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August 2009

Eating Fat is Good… Maybe…Could Be… Sometimes

(It Really Depends… and You Need To Get It Right!) Certain fats are critical for health. Aim for fat consumption of Omega-3 and Monosatuated Fatty Acids in the range of 20 to 25% of your daily caloric intake; ideally, as little as possible from Saturated and Trans Fat sources.  Read on for specifics.

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How Sugary Is Your Blood?

Keep The Glucose Spikes Outta Your Blood I GUESS it could be said (cause I’m about to say it) that a good diet is one that accounts for blood sugar (aka “glucose”) control.  Controlling blood sugar via your diet necessitates understanding how the carbohydrates you eat effect your blood sugar. Enter the Glycemic Index (“GI”).

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Urinary and Kidney Health… Don’t Get Stoned!

You pay a painful price for a poor diet should it impact your kidneys by causing kidney stones. (Watch videos below) LIKE WITH the liver, the key to kidney health — beyond a good diet (extremely important) and exercise — are supplements that cleanse, restore and maintain.  Toxins need to be flushed out.  Heavy metals [...]

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Diet 101

Basic Eating and Cleansing for a Healthier Life The food and drink you consume must be managed like every other important thing in your life.  Eat more small meals, less big ones.  Hydrate with pure water rather than drinks dolled up with color, sugar and chemicals.  Plan your snacks.  Supplement. Move!! THIS IS my primer [...]

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A Woman’s Health Is In Her Own Hands

[Check out the Apsen Institute's segment on Women's Health!] Most Chronic Health Problems Are Preventable MAN, IS this a pitch to take a wild swing at, or what?  I’m not a woman, dontcha know.  So, I just ran to the Mayo Clinic (metaphorically speaking) to get a handle on women’s health issues.

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Some Help for Weight Management

Supplement For An Extra Nudge THERE WAS a time when a certain amount of corpulence was favored by society.  If you were fat it meant that you had enough wealth to eat whilst the peasants were near starving, and accordingly, quite skinny. Oh, if only such antediluvian norms could return.  Just think of how many [...]

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“How To Get Fat without Really Trying”

A Summary and Video of the Late Peter Jennings’ TV Special Subsidies and Marketing Ain’t So Good For Us WITH THE strikingly voluble debate currently raging over the state of the American health system, I thought it would be a good time to go back seven years to an ABC show hosted by the late, [...]

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Vitamins and Minerals — The Basics

Why Take Them At All? Supplements reviewed here: Maximum Wellness Formula, Resveratrol, Vitamin D3, Ultimate Greens, Acetyl L-Carnitine, Alpha Lipoic Acid, and Krill Oil. Now this is one big catch-all category.  Most everything fits in this “Vitamins and Minerals” category, but there are a few gems that I’d like to point out. First, consider why [...]

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Envision Good Eyesight

(Watch the Video Below) THANKFULLY, SCIENCE has produced such effective sight-improvement technologies that we barely blink when our eyesight fades.  A quick visit to the optometrist and a whole new finely delineated world appears before you. (Update: Read about the new National Eye Institute study.) I have yet to succumb to that.  Could be that [...]

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Skin Is More Than Skin Deep

Supplements and lotions reviewed here: Vitamin D3, MSM Lotion, Aloe. THE HEALTH of your skin reflects your overall health, for truly there’s little about it that’s only skin-deep. It follows that if you lather various topical solutions on your skin to make it look better — unless they have nutrients designed to be transdermally absorbed [...]

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