December Newsletter: Healthy Eating Tips for the Holiday Season Created inNewsletter Library Healthy Eating for the Holiday Season It’s never easy to turn down a holiday treat. After all, special foods are the highlight of the holiday season for many of us. Fortunately, it’s possible to follow your healthy eating plan and even enjoy a…

Chiropractic and Gut Health Created inNewsletter Library Can Chiropractic Treatment Improve Your Digestive Health? Chiropractic treatment doesn’t just ease aches and pains in your joints and muscles. The therapy may also offer an effective treatment option if you have frequent stomachaches, reflux, constipation, and other gastrointestinal conditions. How Chiropractic Treats the Source of Your Gut…

Foods for Joint Pain Created inNewsletter Library Can your diet affect joint pain? Joint pain may be experienced as a result of an acute injury, such as an ankle sprain, knee sprain, or rotator cuff tear. Joint pain may also accompany varying types of joint inflammation, including osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease), rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis,…

Proper Overindulgence Over the Holidays Created inNewsletter Library Proper Overindulgence Over The Holidays The term “overindulgence” is probably best assessed as a red flag, especially with respect to consistent overconsumption of high-calorie comfort food and desserts during the holiday season. An overall healthier perspective could be described as “indulgence” regarding such calorie intake. Provided that…

An Apple a Day . . . Created inNewsletter Library What is so good about an apple? Is it the color, ranging from ruby red to pale pink? Is it the crunch? The sweetness? Or is it, instead, a combination of all of these qualities, plus the natural goodness derived from the apple’s secret ingredients…

Why Are Super Foods So Super? Created inNewsletter Library,Nutrition & Healthy Eating In recent years, media pundits around the world have proclaimed the extraordinary value of so-called super foods. Blueberries, broccoli, and especially kale have been described as possessing remarkable, almost magical, properties. What is it about these foods that makes them so good for…

Should I Go Gluten Free? Created inNewsletter Library,Nutrition & Healthy Eating It is now well-known that gluten intake is frequently associated with various serious conditions such as celiac disease, diabetes, and fibromyalgia. Years ago, most people had never heard of this substance or its related medical problems. But today, supermarkets as well as organic markets…

Root Vegetables Created inNewsletter Library,Nutrition & Healthy Eating In decades past, very few urban kids had ever even heard of a parsnip, a fennel bulb, or a bunch of kale. In those days, fruit and vegetable consumption typically consisted of apples, bananas, corn, potatoes, peas, and lettuce. Oranges were infrequent and grapefruit was a rarity….

Rice and Beans Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips Rice and beans is a well-liked combination of foods that is not only delicious, but also good for you. Other well-known examples of food combinations, such as corn and lima beans (succotash), tomatoes and avocados, and even orange juice and oatmeal, provide benefits beyond those gained by eating…