Your immune system works hard to kill bacteria and block viruses from invading your cells. As COVID-19 continues to spread across the country, having a strong immune system is more important than ever. But to have a fighting chance, you’ll need to up your game. That means checking yourself and not doing the things that […]
We’ve heard it for years: Americans eat too much sugar. Even when we try to be good, hidden sugar can make its way into our diet, but we may want to be more careful about that. A study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Touro University has found that sugar […]
In the alternative health world, we have a tendency to focus on superfoods — those products of nature that improve our health and nurture our bodies. Often, we skip over those foods which have the opposite effect. These not-so-superfoods can harm not only your health in general, but also the sensitive state of your eyes […]
Research published in the journal Circulation shows the shocking claim that sugary drinks claim up to 184,000 adult lives each year. “This is a single dietary factor with no intrinsic health value causing tens of thousands of deaths per year,” said study co-author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & […]
Like many people in the Baby Bust generation, I grew up on dry, boxed cereal. Sure, my mom would make bacon and eggs, waffles or even homemade donuts on weekends or other special occasions, but for the most part, we ate a vast array of sugar-coated and very tasty cereal with brightly colored boxes and […]
Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of green smoothies. They are touted as the health conscious person’s holy grail. To get more servings of important fruits and vegetables, you’ve just got to drink green smoothies! But what if that healthy-looking drink is actually nutritionally similar to an ice-cream sundae? This could be the case with […]
Blood sugar fluctuations can impact our health in a number of ways. They can cause us to experience either spikes or drops in energy. Chronically low blood sugar can lead to hormonal imbalances, mood changes, foggy thinking, and occasionally more severe symptoms like seizures and loss of consciousness. Chronically high blood sugar can impair the […]
The American food supply has been contaminated. We talk about things like MSG, animal hormones, BPA, heavy metals, and the like (all bad), but there is one particular contaminant that needs to be eradicated more than anything else … and that is sugar. I hate commercial sugar, all colors and kinds: white, brown, powdery and […]
As a nation, we drink a heck of a lot of soda. According to the CDC, 63 percent of youngsters and 49 percent of adults drink a soda (a.k.a. sugar-sweetened beverage) every single day. That’s more than half of the entire U.S. population getting 150 empty calories 365 days a year. Close to 55,000 annual […]
We are all guilty of ignoring the subtle, and sometimes not so subtle ways that our body’s tell us that something is out of whack. When we are busy, it is easy to brush off an occasional headache, muscle pain or even more severe issues like chronic allergies or constipation. What is important to understand […]
