Selenium Imagine an antioxidant with the power to fight aging, halt heart disease, cut cancer rates, boost immunity, and speed healing. That’s selenium, one of the most important disease-fighting nutrient.
Anti-Cancer Antioxidants Imagine the cells in your body turning brown just like an apple does when exposed to the oxygen in the air.
Selenium Adding this nutritional supplement to a normal diet could prevent cancer, heart disease, and strokes. Selenium is an essential trace element for health.
The ABCs of Hypothyroidism Thyroid hormones affect every cell in the body. In hypothyroidism, the amount of hormone secreted by the thyroid gland does not meet the body’s demands.
Your Detox-Product Shopping List From the car fumes we breathe to the pesticide residues on our foods, toxic contaminants are, sadly, a daily reality. Your local health food store is your best source of the wide range of natural foods, herbs, and supplements needed to support natural detoxification.
Profile of Dr. Andrew Weil Andrew Weil is definitely changing the face of medicine. His familiar, white-bearded face has beamed at us from the cover of TIME magazine twice in the last nine years, most recently last October when his new book, Healthy Aging (Knopf, 2005) hit the stands.
Back to Basics Building your strongest nutritional foundation begins with two basic steps: eating a balanced nutritious diet and taking a high-quality daily multiple vitamin and mineral supplement. This back-to-basics strategy has proven effective for young and old alike.
Food and Mood The relationship between food and mood is mediated by both psychological and physiological factors. It is clear that food can influence mood while mood can influence food choices. It is a complex relationship and based on taste, experience, expectations, culture, stressors, and nutritional status.
Beauty—Inside and Out BeautyThere are healthy strategies that keep you feeling good, and the natural outcome of feeling good is looking good—no matter what your age. Eating well, exercising, and taking the right supplements help promote a healthy body–and a healthy look. Why not be beautiful inside and out?
Moving on Up! Just about everyone goes through an occasional bout of feeling down. Along with a better diet and daily exercise, adding a few tried and true mood boosters to your nutritional and herbal supplement program often makes a noticeable difference in a short period of time.
Super Selenium Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? No—it’s super selenium! This incredible mineral is associated with a number of “super” benefits ranging from cancer prevention to thyroid disease support.