Author Archive | Monday, May 14th, 2012  Any items you might take — herbs, dietary supplements, other natural products, or functional foods such as energy drinks and nutritional bars — can interact with each other and with medications. Doctors Health Press devotes its pages to natural remedies, but this is a reminder that you still must be aware of the risks of interactions. Or, at the very least, your doctor should always know what you are … Read More
| Friday, May 11th, 2012  Stroll down the produce aisle and breathe in the scents of food cures. They are all around you and are the vast number of reasons why the best health advice is to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. A new study offers a fresh look at a couple of berries that could keep the mind sharp into retirement age.
Blueberries and strawberries are high in flavonoids, natural chemicals that exert … Read More | Thursday, May 10th, 2012  Music has many well-documented positive effects when it comes to mental health. Music can soothe frazzled nerves at the end of a long day. Music can also help you release bottled up emotions, lessening the chances of these pent-up emotions causing physical ailments. Music has also been used to improve quality of sleep and even to lower blood pressure. But what about triggering some really hard-core physiological changes in … Read More
| Wednesday, May 9th, 2012  Can you manage to stay slim with black pepper? Can the common kitchen-table seasoning deliver obesity-fighting effects? A new study says it just might. It’s due to the main ingredient, called “piperine.”
Talk about an inexpensive and widely available food cure. This slice of intriguing health news comes from the “Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.” There, researchers provided a long-sought explanation for the beneficial fat-fighting effects of black pepper. … Read More | Tuesday, May 8th, 2012  Polyunsaturated fatty acids have been studied a lot over the past decade — and with good reason. These fatty acids have been shown to reduce the severity of certain types of cancers, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease. How do polyunsaturated fatty acids accomplish this? First, you need to know a little background information.
All fatty acids are made up of a chain of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Saturated fatty … Read More | |
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