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4 Common Myths About Nutrition You Should Stop Believing

Proper nutrition has been a hot topic in the media lately. Whether it’s people trying to lose weight or live longer, it has been discussed at length in everything from daytime television to countless articles. Unfortunately, with everyone and their moms talking about it, it has allowed rumors and myths to spread like wildfire in […]

Heart Disease: The Number One Killer of Women

For many years, heart disease was thought to be mainly a problem in the male world.  Until about 20 or 30 years ago, most research on heart disease was only done on male patients.  Researchers then took that information and generalized it to include women as well.  Only in the last two or three decades […]

How Men Deal with Depression

Though they don’t often discuss it or seek treatment as women do, many men suffer from depression. The reasons for suffering in silence are often linked to societal expectations of how a man should feel and behave. Society has conditioned men to believe that emotions are a sign of weakness. The truth is that millions […]

How to Balance Your Blood Sugar

If you have diabetes, you likely already know that this disease is caused by having too much sugar in your blood, called blood glucose. Naturally, one of the things you need to do with this disease is to balance out the blood sugar. There are many ways you can do this, including the following. Eat […]

What to Do After Being Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

So you have just been told by your doctor that you have the dreaded type 2 diabetes; now what? Well, this is a common condition, so keep that in mind. Many people are living with it and you would never even know it. The important thing now is to listen to your doctor’s orders and […]

How to Treat Hormone Imbalance and Headache

When you experience hormonal imbalance, it seems as if your entire body is working against you. Not just with headaches that occur during your period, but those that seem to linger with perimenopause and even during menopause. If you had severe headaches in adolescence during the years after starting your period, you might find that […]

Exercise: Does it Help or Harm Your Immune System?

When people think about exercising to help themselves be healthier, they’re usually thinking about it in the context of weight loss and improved cardio health. As good as that may be, there’s another component of exercise that you should think about: your immune system. Exercise can actually directly improve your immune system in a few […]

How to Manage Adrenal Fatigue

When confronting difficult and debilitating conditions as adrenal fate, you can be faced with some very hard choices, but staying informed may help you take control of the disorder and return you to a very close place to your previous standard of living. Information can be difficult to weed through, so this information should help […]

A Quick Guide to Five-Day Fasting for Better Metabolic Health

Fasting has been a health and anti-aging method for centuries. Not only does a five day fast provide a boost to the immune system, but it also reduces your risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. A five-day fasting plan was recently introduced, which doesn’t completely cut out all food, but restricts calories to either a […]