In Ayurveda nourishing foods for autumn include root vegetables such as carrots and beets and hard “winter” squash like pumpkins and butternut squash as well as ghee and almonds. A Season of Deficiency & Change Autumn is a season of deficiency and change. When the temperature starts to drop, the body scrambles to protect itself…
Obesity Increases Risk of Diseases: Eat These Foods Instead
People want to lose weight for different reasons, such as better health or a better body shape. Being chronically overweight or obese does increase the risk of several diseases, including diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, gallbladder disease, and certain types of cancer. No matter what the reasons for losing weight are, there are some weight…
Late Afternoon Exercise Helps to Control Blood Sugar, Cholesterol and Triglycerides
A study from Japan found that exercising in the late afternoon (4-6 PM) helps to control blood sugar, cholesterol and triglyceride levels better than exercising in the morning (9-11 AM) (Front Endocrinol, July 19, 2022). Twelve healthy young men walked on a treadmill for one hour at 60 percent of their maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max)…
Metabolic Syndrome Tied to a Vitamin Deficiency, Increasing Disease Risk for Nearly 40% of Americans
Metabolic syndrome refers to a group of risk factors that increase your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. These risk factors include high blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, extra fat around the waist, and low levels of HDL (good) cholesterol. Once you have three or more of these risk factors,…
The Trail of Blood From the COVID Jabs
These two doctors claim they’ve discovered a way to test for spike protein in human tissue, and they’ve found spike protein in individuals who were injured or died from the shots. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Abnormal blood clotting was one of the first mysterious health effects to emerge in the COVID pandemic, first, as an effect of…
Cognitive Benefits of Magnesium L-Threonate
STORY AT-A-GLANCE Developed by scientists in 2010, magnesium L-threonate (MgT) is a patented magnesium compound with the ability to enhance working memory, short- and long-term memory, and learning. In 2016, scientists found that not only did MgT enhance performance on individual cognitive tests in older adults with cognitive impairment, but also reversed brain aging by…
The Many Origins of Depression
What Is Depression? Is depression a flat mood, an inability to participate in ‘normal life activities,’ or unexplained bouts of sadness? In spite of its singular clinical classification, depression looks different for each person. Like Leo Tolstoy noted in his famous novel Anna Karenina, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its…
6 Ways to Avoid Eating a Ton of Halloween Candy
Handing out candy to enthusiastic trick-or-treaters is fun, but surplus Halloween goodies can spell trouble for your waistline. It’s easy to grab a piece (or two or three) every time you’re in the kitchen. To prevent yourself from overindulging, try these six techniques. 1. Hide the Candy Place leftover candy in an opaque sealed container…
Giotto’s Frescoes Foretell Scientific Breakthroughs
October 11, 2022
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The Middle Ages were coming to an end. Its art presented holy beings in a golden, heavenly realm. The Renaissance then burst onto the scene, and it was time for great art to appear on earth, followed by exciting discoveries in science. Renaissance artists depicted spiritual figures, but they placed them in natural settings and…
Matching Treatments to Your Genes
You’re one of a kind. It’s not just your eyes, smile, and personality. Your health, risk for disease, and the ways you respond to medicines are also unique. Medicines that work well for some people may not help you at all. They might even cause problems. Wouldn’t it be nice if treatments and preventive care…
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