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The Miracle Mineral You Aren’t Getting Enough Of

Did You Know… …iodine deficiency may be drastically disrupting your health?  Iodine is a trace element vital to your body’s optimal health. It monitors thyroid and...

Heartburn Medication Could Be Destroying Your Kidneys

The link between a class of heartburn medications called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and serious kidney problems has been solidly established. The belief among...
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Yo-Yo Dieting May Harm Your Heart

Weight cycling, or yo-yo dieting, refers to losing weight and regaining it back again multiple times. Numerous studies highlight the deleterious effects weight cycling...

Occasional Exercise—Does it Do Any Good?

Busy schedules and often overwhelming responsibilities have paved the way for a particular type of exerciser known as the weekend warrior. Weekend warriors go...
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Prebiotics—The Missing Puzzle Piece for Glowing Health

Nearly everyone has heard about the importance of probiotics found in foods and supplements. That’s because over the past 10 or so years, researchers...

The Diabetes Risk Factor You May Not Know You Have

We strongly associate being overweight with higher risk of type 2 diabetes. And it’s true that there is a strong link between the two....

7 Reasons to Start Bouncing!

For years, the only people who regularly jumped on trampolines were children, elite athletes, and NASA astronauts. But recently, as information about the remarkable...

The Truth About Exercise

We have become a world that attributes speed with greatness. Fast cars, fast internet, fast apps –we seem to have collectively agreed as a...
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High-Protein Diet Linked to Heart Failure Risk in Older Women

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), heart failure afflicts 5.7 million Americans, and accounted for 1 of every 9 deaths in 2009....