The long, dreary winter months are often punctuated by long, dreary colds.You try and avoid illness by keeping your hands clean and by stocking up on vitamin C, but still you still somehow wind up ill. You should try taking zinc. Zinc, of course, is an essential mineral that can only be obtained through diet. Zinc has been knownContinue reading “Cold Season? Protect Yourself with Zinc”
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CoQ10 Shows Promise for Fibromyalgia Sufferers
A new study published in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics indicates that Co-enzyme Q10 or CoQ10 (to its friends) may relieve some symptoms of fibromyalgia, a disorder that can cause muscle pain, fatigue and sleep, memory and mood disruptions. Researchers in Spain conscripted forty fibromyalgia sufferers to partake in the study, giving half the group aContinue reading “CoQ10 Shows Promise for Fibromyalgia Sufferers”
This Is Why You Haven’t Seen Progress on Your Diet
If you’re struggling to lose weight, but that weight just isn’t coming off and your resolve for dieting is fading, well, don’t give up! Keep at it. It might just be your body readjusting to your healthy, new lifestyle, according to a study published in Cell Host and Microbe. The ill effects of the WesternContinue reading “This Is Why You Haven’t Seen Progress on Your Diet”
Want to Lose Weight in the New Year? Fight Inflammation!
The new year marks new challenges, new choices and new resolutions. This means many will look to lose weight and to become healthier. For that, nothing beats diet and exercise, and likely nothing ever will. However, there are a few diet and fitness hacks that can make weight loss a little bit simpler. For example,Continue reading “Want to Lose Weight in the New Year? Fight Inflammation!”
Can a Lack of Vitamin D Cause Diabetes?
By now, you have probably heard that a high-fat diet can increase your risk of metabolic syndrome–a cluster of symptoms that may lead to maladies like diabetes or heart disease. However, new research on mice indicates that those darn fats may not be the only culprit behind these ailments. The study published in Frontiers found that a fatty diet may not causeContinue reading “Can a Lack of Vitamin D Cause Diabetes?”
Peas Found to Be More Filling than Meat
Losing weight isn’t easy. First, food is delicious, and secondly, the methods of slimming down are often unpleasant. There is only one surefire way to go about it, and that’s by consuming fewer calories than you expend. Creating this deficit usually requires diet and exercise. However, there are lots of smart lifestyle hacks that one can employContinue reading “Peas Found to Be More Filling than Meat”
Magnesium Linked to All Sorts of Good Health
If you’re an AIM Member, you’ve probably heard about how important magnesium is. You likely know that it’s involved in over 300 biochemical processes or that some estimates show about 80% of the population may not receive adequate amounts. It’s also believed that magnesium deficiency (more severe than inadequacy) may affect up to 15% of theContinue reading “Magnesium Linked to All Sorts of Good Health”
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Staying Healthy This Holiday Season
This month, Thanksgiving is celebrated in the USA. It is so easy to use festive seasons as an excuse to eat loads of unhealthy, decadent foods. Holidays are full of food challenges. Do you find yourself eating way too much mashed potatoes? Pumpkin pie? Do those precious pounds you managed to shed these past elevenContinue reading “Staying Healthy This Holiday Season”
7 Nutritional Strategies for Headaches
If you suffer from headaches, migraine or otherwise, finding dietary strategies may prove difficult. Take the banana as an example. The banana has a lot of good stuff in it: potassium, magnesium, vitamin B 6 and vitamin C. A lot of these nutrients and minerals appear on this list of headache fighters. However, bananas alsoContinue reading “7 Nutritional Strategies for Headaches”
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