It’s time to drop Body Mass Index (BMI) from our conversations about what makes a healthy body. If for no other reason than it is too wrong too much of the time. The problem with BMI is that it is much like using a scale to tell us if we are Healthy. Five pounds of…
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Listening To Your Gut: How Taking Care of Your Microbes Benefits Your Health
Have you ever had a gut feeling? Science is showing us that there is probably more to that thought than we ever imagined. One of the squishier things about our bodies is that while we are made up of cells, tissues, bones, organs and such, the number of bacteria in and on our bodies outnumber…
Busting the Myths about Visceral Fat
The Internet can be such a terrific source of knowledge and information. It is unfortunate though that factual information is so often twisted in ways that promote marketing efforts and used to allow the uneducated to sound authoritative. Such is the case of visceral fat. Long on hype and short on facts. It’s time to…
Sorting Through the Hype: Choosing the Right Sports Drink
Why use sports drinks? These nifty inventions, besides making their inventors and distributors a handsome profit, do actually help athletes of all levels perform well in their chosen event. So how do they work? Sports drinks, as their marketers trumpet in their advertising, provide replacement fluids and nutrients that are depleted in endurance events. What…
Good Skin That Comes From Within
Bewildered by the competing claims on skincare products? Each promising miraculous results but not really delivering when you lay down the bucks? There is an easy and affordable solution: Work from the inside out. Here’s how.
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