Spring break: The risk you may not have considered

Apr 4, 2011 Posted Under: Healthy Food News  

Planning to trade in the dark, gray clouds of Seattle for something more tropical? Dr. Ulrike Ochs of Virginia Mason says you’re more at risk this time of year for sunburn. “We haven’t seen sun since September. When you do go someplace sunny, you’re incredibly susceptible to the ultraviolet light,” Dr. Ochs said. Does that mean you should visit a tanning salon for a base tan? “That is like the worst plan of all. The electric beach. So, what happens in a tanning bed is that it’s largely UVA, and UVA is like the worst and most insidious of ultraviolet light wavelength. So, you’re getting damage before you go and then you think you have this base so then you tend to be out in the sun more,” Ochs said. If you must be brown, Dr.

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Reviews Hyaluronic Acid

Apr 3, 2011 Posted Under: Healthy Food Reviews  

Hyaluronic Acid is a natural protein that is found in the skin. This protein is being increasingly added to topical creams and lotions due to its many benefits for the skin. Mentioned here are a few of them:

Hyaluronic Acid is naturally present in the human body as a lubricating agent between joints and a moisturizer between the skin cells. This molecule has excellent water absorbing properties, and not only does it absorb water from the surrounding environment, but it also prevents water loss by locking the water molecules within the pores. Its application can offer all day moisturizing for your skin.

Hyaluronic Acid has the tendency to naturally reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles on your face.

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Real Food Link Love

Apr 2, 2011 Posted Under: Healthy Food Advices  

I hate this part of the Link Love post — the part where I try to summarize the post in a few handy sentences. Sometimes, it’s just downright impossible. I’ve tried different strategies over the years. Sometimes I’ve simply talked about my own week. Sometimes I’ve teased readers with a few of the post’s highlights. I’ll probably do all of those again. Today, I’m opting for full disclosure.

Summarizing this week’s Link Love post was hard, so hard I opted not to do it!

Ann Marie at Cheeseslave visited two California dairies and reports back in Will The Real California Happy Cow Please Stand Up?

The Weston A Price Foundation’s website got an overhaul. Not only can you no

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12 Mind-Blowing, Muscle-Building Protein Shakes.

Mar 27, 2011 Posted Under: Healthy Food Reviews  

Each of these easy-to-make elixirs contains 25 to 50 grams of high-quality protein, for starters. It only gets better from there…

By: Aubrie Richeson

12 Mind-Blowing, Muscle-Building Protein Shakes

Mixing up a protein shake is a chemistry experiment. A little of this, a little of that, a scoop of this, and then BLEND. (Imagine whirring noise here.) Once the OFF switch is pressed, the results of the experiment are at hand.

If the ingredients represent a perfect blend, if they were entered in the correct amounts, drinking won’t stop until the shake is gone. If you take a sip and then stop to assess it, something went wrong, something’s amiss. Palatable? Maybe.

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Vitamin Supplements May Lower Respiratory Illness Risk

Mar 25, 2011 Posted Under: Healthy Food News  

Pneumonia is a serious respiratory disease that affects 1.1 million Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New research conducted by Finnish scientists has found that adequate levels of vitamin E, such as those found in nutritional supplements, may reduce the risk of contracting this illness.

A study published in the journal Clinical Epidemiology found that healthy individuals had a 69 percent lower chance of pneumonia after taking vitamin E supplements. I

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High fish consumption seems to protect obese Eskimos

Mar 25, 2011 Posted Under: Healthy Food News  

In a remote corner of southwest Alaska, the local Eskimo population could hold the key to preventing diabetes and heart disease. What may surprise you is that most of the study participants do not fit our view of what’s a healthy weight.

Seventy percent of the Yup’ik Eskimos in the study were overweight or obese.

Diet seems to make the difference.

“They have very high intakes of fish and other marine foods, so their intakes of these omega-3 fats is very high — 20 times that of what you would find in the U.S.

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Food Can Help Reverse Autism Effects

Mar 23, 2011 Posted Under: Healthy Food Advices  

After last week’s post about the connection between ADHD and food, a reader emailed me a link to a FoxNews clip about a young girl experiencing a dramatic improvement in her autism in just one year (video below).

What did her family change? Her diet, of course.

But it’s not just any old Real Food diet. It’s a diet specifically designed to heal the gut from dysbiosis. Many parents of children who suffer from ADHD or are on the autism spectrum change their diet to eliminate processed and refined foods. While

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Doctors urge keeping kids in rear-facing car seats until age 2

Mar 21, 2011 Posted Under: Healthy Food News  

SEATTLE — There’s new advice for parents when it comes to car and booster seats. The nation’s leading pediatricians, with the American Academy Of Pediatrics, recommend parents keep their children in those seats longer.

The first recommendation may surprise parents. Pediatricians are now recommending older kids sit in a booster seat between the ages of 8 and 12 years old, basically until they’re 4 feet, 9 inches tall.

The second recommendation is for car seats. Experts say keep your child in the car seat until they’re age 2, instead of the current trend of 1 years old.

Pediatricians also say your baby seat should face the rear of the car instead of facing forward for as long as possible.

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