The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice Written by KristenM Do you buy orange juice at the store? If you do, I’m sure you’re careful to buy the kind that’s 100% juice and not made from concentrate. After all, that’s the healtcier kind, right? The more natural kind? The kind without any additives? The kind that’s [...]
Moderate Exercise for 15 Minutes Daily Improves Survival By Laurie Barclay, MD, from Medscape The minimal amount of physical activity to reduce mortality risk is 15 minutes a day of moderate-intensity exercise, according to the results of a prospective cohort study reported online August 16 in The Lancet. “Exercising at very light levels reduced deaths [...]
In 1637, Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, wrote: Je pense, donc je suis. (I think, therefore I am.) People throughout history have always wondered whether their world was real or simply a dream. Descartes’ statement became the foundation for a solution to this dilemma: If one could not doubt that one was doubting, then the [...]
Weight Lifting for Middle-Age and Beyond By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Many middle-aged and older people have started to lift weights, since extensive data show that lack of muscles increases risk for diabetes, heart attacks and premature death (British Medical Journal, September 2009; Journal of Physiology, September 2009). However, within the first few weeks of their [...]
Sugar-Sweetened Drinks Linked to Elevations in Blood Pressure By Michael O’Riordan, from Medscape London, United Kingdom – There is yet another reason to stay away from soft drinks, sweetened fruit juices, and sugar-loaded sports drinks: a new study has shown that there is a direct association between fructose and glucose intake and increases in blood [...]
Original article from Medscape So-called sproutbreaks have occurred every year in the United States since at least 1995 and have taught us that sprouts are a risky food to eat. Sprouts were found to be the cause of a devastating outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections in Europe this summer. Ultimately, this outbreak caused [...]
Many humans on this planet of over seven billion humans do not believe in the Christian religion and the entire concept of the day of Christmas. But almost all people who consider life do believe in a Spiritual Universe through which all living things participate individually and collectively. In English, we call our individual participation [...]
Original article written by Dr. Joseph Mercola, D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathy) CBS News, one of the most-watched news programs in the world, recently ran a report questioning whether animal fat is as bad as ‘conventional wisdom’ would have you believe. The answer? It most certainly is not. The vilification of fats go back to the [...]
