Could this be the reason you can’t lose weight?
Here’s an eye-opening statistic--currently, nearly three out of four Americans are overweight or obese. And those numbers are not going down. Of course, the begging question here is: What in the world is going on? Why is it our “new normal” to be overweight? Well, there are a lot of factors behind the scenes, including processed/fast foods, lack of exercise, and our expanding reliance on medications. But there’s another sneaky, often-missed factor that can...
Could this be the magic answer to a longer life?
I am going to go out on a limb today and say that most of us don’t want a visit from the grim reaper anytime soon. As a matter of fact, I suspect what the majority of people would say when asked what’s most important to them is good health and a long life! Well, that’s certainly what our bodies were designed to achieve. Nature did not intend for you to be diseased, medicated,...
You better do this—it’s a matter of life or death
When I first meet with a client, I typically ask them what’s going on and what their health concerns are. Then I ask questions. I normally start with, “How’s your diet?” which is usually followed by the client looking at the floor or saying, “Um, not that bad.” Okey-dokey. This is followed by what I’ve observed to be the most dreaded question of all—“”What do you do for exercise?” As you can probably surmise,...
Could your healthy diet be a fast track to disease?
Most people are aware that having an unhealthy, highly processed diet is not the best idea if you want a life free of disease. But what if I told you that even a HEALTHY diet could possibly make you seriously ill? What?! That is, if you eat a lot of foods that are high in lectins. Here’s the skinny on lectins—what they really are, the health problems they can cause, and how you can...
- Tags: General Health, Healthy Eating, Lectins
What the media won’t tell you about sunscreens
It has been said that there are two certainties in life—death and taxes. I’ll add one more onto that—the fact that advertising works. Very well. One motivator in particular that has been shown to work like a charm in the media is FEAR! There’s nothing quite like scaring the beejuzus out of someone, then selling a product as the magic answer to protect them from the dreaded outcome. And when it comes to sunscreens,...
- Tags: Cancer, General Health, Hair and Skin, Healthy Living, Toxins, Vitamin D
How to never have another migraine
June is National Migraine and Headache awareness month, and I suspect that anyone that has ever suffered from a migraine is quite “aware” of them, as they’re hard to ignore. About 39 million people in the US, and over a billion people worldwide suffer from migraines, making them one of the most common disorders in the world. Ninety-one percent of migraine sufferers can't work or function normally during an attack, and as many as...
- Tags: Healthy Living, Migraines