Getting the Most Nutrition Bang for Your Buck
If you’re like most of America right now, you’re trimming back your spending in a lot of areas and the grocery store is probably no exception! But just because the economy is bad doesn’t mean you should neglect healthy eating. If Americans start sacrificing their health for their [...]
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Are You Playing Russian Roulette?
Blindness. Impotence. Burning, aching, numb and tingling feet. Poor circulation. Slow-healing wounds, gangrene and amputation. Heart disease and death. These devastating complications accompany a disease afflicting nearly 21 million Americans.
Good news! Diabetes can be controlled
Depression is now one of the most common illnesses in the United States and worldwide. It affects one in three patients in a typical internal medicine practice; one in 16 Americans; and one in 30 people worldwide. In the U.S., ten percent of the population may experience a major depressive episode in any given year.
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Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do. Proverbs 4:23, New Living Translation
Solomon doesn’t clarify in this proverb whether he meant the entity that controls emotional/moral activity or the actual physical heart, but either way it applies! Christians have long been careful to avoid things that may corrupt their morality, their [...]
What if no one had invented a pill to lower blood pressure? What if there was no medication for type 2 diabetes? Perhaps we’d be less cavalier about our health, and take prevention much more seriously.
Nearly 50 million Americans have a cluster of symptoms known as metabolic syndrome. The syndrome appears mostly in adults, but [...]
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Read the rest of this entry »“Don’t eat foods that make health claims on the labels,” says Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food. Counterintuitive as this may sound, the best foods for you don’t have labels! If a product is making a health claim, it may be trying to make up for its shortcomings. Not all packaged food is [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Parents are hard-wired to protect their kids from harm. Are you protecting yours from disease? Feed your kids healthy foods now and you will reduce their risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and cancer later. In the meantime, they’ll also likely experience fewer allergies and ear infections, less asthma and quite possibly less ADHD.
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Blaise Pascal philosophized that each of us has a God-sized vacuum inside. …He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy]… Ecclesiastes 3:11, Amplified Bible
The research of Harold Koenig of Duke University Medical [...]
