Reading books is one of the all-time great pastimes. You can enjoy the same stories that your ancestors pored over hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Books can illuminate the past and help you imagine a brighter future. However, reading doesn’t always come easy. It takes a lot of practice, and children can struggle with it for various reasons.Continue reading “Study Finds Fatty Acids May Improve Reading Skills”
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Study Links CoQ10 to Fewer Wrinkles
We use our faces every day. Faces house four of our five senses and represent us on our identification cards, but as we age, the constant usage begins to show. Our skin gets drier, thinner and less elastic. When it gets damaged, it takes longer to repair. All of these factors contributes to wrinkles. To say wrinklesContinue reading “Study Links CoQ10 to Fewer Wrinkles”
Vitamin D Linked to Fewer Asthma Attacks
Vitamin D–which is free and sprinkled down upon us by our solar system’s sun–is also, somehow, one of the nutrients that the most people are most unlikely to get. So, of course, researchers are constantly researching the positive effects of getting adequate amounts of the stuff. A review of studies published all over the world has providedContinue reading “Vitamin D Linked to Fewer Asthma Attacks”
Getting to Know Your B Vitamins
The B vitamins are a confusing lot. First off, unlike the other vitamins, the B vitamins are plural instead of singular and are broken up into over a half dozen numeral designations. Even more annoying, there are gaps in the numbers. B4, for example, was choline, but choline lost its vitamin status for only being vitamin-like. It still gets groupedContinue reading “Getting to Know Your B Vitamins”
Protein Before Bedtime, Muscles by Morning
We live in the Internet Age, so we have all probably seen pop-up ads that make claims like “Slee own that sleep increases muscle protein synthesis rates after exercising. However, it was unclear if similar “gainz” would be made after resistance training. But “gainz” were, indeed, made. From the Journal of Nutrition Muscle strength increased afterContinue reading “Protein Before Bedtime, Muscles by Morning”
Protein as an Afternoon Snack May Help with Weight Management
For many years when I would get hungry in the afternoons, I would reach for a nice cold barrel fish. Back then, eating barrel fish was very convenient for me because of my proximity to barrels and fish. But little did I know that eating barrel-raised, protein-rich fish while watching my mid-day “stories” was helping me to keepContinue reading “Protein as an Afternoon Snack May Help with Weight Management”
Plant Protein May Preserve Muscle Strength
My favorite part of the old Popeye cartoons was when he’d open up a fresh can of spinach, swallow the semi-fluid green mass in a singular gulp and then flex his muscles. It was best when a mini-cartoon would appear on the side of his bicep. Sometimes it was a bundle of dynamite about toContinue reading “Plant Protein May Preserve Muscle Strength”
Protein for Breakfast: A Slimming Strategy
They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. That’s why I eat it for dinner and lunch, too. Then “they” say that you can’t possibly do that, but I say that it’s important to have dreams, big dreams. So “they” said ‘phooey on that.’ I may never see eye to eye with “them,”Continue reading “Protein for Breakfast: A Slimming Strategy”
Vitamin C May Provide Similar Vascular Benefits to Exercise
You should exercise. There is copious amounts of data that shows exercise in any of its many, wondrous forms can reduce your likelihood of life-threatening illnesses like cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer, but if you can’t exercise, our old cold-bustin’, antioxidant-burstin’ buddy, Vitamin C, may be able to pick up some of theContinue reading “Vitamin C May Provide Similar Vascular Benefits to Exercise”
If You’re an Athlete, You May Be Low on These 5 B Vitamins
If you’ve been a sluggard at the gym lately, it may be due to your diet. We’re not talking about a singular chocolate chip cookie eaten greedily behind a copse of trees near the gym. We’re talking about B vitamins. If you’ve been doing high-intensity training, there’s a good chance your body could do with a dash ofContinue reading “If You’re an Athlete, You May Be Low on These 5 B Vitamins”
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