Category Archives: Health Research
3 Signs You’re Too Smart for Your Job
Should you stay, or should you go? Almost every aspiring entrepreneur wrestles with this question at some point in his or her career. You have a perfectly decent job on paper, but you just can’t kick that nagging urge to throw … Continue reading
California drought: ‘May have to migrate people’
California drought: ‘May have to migrate people’ Damian Dovarganes | AP Photo Michael Korte walks on the brown lawn in front of his home in Glendora, Calif. It’s going from worse to worst each week in California. Suffering in … Continue reading
Why You Need a Bedtime Snack
Why You Need a Bedtime Snack Sleep. It mentally recharges you for the next day, rests your heart and rebuilds damaged muscles to prime you for another day of training. Sleep is also a time of fasting. If you … Continue reading
California’s Water Wars- Environmentalist efforts to save the delta smelt!
California’s water wars aren’t about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation’s most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for both people and crops, thanks to the brilliant hydrological engineering of past generations of Californians. But now there is a new element in the century-old water calculus: a demand that the state’s inland waters flow as pristinely as they supposedly did before the age of dams, reservoirs, and canals. Only that way can California’s rivers, descending from their mountain origins, reach the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta year-round. Only that way, environmentalists say, can a three-inch delta fish be saved and salmon runs from the Pacific to the interior restored. Continue reading
10 Foods to Eat so You Never Have to Diet
10 Foods to Eat so You Never Have to Diet Garlic This herb does more than just give meals extra flavor and scent–it can also help keep your tummy flat through its naturally occurring chemical allicin, says registered dietitian and … Continue reading
Just what is in that chicken nugget?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stand-up comedians have long joked that some things, like the actual components of chicken nuggets, are better left mysterious. Recently, Mississippi researchers found out why: two nuggets they examined consisted of 50 percent or less … Continue reading
The World’s Healthiest Homemade Barbecue Sauce
Makes about 1 1/2 cups Nutritional Comparison Serving size: 2 Tablespoons Calories: 60 Fat: 0 grams vs. The World’s Healthiest Barbecue Sauce Serving size: 2 Tablespoons Calories: ~15 Fat: 0 grams Ingredients: 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce 2 Tablespoons … Continue reading
The Hidden Danger in Your Drinks
By Robyn O’Brien, Author of The Unhealthy TruthFounder of the AllergyKids Foundation and proud mother of four 37 Added to Articles on Mon 01/21/2013 On the Fast-Food Insiders show, you saw what hidden ingredients might be lurking on your salad … Continue reading
9 Ingredients Nutritionists Won’t Touch
by Alanna Nuñez for SHAPE.com If you see any of these ingredients on the food you’re holding, skip it and put it back on the shelf!1. Potassium benzoate: When you crave something sweet, bubbly, and perhaps caffeinated but don’t want … Continue reading
The Truth About Yoga
by Justin Park for SHAPE.com Do the benefits of yoga live up to the hype?The myriad benefits attributed to yoga-weight-loss, heart disease protection, freedom from depression-are enough to get anyone on the mat, but do they hold up to modern … Continue reading