When it comes right down to it, there’s no magic formula or miracle cure to staying healthy and cut disease. The things you need to do are things we all can do…
1. Don’t smoke – if you do, try to quit
2. Get active – at least 3.5 hours a week
3. Stay away from junk food [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Dairy foods, milk, cheese, butter and the like, often get a bad rap and are shunned by the health conscious as a source of artery clogging cholesterol and bad-for-you saturated fats.
Some experts have argued that high fat dairy products contribute to heart problems later in life, though new research out of the Queensland Institute of [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
If you’re drinking green tea solely for the cancer protection, you may be interested in the results of a systematic review of studies that involved more than 1.6 million subjects looking at the benefits of green tea.
The review finds “limited” evidence that green tea offers any protective benefits… though it remains a natural, delicious beverage [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
When next you have the chance to try black tea… forget the 5,000 years of use in China and think instead about the many health benefits the Black Tea might bring to your body, which now include lower blood sugar levels.
You’ve probably heard about black tea improves immunity and heart health, now research appearing in [...]
Adults, especially young people, have yet another reason for cutting the calories you take in per day. If the monkeys from some very positive research appearing in Science are any guide, by following calorie restricted diets you’ll live longer, look younger and stay disease free.
Monkeys, as close as you can get genetically to people, fed [...]
The safety of our food supply has been in the news a lot of late. Recalls of spinach, sprouts, peanut butter and cookie dough have got many people wondering how safe the food is that we’re buying. As if that’s not trouble enough, bottled water safety is now being called into question.
You see unlike your [...]
Sure we know that the take out pizza, the chips loaded with salsa, the rich, creamy drink might not be as good as it looks on television (especially on those big screens), yet still the ad plants the seed – the desire for eating in front of the TV.
According to Yale University researchers, watching those [...]
These days we’re all watching what we spend, cutting back (or out) where we can. Luckily you can cut back on the costs of staying healthy without going back on your intentions to live well with these tips for healthy living.
Eating healthily, being physically active and getting regular healthcare are all still possible and affordable [...]
You may have already heard that not eating breakfast, often called the most important meal of the day, isn’t a good idea if you’re trying to lose weight.
But in the rush to get out the door in the morning, many of us just don’t have the time, even though studies have shown those who eat [...]
Teachers absolutely hate it, which might explain why students feel compelled to chew gum in class. Now a new study finds that chewing sugarless gum in class or while doing homework may actually improve academic performance in teens by increasing brain attention.
And while you might question the objectivity of a study funded by the Wrigley [...]
