Something’s Gotta Give: Changing to Create Change

How Are Your New Year’s Resolutions Holding Up? The New Year has come and gone, and most of us are watching our new years resolutions dwindle into puffs of smoke, ghosts of our former fervent wishes. Where we had promised to eat a solid breakfast, we are instead listening to the gurgling of an empty [...]

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French Paradox in Action: Facts About Fatty Foods

French Women Don’t Get Fat. We’ve all heard about this theoretical, geographical advantage, but is it true? And if so, with a diet loaded in bread, cheese, butter and wine, how can it possibly be true? Turns out, it IS true and the answer may go beyond moderation and exercise. I recently spent a week [...]

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Intelligent Snacking: My Favorite 4 O’Clock Snacks

Most people have an energy dip in the afternoon. The gap of time between lunch and dinner is usually far longer than between breakfast and lunch, and consequently, around mid-late afternoon is the time when we are most likely to succumb to our cravings for sugary snacks, in a futile attemp to hasten a recovery [...]

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The 5 Best Winter Supplements for Your Cabinet

We’re entering the heart of cold and flu season and many of my readers are reaching out to ask what the best supplements are for the prevention and treatment of these wintertime scourges. While neither the flu nor the common cold is associated with bacterial infections, many physicians prescribe antibiotics in a misguided attempt at [...]

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Video: The “Sunshine” Vitamin D

How Important is Vitamin D? When people think of vitamin D, their initial thought is hugely in relation to its importance in bone health. It is very true that vitamin D is essential for calcium absorption – without it, calcium is not properly absorbed into the bones, and instead deposits into soft tissue like the [...]

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Decisiveness as a Way to Increase Willpower

Willpower. It’s almost a tease of a word. We all want it, we want loads of it, we feel like its elusive and mysterious and we blame the lack of it for all our failures. It almost sounds like a bad relationship. Turns out that willpower is in fact, a limited commodity. While we all [...]

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