No Joke About Health
While the origin of some holidays — like April Fool’s Day — remains cloaked, information about medical facts shouldn’t be. Check out some of these common claims to learn what’s true… and what’s just...
Your Health. Your Lifestyle. Vitamins and Minerals
Mental Spring Cleaning
With the beautiful weather and renewed energy the season brings, many will tackle the yearly ritual of spring cleaning. While you’re removing clutter, consider cleaning your mind as well. After all, doesn’t it get...
Menstrual Cycle
A healthy menstrual cycle is perhaps the best indicator you have of general good health. You can get to know your body more intimately by observing the changes that take place in it each...
The Role of Nutrition
What you eat plays a crucial role in your health – a fact borne out time and again by medical research. The overriding principle is easy: The quality of what you put into your...
Supplements
In an ideal world, a diet rich in healthy foods would give your body all the nutrients it needs. However, modern farming and agricultural methods make that ideal virtually impossible to achieve. Even small...
The Best Supplements
In order to make the most of your supplements, you need to make sure your body can absorb them as easily as possible – and this means buying supplements that are of good quality....
Is it safe to use USANA’s Vitamin D product AND the Essentials or HealthPak?
In recent years, many studies have reported that vitamin D deficiencies are surprisingly common worldwide, especially during winter months. As such, many doctors and health professionals have advised supplementing with vitamin D at levels...
USANA Proflavanol C100
Does USANA Proflavanol C100 contain antihistamines? No USANA products (including Proflavanol C100 and Proflavanol C200) contain antihistamines. How is Proflavanol C100 different from USANA Proflavanol and Proflavanol 90? * Grape seed extract dosage has...
What is Booster C 600?
USANA’s new Booster C 600 product is designed to provide seasonal immune system support. It contains zinc, echinacea extract (Echinacea purpurea), black elderberry extract, and vitamin C, including USANA‘s proprietary Poly C® blend. Additionally,...
Do USANA products contain artificial colors, sweeteners, or flavorings?
Summary from the Scientists USANA products do not contain any artificial colors or sweeteners. USANA‘s Wild Strawberry Nutrimeal contains artificial flavoring, but it is in no way a health concern. All food – whether...
How does USANA ensure product safety, especially for new products?
Product safety is assessed on a case-by-case basis. Toxicities of vitamins and minerals have been researched at length, and USANA has considered all available information when formulating its nutritional products. Most vitamins have low...
What makes USANA Probiotic different from other probiotic supplements?
While probiotics have known benefits, there are many factors to consider when choosing a specific probiotic supplement. First, note that different probiotic products utilize different bacteria strains. Numerous probiotic strains are available, many of...
How can processed foods like the USANA Food products be low-glycemic?
As a general rule of thumb, highly processed foods are more likely to be high-glycemic than raw, whole foods. However, this rule is not set in stone, as it depends on the content of...
How can USANA Food products be healthy if they are processed foods?
Depending on the definition used, nearly every food available for purchase is “processed” to one degree or another. (Even the vast majority of fruits and vegetables are harvested and sorted by machinery.) Taken literally,...
Aspirin: Is it Good for You and Your Heart?
Eighty billion aspirin tablets are taken every year to cure pain, inflammation and fevers and even for its cardioprotective effects. But is aspirin right for you? The answer, say doctors, lies in measuring your...
Fat soluble vitamins – Vitamin A
Vitamin A refers to any compound or mixture of compounds having vitamin A activity. In animals, vitamin A exists largely in the preformed state as retinol or as one of its related compounds: 3-dehydro-retinol,...
Calming the Dragon
Though nobody likes to admit it, everyone has dragon breath from time to time. Bad breath is just an unpleasant fact of life. There are several reasons your breath may be a little sour:...
Chocotionary
Bitter Chocolate Also known as unsweetened chocolate, although it often contains a small amount of sweetening. It is the chocolate best suited to baking and cooking and is valued by chocolate connoisseurs as its...
Top Chocolate Tips
• If chocolate starts to melt in your hands then you are eating it too slowly. • Chocolate-covered raisins count as fruit. Eat as many as you like. • The problem: How to prevent...
Journal Equations
Success in your walking routine will literally come one step at a time. But you don’t have to embark on each trek blindly. Walking journals not only help track progress by logging measurements like...
Body and mind
Diet is not the only way to look after our body and mind. We need to exercise and reduce stress, if we are to achieve good health. The body needs a pattern for life...
Sweet Revenge
Sugar can zap your energy. Initially, it gives you a quick rush as your blood sugar level peaks. Then, insulin rushes into your blood and quickly escorts that sugar out of your system —...
Women really do wrinkles more than men
Ever wonder why it seems that men don’t get as many wrinkles around their mouths as women do, when matched for age? You’re not wondering, it’s a fact, according to a study published in...
Carbohydrate Sources
There exist certain carbohydrates that cause a large insulin release (insulinigenic foods) and subsequent fat storage potential, and conversely, there exist carbs that are more fibrous and higher in water (voluminous). Intake of the...
Eat Carbohydrates, But how much?
Though it may now seem that uninhibited consumption of carbs is quite fine, think again. In order to use carbohydrate effectively to obtain needed energy to fuel activity, while also burning fat and maintaining...
Superfoods for women
Flaxseeds are rich in lignans, which help protect against breast cancer and regulate menstruation. They’re also full of omega-3 fatty acids and protein and fiber. Blueberries are bursting with antioxidants. They are essential staple...
How to eat for energy and strength
The idea of “dieting” serves nobody since it usually implies that there is an end in sight. Ask yourself, “Do I see myself eating this way a year from now?” and if the answer...
Peak Technique
Putting one foot in front of another is second nature for most. But just because you’ve been toddling since you were in diapers doesn’t mean you’re technically astute. Years of sauntering with your own...
Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH)
Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) is a noncancerous condition in which the prostate of an aging man becomes enlarged. The prostate may then push against the urethra and bladder. Symptoms include frequent, difficult, or painful...
Autoimmune Diseases
Your immune system is supposed to respond to injury, infection, and other irritation by inflaming and thus protecting the affected area. It does this with the release of antibodies, which combat the problem. The...