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Top Foods to Avoid: High Fructose Corn Syrup

Top Foods to Avoid: High Fructose Corn Syrup

High fructose corn syrup is a man-made product that is produced by using enzymes to extract sugar from stocks of corn. This sweetener should be avoided as it has been linked to a variety of maladies including obesity, cardiovascular disease,… 0 Shares | | Posted in Fitness Nutrition, Food, Food, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition
Can Wine and Tequila Really Help You Lose Weight?

Can Wine and Tequila Really Help You Lose Weight?

There is absolutely no shortage of eye-popping news on the latest fitness and weight loss fads. Every day, you find clickbait after clickbait luring you in to open that article about how the newest breakthrough in medical science can help… 0 Shares | | Posted in Fitness, Nutrition, Weight Loss
Help, I Have a Fatty Liver! Now What?

Help, I Have a Fatty Liver! Now What?

Rivers from Connecticut asks: “My husband (age 64) and I (age 65) both have non-alcoholic fatty liver. What do you recommend for this condition?” First, let’s define non-alcoholic fatty liver. Fatty liver is a benign-sounding name for liver cirrhosis. The… 0 Shares | | Posted in Health
Did You Know: Facts About Sugars & Carbohydrates

Did You Know: Facts About Sugars & Carbohydrates

At one time, all you ever heard from health experts was that you should cut down on your salt intake and to cut out saturated fats. While doing this can be beneficial to your health new research shows that eating… 0 Shares | | Posted in Fitness, Fitness Nutrition, Food, Food, Health, Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Medicine, Weight Loss
Harmful Effects of HFCS: The Not-So-Sweet Truth

Harmful Effects of HFCS: The Not-So-Sweet Truth

HFCS or high fructose corn syrup is now a natural sweetener, or so corn manufacturers claim. There is a raging debate currently going on in the media about the benefits, or as some would put it, the absence of harmful… 0 Shares | | Posted in Chemicals, Child Care, Environment, Fitness, Fitness Nutrition, Food, Food, Health, Health, Holistic Medicine, Home, Lifestyle, Medicine, News, Nutrition, Nutritional Medicine, Personal Care
Top 4 Dangerous Ingredients in Processed Foods

Top 4 Dangerous Ingredients in Processed Foods

One of the most popular movements in American food today is the “whole foods” movement. This is the trend where people are beginning to cook foods from scratch using ingredients like fresh fruits and vegetables, dry brown rice or beans… 0 Shares | | Posted in Food, Food, Health, Health, Lifestyle, News, Personal Care
Processed Foods can be worse than Alcohol & Hard Drugs

Processed Foods can be worse than Alcohol & Hard Drugs

Within the natural health community, it is relatively well known that processed foods are to be avoided like the plague, but that doesn’t stop us from occasionally pigging out on these dangerous foods from time to time. On these occasions,… 0 Shares | | Posted in Fitness Nutrition, Food, Food, GMOs, Health, Health, Herbal Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Lifestyle, Medicine, Mental Health, News, Nutrition, Nutritional Medicine, Weight Loss
5 Dangerous Additives that are Hiding in Packaged Bread

5 Dangerous Additives that are Hiding in Packaged Bread

Looks can be deceiving, and many breads that are labelled as “heart healthy” or “natural” do not always contain ingredients which live up to that promise. When purchasing commercial bread, be sure to read the ingredients on the label carefully… 0 Shares | | Posted in Food, Food, Health, Health, Lifestyle, News, Personal Care
Fructose Feeds Cancer More Than Other Sugars

Fructose Feeds Cancer More Than Other Sugars

Fructose may actually do more to promote and proliferate the growth of cancer cells than any other form of sugar.  Fructose is the form of sugar commonly known to be in fruit, but it’s most heavily consumed in the form… 0 Shares | | Posted in Fitness, Fitness Nutrition, Food, Health, Herbal Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Hospitals & Surgery, Lifestyle, Medicine, Nutrition, Nutritional Medicine, Recipes
What To Do About Your Kids’ Halloween Candy

What To Do About Your Kids’ Halloween Candy

We all remember how much fun it was to go trick-or-treating, and how enjoyable the candy was to eat in the following weeks (or days) thereafter. But given what we know now about the dangers of the trans fats, high… 0 Shares | | Posted in Child Care, Food, GMOs, Health, Home, Lifestyle, Nutrition