Mind Your Ps and Qs
PQQ may be the perfect answer to preventing or reversing age-related mental decline. PQQ (short for pyrroloquinoline quinone) is a vitamin-like compound found in plant foods that shows a wide range of benefits for brain function and energy production. Learn more about...
Whey Protein – An Essential Component in a Weight Loss Plan
Introduction: A recent study highlights the value of whey protein in helping to maintain muscle mass during intentional weight loss, an extremely important goal in achieving long-term diet success. Whey protein ingestion has also been shown to reduce feelings of...
Followup Study Confirms PGX® Promotes Satiety
Introduction: The research is quite clear that safe and effective weight loss is not about will power or deprivation. Ultimately, weight loss success is most often attributed to strategies and tools that impact appetite and portion control. In particular, the ability...
Eating a Varied Diet Inversely Linked to Obesity
Introduction: Most Americans eat a very limited range of foods and consume a very monotonous diet as a result. It seems entirely possible that excessive calorie and food consumption may be some sort of physiological craving gone awry. In other words, perhaps the brain...
Maybe Nuts are Not a High Calorie Food After All
Introduction Nuts and seeds are rich in nutrients and phytochemicals, but they are also high in fat. So, many people avoid nut consumption out of fear that it will counteract their efforts to achieve or maintain their ideal body weight. Large population studies have...
“Super” Broccoli Lowers LDL Cholesterol
Introduction Many of our modern vegetables were developed from wild plants during the Roman Empire and later-day Italians through traditional crossbreeding techniques. This process involves taking pollen from one plant and placing it on the flowers of another to...
Another Study Shows Chocolate Can Help You Lose Weight and Keep it Off!
Introduction: A new study published in the International Archives of Medicine adds to the growing data supporting the benefits of dark chocolate in promoting weight loss. Of all the foods available on planet Earth, perhaps the most magical (and interesting) is...
What is the Proper Dosage of Jogging?
Introduction: There is no question that a sedentary lifestyle is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and an early death. But a new study provides data to make it easy to conclude, that people who go to the opposite end of the spectrum and run too much...
New Study Shows Probiotics May Prevent ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Introduction: There is a growing amount of medical research indicating that alterations in the type of bacteria that live in our gastrointestinal (GI) tract can influence brain function, mood and overall mental health. A new study from Finland is the first to show...
Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Depression
Introduction: Depression is a major public health problem, especially in women. Recent statistics indicate that approximately 63% of American women and 35% of men will experience clinical depression at some point in their lifetime. While depression is clearly a...