Maybe this can help support our brothers and sisters in Africa while improving our health. Read on, click here.
Nutrition and Diet
Specific Carbohydrate Diet
Elaine Gottschall’s book, Breaking the Vicious Cycle, is an excellent resource for improving your gastro-intestinal health. The diet can be an excellent part of a treatment–consult your physician. Click here for more information.
Homemade Yogurt
This recipe is adapted from Nourishing Traditions and Dr. Siebecker’s recipe. It is absolutely delicious!! (even for those who don’t like yogurt!). Homemade Yogurt
Paleo diet gaining momentum
The Paleo diet is gaining momentum and has some favorable research results despite the controversy. The reduction in carbohydrates as beneficial for our health is becoming difficult to ignore, though! Click here for recent article.
Stroke prevention
“An apple a day” earns the added benefit of helping prevent strokes, per recent research results. Read more here. And eat those fresh apples and pears!
Research showing advantages of healthy lifestyle
While this research seems to report the obvious, what I find interesting are the rates of risk reported (click here for article). For example, they found that those who eat vegetables only three to six times weekly had over 25% lower risk of heart failure! Imagine
Drug residues in meats may pose health risks.
Millions of pounds of drugs are used in raising livestock–officials are using more sensitive methods of determining drug residues which may be harmful to consumers. Read more here. Healthiest recommendation is to limit meat consumption to organic hormone-free, antibiotic-free, naturally fed, free-range sources. The following is a list of some […]
Just another reason to eat your veggies!
Although not definitive, recent research indicates that eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of estrogen-receptor negative breast tumors. Read more here.
Our diets can also impact our viral “load”.
Research has revealed that our diets can change not only our bacterial content in our body, but also our viral content. This article summarizes their results and also has a link to more easy-to-understand information on human microbiology.
Probiotics may also support healthy mood.
New research indicates that probiotics may have a role in fighting depression and anxiety. This may be just the tip to the iceberg–appropriate “gut bugs” are important for our digestion and nutrition as well as maintaining a healthy gastro-intestinal barrier to keep “toxins” out. Click here for more information!
