Exercising

What can I do to exercise my hard to tone areas like, my upper thighs and buttocks? Unfortunately, you cannot spot reduce, but you can use our virtual trainer to tighten and tone any area.

Eating Habbits. Part 2

Most importantly you will want to get to a place where you are comfortable eating regularly, without starvation, bingeing or purging. Ultimately these unhealthy habits you are familiar with can increase your risk for serious health problems such as heart disease and some forms of cancer.

Eating Habbits. Part 1

I have some really bad eatting habbits, since i have become a thirty something- it seems that overnight i have put on some 20 or so pounds! i have never had a healthy relationship with food, bulimia, being in my past.

Helpful Nutritional Supplements. Part 4

Selenium Very small quantities of the trace mineral selenium are essential to human health. Selenium is required for the synthesis of the protective enzyme glutathione peroxidase, which protects cell membranes against damage by oxidants, including those in cigarette smoke.

Helpful Nutritional Supplements. Part 3

Vitamin C should be used with caution by persons with gout or kidney failure since it may cause uric acid stones in the former and calcium oxalate stones in the later. Clients over age 45 should be advised to stop taking vitamin C for at least 3 days if they are to undergo screening for…

Helpful Nutritional Supplements. Part 2

There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that vitamin A may, in fact, protect against some of the ravages of smoking. But smokers should not interpret this to mean that if they take vitamin A, they can go on smoking without risk. Such protection would, at best, be only partial.

Helpful Nutritional Supplements. Part 1

Managing Your Diet and Weight The question of whether to take vitamin supplements is a sticky one indeed. Some researchers pooh-pooh the need for vitamin supplements and insist that it is possible to obtain all our nutritional needs by eating healthy foods.

Patients Tell FDA They Need Access to Cancer Drugs

Patients and advocacy groups told a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Thursday that there is not enough access to potentially life-saving cancer therapies that are still considered experimental. The FDA asked its Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee to consider whether changes are needed to the agency’s policy on giving severely ill patients special…

Alternative Wart Treatments

Since warts are the result of a virus, Dr. Daniel DeLapp, an associate professor at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Ore., says that boosting the immune system can be an effective way to fight warts.