Category: Lifestyle

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Water, it’s the best sport drink among sport drinks, that is! It really is, although there are probably as many sport drinks and fancy waters today as there are sneaker styles. Water is a vital nutrient and we need to drink enough of it before, during and after exercise because it’s not only crucial for our ability to perform, but crucial to how we feel throughout the day.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Think only germs make us sick? Think again! While preventing illness from bacteria and viruses has been on our mind from the common cold to food poisoning, to hospital infections and beyond, let’s become aware of environmental factors that cause us to become ill too.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – COLUMBIA, Mo. – According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 percent of Americans have inactive lifestyles (they take fewer than 5,000 steps a day) and 75 percent do not meet the weekly exercise recommendations (150 minutes of moderate activity each week and muscle-strengthening activity twice a week) to maintain good health.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Go Mediterranean with wine, red wine my fav, that is! While wine is not a food, it does come from grapes (a healthy food) and wine in moderation has been touted as having health benefits for us! Many of us have heard about the heart health benefits of moderate alcohol intake, and while one glass of wine can relieve a little stress, red wine in particular does have health properties.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Drink Up, it’s Hot Outside with Water, that is! Well, we’re in a record breaking heat wave here in the Northeast, and “Water”, which is a nutrient, is vital to our health, to our exercise tolerance, and to every body function especially during the summer. Drinking enough water is even more important during hot humid weather such as we’re having now (if you’re somewhere cooler, you’re lucky!) so, here’s my yearly summer reminder for us to drink up!

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Go Mediterranean with the Tomato, a superstar food in my opinion, and a top staple food found in the Mediterranean Diet! The popular tomato known as a vegetable is actually botanically a fruit. Since we’ve been discussing the staple foods of the Mediterranean Diet recently, known for its health properties, let’s discuss the tomato.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s Berry Month, “National Blueberry Month,” that is! I like to remind everyone that berries are a food that we can enjoy this month and all year long, especially blueberries. Since so many of us are weight conscious, stocking up on berries, red (raspberries, strawberries?), white (white raspberries), and blue (blueberries of course) can really help us to lose.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Go Mediterranean with Legumes, a powerhouse food, and an almost perfect food in my opinion. Why? Because they are a high plant- source protein, a high energy-yielding carbohydrate, and high in fiber, folate, iron, potassium, phytochemicals and even calcium.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – This week, The New England Journal of Medicine published a study about the top foods in our diet that are causing us to get fat. In fact, hardly a day goes by when I am not confronted by the latest reason for America’s obesity problem, or the different popular diets too numerous to list.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Go Mediterranean with the avocado, one of my favorite forbidden foods to write about. It is also another staple food eaten by the Mediterranean people, known for their longevity. Botanically a fruit, it is classified nutritionally as a fat; hence my second favorite fat after olive oil to write about and of course, eat. And a what a favorite of mine, it is!

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Go Mediterranean with Pasta and there’s no better time than now, with summertime on the horizon! Okay, I can hear it now, “Pasta? Love pasta, but I just can’t eat it since I gain weight when I do”. Well, we all do if we eat too much of it! Pasta is truly a great carbohydrate food, which we love and try ever so hard to avoid.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Last week we discussed “The Smart Grill” for our health. This week, let’s discuss “The Lean Grill” for our health but also for our weight loss efforts because A Smart Grill is also a Lean Grill! When we choose to make a lean grill, we can significantly reduce our fat intake, calories and the carcinogenic compounds that grilling high fat meat creates.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Memorial Day is here with many of us firing up the grills. Grilling is popular because it’s easy, tastes good (I can almost smell it as I write) and fun to do (we women get to watch men do the cooking!). Now that we’ve briefly discussed the Mediterranean Diet, which is high in plant based foods and lower in meat than our American Diet, this may be the perfect time for a reminder to make a smart grill!

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – May is Mediterranean Month, and olive oil is one of the top foods of the Mediterranean Diet! It’s also at the top of my list because it’s my oil of choice as well! While a fat is a fat when we refer to calories, not all fats (including oils) are equal when we refer to our health.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – May is Mediterranean Month so let’s “Go Mediterranean” this month with the Mediterranean Diet, that is! We may not all live surrounded by the crystal blue waters of the Mediterranean, but I suggest that we eat as if we do. We can do this by eating the foods that the people from the Mediterranean do more often and by making it an eating lifestyle!

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A lot of attraction between men and women is chemistry. New studies suggest that taking birth-control pills could mask the signals that draw the sexes together. – The Pill Can Change Who A Woman is Attracted to – Video: Could the Pill Make You Less Attractive?

(HealthNewsDigest.com)—You’re never too young to reduce your risk of stroke-and you may need to start by changing your lifestyle.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – All herbs are drugs, whether they come in the form of supplements, teas, lotions or potions (okay, maybe not potions!)! Herbal supplements in different forms have become increasingly popular. Natural is in, and natural is a good thing (to paraphrase an admired professional)!

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Glutathione, our body’s own natural antioxidant is not commonly known to most of us compared to the widely discussed antioxidants such as Vitamin C, E, and Beta-carotene and Resveratrol (to name a few). But just because glutathione is not commonly discussed, doesn’t make it less powerful.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Spring is almost here (just one month away!), and as the term spring cleaning suggests, spring is the time for a little extra cleaning. “Going Green” is important for our earth and for our health, so let’s go natural when we clean! According to the World Health Organization, environmental and lifestyle factors contribute up to 80% of all known cancers.