On Healthy Living

When I lived in Massachusetts for a summer, I knew someone who would go running in the hills, collect wild blueberries and come home and bake a pie. Now, I’m not usually big on baked fruit (you can have your apple pie, I’ll just take the ice cream) but I’ve got to say those were […]

If you think buying personal care products on the recommendation of a doctor or in a natural health store are safe, you may have another think coming. I certainly did. Several years ago, my dermatologist recommended I use Cetaphil to cleanse my face. I had no idea it was an 8.8 (out […]

I came across this really interesting game called The Longevity Game. It asks you a bunch of questions and then tells you how long you are going to live.
Questions are simple, from age and sex to history of smoking and drinking, family history of heart disease and how much exercise you get and how […]

Want to boost your immune system, lower both your good and bad cholesterol, and improve your memory? It may be as easy as A B C. These “newsbites� just in from April 2005 Taste for Life magazine.
The Ayurvedic herb brahmi (Bacopa monniera) is an antioxidant that protects brain cells from the toxic effects […]

This is coming from someone who after 24 years has discovered that she has her first cavity, oh correction 4 cavities!!
Yes, I don’t floss regularly I hate it I truly do, but every other time I’ve gone to the dentist and not flossed in the 6 month time frame, everything has checked out. Except this […]

I came across this article from Shape magazine that talks about five types of food everyone should be eating to live longer, more helthful lives. The reason is usually antioxidants, those compounds that are said to fight other compounds in the body that cause deterioration and damage to cells.
So what are these power foods?
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It’s becoming really popular these days to blame the obesity epidemic on all sorts of things, other than the fact that American eat too much and don’t exercise enough. One of the new popular scapegoats is high fructose corn syrup, the ingredient in sodas and many bottled tea and jucie drinks that makes them so […]

OK, so it has nothing to do with health (other than perhaps what not to eat) but I read today that it is the 75th anniversary of the Twinkie. I’m pretty sure there’s enough preservatives in them that if there’s a 75-year-old package of them lying around it’s probably still edible.
Donovin Cox, a Michigan […]

I’m a sucker for a good dessert. One of my favorites has always been strawberry shortcake, but the calories and fat in this delicious dessert made me stay away from it in recent years…until I stumbled upon this recipe from Better Homes and Gardens:
Lower-Calorie Strawberry Shortcake
Source: Better Homes and Gardens
Prep: 1 hour 10 min.
Bake: […]

He was on Celebrex for arthritis but experienced side effects. He tried Brownwood Acres tart cherry juice and then wrote a letter to the People’s Herbal Pharmacy. “It took four weeks to kick in, but at the ripe age of 79 I’m tap-dancing again. It worked for me.â€? The Pharmacists responded that “it might […]