Health Conditions
Food Blog: Balancing Omega-3s, 6s Could Save Your LifeHealthy eating guide can help you find the balance
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Mom Blog: Honor Mothers Day – Raise Awareness about Antibiotic ResistanceMom and dads can help end the practice of overuse of antibiotics on food animals
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Health Blog: Counterfeit Estrogens and Your MetabolismIs your body being fooled into gaining weight by xenoestrogens?
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Health Blog: Having Trouble Remembering?These basics will boost your memory
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Health Blog: How to Break the Stress CycleIntroduce your body to the ‘power pause’
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Food Blog: Why Eat Whole Foods?Because the nutrients in whole foods are essential to your health
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Women’s Health Blog: Omega-3s Boost Responses to Breast-Cancer DrugStudy finds they appear to reduce gene expression linked to tumor growth
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Health Blog: Supplements vs PharmaceuticalsWhy you don’t know about supplements that can make you better
There's a reason for that.
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Radiation Blog: Is There Reason to Fear Radiation from Japan?The picture is murky and expert opinions vary
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Mom Blog: Healthy Mom Means Healthy FamilyIt is important you find your balance, mom
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Food Blog: Making Healthy Restaurant Menu ChoicesAn enigma wrapped in a Turducken
Think you can go to a restaurant and make an intelligent menu choice? You can usually do a pretty good job as far as taste and satisfaction go. But when it comes to health and nutrition, think again.
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Health Blog: Krill oil and metabolic syndrome |
Health Blog: Obesity and Cancer – What You Need to KnowThese two conditions are increasingly being linked
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Food Blog: Should we be worried about radiation in fish?The biggest dangers appear to be in our minds
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Food Blog: It’s Time We Got Pissed OffWe need more angry voices to save our kids … from us
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One of the most important things you will ever learn about what to eat and what not to eat is this: If you get the balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in your diet under control, you can expect to enjoy good health. If you don’t, expect to get asthma, coronary heart disease, many forms of cancer, autoimmunity or neurodegenerative diseases, and you are more likely to become obese, depressed, hyperactive or worse.
As parents, how many times have we heard, “Do I have to eat this?” When it comes to antibiotics in our food, that answer is no! In honor of moms and future moms, on this Mother’s Day a group of food professionals (moms and dads alike) are asking all of us to take a moment to join the campaign, 
You may already know that estrogens are critical elements for maintaining health and balance in the body. But did you know that there are estrogen mimickers in our environment that can lead to hormonal imbalance, weight gain and disease?
As we get older, most of us start to wish that our memory would serve us better. We begin to notice that we cannot recall a person’s name or remember what we went into the next room to do. Here are three simple tips that can have a profound effect on your memory and brain function.
Stress management: experts write about it, post about it, talk about it, Tweet about it and blog about it. Face it – we’re so flooded with great tips and ideas that it is hard to take it all in at times. 
A lot is made these days of eating whole foods. But does it really matter? You bet it does. 
In case you need one more reason to add fish oil to your diet, on April 6, 2011, researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center presented breaking research showing that omega-3 fatty acids boost the effectiveness of a common breast-cancer drug, tamoxifen. 
Unless you’re living without TV, you’ve undoubtedly heard of pharmaceutical drugs to reduce “bad” cholesterol, and drugs for joint pain. But have you heard about dietary supplements that have a positive effect on these health conditions?
Radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan continues to leak into the atmosphere and the ocean. Just how worried should we be? It depends on whom you ask.
Motherhood. At times it feels unmanageable, incredibly busy, deeply challenging. But it also has the potential to ignite deeper capacities a woman didn’t even know she had.
Everyone knows that smoking is a major cause of cancer. Yet, according to research published in the British Journal of Public Health, obese adults have more chronic health problems than their smoking counterparts, some of which greatly increase their risk of cancer.
Since the Japanese tsunami and the trouble at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the question of radiation in seafood seems to plague a lot of folks … unnecessarily.
At a recent health-food conference and tradeshow, I was reminded of a Jimmy Buffet song that says, “We are the people our parents warned us about.” Three acclaimed speakers at the conference agreed that when it comes to feeding our children nutritious foods and keeping them as healthy as possible (both of which are lacking) we have no one to blame but ourselves.
