March is National Caffeine Awareness Month, which invites a question: Did you have your coffee today? Caffeine plays a big role in our culture—in the form of coffee, tea, sodas, chocolate, even medications—but did you…
Does high blood pressure run in your family? According to the National Institutes of Health, as many as 43 million Americans have high blood pressure, also known as hypertension.1 Hypertension─often referred to as the “silent…
Alpha lipoic acid (ALA)─also known as lipoic acid and thioctic acid─is a vitamin-like chemical with powerful antioxidant activity. Although scientists discovered it in the 1950s, it wasn’t until 1988 that its powerful antioxidant properties were…
While most women know they should be supplementing daily calcium for bone health and osteoporosis prevention, many fail to do so. This may be because osteoporosis isn’t always a pressing concern for women under 50….
Although the majority of Americans are overweight, many of us are valiantly striving to become lean and fit. The problem is, although we may lose weight with one diet or another, many of us soon…
Why Protein is Good For Weight Loss While fad diets come and go, certain principles hold true. One is that the amount of high-quality protein in your diet─rich in all essential amino acids─is among the…
