Maintaining blood sugar (aka blood glucose) levels in an optimal range is critical to staying healthy. Blood sugar that goes up and down dramatically (aka the blood sugar rollercoaster) is associated with not only diabetes and hypoglycemia, but also heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer.

If you’re suffering from bladder issues like urgency, incontinence, frequent nighttime urination, or pain, you may feel alone, frustrated, embarrassed, and helpless. But you need not be.

Over the past year and a half, vitamin D has emerged as a powerful player in the fight against COVID-19. The following is a compilation of recent research highlighting the important role vitamin D plays in how our bodies respond to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

We don’t generally pay much attention to our digestive processes, unless something goes wrong, of course. But the process of eat­ing, breaking down the food, and then ab­sorbing it is truly an amazing process. Each time we eat, our food begins the long jour­ney that will progressively break it down into its most basic parts so nutrients can be absorbed and unusable parts can be excret­ed.

We’ve all experienced it—a sudden sharp pain that jolts us awake at night, stops us in our tracks when we’re exercising, or seems to just come out of the blue as we go about our business. Call it what you will—a spasm, cramp, charley horse. They all hurt, and they are all essentially the same thing—a strong, sudden and involuntary muscle contraction that causes severe pain.

If you find yourself saying, “I need to relax more” or, even worse, friends and family are telling you, “You need to relax more”, but it never seems to happen, then this document is for you. Because figuring out how to fit relaxation in and/or actually relaxing can be, well, kind of stressful sometimes.

Getting nutritional experts to agree on just about anything these days is difficult, but you would be hard-pressed to find a nutritionist who doesn’t agree that we need to eat more veggies. In fact eating more vegetables might be the single most important thing you can do for your health.

Cooking vegetables and fruits may increase their nutritional benefits

I've always been taught that the nutritionally correct method is to undercook vegetables: “Cooking destroys nutrients, so less cooked vegetables equals healthier vegetables. Raw is even better.” But this common wisdom may not be true.

Umckaloabo is the Zulu name for the native geranium root used by tribal healers for hundreds of years to remedy colds and respiratory infections. Because Umckaloabo is quite a mouthful, Nature’s Way -the company that has introduced this product into U.S. markets - decided to shorten it to "Umcka".

A practical guide for staying well on the road and in the air

You rush to the airport, wait in multiple lines and finally squeeze into your seat. A short while later you realize you’re thirsty and hungry. You might get a tiny cup of water and have the option of paying for some junk food. Tough luck, right? And maybe not the best way to start your vacation.