While spring is often touted as the time to get “beach ready” by slimming down and shedding those extra winter pounds, summer is definitely one of the best times to focus on your health. While anytime is the right time to be health-minded, summer can make the job a little easier. Checkout these 5 reasons … Read More →
When it comes to nutrition and our diets, we tend to be focused on the macronutrients: fat, protein, and carbohydrates. While these are absolutely essential for good health, they represent only part of the big nutrition picture. What we often fail to realize is that by solely focusing on the macronutrients, we deprive ourselves of … Read More →
Stress. We know it’s bad for us and that we should decrease it in our lives but have you ever wondered what it does that makes it so bad? Psychological stress is associated with increased rates of depression and anxiety, heart disease, and infections. It may seem strange that stress can have such a dramatic impact … Read More →
Immune Health Of (Wo)Men and Monkeys Just before the 2013 Christmas and New Year’s holidays, a newly released scientific article published in Vaccine was seized upon by nearly all the large media outlets; USA Today, CBS affiliates, Time, you name the media giant and they were running the story. What could possibly be so important … Read More →