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Sunshine Saves Lives
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Got Summer Allergies?
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What Makes Survival Bars So Good?
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Pain-Free Fitness
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B12 Deficiency: Reality Check (Part 2)
Healthy Days with Paul & Ann
Sunshine Saves Lives
Sunshine gives you more than a healthy glow! Research is showing that vitamin D can actually help to save your heart! A study this spring showed that supplementing low vitamin D levels for 3 months alleviated hypertension in middle-aged African Americans. If you’ve ever had hypertension, you know what the outcome can be if you don’t change your diet and/or [...]
Healthy Days with Paul & Ann
Got Summer Allergies?
Not allergic to dairy? Doesn’t matter. Technically, you may not be lactose intolerant, but dairy can play havoc with summertime allergies no matter who you are. Dairy causes phlegm to form in most kids and adults and that can compound the trouble of summertime allergies. But guess what? Creating phlegm when presented with dairy is [...]
Health and Nutrition
What Makes Survival Bars So Good?
How far would you go to make the best tasting energy bar in the world? Would you use ingredients that were “good enough” or would you travel the world to get the very best of the best? Getting the very best and paying attention to detail is what Survival Bars are all about! Watch the [...]
Healthy Days with Paul & Ann
Pain-Free Fitness
You don’t need to run a marathon to be healthy — literally. In fact, research is showing that shorter, more intense running may be just as good for overall fitness training than longer, less intense running. The intriguing part is that shorter, intense running could avoid injuries related to overuse of your joints caused by running longer distances. “Overuse injuries and changes in running mechanics [...]
Health and Nutrition
B12 Deficiency: Reality Check (Part 2)
As you can read in part 1 of this article, standard medical evaluation for B12 levels is by way of a blood test to determine the serum B12 levels. Normal blood levels are considered to be 200 – 900 pg/mL (pictograms per milliliter). Deficiency is normally diagnosed with serum levels below 200. Sally Pacholok, co-author [...]
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