What The Healthiest People Are Eating For Breakfast
It takes more than just an apple a day to keep the doctor away. It takes a balanced and hearty breakfast packed with protein, greens and fresh fruit to jumpstart your day on the right foot. As the New Year kicks off -- along with all your resolutions -- there’s no better time to get inspired by new breakfast ideas you can make ahead for those busy mornings, or prepare daily when time is on your side. In partnership with Tropicana, we’ve rounded up savory breakfast ideas approved by health-conscious food bloggers to satisfy all morning routines and keep you fueled to conquer the day. From almond-butter oats to zucchin...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Most top-selling, over-the-counter sexual treatments unproven, some could be harmful
(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) From horny goat weed to ginseng and maca, over-the-counter dietary supplements sold to improve male sexual health contain a wide variety of "natural" ingredients. Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center reviewed the scientific evidence for the most common ingredients to determine if they are effective -- and most importantly -- safe. The results are published online ahead of print in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 11, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Got Insomnia? Trade Your Cappuccino in for a Macaccino and Get a Good Night's Sleep
According to Harvard Medical School people who get insufficient sleep place themselves at risk for major health issues including heart disease, obesity, compromised immune systems and early mortality. As Arianna Huffington describes in her best-selling book, "Thrive," restorative sleep is essential to overall well-being and happiness. Obviously, over-consumption of coffee and caffeine can greatly effect our bodies' ability to receive deep, restorative sleep. Drinking coffee creates the illusion of having energy because caffeine increases neuron firing which in turn cause our pituitary glands to secrete more adrenalin w...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
10 Ways to Guarantee You Get Up for That A.M. Workout
By Lucy Maher, SELF
Tempted to press snooze? Don't.
"Exercising early in the morning jump-starts your metabolism, keeping it elevated for hours and energizes you for the day," says Jennifer Sherman, a Certified Indoor Cycling Instructor and Head Coach at Peloton Cycle in New York City. And while you may be tempted to sleep in, there are ways to make sure you get moving before you have time to come up with an excuse not to. Here, 10 of the best from some of the country's top trainers.
1. Snooze
No, not the snooze button. "Get enough sleep the night before so you're well-rested," says Sherman. Better yet, "move your alar...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Spice Up Nutrition Month With the Peruvian Superfoods Diet
March is National Nutrition Month, making for the perfect moment to check in with your eating. Believe it or not, there are still new discoveries in the world of nutrition -- it's an exciting time to explore healthy and delicious foods you might not already know. That's why I'm using this opportunity to introduce the Peruvian Superfoods diet. Peruvian superfoods, direct from the Andes and the Amazon, promise multiple health benefits with a Latin American flair. Fortunately, these once-obscure products are now available in mainstream American supermarkets.
The Peruvian diet has an extraordinary number of superfoods, enough...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vegetable Spawns Larceny and Luxury in Peru
As maca booms, some Peruvians fear that they are losing control of a valuable crop with a history that goes back long before the time of the Inca empire. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - December 6, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By WILLIAM NEUMAN Tags: Peru International Trade and World Market Agriculture and Farming Vegetables China Health Foods Source Type: news
Miranda Kerr's smoothie plant boosts moods
Extract from the South American maca plant, which model Miranda mixes into her smoothies, has been found to work as an anti-depressant. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 5, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health Benefits of Best Natural Maca Powder Reviewed by Health News...
Health News Wires reveals the health benefits of maca powder and details what to look for when choosing the best natural maca supplement.(PRWeb May 20, 2014)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Best-Maca-Supplement/Maca-Powder-Review/prweb11863719.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - May 21, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Maternal and peer influences on drinking among Latino college students - Varvil-Weld L, Turrisi R, Hospital MM, Mallett KA, Bámaca-Colbert MY.
Previous research on college drinking has paid little attention to Latino students. Social development models (Catalano, Hawkins, & Miller, 1992) suggest that protective influences in one domain (e.g., mothers) can offset negative influences from other dom... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
New Scripts for Automating UMLS and RxNorm Downloads
UMLS and RxNorm users may now automate downloads by utilizing the newly released downloads script. Combine the script with a scheduling tool to fully automate your downloads. The scripts support Windows®, Mac™, Linus™, and Solaris™ operating systems. Download the scripts and README zip file with instructions from //download.nlm.nih.gov/rxnorm/terminology_download_script.zip. (Source: UMLS News)
Source: UMLS News - October 31, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
ANH Feature: How source countries lose out in the search for new drugs
We look at the history of corporate exploitation of natural products (Source: Alliance for Natural Health)
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - May 1, 2013 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: biopiracy bioprospecting black seed cat & #039;s claw Convention on Biological Diversity europe international maca National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Nestle nigella sativa Professor Bronwyn Parry sweet fe Source Type: news
3 Copies of ‘ That Bear Ate My Pants! ’ to Giveaway in the Tony Slater Author Interview
Today I am lucky enough to have not one, but three, eCopies (Kindle, Nook, etc ….) of Tony Slater’s book ‘That Bear Ate My Pants‘ to giveaway in my Thursday Throng Interview. Just the title was enough to hook my interest and the email he sent me describing the book had me salivating with anticipation. Hailing from the UK, it turns out that Tony wanted to be an actor, not just any actor but being a Mel Gibson lookalike he wanted to be a supermegastar; then reality kicked in and he realised he wasn’t actually that good an actor. He decided to take his experience of working in more menial jobs ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - August 23, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Interviews author interview travel guide Source Type: news
3 Copies of ‘ That Bear Ate My Pants! ’ to Giveaway in the Tony Slater Author Interview
Today I am lucky enough to have not one, but three, eCopies (Kindle, Nook, etc ….) of Tony Slater’s book ‘That Bear Ate My Pants‘ to giveaway in my Thursday Throng Interview. Just the title was enough to hook my interest and the email he sent me describing the book had me salivating with anticipation. Hailing from the UK, it turns out that Tony wanted to be an actor, not just any actor but being a Mel Gibson lookalike he wanted to be a supermegastar; then reality kicked in and he realised he wasn’t actually that good an actor. He decided to take his experience of working in more menial jobs ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - August 23, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Interviews author interview travel guide Source Type: news
