Achieving a balanced diet
The old saying “You are what you eat” is only partly true. It takes a great deal more than just food to create a holistically healthy person, but food does form a good foundation...
Category: Nutrition and Wellness
The Role of Nutritions in Our Body
Our understanding of vitamins and minerals – and other micronutrients, compounds, and elements – and their role in our body has improved dramatically over the last decades. We now know that “micronutrition” – or...
What’s Your Nutrition IQ?
We may very well have more variety in the foods we eat than even before. People often eat without knowing much about the nutritional content of food. Even if you are concerned with the...
Enhancing Energy and Enhancing Immunity
Enhancing Energy Every cell in the body is packed with small organelles called mitochondria. Referred to as “intracellular powerhouses”, these cell components produce most of the energy used by the body. Cells with a...
Eating Soy to Prevent Disease
Does soy kill the cancer or just prevent it? Kumar: Soy stops prostate cancer from progressing. One of the characteristics of prostate cancer cells is they proliferate purposelessly, very quickly and at a higher...
Supplements Slow Weight Gain
Jennifer Love, Ph.D., explains how some common supplements can keep middle-age weight gain from building up. When you learned of the study that showed these common supplements slow down weight associated with getting older,...