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Don’t Fad Diet, Have a Plan

Don’t Fad Diet, Have a Plan

Ever read the same book your friend did about weight loss, tried it out and your results vary radically? Why is this? Its that each person is fundamentally difference. This difference means that no two paths are the same for weight loss. In fact, leading researchers can even look at your genes to tell what type of exercise, diet, and other interventions will work for you.
Holiday Cheer or Fear?

Holiday Cheer or Fear?

While many are busy making merry, for those who aren’t experiencing cheer, the holiday season can feel particularly isolating. High expectations, money woes, and other holiday hazards can spell trouble for anyone, but especially those prone to depression. With a bit of foresight and planning, however, holidays can leave you feeling up, not down. Follow these simple tips for a successful holiday.
10 Tips for Avoiding the Holiday Pounds

10 Tips for Avoiding the Holiday Pounds

Even if you have superhuman willpower, the holiday season is challenging for everyone. Staying on track can seem so daunting, you feel like swan-diving into the eggnog and sending your sensible routine into hibernation until the New Year. But, as we all know, excess pounds don’t disappear along with decorations, and nobody wants to start the new year in the hole, body-wise.
Happiness & Wellness Through Hormones

Happiness & Wellness Through Hormones

Balanced hormones are necessary for good health and disease prevention for women and men as we age. Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy from Progressive can help. Hormone therapy is not just for libido. Hormones are critical for the brain, heart and bones. Even the gut responds favorably to hormone therapy.
Sick Building Syndrome

Sick Building Syndrome

Things didn’t use to be so difficult to accomplish. It didn’t use to be impossible to make it through a day at work. Now you find it almost impossible to get through a load of laundry. You are so tired all of the time. You are just hoping your disability is approved so you can live.
Let’s Make the Common Cold Less Common

Let’s Make the Common Cold Less Common

The common cold robs us of our days, lowers our energy, and leaves us feeling generally unwell. The common cold is spread either by direct contact with infected secretions from contaminated surfaces or by inhaling the airborne virus after individuals sneeze or cough. Person-to-person transmission often occurs when an individual who has a cold blows or touches their nose and then touches someone or something else.
What’s Behind the Detox Craze?

What’s Behind the Detox Craze?

While studying search engine trends worldwide, searches for “What is Detoxification?” is considered a “breakout” category. That means that there’s not a scale available to measure the increased volume in just 10 years! With that knowledge, let's dive into detoxification!
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, A Life With No Drive!

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, A Life With No Drive!

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a debilitating condition in which the will for life is present, but the ability to follow that will is gone. It is an isolating condition in which one “looks” normal, or even has many blood tests that also “look” normal resulting in doctors telling patients, “You are fine, it’s all in your head.”
Prediabetes

Prediabetes

What is prediabetes? Is this an actual diagnosis? Isn’t diabetes similar to pregnancy in that you either are or you aren’t? you either have diabetes or you don’t? Prediabetes is a warning sign not of things to happen but of the path you are currently on.
Breast Health Is Total Health!

Breast Health Is Total Health!

Many questions are unanswered about who will get breast cancer and why. However, there are many well-researched facts that help with the prevention and overall health of the breast. Breast tissue is a sensitive type of tissue that responds to hormones' stimulus to environmental toxicity.
Toxic Times!

Toxic Times!

The times we live in are toxic. We no longer live on the same planet our ancestors lived on. The world we face is laden with pesticides, metals and chemicals. Our country allows almost 300 different chemicals to be added to our foods, whereas our European counterparts allow less than 20. Other countries have banned the genetic modification of foods, whereas our country funds the genetic modification of food.
What Is SIBO?

What Is SIBO?

SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, is defined as an increase in the number of bacteria, and/or changes in the types of bacteria present in the small bowel. In most patients, SIBO is not caused by a single type of bacteria, but is an overgrowth of the various types of bacteria that should normally be found in the colon. Less commonly, SIBO results from an increase in the otherwise normal bacteria of the small bowel.