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Sushi For Your Health
Whether you're trying to keep your high-blood pressure down, boost your energy level, or just fit into your favorite jeans, pick up your chopsticks. Current nutritional data suggests that you can have your futomaki, and eat it, too. Sushi uses simple, healthy ingredients-seafood, seaweed (nori), rice, and vegetables-carefully seasoned and arranged to satisfy all the senses. Sushi is a perfect food not only for calorie counters, but also for those following more specific nutritional guidelines. More →
Aging Gracefully and Naturally
Throughout the ages, people have been searching for the elusive "Fountain of Youth." And this desire for a magical place, pill, or tonic that can prevent or reverse the effects of aging has sired a new, and growing, field of medicine -- antiaging medicine. These days, there is a plethora of alternative treatments touted as antiaging remedies from "magical" fruits, wrinkle-erasers, memory enhancers, and other supplements to transcendental meditation, special diets, and physiologic purification to remove toxins from the body. More →
Acne Myths: Chocolate and Sex Causes Acne!
There is recent work from Australia that suggests that high carbohydrate foods may in some people flare their acne. The theory is that chronic consumption of high carbs stimulates the excessive production of insulin so that eventually more and more insulin is needed to assist glucose into cells. This is called insulin resistance. More →
Indian Health Traditions
From threading (a method of facial hair removal) and aromatherapy facials to sugar body scrubs and yoga, many of the health and beauty treatments we pay top dollar for in the U.S. come from India and are hundreds – if not thousands – of years old. More →
What Does Sun Damaged Skin Look Like?
The most common indication of chronic sun exposure most often seen in fair skinned individuals is actinic or solar keratosis. These are usually small reddish, or reddish brown rough areas on the skin with a hard surface. More →
Foods that suppress cravings without adding calories
There are many strategies that help reduce hunger: avoiding refined carbohydrates, getting plenty of natural sunlight on your skin, drinking large amounts of water on a regular basis, and getting plenty of fiber in your diet. But there is nothing that absolutely eliminates hunger. The bottom line is that if you are going to lose weight, you are going to experience hunger at one time or another. It's a normal human response to a decrease in your consumption of calories. The problem that most people encounter when they feel hungry is they feel it's some sort of emergency. More →
What Causes Acne?
The exact cause of acne is not known, but the following factors are considered important. Acne is the visible end result of hormonal, bacterial and inflammatory disturbances that take place at the level of the oil pore (pilosebaceous follicle). As the process advances, greater amounts of oil may be produced within the sebaceous glands, though the change in composition and quality of the oil may be more important than the quantity. More →
A History of Soul Food
Every ethnic group has what it calls "soul food" – soothing, comfort food that brings back warm memories of family dinners. Today, in America, the term "soul food" simply means African-American cuisine. To fully understand the concept of "soul food," you must learn the traditional foods of Africa. More →
Unbelievable Truth About Food Allergies
Allergic reactions to food can cause serious illness and, in some cases, death. Therefore, if you have a food allergy, it is extremely important for you to work with your health care provider to find out what food(s) causes your allergic reaction. Sometimes, a reaction to food is not an allergy at all but another type of reaction called "food intolerance". More →
Pros & Cons Of Your Workout Environment
Indoor workouts are great during fall and winter. However, during the spring and summer months the outdoors call us to go outside. Don’t feel you have to move your exercise just because of the weather, though. There are definitely pros and cons to each option. More →
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