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Want to Extend Life?
Getting the most from your calories by choosing nutrient dense foods high in protein, fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and healthy fats is a great health strategy, no matter what your goals. What about counting calories? There’s been a recent spate of articles in the popular press about the life-extending effects of reducing calories. Calorie reduction Read More
Vitamin C Could Reduce Inflammation
New research has suggested that higher intakes of vitamin C could cut the level of markers for inflammation by an astonishing 45 percent. What is inflammation? In its simplest form, inflammation is the body’s response to a perceived threat– whether it’s a splinter in our finger, sunburn at the beach or a sprained ankle. So Read More
Vitamin C and Diabetes
A new study has added to the growing amount of research showing that vitamin C- as well as a high intake of vegetables and fruits- may have protective effects against diabetes. This makes more than a little intuitive sense- after all Diabetes is a disease marked by a good amount of oxidative damage- damage done Read More
To Protect Your Liver, Take Five
This hard-working organ is essential to life itself and must function properly to ensure good health. Five supplements can help keep your liver healthy. Your liver weighs 3 pounds, stores minerals and vitamins, metabolizes fats, carbohydrates and protein, produces energy, manufactures proteins the body can use for repair and growth and regulates use of fat Read More
The expanding list of benefits from the miracle nutrient, CoQ10
What essential nutrient for the heart is not a vitamin, nor a mineral? It’s CoQ10, technically known as a ‘ubiquinone’ because of its ‘ubiquitous’ distribution throughout the body. CoQ10 is found in every single cell, concentrated in particular in structures called the mitochondria. The mitochondria are the cell’s headquarters for energy production and fat burning Read More
Supporting Your Gallbladder with Supplements
Vitamins A and C are just two of the nutrients your body requires to keep this important organ operating at peak performance. Whether you are plagued with gallstones or just want to head off any future problems with your gallbladder, a good diet with sufficient healthy fat and protein and reduced carbohydrate is essential, as Read More
Scientists Concerned with Plummeting Nutrient Levels
Nutrient levels in fruits, vegetables and some other food crops have declined dramatically over the past 50 years. New research indicates that the old maxim “you can get all the vitamins you need from food” is less and less true. Recent studies of vegetables, fruits and wheat have revealed a 5-35 percent decline in some Read More
Healthy Diet, Healthy Eyes
Macular degeneration is a condition of the eyes that leaves sufferers with only limited sight. Also known as AMD for age-related macular degeneration, it affects over 30 million people worldwide, and is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50. You might not think nutrition has anything to do with the eyes, but it Read More
Get the Most Out of Your Fruits and Veggies!
Fruits and vegetables are amazing- but the benefit you get from them may have a lot to do with what else you’re eating (or not eating). Almost everyone knows that eating more fruits and vegetables is one of the best ways to insure a long and healthy life and to lower the risk of cancer, Read More
Don’t Forget to Take Your Supplements
Vitamins and minerals are important for everyone. More and more doctors are treating their patients (whenever possible) with vitamin and mineral supplements in lieu of pharmaceuticals. Over the last two decades, thousands of physicians and more health practitioners have learned how to practice such nutritional pharmacology. Complementary medicine combines the best of conventional and alternative Read More
