Yoga For Pain The US National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) conducts reviews and research on complementary therapies like yoga for pain management. In a recent analysis, NCCIH found that yoga was helpful for some types of pain but not all. Yoga may help relieve low-back pain and neck pain, […]
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Plant-based Impossible Slider Disruption can come from the oddest places (think of an online bookseller from the 1990;s). However, we would have expected White Castle’s and their (in)famous sliders to lead the way to tasty, popular, plant-based food. White Castle’s plant-based Impossible Slider has made news headlines! At $1.99 each, the plant-based Impossible Slider is
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About Antioxidants We continue to learn about antioxidants and the role they play in health. As consumers continue to broaden their holistic understanding of health, more options for healthy foods become available. Where matcha or avocado were practically unknown 20 years ago, such foods are practically commonplace. You sip on matcha every morning, pile on
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Reversing Type 2 Diabetes For some reason the US healthcare system focuses on “treating” type 2 diabetes. There are enormous markets for insulin and pumps and monitors, etc. However, we rarely hear about reversing type 2 diabetes. It is certainly possible but it takes a Lifestyle approach, not a conventional medical approach. Reversing type 2
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Luxury Wellness It just seems a bit silly that we think of wellness or well-being as a luxury. This really should be the normal state of things. Health should be the norm. Following the Kano model this luxury wellness that we now associate with elite hotels may well be the norm. Until then let’s consider
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Loneliness Is Deadly We need to rethink Loneliness. This has become far more than a quick feeling of isolation while friends or family are away. Loneliness has become a lifestyle and is a deadly precursor to many diseases. Like many other Lifestyle diseases, the treatment goes beyond a pharmaceutical or surgery. While the US continues
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Jujube Fruit’s Benefits If jujube fruit ever makes it big and needs marketing… the Beatles’ “I am the Walrus” has to be a contender with its mesmerizing refrain: Goo goo g’joob, goo goo goo g’joob. However, with the growing consumer focus on holistic health and well-being there may be no need of a massive marketing campaign.
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Preventable Heart Problems Preventable heart problems are, perhaps, among the most tragic. These are not just preventable deaths but also preventable pain and suffering, for the victim as well as family and friends and caregivers. These preventable heart problems also wreak havoc on finances, again unnecessarily. A holistic approach to heart health does not have
Turmeric’s Benefits So many people are in search of the “wonder pill” that cures everything… without side effects. So far no one has found it. While not a cure-all, the Indian spice, turmeric may help across a variety of health issues. Turmeric’s benefits have been recognized for millennia in Ayurvedic medicine and now, with more
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A Downwardly Mobile Retirement During the Golden Age of the US Middle Class, Hollywood often portrayed retirement as that time when an employee received a memorable gold watch for decades of loyal service and then headed off to some warmer clime to enjoy the “twilight years”. That is no longer the case. Today’s retirees face a
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