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Could Vitamin D Protect You from Influenza?
Ideally, before the flu season begins, find out your vitamin D status. A study involving 18, 883 participants, 12 years and older, found that people with the lowest blood level of vitamin D reported having significantly more recent colds or flu. The analysis adjusted...
True or False? Low Carb Diets Are Good for You!
You have seen it on Facebook postings, read it on the internet, heard it on the news: “Carbs are bad for you if you are trying to lose weight.” Pundits advocating a low carbohydrate diet condemned the consumption of starches. They say that even whole grains sabotage...
Good Friends Improve Immune Efficiency
Psychological influences not only influence the effectiveness of the flu vaccine, but directly impact the immune system itself. For example, studies show that loneliness appears to have a significant impact on physical health, being linked detrimentally to worse sleep...
New Weapons to Combat Depression
Globally, the World Health Organization estimates that depression affects more than 100 million people. The use of antidepressants is only fully effective in about 30-40 % of depressed person, initially. One-third of depressed individuals remain so, even after using 3...
Is Your Diet Making You Depressed?
Depression is a devastating disorder, afflicting up to 10% of the adult population in the United States and representing one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Although effective treatments are available, approximately one third of all patients with...
Disguised? Or Kept in Reserve?
Do you find yourself without any seemingly real resources? Then you will want to read this powerful story and encouraging object lesson! As I look out of my window on this mid-April spring day, I see dead, brown, and blackened leaves, shriveled and curled, on many...
The Good News about Exercise and Breast Cancer
Consistent exercise—light, moderate, or vigorous—makes the immune system more effective in fighting breast cancer. How exercise helps the immune system Aerobic exercise influences the way our bodies break down estrogens to produce more of the ‘good’ metabolites that...
Will You Be One in Three? Strategies for Preserving Brain Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in March 2013 that by the time they die, one out of three American seniors will have some form of dementia, including Alzheimer’s. Although dementia might not necessarily be the direct cause of death, it can...
Hypertension: All Fired Up
To defeat high blood pressure or at least prevent its serious complication, we need more than the DASH diet and exercise. In this second article on hypertension, we address the role the nervous system plays in hypertension. To defeat hypertension or at the very...