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Obesity and It's Side - Effects

03-May-2019

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more Americans live with life-threatening obesity than with breast cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and HIV combined. Additionally, nearly 80% of adults and about a third of children today...

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SuperFoods

What Are Superfoods?

28-Apr-2019

SuperFoods are food options that are rich in necessary nutrients, vitamins, minerals and everything else your body needs to be healthy. These are food items that are mainly plant-based, but there are a few dairy and fish items that make the list. These items are...

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Diet and Nutrition

Can Coffee Increase Your Metabolism and Help You Burn Fat?

14-Mar-2019

Coffee contains a number of Stimulants, most importantly Caffeine. Not only does Caffeine increase your metabolic rate, it also makes you more alert. But people may build up a tolerance to the effects of Caffeine. For this reason, drinking coffee or other caffeinated...

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Diet and Nutrition

Do You Really Need More Vitamin D?

13-Mar-2019

“Having low or deficient levels of Vitamin D is not a part of normal aging, but it is very common,” says Audrey Chun, M.D., an associate professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York...