With all the expensive cancer drugs on the market these days, it’s hard to believe that something as simple as a bowl of kale or broccoli could dramatically boost your chances of beating [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
Big news on little bugs
Now that the human bio-genome project has been completed, we are starting to see so many interesting studies coming from this information. Those of us in the alternative medical world have been [...]
Tea time
I know I’ve been giving a lot of lip service lately to beverages you shouldn’t be drinking. (Soda… juice… sadly the list goes on.) So let me take a minute to tell you what [...]
Move more or eat less?
If you’ve been reading the Reality Health Check for a while, by now you’ve undoubtedly caught on that there is a study to prove or disprove just about anything. Take the latest [...]
D is for “deceiving”
In case you didn’t hear, a recent study took a crack at vitamin D’s longstanding reputation as an immune builder. It was even published in the prestigious Journal of the American [...]
Brain drain
When are the so-called nutritional “experts” going to learn that fat is not inherently bad for us? In fact, it’s a critical nutrient–particularly for our brains, which are [...]
Cloudy with a chance of diabetes
I thought I’d heard it all. But as misguided medicine goes, this latest bit of research definitely sets the bar. A group of German scientists recently followed 68 obese, non-diabetic men [...]
Sleep it off
Ah, Thanksgiving. The only day of the year where you can doze off after you eat and no one bats an eye. But maybe napping shouldn’t carry such a stigma the rest of the year after all… [...]
Get smart
Forget to take your multivitamin? That might be all the more reason to remember next time… at least, if the results of one recent study are any indication. Researchers looked at data from [...]
Don’t let the sun go down on you
New research points to a super simple way to keep your heart health on track. Get more vitamin D. In a recently published population study, Danish researchers measured serum D levels of 10,170 [...]