Healthy Living
Developing a Strong and Durable Core
Your core is quite possible the most important part of your body. While most people tend to think of your core as simply six-pack abs, the truth is, your core encompasses so much more. Specifically, your core typically measures from just under your chest, all the wa...
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Combat the Season of Sneezing with a Natural Allergy Relief Kit
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, you may have the urge to barricade the doors and windows every spring. There is help! An excellent way to combat this yearly annoyance is to make a natural allergy kit. Put together the essential tools to ease your suffering and help...
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Weight Loss...It's All About Timing
There is a lot of importance placed on what we put into our bodies when it comes to targeting weight loss. The age old adage of calories in versus calories burned still rings true, however, good health is about much more than that. The ingredients in foods are just as imp...
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Why do U.S. Born Kids Have More Allergies than Immigrants?
New research published in the recent issue of JAMA Pediatrics shows a startling disparity between children born in the U.S. and those who immigrate from other parts of the world: The foreign children have nearly half the risk of developing allergies and asthma as the U.S....
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The Saturday Roundup: April 27, 2013
The months just seem to be flying by as we just finished up our last full week of April! We hope you had a great week and that this weekend, you get a chance to kick up your feet and relax. Take a look at the best we had to offer from this past week!Eat14-Year-...
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4 Relaxing Concoctions to Put in Your Bath
You’re wound up like a top from work, or your in-laws showed up unexpectedly for the weekend. What do you do? Take a bath and let your troubles melt away. Don’t just pour some dish soap into the bathtub and pretend you’re at the spa, try these concoctions to really help y...
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Rayon: What You Need to Know About this Fiber and Your Health
Women have quite a few considerations men never have to face, namely our monthly menstrual cycle. While chocolate can relieve some menstrual frustration, there are plenty of frustrations that don't come from the physical ailments. The issue of which product is bes...
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Multitasking: Healthy or Unhealthy?
How do you feel when I say the word “multitasking”? Do you feel overwhelmed? Or do you proudly say that you’re a good multitasker? Does it stress you out? Or do you feel efficient?As a health professional, I’m supposed to tell you that multitasking may be bad for you...
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What is the BRAIN Initiative?
President Obama recently announced his support for an initiative that would map out the brain's activity, and it's no small undertaking. With a $3 billion budget, the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative (BRAIN) could provi...
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Are Human Genes Patentable? Supreme Court Hearing Arguments
The Supreme Court is reviewing a case of gene patents, which the biotech industry argues is vital to innovations in medicine and biotechnology. Opposing the right to patent genes is the American Civil Liberties Union, which argues that human gene sequencing should never b...
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Is There Mercury in Your Mouth?
Mercury is a potent neurotoxin. In fact, it’s flat out poison. Over the past decade we’ve heard lots of talk about mercury poisoning, the symptoms of which include feeling weak, tired, having muscular pain, twitches, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and problems concentrati...
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Birth Month Linked to Immune Function
Forget horoscopes and birthstones—another connection to the month when you were born could be even more significant for your wellbeing. Recent research may have proven a connection between the strength of immune systems and the month in which you were born. While ...
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A Reason to Smile: Switching to Natural Toothpaste
Are you interested in switching over to more natural beauty products, but not sure where to start? It’s best to tackle one product change at a time and to transform your bathroom cabinet slowly. Here are some tips on which ingredients to look for when buying natural tooth...
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Unhealthy Eating Behaviors Will Make You Feel Worse
The next time you are tempted to pig out on junk food when you feel badly, think again. Unhealthy eating behaviors just might make you feel worse, according to a new study. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University's Survey Research Center looked at college age women co...
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Choosing the Most Nutritious Pet Food
The pet food aisle can be a daunting experience for dog and cat owners, especially first-timers. Do you buy dry food, canned, or raw? Grain-free or proteins mixed with vegetables or rice? Is generic okay or do you need to buy premium food? The short answer to these questi...
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Drugs And ADHD In Children
Stimulant drugs are the conventional treatment of choice for treating the symptoms of ADHD. At least 30% of children prescribed these drugs find them ineffective, or cannot tolerate them. For these children, finding an alternative is essential. For a majority of other...
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Women's Health Tips
In honor of International Women’s Day last week let’s look at some ways to stay healthy as a woman. From the inside out we have special health needs that are particular to being women. Here is a checklist of health tips for women only. Happy International Women’s Day!...
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How To Be Positive!
If you’re a glass half empty kind of person you may be doing damage to your physical health. A recent study investigated the link between optimism and the presence of more antioxidants in the blood. The study found that the more positive a person was, the more their antioxi...
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Can Exercise Boost Your Self-Control?
You can never have too many reasons to exercise, and those reasons are quite plentiful right now. Yes, it can reduce your risk of developing chronic diseases or illnesses, yes it can make you feel younger and yes it can make you look good. But what if I told you that exe...
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Show Some Love For Skin Care!
The largest organ in the body, the skin, shows no mercy when it comes to exposing our health and lifestyle choices. For instance, breakouts of acne can mirror back to us our stressful and overly scheduled lives. Similarly, if our water intake is very low our skin may show...
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Too Busy To Exercise?
