How Much Vitamin D Do I Need A Day?
It’s spring! The flowers are blooming and it’s finally getting warm after a long winter. For most of us that means more time spent outdoors. In addition to getting added exercise, we’ll be absorbing vitamin D naturally through our skin. Vitamin D has been scrutinized by researchers and health care practitioners throughout the past century. […]
Coq10 Benefits: Energize Your Heart and Brain at the Same Time
Coq10 Benefits: The Wonder Compound that Energizes Your Heart, Brain, and Circulation all at the Same Time February is National Heart Month – and this ultra-powerful antioxidant is one of the most important nutrients you can take if you want to support your heart, arteries, blood pressure and circulation. And if you are among the […]
14 Ways to Maintain a Normal Blood Pressure During the Holiday Season
Don’t Let Your Blood Pressure Sky Rocket During the Holidays Did you know that Christmas Eve carries the highest risk for a heart attack, followed by New Year’s Day and Christmas Day?1 It makes sense. Even if you normally eat well, exercise and take vitamins and minerals, it’s easy to get side-tracked and stressed out […]
5 Easy, All-Natural Ways to Ward Off Cold Season
5 Easy, All-Natural Ways to Ward Off Cold Season If you aren’t sleeping as well as you normally do… if you’ve been too busy to exercise…and especially if you have been burning the candle at both ends … be careful. These situations all weaken your immune system. And before you know it, the sneeze […]
March is National Nutrition Month: Foods & Tips That Help You Stay Sharp, Young and Energetic!
March is National Nutrition Month: Foods That Help You Stay Sharp, Young and Energetic Remember the old Food Pyramid that was divided into the five food groups of fruit and vegetables, starchy foods, proteins, milk and dairy, and fats and sugars? It’s changed a lot in the past couple of decades with some nutritionists saying […]
Foods Good For Gut Health— Support Your Gut Bacteria for Optimal Health
It sounds scary, but we have one hundred trillion bacteria living in out guts, 400 to 500 different types weighing in at approximately four pounds. And it’s a good thing. Because you are not only what you eat, you are what you absorb, assimilate, and do not eliminate. And it’s those bacteria — probiotics — […]
10 Natural Ways to Reduce Blood Pressure
10 Natural Ways to Reduce Blood Pressure Did you know that high blood pressure is a silent killer? Since May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month, we’d like to take this opportunity to provide you with the information on some natural ways to reduce blood pressure as well as ways support your cardiovascular health. […]
4 Healthy Ways to Deal with Loneliness & It’s Impact on Your Health
Loneliness Can Lead to Food Cravings, But Healthy Foods Can Provide Satisfying Comfort Understanding healthy ways to deal with loneliness is just as important for your health as diet or exercise. A recently published study in Nature Neuroscience found that when people socially isolate the mid-brain regions are activated in a similar way that they […]
14 Tips to Reduce Stress & Improve Your Life!
Tips to Reduce Stress & Improve Your Life! Stress is not something new. Even though the word was only recently defined by endocrinologist Hans Selye in 1936, as “the nonspecific response of the body to any demand made upon it,” stress has been around for as long as we humans have been around. Selye also […]