You know why I’m always bugging you about that after-dinner hike around the block? Because the fact is, it might be the most important 15 minutes of your day. Case in point: As part of a [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
Mineral power
Magnesium has been one of the mainstays in my arsenal for many conditions. But especially for heart problems. And I guess I’ve had the right idea. Because according to a new meta-analysis [...]
Habitual memory
The right lifestyle choices pay off in powerful ways. This isn’t a foreign concept. It’s a well known fact that study after study continues to support. So I can’t understand why [...]
CAM or sham?
After reading stories like the one I just read, you seriously have to wonder what rock some doctors are living under. The first line said it all: “Physicians are deeply divided over the efficacy [...]
Disney comes clean
I rail against Mickey D’s (aka, McDonald’s) for fueling the nation’s obesity epidemic with all those sugary sodas and starchy carbs. But today the story is about the [...]
Pyridoxal prevention
A word to the wise: Make sure you’re getting plenty of pyridoxal–better known as B6. A new study of 500 Japanese subjects between 21 and 66 years old showed that higher serum [...]
Raise your cup to lower blood sugar
I’ve mentioned the benefits of green tea more times than I can count at this point. But the research just keeps coming in. So let me share the latest with you now. As part of a recent [...]
Sugar SNAP
Despite themselves and their severely limited world-view, mainstream medical institutions sometimes do the right thing Most recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) began its push to [...]
Deep sea stress relief
It’s amazing to think the first report on the heart health benefits of fish oil was published all the way back in the 1970’s. With more than four decades under our belt, you’d [...]
Sustenance abuse
A lot of people have a hard time thinking of food as a source of addiction on the same level as alcohol, nicotine, gambling, etc. And the reason they give is always the same. “Well, we all [...]