Berries: These are my favorite fruits. We grow several types of them in our garden, including raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and blueberries. Note that out of all the berries, raspberries have the highest amount of oxalates (about 48 mg per serving). While that sounds like a lot, i...
That’s especially true if you’ve been maintaining a high-carb diet or are overweight; both are an indication that your body is inefficient at burning fat for energy, which can be described as metabolic inflexibility. (You can learn more about this topic in my article onmetabolic health.) ...
When I had to wear a retainer it was a piece of silver metal that went all the way across my teeth. Now they have clear retainers that are even less noticeable. What I liked least about wearing a retainer was taking it out every time I needed to eat something. It got pretty old tak...
"I was by his side when my dear father passed away this morning," Siravo's daughter Allegra Okarmus wrote on Instagram (viaBBC). "We are both so lucky to be so intensely loved. I am so immensely grateful to have had him here on earth and I know that he hasn't gone very far."...
Why is this important if you are trying to build muscle? Well you may find when you lean out that you already have the muscle mass you want, you just couldn’t see it before. Reason #3: You Will Know How Much Bigger You Want To Get ...
Injured myself on a nail sticking out from my computer desk at 3 a.m. (I'm a night owl) and had to drive myself to the hospital for a tetanus/pertussis shot. It's been about 72 hours and my arm still hurts at the injection site. I wondered if such a reaction was normal, bu...
What’s alignment? It’s how your body bits are stacked on top of one another from head to toes. Ideally we’d spend most of our time in great alignment that supports our bones and soft tissues. But during pregnancy – because we’re growing a beach ball of a human out the front of...
Some people told me I was ruining my life, or that I’d never have a successful career. And perhaps there was some truth in that (there wasn’t), but I had this niggling feeling deep in my bones that Ineededto pursue this dream. And what better way of finding out if the naysayers...
My bone density report. Bone health depends on calcium, and milk has a lot of calcium. But when it comes to nutrition, you can’t take everything at face value. Observational studies report thatosteoporosis and hip fracture are more prevalent in countries with higher calcium intake. This so...
There’s a line on “My Bones” that stuck with me. It goes, “When I was young I could perfectly see / Now I’m as blind, blind as a girl can be / Out of insanity into ecstasy / We all sin, so why am I so guilty?” It struck me as being about the harsh judgment you ...