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.
Ever since I learned about the concept of epigenetics about 8 years ago, I have been fascinated by the topic, and have read numerous articles and studies regarding epigenetics. Epigenetics is “what” regulates how, when and how much of our genes are expressed.
The state of the US Food system is dismal. The Standard American Diet has a massive range of significant negative downstream effects, that is harming our country.
As we approach winter, we naturally get exposed to sickness seemingly everywhere we go. In order to maintain good health and prevent getting sick, it’s important to create a bulletproof immune system. That is the point of today’s article.
For several years, I have been experimenting with calorie and carbohydrate cycling, meaning specifically timing calories and carbs during a 24-hour period. Recently, I heard about a fascinating and very compelling study that may be useful for you to consider, in which you eat all of your carbohydrates at the end of the day.
According to the USDA statistics, Americans waste more than 130 billion pounds of food each year. This food waste goes into landfills, and produces more methane gas into the environment than carbon emissions released from automobiles. This is a serious problem in the US.
