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Healthy & Safe Cookware: Your Essential Guide
We know that eating healthy food is important for long-term health, but did you know that what cookware you use to cook your food can also have a significant impact on your health? Most cookware that is used today leaches harmful chemicals into our food. It is important that we use safe, healthy cookware that doesn't negatively affect the food we eat and...
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Whole, Low-Fat, or Skim Milk: What’s the Healthier Choice?
Consumers are faced with numerous options when it comes to purchasing cow’s milk, even when non-dairy products are removed from the equation. As you look at row after row of dairy at the store, you may find yourself wondering: How did we end up with so many varieties of cow's milk? And which one...
The Health Benefits of a Morning Cold Shower
Cold water immersion has steadily gained popularity in recent years, but is far from a trend. People have been using cold water for its therapeutic effects for thousands of years. In fact, interest in it for medicinal purposes dates back to the fourth century BCE, when the Greek physician...
Essential Anti-Inflammatory Herbs, Spices, and Foods
Your body’s first line of defense against infection is your immune system. As the body attempts to rid itself of foreign substances, an immune response is triggered to help restore health. Inflammation is part of this normal healing process, but when the body doesn’t turn it off—or attacks healthy...
Why Saturated Fat Is Healthy
In the late 1950s, there was a significant paradigm shift that changed our views on nutrition and health: the idea that fat, specifically saturated fat, in foods caused heart disease. Ancel Keys, an American physiologist, led the now discredited Seven Countries Study that examined the link between...
The Dangers of Drinking Soda
Today’s soda drink has evolved since its introduction in the late 1700s. Early on, soda water was marketed as a medicinal drink. Chemists, medical professionals, and pharmacists dabbled with carbonation and medical botany, such as coca leaves (cocaine) and sarsaparilla, to create flavorful mineral...
Exercise: The Best Kind of Preventive Medicine
Exercise has long been prescribed as preventive medicine. Physical activity improves mood and well-being, along with decreasing the risk of many health conditions, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes, among others. Individualized exercise routines are also the...
What Is Oil Pulling?
Oil pulling has long been considered a practice for natural oral healthcare and is a very simple technique that involves swishing a tablespoon of oil in your mouth for approximately 10–20 minutes, on an empty stomach, and then spitting it out. This ancient Indian medicine remedy dates back over a...
