Nutrition

Are Your Bones Strong Enough?

Bone Health  There are 208 bones in the human body and 143 joints. If any of these weaken, your body’s mechanics can be thrown out of balance, affecting your overall physical health. For this reason, it is important that you pay as much attention to your bone health as you do to the rest of our health. Bone [...]

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Health Check: Healthy or Not?

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Eating a healthy, balanced diet is important. Unfortunately, it can also be confusing! The other day, while grocery shopping, I noticed something alarming: A Health Check symbol on a frozen chicken dinner. At first, I thought my eyes had deceived me. They couldn’t possibly endorse such a food; it’s processed! I picked up the frozen [...]

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Diabetes – Is Your Lifestyle Putting You at Risk?

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What would you say if I told you that not only is Type 2 diabetes preventable, it is by and large curable if you are willing to make some simple, inexpensive lifestyle changes? Believe it! Diabetes rates for both adults and children are climbing out of control! Currently, one in four Americans either has diabetes [...]

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Blood Pressure – Is Yours Rising?

Hypertension has become the reality for many who are leading stressful lifestyles, coupled with an unhealthy diet and a lack of exercise. The global prevalence of hypertension is currently estimated at 1 billion. That translates into 1 in 3 adults having high blood pressure. Often dubbed the “Silent Killer”, many people can live with hypertension [...]

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Winter Blues Got You Down?

Are you feeling tired, irritable or simply just, “down in the dumps?” If so, it is likely that you are suffering from the dreaded condition, Winter Blues. The official name for it is Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.), interesting acronym, isn’t it? Now, I am not generally one for labels, as too often, labels are nothing more [...]

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Are You Stressing Over the Holidays?

Wow, can you believe the holidays are almost here? While thinking about the topic I wanted to discuss in this week’s newsletter, I kept coming back to the stress that we all face this time of year. From time constraints and shopping headaches to holiday feasts and financial worries, everyone is dealing with a huge [...]

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What Exactly Are You Eating?

As we head into the holiday season we are faced with one of the biggest health challenges of the entire year. Dinner parties, family gatherings, and business events all seem to focus on one thing during this time…Food. Now, I’m not here to lecture you on how much you eat during the holidays. I’m not [...]

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Sugar: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

In 2009, it was estimated that more than 50% of North Americans consumed nearly half a pound of sugar PER DAY! Sugar is in almost everything we consume – from pretzels to soda, yet consuming it has proven to be very detrimental to our health. Several years ago we all went on low fat diet: [...]

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Fiber – Are You Better Off Eating a Cardboard Box?

Not all fiber is created equally; however, many people are unaware of this fact. By eating whole wheat toast or a bowl of cereal in the morning, many of my patients believe that they are getting the right kind of fiber for their diet. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. There are different types of fiber—some [...]

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Vitamin Water – For Health or For Money?

Vitamin Water Is Vitamin Water worth your money? Glaceau Vitaminwater with added vitamins and electrolytes has become one of the most popular water beverages on the market. Oh, and its hip-packaging and quirky product names don’t seem to hurt sales either. But is paying the extra two or three bucks for this flavored water actually [...]

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