is an important defense against invading foreign pathogenic microorganisms such as cancer-causing viruses and is essential for the healing of injured tissues. Foreign antigens and cell injury evoke an immune response...
Common Misconceptions about Cancer
During the past three decades, extensive research on antioxidants, diet, and cancer prevention and treatment has been published in peer-reviewed journals and gives an inconsistent message the public and health professionals regarding the value...
Snowshoeing for Winter Fitness
Looking to move more? Consider snowshoeing. Currently more than 1 million people snowshoe (a 60 percent increase in the last decade) – not a huge surprise when you consider that it’s a sport with...
Your Fitness Gear Up
Why let a little snow keep you from your fitness goals? Get in gear with the stay-toasty workout wear. 1. Snow Warm Out for a stroll or hitting the slopes? The fleece lining in...
Menopause Naturally
Since 2002, when the National Institutes of Health halted a hormone-therapy (HT) trial for safety reasons, women have been worried about HT use. In fact, over half the women surveyed in one study attempted...
The New Pap Rules
Whether you’re 25 or 40-plus, cervical-cancer screening can save your life. What to know before you step into the stirrups. 20s Being getting annual PAP tests 3 years after you start having intercourse or...