One of the biggest reasons people dont exercise is because they believe theyre too busy. Finding the time to exercise can be a real scheduling challenge for a lot of people, especially when it comes to career demands and balancing that with your life at home. Fortunately,...
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Need Help Getting To Sleep?
Lets have a show of hands. How many of you know at least one adult who can consistently claim to get a good nights sleep on a regular basis? Actually, let me be more specific. Can you—or anyone you know—claim to regularly get good sleep without the help of a sleep aid? Ar...
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4 Holistic Ways To Avoid Food Poisoning
Anyone who has suffered through a bout of food poisoning knows how serious it can be. In extreme circumstances food borne illness can even cause death. So, it would be wise for you to familiarize yourself with the basics of kitchen safety and personal hygiene in order to ...
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Daylight Savings Time And Your Health
Amidst all the winter madness it’s hard to believe that daylight savings time is right around the corner. Most people rejoice as this time approaches as it officially signifies that spring is right around the corner and that well be saying goodbye to old man winter quite ...
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Can Children Lose Weight Surfing the Web?
Childhood obesity is a serious issue in our country layered in a number of contributing factors that arent necessarily easy to undo. However new research has found social media may be one way to target this life-threatening disease.According to the Centers for Diseas...
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Warm Temperatures Affect Our Brain Health
I know youre probably looking forward to the spring thaw as much as I am, but what if I told you that the warm weather may actually make it more difficult to think straight? Well, thats what a recent article in ScientificAmerican claims, anyway.According to the resea...
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Hawaii Moves To Label GMOs, Sort Of
Many Californians are still lamenting the November 2012 loss of Proposition 37, the ballot initiative that would have made it the first state to require mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients. And while Big Ag and the biotech industry succ...
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Treating Toenail Fungus With Essential Oils
While there are more frustrating and debilitating things that can happen to the human body, thats no reason to ignore toenail fungus. What may begin as a mild discoloration of the nail can spread deeper into the nail bed causing thickening and crumbling of the nails, beco...
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Skip the Nightcap: Alcohol's Impact on Sleep
It may be your favorite way to end an evening, but you just might want to skip the nightcap as new research shows that consuming alcohol just before bed can disrupt your sleep.The paper, published in the April 2013 issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experi...
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Exercise Recovery And Muscle Growth
We all know about the importance of physical exercise and sticking to a scheduled workout regimen. Its kind of been driven into our heads that physical exercise is very, very good for us. Regular physical exercise has been proven to provide a variety of benefits bot...
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Are Toxins Making You Iodine Deficient?
Regular exposure to common toxins are impacting iodine levels and leading to numerous health problems, according to an article by Dr. Mark Sircus, Ac., OMD, DM (P) published on GreenMedInfo.com.Iodine is particularly vulnerable to competing halogens including fluori...
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Love Your Body... First
Ah, women. We’re an awesome bunch – how we run around like crazy people making sure the kids get where they’re supposed to be, properly fed, decently clean and somewhat on-time. Then there’s all the cooking, laundry, tutoring, doctoring and crisis management. Then there’s the ...
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Herbal Lymphatic System Tonic Recipe
During the cold slowness of winter, we typically become less active, even in generally pleasant climates like Los Angeles, where it can regularly dip into the 40s (Im not a wimp; thats more than light jacket weather!). While there are quite a few benefits to slowing down ...
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High-End Human Drugs Fed to Livestock
A recent story in TIME magazine highlights a growing issue in our food system: the use of high-end human drugs in livestock animals.After Chinese chicken farmers were found to be giving the antiviral human drug Tamiflu to chickens in 2005 to treat and prevent the spr...
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Get A Little Closer This Valentine's Day
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, consider a creative way to get a little closer—and healthier—through the gift of partner stretching. Health-wise, stretching can be incredibly valuable in improving flexibility and reducing your risk of injury, and stretching...
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The 7 Most Super 'Superfoods'
Despite their delineation as super all superfoods are not created equal. What makes a food super in the first place? While not a regulated or certifiable nutritional claim (yet), food experts define a superfood when the nutrient density outweighs caloric intake. Think a zero-c...
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Hot Chocolate Aphrodisiac Elixir Recipe
Is anything sexier than feeling vibrantly healthy? Hopefully not! What we put in our bodies becomes us in the most literal sense. So if you eat sexy foods, sexy you shall be. And thats important considering Valentines Day is just about here. Give this sexy aphrodisiac ton...
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Is That Marine Meditating?
Meditation has been used as a relaxation technique for ages. And while its often associated with soft-spoken monks or yogis, thats all about to change. The U.S. Marine Corps—one of the nations toughest military outfits—is looking at incorporating meditation and yoga pract...
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Lonely People at Higher Risk for Health Issues
Research presented last month at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology points to health implications for people who are lonely.The researchers found that lonely people are more likely than other people to produce certain inflammatory...
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Six Common Sense Ways To Prevent Insomnia
Is “toss and turn” your middle name? Then you know that insomnia effects daytime functioning significantly. According to a study in the Sleep journal, poor sleep can lead to low self-esteem, impaired efficiency and poor job satisfaction compared to good sleepers. Science has p...
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