Anti-Inflammatory Diet – 12 Tips for Healthy Aging
Consuming more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, soy foods, fish, nuts, and tea can help prevent the chronic diseases of aging. You might not be able to turn back the hands of time for every wrinkle and body ache, but you can reduce your risk or delay the onset of chronic diseases associated with aging, such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer,...
Intensity of Your Workout is More Important Than the Duration
Not having enough time is no longer an excuse to get out there and hit the ground running. Researchers from the Department of Exercise and Sport Science now say that the amount of running you do is not as important as the intensity to which you do it at. Get Ready, Get Set, Get Excited! Do you ever go to bed...
Harvard Report: Low Energy Levels Could be Caused by These 8 Illnesses
How do you know if your low energy is caused by underlying disease or is the result of lifestyle factors, stress, poor diet, lack of sleep, or normal aging?In fact, fatigue is a symptom of numerous illnesses, from minor infections such as colds to serious diseases like cancer and heart disease. It's a primary symptom of the illnesses described...
Surviving Second-Hand Pesticides
Sunday morning on your front porch wouldn’t be nearly as peaceful if your grass resembled the same color as your morning cup of Joe. Although we go to great lengths to keep our grass a luscious green and free of overgrown weeds, we need to be careful throughout this up-keeping process. Pesticides pose real dangers to you, your children and...
Take the Edge off by Adding More Fiber into your Diet
Fiber is packed with nutritious benefits that often go unnoticed. Although the easiest fiber sources to name are obvious to any nutrition nut out there, there are a variety of foods that offer the same benefits as whole wheat bread and oatmeal. In fact, it may be even easier to consume more fiber given these options. Not only does fiber...
6 Ways to Eat Healthy and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Cut back on animal foods--such as meats and cheese--and shift to more organic, locally grown plant foods, including beans, vegetables and grains, to slash your carbon footprint. All the attention on climate change brings into focus the role you can play to help protect our planet through your everyday food choices. From the demand for local, sustainable and organic food...
Finding Long-term Care for a Loved One
Making the decision to move a loved one who has dementia into an assisted-living facility or nursing home is never easy. Not only can it be emotionally difficult, but it can also be hard to figure out how and where to start your search for a place where your parent can receive the care he or she needs at...
Why Mosquitoes Are Attracted to Us and How to Naturally Repel Them
Nothing screams summer more than family BBQ’s beneath the hot July moon and the feeling of lush green grass on your bare feet. As you nibble your way through a slice of watermelon, that unavoidable pest is awaiting its chance for a nibble too … but on you. Although mosquitoes seem to be impossible to avoid, there are ways...
26 Flowers That Are Safe to Eat
Edible flowers are back in vogue, gracing the covers of glossy food magazines and adding panache to restaurant entrees. Today's flower cookery revival is defined less by "glam" than the move toward local and sustainable food options, consumers growing their own fresh produce, and more adventurous cooking ingredients. Flowers add color, texture, and vibrancy to any dish, not to...
Parenting Advice From Kangaroos?
As many as 450,000 lives could be saved each year by taking a cue from marsupials. If parents of premature babies in poor countries were to continuously carry infants against the skin in "kangaroo pouches" and increase breastfeeding and regular medical monitoring, we might save more of the 15 million babies born too soon each year. That is the...
