Nan Kathryn Fuchs PhDOne in 10 women in this country have been diagnosed with thyroid problems. Some endocrinologists believe that one in four women have an underactive or overactive thyroid. One reason may be because our thyroid glands are twice as large as those in...
Inflammation is a silent underlying cause for heart disease, and in fact, out many other diseases are linked to one another by inflammatory processes. It's important to realize that health problems caused by chronic inflammation don't just suddenly...
Recent studies are pointing to chronic inflammation as being a major risk factor for heart disease. Because inflammation can be painless and frequently goes undetected, its relationship to disease has been overlooked. If you have several diseases...
About 80 percent of menopausal women in this country have hot flashes, some for as long as 15 years! And these hot flashes and flushes can last for a few seconds or up to five minutes. Hot flashes drive thousands of women into taking hormone...
If you're like most women and take 1,500 mg of calcium and half as much magnesium, you’ve got it all backwards. You’re getting too much calcium and not enough magnesium. I've been telling women since 1985, when my first book, The Nutrition...
Do head colds knock you out of commission for two or three weeks? Do they frequently progress to bronchitis or pneumonia? Does a lingering cough drag on and on, sometimes for a month or more? Do you spend a small fortune on cough medicines, cold and...
Aging begins when our body starts to break down which can happen at any age. If you've been a junk-food junkie, you may have a deteriorating digestive system in your 20s or 30s. Or this may not occur until you’re over 50. In either case, you need a...
If you're on a strict high-protein, very low-carbohydrate diet, you may be throwing the baby out with the bath water. Starches and sugars are your body's main source of energy. You need them to fuel your muscles. In fact, your brain needs 130 grams...
