Tag: nutrition
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Keep up Healthy Living in the Fall
September marks a month of change. The kids head back to school and people return to work from vacation. The days get shorter and the air begins to feel a bit crisper. While January is the official start of the New Year, September always feels like the start of a new year to me as…
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Vitamin supplements: More harm than good?
Another study about vitamin supplements and another nail in the coffin. After decades of health advocates telling us vitamins in pills are good for us, we’re now learning they aren’t. Or at least they’re not beneficial. Despite this new evidence, nearly a third of adults take vitamins and over 70% in people over 65 years.…
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Preventing Dementia with Healthy Living
Diabetes. Heart disease. Stroke. Dementia. Four life-threatening diseases that none of us want. But they also have more in common than just that. They are all related to your lifestyle and prevention is based on a foundation of healthy living. That’s right. Healthy eating and being physically active and can help lower your chances of…
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Six Ways to Tell if a Food is Healthy
Whether we like it or not, buying food is a necessity. We can’t avoid it. And although many of us want to buy and eat healthy food, it’s not always an easy task. From fancy displays and packaging, to the explosion of more than 40 000 products in the average supermarket, deciding what is healthy…