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#1 The statistics around health are shocking. According to the World Health Organization, by 2050, one in three American adults will have diabetes. One in eight people aged sixty-five and over currently has Alzheimer's, and that number is expected to rise to one in four within the next twenty years.
#2 The statistics on older Americans and the drugs they take are alarming....
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#1 When someone we love gets broken, we have a heartbreak. When we lose a loved one, we have a loss that can be processed by our support systems. When we lose a romantic partner, our support systems might not understand our pain and instead try to talk us out of it.
#2 When someone you love gets broken, you have a heartbreak. When you lose a loved one, you have a loss...
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#1 The body you are looking at right now is the result of your genetics and your habits. It's as simple as that. You have to make sure that any diet or exercise plan you engage in is worth it before you start.
#2 You can choose your habits, and therefore change your body. It may not be the body that society thinks you should have, but it will be the body that is the...
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Get the Summary of Jorge Cruise's The 100 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The 100" by Jorge Cruise explores the history of human diet and its impact on obesity, chronic diseases, and overall health. The book traces the evolution of eating habits from the hunter-gatherer era, through the agricultural and industrial periods, to the present day, highlighting the detrimental effects of refined sugars and grains...
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#1 The Ten Commandments for Sleep Success are: 1. Your baby needs to be in a safe, dark, and cool place to sleep. 2. You need to establish a regular bedtime and morning routine, with a predictable wake-up time. 3. You need to put your baby to sleep on his or her back, in a crib that is free of hazardous items, with no mobile or other sleep-inducing device. 4. You must...
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#1 Diets are often restrictive, and I couldn't keep up with the rigorous demands and rules of many of them. I also didn't have time to prepare all of my food in tiny containers, or eat only clean foods.
#2 Intermittent fasting doesn't require you to follow a restrictive diet. It allows you to eat whatever you want, and it has been proven to help you lose weight and keep...
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#1 You've made the choice to show up for life bright-eyed, energetic, vibrant, glowing, and healthy. You no longer want to see beauty and feel beautiful only when under a cover of foundation and lipstick. You want your best self in every breath, thought, step, and yes, every bite.
#2 The foods that damage your skin, hair, and nails are the Beauty Betrayers. They cause...
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#1 We all want to live a disease-free life, but most of us have no idea that a disease-free life is possible. We assume that the patient is well until his or her condition deteriorates into symptoms that the doctor recognizes as a diagnosable disease.
#2 I was given an intradermal test, which is a much more provocative and sensitive test than the typical scratch...
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#1 Laura grew up with a mother who was bipolar. Her mother had her good moments, but her untreated bipolar disorder worsened as she got older. Laura's days were punctuated with put-downs that caught her off guard as she walked across the living room.
#2 John's parents met in Asia when his father was deployed there as an army officer. After a whirlwind romance, their...
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#1 The first trimester is when you get to adjust to being a parent and your wife will begin feeling changes in her body as pregnancy hormones kick in. Don't panic.
#2 Pregnancy tests are not reliable.
#3 There is no point in trying to get pregnant if your wife is ovulating on Tuesday and you're not mating until Sunday at 7 A.M.
#4 After a year of trying, if you still...
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#1 Humans are comparatively poor athletes on land. The world's fastest humans can only sprint about 23 miles per hour for about half a minute. Humans almost always hunt with weapons because no person could ever match a chimp for speed, power, and agility.
#2 The first major transformation in human evolution was bipedalism, the ability to stand and walk on two feet. The...
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#1 The origins of coffee are lost in legend, but the most popular tale traces its discovery to a goatherd in Ethiopia. By the sixth century A. D., the plant had reached Arabia, where it was used as a food and medicine. Coffee beans were fermented to make wine, or dried, crushed, and eaten.
#2 The word coffee comes from the Arab word qahwah. The botanical name of the...
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#1 Diet culture is a slippery concept. Some would argue that it doesn't exist anymore, and that today's average citizen of twenty-first-century Western culture is more concerned with health and wellness than thinness.
#2 The history of diet culture is a long and complicated one, with many periods of ambivalence about body fatness. The Romans, for example, generally did...
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#1 Menopause is a difficult journey, and women rarely share their experiences with others. They struggle with their health when they hit this period of life. The symptoms are complex and unpredictable, and the joy in life seems to have disappeared.
#2 The symptoms of menopause are a cry for help from your body. You don't have to struggle through them. They are a gift...
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#1 The rise of social media has transformed the landscape of nutrition. Unfortunately, most of this content is of unreliable quality and reinforces inaccurate ideals of health and body image.
#2 You cannot spot-reduce body fat. You cannot control where your body stores excess fat. You cannot control how easily you can gain or lose body fat. You cannot control how long...
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#1 The latest calcium and heart health study concluded that women who supplement with calcium to prevent osteoporosis are at a higher risk of atherosclerosis, heart attack, and stroke than those who don't.
#2 The real question to ask is, How can the body safely guide calcium into the bones where it helps us, and keep it away from soft tissues like arteries where it harms...
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#1 The comprehensive lifestyle program in this book can lower cholesterol and blood pressure more than has ever been reported without drugs. It can even begin to reverse severe coronary heart disease in many people.
#2 In his book, The Lifestyle Heart Program, Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a comprehensive lifestyle program that lowers cholesterol and blood pressure more...
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#1 The health of our society is in critical condition, and the main cause is lifestyle-related diseases. If so much suffering and its attendant costs could be prevented through better nutrition, then why haven't we done so.
#2 The United States has become very fixated on magic pills, which does not suggest health, but rather the normalcy of disease.
#3 The economic...
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#1 The five life forces are: Nutrition, Hydration, Oxygenation, Alkalization, and Detoxification. We need to pay attention to these five factors to control what kind of health we'll have.
#2 We must eat a wide variety of whole, fresh, clean foods-mostly vegetables, fruit, beans, nuts, seeds, grains, sprouts, and healthy fats. Eat a lot of it raw.
#3 The Mediterranean...
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