There is a woman I know who goes to a local gym in central Massachusetts. For the sake of this article, let’s call her Alice. Alice is there every day when the gym opens and starts her daily workout on the elliptical before moving over to the weight room. She is there every single day except for holidays. I don’t know her exact age but she is definitely over 50. She looks great and will probably live to be 100.
The purpose of this article is to provide some guidance on good nutrition and possible supplements to use during the current Covid-19 pandemic. These guidelines are based on many hours of reading and researching scientific articles and studies.
A recently released study on pubmed, conducted in Taiwan, shows that lifting weights has the potential to increase lifespan. The mechanism through which this happens is by elimination of senescent cells. This is very exciting new research.
One of the things that we can seemingly all agree on these days is that nutrition can be quite confusing. Unfortunately, we live in a country in which the government and medical profession has been promoting the demonization of dietary for decades, but thankfully, that tide is starting to change. The scientific evidence is strong and getting stronger.
Rosemary is one of my all-time favorite herbs. I absolutely love the pine-like scent and the spicy taste. In modern times, rosemary is primarily used for culinary purpose, but historically, this wonderful herb was also used for medicinal purposes.
Have you heard of the Danish concept of hygge? Hygge (pronounced hue-gah) is a Danish word that expresses the concept of a feeling or mood that comes by taking genuine pleasure in making ordinary, everyday moments more meaningful, beautiful or special. Simple examples include making a ritual out of making coffee and then lingering …
Pterostilbene is a natural compound present in blueberries, cranberries, red grapes, and several plants in Asia. Pterostilbene has several powerful health benefits, in the areas cardiovascular health, cognitive function, neurological diseases and diabetes.
We all know that vegetables are good for you, which is something that every single dietary philosophy agrees on. It’s simply not possible to find a truly healthy person who doesn’t consume vegetables regularly. However, did you know that many traditional hunter-gatherer societies ate as many as 100 different species of plants? And this diversity of plant foods is severely lacking in today’s world.
According to a new study from Florida State University (FSU), nutrition researchers have determined that protein consumption before bed compared with protein consumption during the day does not have a negative effect on belly fat metabolism or whole-body fat burn overnight.
A recent study conducted at the University of Michigan suggest that vitamin D deficiency in childhood may result in behavioral problems during adolescence, including aggressive behavior, anxiety and depressive moods. The study was done on school children in Bogotá, Colombia. Children with deficient blood vitamin D levels were almost twice as likely to develop behavior problems, as opposed to children who had higher levels of vitamin D.