Should you follow the Paleo diet?
One of the most common questions I get asked as a nutritionist is what I think of a certain popular diet.
Generally speaking, as long as a diet provides proper nutrition and enough calories for your body’s needs, and is centered on real (NOT processed) foods if it’s something that works for you, great.
Now, the latest buzz in the diet world is…
Safe, natural menopause relief
Although hot flashes are the subject of many jokes, for women who are going through menopause, they’re not funny. Luckily there are many safe ways to help your body through menopause without increasing your cancer risk with synthetic HRT drugs!
- Tags: Healthy Living, Women's Health
My response to the latest Vitamin D “scare”
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in June and featured in a recent Good Morning America segment has claimed that Americans are taking too much vitamin D, defined as over 4,000 IU per day. The study warns that too much vitamin D can lead to health issues like elevated blood calcium levels, calcifications, and kidney stones.
- Tags: Vitamin D
Why pain relievers are the worst thing for a fever
If you ran a fever, if you’re like most people, you would probably take some acetaminophen or ibuprofen. But in most cases, lowering a fever with pain relievers is positively the WORST thing you can do!
Here’s why.
- Tags: Fever, Healthy Living
What you don’t know about your immune system
Your immune system protects you against colds, flu, and infections, but that’s just a drop in the bucket! Here are all the other things your immune system does for you that you might not know about, and how to make sure yours is working like it should.
- Tags: Immune Health
Are you guilty of these common exercise blunders?
If you are getting on the exercise bandwagon, congratulations--you couldn’t do anything better for good health and weight loss!
But BEWARE.
- Tags: Exercise, Healthy Living