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The diet that improves aging (even in nursing home residents!)

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date December 16, 2022

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As you age, your body starts breaking down and becomes more inflamed. This leads to frailty… or what’s commonly thought of as “getting old.” You walk slower, feel creakier and just don’t have as much physical or mental spunk as you once did. But here’s something you may not know… the right diet can turn that around!

Tags Frailty, Inflammation, Mediterranean diet, Microbiome

Healthy Diet Heart Health Inflammation

The snack habit that lowers cholesterol and heart disease risk

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date June 22, 2020

Almonds

When you’re craving a snack, you have two choices. You can reach for something salty, crunchy and processed (like potato chips) that won’t do your heart health any favors. Or you can reach for something that’s just as satisfying that significantly improves your cholesterol, blood vessel health and cardiovascular disease risk…

Tags Almonds, Cholesterol

Heart Health

For better blood pressure and a healthy gut, optimize your salt intake

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date June 29, 2020

Salt

If you get diagnosed with high blood pressure, your doctor will advise you to reduce your salt intake. At one point, several large-scale studies conclusively linked high-salt diets to high blood pressure, but we’ve learned that the connection between salt and blood pressure isn’t so cut and dry… and it includes your gut.

Tags Blood Pressure Support

Breast Cancer Healthy Diet

Should you avoid soy — or not?

Post author By Dr. Elizabeth Klodas MD, FACC
Post date July 8, 2020

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Patients and readers often ask me about the risks of soy: Is there a connection to cancer? Can it help hot flashes? And as a cardiologist, I’m probably asked most often… Is soy really beneficial for heart health? Recently, the evidence really swung in soy’s favor…

Tags Cardio Support, Organic

Health Conditions

Natural help for passing and preventing kidney stones

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date July 14, 2020

kidney stones

Kidney stones may be one of the most painful things you’ll ever experience… many people compare it to giving birth. Arming yourself with ways to dissolve small stones and preventing new stones from forming is so important. Here are the natural options you can use at home…

Tags Calcium, Kidney Health, Kidney stones, pH Balance

Fitness & Exercise Pain

5 health issues that cause muscle cramps

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date March 30, 2025

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It’s not always easy to get to the bottom of mysterious muscle cramps. But if you pay attention to the signs you can most likely narrow it down to one of six common causes of cramping.

Tags Injury, Leg cramps, Saturday5

Brain Health Healthy Diet Healthy Living Stroke

What to eat (and how to supplement) to ward off stroke

Post author By Dr. Michael Cutler
Post date April 15, 2019

Stroke scares the heck out of just about anybody. But the right antioxidant-rich and anti-inflammatory nutrients can help reduce the development of cerebrovascular disease — which can lead to stroke. Find out how these foods, herbs and nutrients you can supplement can help push your stroke risk far away…

Tags Cardio Support, Raw Food, Stroke

Diabetes

Say yes to cheese for better blood sugar

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date May 9, 2019

No matter how you slice it, cheese is delicious. But cheese is high in fat. It’s high in calories. It’s high in sodium. It causes inflammation. Sure, there are some downsides to going hog wild on a sharp cheddar cheese wheel. But there are upsides too… especially if you have prediabetes or diabetes…

Tags Blood sugar, Insulin resistance

Healthy Diet

The simplest way to supersize the cancer-fighting power of green tea

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date January 23, 2019

For years, green tea was the darling of the hot beverage circle, until coffee’s (and even black tea’s) health benefits became better known. But green tea still reigns as king of one potent cancer-fighting compound. Use this trick to supersize it…

Tags Tea

Healthy Diet

7 nutrition-packed veggies for powerful winter soups

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date March 11, 2019

Why is it so hard to “eat your vegetables,” at least for most of us? Sure, I do have friends who would rather eat a giant salad or a plate of sautéed spinach than anything else in the world. But that’s just not me, or most people I know. So, what can we do to get the essential nutrition that can only come from veggies?

Tags Superfoods

Healthy Diet

Slash liver cancer nearly 40 percent with the ‘right’ fiber

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date March 6, 2019

Liver cancer rates and deaths are on the rise. In fact, it’s the only cancer with rates expected to go up year after year in both women and men. But just by making a simple change, you can bring your risk of the most common form of liver cancer down by almost 40 percent.

Tags Grains

Eye Health Healthy Diet

How to squeeze the most cataract-fighting lutein from spinach

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date February 28, 2022

Lutein is a super healthy carotenoid. It reduces the risk of macular degeneration and cataracts, as well as coronary heart disease, stroke and metabolic syndrome. It may even improve your cognitive health. Here’s how to get the most of it from a great source…

Tags Antioxidants, Vision support