It’s that time of year again – the Girl Scouts are peddling their cookies and we’re buying them up. But what is it about these cookies that the Girl Scouts don’t want you to know? When it comes to health, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that eating a cookie isn’t good for [...]
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Fact: Sleep is Key to Fight Obesity! Sleep deprivation and obesity-is there a link between the two? So many American’s are now obese, more than one-third of us fall into that category. As the decades come and go, the problem just keeps getting worse. Lower amounts of physical activity, higher caloric intake, how our genes [...]
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You know you aren’t “yourself”. You’ve been bothered by chronic indigestion, perhaps leading your doctor to order an endoscopy so he/she could look down your esophagus and into your stomach with a camera, and, give you some tests. It wasn’t the most pleasant thing you’ve done, but then again, neither is chronic indigestion. You want [...]
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Are you serious? Vitamin D? It seems like every health article always asks the one standard question, “Are you getting enough Vitamin D?” We’re now being given a “curve ball” from the Institute of Medicine as they have just issued cautionary advice about taking too much of the sunshine vitamin. Okay, so cautioning about “taking [...]
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Let’s talk about what position you like in bed, for sleep, I mean. Your habit of sleeping on your back or your belly, or even your left or right side, has important implications for your health, says Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH, author of The Power of Rest: Why Sleep Alone Is Not Enough. For example, people [...]
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The Medifast diet is an extremely flexible weight loss program and if you’ve been using Medifast shakes for a while then you’re familiar with two things: The diet works; but after a while you crave more variety. But why? Some people drink the same thing every day and never get sick of it. Take for [...]
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The drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) is currently the most commonly prescribed diabetes medication is now known to raise the risk for heart disease, which itself is one of the most serious health consequences of having diabetes. That’s not good. This is a cautionary tale for our times, rife with corporate greed, medical shortsightedness and, not for [...]
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For anyone on a diet, a salad is always a good meal option regardless of whether it is a snack or an entrée. But the question that we need to ask ourselves is, “are salads really low in calories?” The truth is, the dressings and the fixings can spell the difference between a low-calorie salad [...]
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It’s music to our ears when we learn that things that make us happy are actually good for us, too. A few years ago, researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore showed that laughter had a cardiovascular benefit. Now the same researchers have shown that joyful music elicits that same kind of [...]
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