Wildfires fill the air with toxic smoke that can linger for weeks and travel thousands of miles. Unhealthy air quality can stress your immune system and lead to health problems down the road. It’s important to support your body while it’s working hard to defend you against the threat of toxic smoke.
Sugar is your brain's primary energy source. Your brain responds to it with positive reinforcement, releasing feel-good chemicals that result in a "sugar high." But if you trigger this rush too often, your brain becomes desensitized to it. This can cause a number of problems for healthy brain function.
Growing another human is no small feat; your body will be maxing out its resources to support the development of your baby. Most of us are short on key nutrients to begin with, and pregnancy increases the nutritional demands. That’s why it’s so important to take a prenatal multivitamin.
Keeping your heart healthy can seem like it can be tricky, but in actuality, it can be very simple. Eating heart-healthy foods can provide nutrient and fats that your heart need to do its job correctly can improve your cardiac function.
The foods in this list can be beneficial to your heart health when combined with [...]
Some of us are fortunate enough to leave acne behind in our teen years. For others, we still have to suffer the occasional breakout. This can be the absolute the worst, especially when we have something important lined up, like a business meeting, a job interview, or a first date.
If you suffer from acne as [...]
There are many ways that both old and young people can improve their mental function and prevent brain aging1. One of the best things you can do is train your mind is with brain games. They can be a great way to improve your memory, response time, and logical skills2.
If you’ve been looking to have a [...]
Triglycerides
1 are type of fat or lipid that is found in your blood. When you consume food, any extra calories that are not used up right away are converted into triglycerides that are then stored in fat cells, where they’ll stay until your body releases a hormone in between meals that signals for triglycerides to [...]
Many people sing the praises of coconut oil in the culinary world, but Algae oil is the new kid on the block you might want to consider keeping in your cabinet.
"Algae oil is a nutrient-dense powerhouse due to its high concentration of omega-3 fatty acids,” says Shana Pantirer, RDN, a senior registered dietitian at F-Factor [...]
If you stick with any conversation long enough, it is going to eventually turn to diet and exercise. I'm sure that you already knew that diets come in almost every shape and size, with the 'keto diet' being one of the more popular choices in recent years.
Many nutritionists agree that consuming healthy fats is a [...]
Most men who reach an age of five decades realize that it can be difficult to come back from a weekend of binging or recover from the extra doughnut in the morning. We long for the younger years when we could have all of those bad habits but once we hit 50, things change.
Rather than [...]
