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Beat Those New Year’s Resolution Blues & Make Change Stick
February 1st, 2013Keeping New Year’s resolutions is often difficult. Once they dissolve, frustration and the feeling of being a failure sink in. But changes can be made! If you want to make changes stick, here are seven initial steps to start you on the path.
1) Intention, Intention, Intention
Health Tips: To Find New Energy
May 1st, 2012A new brain study by researchers at Yale University shows that people who meditate regularly are able to switch off parts of the brain associated with anxiety, schizophrenia, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, and other problems.
Experience the therapeutic effects of meditation.
Health Tips: Why to Seek a Personal Trainer
May 1st, 2012Exercise and nutrition are the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and are principles worth adopting at any age. However, starting the journey toward better health is never easy. As someone who understands these limits, and as someone who also counsels people about the importance of being fit, I recognize these challenges.
Make an investment in your own health.Health Tips: Milk Thistle for Liver Health
May 1st, 2012The liver is the largest internal organ (about the size of a football), located on the right side of your body under the ribcage. The liver clears waste products from your blood. These waste products come from medicine, food, and alcohol consumption. It filters 540 gallons of blood a day (1.5 quarts per minute!).
Support the health of your largest internal organ.
Health Tips: Low Magnesium Consumption Poses Health Risk
May 1st, 2012About 43 percent of the US population (and almost 70 percent of older women) use dietary supplements containing calcium, but Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, warns that without balancing calcium with magnesium, they may be at risk.
Why it's important to balance calcium consumption with magnesium.
Health Tips: The Many Benefits of Onions
May 1st, 2012Did you know researchers are discovering how onions may help to mitigate bone loss, reduce the risk of heart disease, and possess anti-inflammatory properties to help protect the body against some cancers, brain disorders, and diabetes?
Health Tips: More than Half of Cancer Cases are Preventable
May 1st, 2012More than half of all cancer is preventable, according to Washington University public health researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis.
In a review published in Science Translational Medicine on March 28, the investigators outlined obstacles they say stand in the way of making a huge dent in the cancer burden of the US and around the world.
Societal changes are needed to reduce the cancer burden.
