Vitamin D is still making headlines in the U.S. after a government panel this month voted against widespread testing of healthy Americans’ blood levels of the nutrient, which has long been thought of as one that may help protect against chronic disease. Often called the “sunshine” vitamin because one 15-minute walk on a sunny day without sunscreen can typically provide an entire day’s worth, vitamin D is necessary to fight disease. Being low in the nutrient is now believed to play a significant role in the progression of many diseases from...
read moreA study has discovered that taking a “tomato” pill could benefit those who are battling heart disease. Researchers have found that the antioxidant lycopene that is found in tomatoes helped promote heart health in some study participants. The study published June 9 in the journal PLOS One included giving 72 participants Ateronon, a supplement tomato pill that contained seven milligrams of lycopene over the course of two months. 36 participants had cardiovascular diseases, while the other 36 were heart healthy. Although the supplement did not...
read moreYou may not realize how many heavy metals your body accumulates on a daily basis. Be it food, air, water, or even assumed benign products like makeup or underarm deodorant the potential for heavy metals to permeate into the human body is a real concern. It can be small traces of such metals as cadmium, copper, lead, chromium or mercury that over time may wreak havoc on your system without even knowing it is the source. There are approximately thirty-five metals you can potentially be exposed to at any given time yet twenty-three of these are...
read moreHumans spend approximately a third of their life asleep, yet getting enough still seems to be a problem for many. If you are struggling with going down and staying down for a healthy six to eight hours learning how to sleep naturally may be what you need. Conventional medicine offers a variety of pharmaceuticals that can knock you out like nobody’s business but you know that a pill can only mean side effects down the line. To sleep naturally means to reassess your entire atmosphere as well as your inner clock. Lawrence Epstein, MD, chief...
read moreThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently considers Type II Diabetes an epidemic in the United States. According to 2012 data, nearly 30 million Americans have either been diagnosed with diabetes or they will be in the near future — a full 28 percent of Americans remain undiagnosed. Type II Diabetes, once known as adult-onset diabetes because it largely struck people in midlife when their exercise rates dipped, they became more sedentary, and their metabolism slowed, is now a disease that strikes all ages — even obese...
read moreIn a funny new novel called To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, author Joshua Ferris’s narrator, Paul O’Rourke, is a depressive and obsessive Park Avenue dentist who begs his patients to floss while waxing poetic about the mouth and its connection to disease. “The mouth is a weird place. Not quite inside and not quite out, not skin and not organ, but something in between: dark, wet … where cancer starts, where the heart is broken, where the soul might just fail to turn up … Flossing prevents periodontal disease and can extend life up to...
read moreOrganic can mean many different things depending on whom you ask. Any chemist, for example, will tell you that all food is organic because it contains the element carbon. The USDA, on the other hand, uses a list of criteria to parse “clean” organic food, from chemical-ridden inorganics. As far as the USDA is concerned, a commercial food product can be labeled “organic” as long as: The food was grown without the use of human waste as fertilizer. No chemicals were used at any stage of the growing process (the USDA maintains a list of permitted...
read moreParents might think twice about that old adage of ‘Do as I say, not as I do’ when trying to convince children to get the crucial sleep they need to thrive. In a new study published this month by researchers at the University of Illinois, sleep routines demonstrated by parents are as important to their children’s health as that rest itself. According to the study, a lack of sleep in children can lead to more than cranky behavior; too little sleep during childhood may also result in a spike in obesity. Researchers in that study directly...
read moreYou can read about all the evils of white sugar and you will still reach for your fix. Hey, you’re human. The thing is, you may want to determine for yourself what is an acceptable fix and what is a sugar addiction. The American diet (and culture) is inundated with products containing processed white sugar which has been proven to adversely affect living things and is addicting. According to the Forbes article, ‘New Evidence That Sugar Is Harming Our Hearts’ (2/14), “Among the health concerns of eating or drinking too much sugar have...
read moreSummer is the season of dietary regret. Most of us enter the year with the best of intentions. We’re going to exercise more. Eat better. Cut down on unhealthy vices. Unfortunately, sociological research suggests that most New Years resolutions fall by the wayside before the end of January. This leaves many of us staring down the barrel of another summer without the requisite level of health and fitness to take full advantage of the beautiful weather. Forget regret. A wise man once said: you can abandon all hope of a better past. What you can...
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