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Do you get tired and sluggish between 2:00 and 4:00 everyday? Most of us do, and for those in a typical office environment, it’s hard not to get addicted to the coffee pot or the candy machine. I feel for my friends who have bowls of candy lying around at their office. How are you [...]
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This is Day 3 of my blogging marathon: “7 Days of Healthy Eating Out.” Read the details on my marathon here. It’s been a rainy and chilly couple of days in NYC, but I decided to brave the weather and head to the Upper West Side for lunch. I was dying to get out of [...]
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What’s your favorite morning or afternoon drink? Have you considered green tea? It just might be your healthiest choice. A recent study conducted at the Chung Shan Medical University in Taiwan found that drinking 1 cup or more of green tea every day dramatically reduces your risk of lung cancer, especially for smokers. The antioxidants [...]
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I’m absolutely convinced that healthy whole foods can help prevent and cure cancer. Yeah that’s right, I said it. We eat food and it becomes our blood and our cells. Eating a healthy diet not only has an immediate effect on how you feel minutes and hours later, but it also affects our health months [...]
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Natural News reports that some natural chemicals in black tea could help protect you from diabetes. Research published in the journal Aging Cell found that these chemicals can act like insulin in the body. Though the research is preliminary, some studies found that drinking black tea could reduce heart disease and risk of cancer. Lead [...]
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Here’s a summary of some recent research on eating for your health: A study from the University of South Florida in Tampa found that food is very important to the body when trying to fight off illness. In a mice study, researchers concluded that reducing food intake by 30% made the immune system less effective [...]
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Recent studies are finding that reishi mushrooms and green tea may slow cancer growths. Researchers have concluded that the active ingredients in reishi and green tea actually stop tumor growth and increase life expectancy in mice with cancerous tumors. Thomas Avery Garran, the author of Western Herbs According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, says “reishi is [...]
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Natural News reports that drinking black tea every day may reduce your risk of Parkinson’s disease by up to 71%. A National Neuroscience Institute study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology looked at the number of Parkinson’s cases in about 63,000 Chinese men and women and compared the numbers with their intake of certain [...]
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Self Magazine wrote a great tip for how to get the best benefit from drinking green tea. A study from Purdue University in Indiana found that lemon juice can protect the cancer-fighting antioxidants in green tea (catechins). Lemon protects the chemicals so there are more of them for your body to absorb. Next time you [...]
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Everyone wants to feel younger. We all wish we had more energy, looked better, and had more time to get our health on the right track. So, I reviewed tons of research and came up with the following list of foods that will help you feel younger this year. I’ve included foods that will improve [...]
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