The Centers for Disease Control Prevention says that sugary diets are leading to more cases of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. So I'm going to explain to you how to hunt for hidden sugars and offer some helpful dietary tips if you're new...
Your diet in general will greatly influence your cholesterol levels, but I will talk more about that shortly. First, I want to alert you to exciting research regarding specific foods that have demonstrated cholesterol lowering properties. If you eat enough of these foods, you might...
The ingredients in the picture below may not look like a typical list for a smoothie spread, but steaming and freezing these vegetables and adding them to your smoothie makes for the most filling, thick breakfast blends. Steaming the vegetables first makes them easier to...
Choose healthy unsaturated fats for heart health. Emphasize omega-3 polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) over omega-6 PUFAs. Swapping out saturated fats for healthier unsaturated fats (NOT rancid, refined fats or processed carbohydrates) is best for health, especially heart health and type 2 diabetes. Critics of the American Heart Association's...
Chronological age is not a good marker of our susceptibility to disease or mortality. In other words we all age differently and many factors play into our biological age. This month, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine published their study on a set of...