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How to Maintain Healthy Cholesterol Levels
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 71 million Americans (nearly 34%) have high cholesterol, called hypercholesterolemia. Even the average adult American has a cholesterol level of 200 mg/dL. This is just at the borderline for being considered...
5 Tips For Healthy Eating
Healthy eating is about more than losing weight or maintaining a certain body weight or slimming down your waist size. In fact, healthy eating can lower the risk for conditions including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, and even many cancers, not...
Gestational Diabetes: Prevention and Management
Gestational diabetes affects approximately 3% to 8% of all pregnant women in the United States, and can lead to delivery complications and health problems for both the mother and newborn child. Luckily, however, the symptoms and health impact of gestational diabetes...
7 Top Strategies on How to Lose Weight
Weight has a way of creeping up on us over time but there are several techniques that we can use to adopt a healthier lifestyle and establish a routine for sustainable, long-term weight management. Often, we counsel our weight loss patients to start by using a few of...
How To (And Why You Should) Love Your Kidneys
Until they start malfunctioning, most people don't think twice about these two fantastic fist-sized organs that are responsible for so many important functions. We certainly don’t think about kidney health on a daily basis, but if you have certain medical conditions...
The Importance of Drinking Water
Reasons Your Body Needs Water It helps regulate a normal body temperature It carries nutrients to your organs and tissues It transports oxygen to your body cells It protects and lubricates your joints and organs It protects your spinal cord It helps regulate your...
Know Your Fats
Do you remember the low-fat and fat-free craze of the 90s? Did you stock your cabinets and fridges with low fat cookies and chips, and fat-free mayonnaise, cream cheese, and salad dressings? And did you spend many an evening at a froyo shop with a large bowl of...
Make Your Kids Love Salad (And Yourself As Well)
Most parents do not think that green salads are a very kid-friendly food. But they are a great way to get the recommended 5 servings of vegetables and even fruits for the day. Salads are packed with many nutrients like vitamin C, iron, potassium, calcium, fiber, and...
Fruit and Vegetables – Are They Really Important?
Flashback to the dinner table as a child and hearing your parents tell you that "you should eat your fruit and veggies!" When asked why, the response was always the same, "they're good for you." Still wondering if your parents were correct all those years ago? The...