8 Great Yoga Moves You Can Do At Your Desk
We do a lot of sitting these days. In fact, only 20 percent of jobs include some sort of physical exertion… meaning that the other 80 percent are all sedentary in nature. Logging these long hours hunched over computers, seated in meetings or making telephone calls has not only contributed to our growing backsides and poor posture, but is...
ABC News Under Fire from Pink Slime Company for Lost Business, Consumer Outrage
In a move that goes to the very root of the media's right to expose what is in people's food versus corporate interests, Beef Products Inc, the notorious manufacturer of 'lean, finely textured beef (LFTB),' now commonly known as 'pink slime,' is suing ABC News for its report on this product. A South Dakota judge has recently allowed the...
How You Can Fight Disease with Sleep
Researchers have recently found scientific evidence for what our mothers and grandmothers have been telling us for years: that the most important thing we can do when we get sick is to get as much sleep as possible, as it is absolutely crucial to a speedy and thorough recovery. While scientists have been aware for years that inadequate sleep...
How Travel May Be the Best Prescription for Health
When most people think about travel, they don’t think of it as something that’s necessarily a healthy thing to do, but the truth is, it may just be the best prescription for better health. In fact, according to the Global Coalition on Aging, travel can even help people to live longer. The Global Commission on Aging, the Transamerica Center for...
Why Women Get Cellulite More Than Men and Five Ways to Treat it Naturally
The bane of many women’s existence is often the dreaded “C” word… cellulite. This dimpled fat, which can cover over 90 percent of women’s lower bodies, may appear seemingly out of nowhere, and causes many a lady to retire her favorite little black dress and mini skirt in favor of longer, more concealing garments. While generally associated with being...
European Bakers Under Pressure to Make Foods Healthier
In a recent podcast with Foodmanufacture.co.uk, the general manager of Fletcher Group of Bakeries Grain D'Or of Northwest London, Simon Sloan, spoke about legislation in the region compelling bakeries to cut down their sugar, salt and fat content. Sloan spoke about the pressure from both government and non-government organizations to make these changes in order to offer a healthier...
What is Primal Posture and Why Should You Care?
Esther Gokhale, who has studied the posture of people in less developed places throughout the world - where back pain is virtually unheard of - believes that our modern lifestyles are causing serious harm due to sitting all day. Gokhale studied biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton, as well as acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine, and...
The 8 Best “Potato” Chips: Healthy and Delicious Alternatives to Processed Snacks
Potato chips are one of the most common cravings reported throughout the Western world. In fact, Americans consume over one billion pounds of these crispy snacks every year. School cafeterias and office lunchrooms are lined with vending machines dispensing the big-name brands, and for many people, a lunch is not complete without a bag of chips on the side. Unfortunately,...
Is Your Sweet Tooth Genetic?
We can attribute a lot of our characteristics to our parents. Our height as well as skin, eye and hair color can, for the most part, be traced to our parents or our parents’ parents. But is it possible to blame mom and dad for our food choices? Perhaps. A recent study based on twin behaviors found that our ability...
Exposure to Banned Pesticides May Increase Risk of Endometriosis
A study performed by Washington State University researchers highlights yet another danger of the banned pesticides that still linger throughout our environment decades after the discontinuation of their use - potentially higher risks of endometriosis. Endometriosis is a chronic disease that affects about six to ten percent of women of reproductive age in America. It is characterized by uterine...
