One of the Keys to Staying Healthy

No major mystery here. Eating your vegetables is one of the keys to staying healthy. Nearly everyone knows that.
“Eat your fruits and vegetables” is one of the tried-and-true recommendations for a healthy diet – and for good reason. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can help you ward off heart disease and stroke, control blood [...]

One Way to Beat Heart Disease

Mice fed a diet rich in vegetables were less likely to develop atherosclerosis, fatty deposits in the arteries that can lead to heart attack and stroke.In the study, researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine used mice specially bred to develop atherosclerosis. Half were fed a diet with no vegetables and the other half [...]

Number One Cause of U.S. Deaths

Cancer is now the number one cause of death in the United States. Last year, it surpassed heart disease.Does anyone think that might be related to the obesity epidemic that we are in the midst of? Two out of three Americans are overweight and 73 million Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes. Elevated insulin and leptin [...]

More Evidence Sugar Feeds Cancer

Growing tumor cells can crowd out other cells and cut them off from oxygen-carrying blood vessels, necessary for their survival. When this happens, some cancer cells have developed the ability to bypass the need for oxygen and instead switch to the glycolytic pathway, which they use even when oxygen is restored.Researchers from the Harvard Medical [...]

The Modern Health Dilemma

Let’s look at what happened in the twentieth century.In the first half of last century, the major causes of death were diseases like influenza, tuberculosis, diphtheria, diarrhoea, whooping cough and typhoid fever. All contagious, microbial infections.
In the second half of the century, through advancements in medical and scientific knowledge, very few people in developed countries [...]

A Mayo Clinic Study

Vegetables are particularly beneficial at reversing the damage exercise causes. While exercise, especially cardiovascular aerobic-type exercise, is good for you, it does produce free radicals that must be neutralized. Failure to neutralize these will actually contribute to accelerated aging.So the moral of the story is that you simply can’t exercise alone. You need to eat [...]

When It Comes To Exercise…

Most Americans are Delusional When it Comes to ExerciseMost Americans believe they’re living a healthy lifestyle – including eating well and exercising enough – according to a survey of 400 U.S. adults by Kinetix Living. However, research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tell a different story. According to the CDC, only [...]

One of the Keys to Staying Healthy

No major mystery here. Eating your vegetables is one of the keys to staying healthy. Nearly everyone knows that.
“Eat your fruits and vegetables” is one of the tried-and-true recommendations for a healthy diet – and for good reason. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can help you ward off heart disease and stroke, control blood [...]

One Way to Beat Heart Disease

Mice fed a diet rich in vegetables were less likely to develop atherosclerosis, fatty deposits in the arteries that can lead to heart attack and stroke.In the study, researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine used mice specially bred to develop atherosclerosis. Half were fed a diet with no vegetables and the other half [...]

Number One Cause of U.S. Deaths

Cancer is now the number one cause of death in the United States. Last year, it surpassed heart disease.Does anyone think that might be related to the obesity epidemic that we are in the midst of? Two out of three Americans are overweight and 73 million Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes. Elevated insulin and leptin [...]