Monthly Archive: February 2010

Don’t Abandon All Fats

Don’t Abandon All Fats

Even though you hear a lot of bad things about fat, it is a necessary nutrient when consumed in the right amounts. Fat helps supply energy for aerobic exercise in the form of fatty...

Beware of Hidden Trans Fat

Beware of Hidden Trans Fat

Just because something is listed as having 0 percent trans fat, doesn’t necessarily mean that it is completely trans-fat free. In terms of labeling, it’s important to note that trans fat may not be...

Burn Those Calories

Burn Those Calories

Your body is working all the time: pumping blood, processing food, even thinking. The body’s unit of measurement for the amount of work it’s doing is the calorie. When you sit and think, you...

Prozac from the Sea

Prozac from the Sea

Fatty fish is the best dietary source of DHA and EPA. Ounce for ounce, you get the biggest omega-3 bang for your buck with salmon, herring, lake trout, anchovies and sardines. Other seafood is...

DHA for kids

DHA for kids

DHA isn’t just a fee-good nutrient for grown-ups. It is critical for brain and vision development in babies and children, too. Babies born to moms who consume ample DHA during their pregnancies and while...

Avoiding Alzheimer’s

Avoiding Alzheimer’s

One of the contributing factors in Alzheimer’s is the accumulation of nerve tangles, called amyloid plague, in the brain. Preliminary research shows that DHA might help prevent these tangles by up to 40%. DHA...

Why Your Memory Loves DHA

Why Your Memory Loves DHA

The more than one milling Americans who slip into mild memory loss and the half a million who develop more serious dementias each year would do well to consider cutting way back on artery-clogging...

The Natural High

The Natural High

The more of the omega-3 fat DHA you eat, the more it is incorporated into brain cells, the more flexible your brain cell membranes become, the and the better you think, the more you...

Gimme My Antioxidants

Gimme My Antioxidants

The good news is, your body has an anti-free radical system, called antioxidants, that prevents oxidants from damaging cells. Antioxidants also help keep the heart beating strong and protect the tiny blood vessels that...

The Big Seven for Weight Loss

The Big Seven for Weight Loss

The top seven most important habits of successful dieting include Get eight hours of sleep every night. Eat breakfast! Walk briskly for at least 60 minutes a day. Write down what you eat. Weigh...

Happiness in a Pill

Happiness in a Pill

All of these supplements can help improve mood and are relatively safe when taken in the recommended doses. But don’t get carried away. You can’t cover your bases with a pill, so don’t leave...

Herbal Remedies for a Bad Mood

Herbal Remedies for a Bad Mood

St. John’s Wort: Also called hypericum, this herb curbs symptoms of depression in about one in every two people battling mild depression, SAD and possibly even PMS. No optimal dose has been identified, but...

Ironclad Rules

Ironclad Rules

The best plan to avoid iron deficiency is prevention, but women must get much more aggressive about their iron intakes, since currently most of us average only about half our daily needs. Premenopausal women...

Iron Up, Ladies

Iron Up, Ladies

If you are a woman who feel down in the dumps or downright depressed much of the time, or if your energy level has taken a nosedive, rather than reach for another cup of...

A Cure for Muscle Aches?

Depression and muscle aches also might be a sign you are low in these vitamins. In fact, the depression, as well as the muscles and bones aches in a vitamin D deficiency, mimic the...

Try Tyrosine

Try Tyrosine

Tyrosine is one of the 20 amino acids that are used by cells to synthesize proteins, but studies have also shown that it may reduce stress, improve memory, and lower blood pressure even when...

A Better Body Is Coming …

A Better Body Is Coming …

There’s a new sheriff in town, and she’s whipping these parts into shape. Celebrity trainer Kathy Kaehler made waves when she announced her partnership with USANA Health Sciences. Now she’s helping people everywhere—Associates and...