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The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Right Protein Shakes
The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Right Protein Shakes Your body is 17% protein, and that protein is essential to the functioning of your cells, tissues, and organs. For fitness enthusiasts, it's also important for getting the best results from your work out. It's no...
Nutrition and Chronic Disease: This Is What You Need to Know
Nutrition and Chronic Disease: This Is What You Need to Know Nearly half of the adults in the U.S. have at least one preventable chronic disease. It's an unfortunate reality that many of us deal with life-long struggles due to a lack of education about behavioral and...
Creating a Meal Plan for Diabetes
Creating a Meal Plan for Diabetes: A Quick Guide As of 2018, 10.5% of the U.S. population has diabetes. In fact, more than one million Americans get a diabetes diagnosis each year. If you've had a recent diabetes diagnosis, know that you're not alone. It's a...
Guide to Treating Diabetic Neuropathy
A Guide to Recognizing, Diagnosing and Treating Diabetic Neuropathy A recent study showed that in 2018, over 10% of the American population was diagnosed with diabetes. Couple that with the fact that there's a proven correlation between rising obesity levels and...
How to Read Nutrition Labels
Understanding Nutrition: A Guide on How to Read Food Labels In the U.S., 67% of the food we eat comes from a trip to the grocery store. Shopping at a supermarket rather than ordering takeout gives us control over the food we eat and helps us make healthier choices. ...
What Happens When You Intermittent Fast?
What Happens When You Fast? The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting A recent study by the National Institute of Aging published in the New England Journal of Medicine points to a range of health benefits related to intermittent fasting. Weight loss is one of those...
Obesity and it’s Connection to Nutrition
What's the Relationship Between Nutrition and Obesity? Over the nearly two decades from 2000 to 2018, the obesity rate in the U.S. increased from 30.5% to 42.4%. And severe obesity rose from 4.7% to 9.2%. There are several causes of this obesity epidemic but one of...
The Importance of Nutrition
The Importance of Good Nutrition: 4 Reasons to Watch What You Eat Have you heard the expression, "You are what you eat?" It was first coined in 1826 by food writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. His idea was that the food we eat affects who we become physically,...
Benefits of Nutritional Detox
The Benefits of a Nutritional Detox: Your Body Will Thank You By this point, we've all heard about the awesome results a detox can have for your body. But have you considered wading in and trying it for yourself? With so many mental and physical benefits to be had,...