Omega 3

First, the good news: The single most powerful tool for substantively reducing our heart disease risk is our willingness to make simple diet and lifestyle changes. Now, the bad news: The single most powerful tool for substantively reducing our heart disease risk is that same willingness to make simple diet and lifestyle changes. This endorsement of personal responsibility is ...
03/26/2008

The world’s fascination with bodybuilding, the process of muscle hypertrophy and fat loss achieved through muscle training and diet, has done nothing but grow over the last few decades. Nutrition has become an important facet in the muscle-building arena. Bodybuilding dietary supplements are so prolific a recent Google search revealed 10.6 million results. A desire to build lean muscle ...
02/29/2008

Every new parent faces awesome, unfamiliar responsibilities with the birth of a child. Not the least of these is the proper feeding of Baby. Breast or bottle? When to start solids? Organic or conventional? It’s no wonder moms and dads can find themselves at a loss for what to do. Roughly 4 million children are born in the United ...
02/29/2008

Vitamin E and the related tocopherols are nature’s antioxidants, existing in significant levels in vegetable oils contained in grains, seeds and nuts. There, they protect the high levels of unsaturated fatty acids in these vegetative materials from oxidation. In our diets, vitamin E serves as a fat-soluble antioxidant vitamin, preventing cell membrane damage by inhibiting phospholipid peroxidation and disrupting ...
01/23/2008

Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, account for 78 million people, or 26% of the American population, according to MetLife’s Mature Market Institute, New York. Every 7.5 seconds, another boomer hits the big 5-0, and 40 million of them have already passed the 50 mark. This booming market, estimated at $2 trillion according to Brandweek, New York, warrants ...
01/23/2008