Obesity Rate Slows, Yet the Problem Persists

Renew You Challenge Let’s start this week off right! Here is your newest weekly challenge (I mean opportunity!) to help set you off on the right foot and in the right direction for bringing health to your week. You could even add it to your calendar. Join us!   The US...

Score Your Local Pollution

Here is a cool site that will give you tons of information on local pollution. Just enter your zip code to see how your county and state stack up to others in terms of air and water quality. Check out your in-home lead risk and look for local superfund sites. Find the...

Giving Back with the Power of Probiotics

Recently I was given the chance to be a part of something really amazing. A friend of mine went to Haiti on a mission organized in conjunction with All Children’s Hospital in Tampa. Their goal was to set up a medical clinic and provide much-needed care for those in...

Kids and Food Allergies: A Growing Problem

Do you have kids or know someone who does? Then you might be interested to know that childhood food allergies are on the rise. In fact, a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics revealed an 18% increase in childhood food allergies from 1997 to 2007,...

Big Pharma Learns from Natural Medicine – Again!

I came across an interesting article recently in the Journal of Gastroenterology.  The title caught my eye – “Gut Microbes: From Bugs to Drugs”.  I have to share with you a few comments from this article.  Now, this is a mainstream gastroenterology journal.  The...