A new study on the use of tart cherries to improve sleep quality was published in the 2011 European Journal of Nutrition. The study authors’ concluded:
“These data suggest that consumption of a tart cherry juice concentrate provides an increase in exogenous melatonin that is beneficial in improving sleep duration and quality in healthy men and women and might be of benefit in managing disturbed sleep.”
Healthy Tips: Hot Tea or Coffee May Fight Off Superbugs
Those who drank coffee or hot tea were about half as likely to carry the dangerous superbug methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), found a recent study published in the July-August 2011 Annals of Family Medicine.
Authors of this study including over 5, 500 participants say that although the study doesn’t prove cause and effect, it raises new questions about factors that might influence the superbugs presence.
Healthy Tips: Have you had fish this week?
Fish oil contains omega-3 fatty acids important for the health of your heart, blood vessels, brain, and eyes.
Fish oil benefits make fish a Super Food and taking fish oil supplements a good idea for those who don’t eat the recommended 2 servings of fish a week.
He share’s simple breathing techniques that heal mind and body:
“I now feel like I have a completely new mind and body - a mind that is free from negative thoughts about myself or others, and a body that is flexible and pain free” ~ Suryanarayana Chennapragada
Because your self is your soul, the animating and vital principle of your being. How do you feel genuine love for others if you do not love your self? How do you give what you do not have?
To rediscover your soul through loving your self try one or more of these tips: How to Love Your Self.
Healthy Tips: Feeling Stressed?
In as little as 1 minute you can be more relaxed and energized!Here’s one of many easy meditation techniques:
Affirming Breaths
Bring your awareness inside your body as you focus on your breathing.
Breathe in, bringing full awareness to the sensation of breathing. Feel the air as it moves through your nose and into your lungs. Feel the gentle rise of your chest and abdomen.
Breathe out, while silently saying a word like “peace,” "relax,” “joy,” “gratitude,” or another word that is affirming for you.
Repeat ten times.
Continue as often as you like.
Meditation is one of the most powerful of all natural healing methods. For more on meditation see these new articles:
Healthy Tips: Keep an Aloe Vera Plant in Your Home
Aloe Vera’s benefits made it one of the most frequently prescribed medicines during the 18th and 19th centuries and it remains one of the most commonly used herbs today.
Healthy Tips: Gratitude is good for your heart and good for your soul. Its good to receive and good to give. So here comes some gratitude from me to YOU!
Conjuring feelings of gratitude can create a body-wide shift into a more resilient state.
Check out these articles for more on gratitude and HeartMath:
Too often we look outside of ourselves for guidance, when all along the answers lie within us.
Recently while writing an article, I had to stop. The ideas wouldn’t flow, I just sat there feeling stressed and miserable. Finally, I gave up and went outside to sit in the sun.
Then, I could hear or maybe it was sense my inner wisdom, my intuition.
I needed a break, time where there was nothing I had to do except be me. Well, I did take a break and when I came back I felt more whole and alive, and the ideas flowed without effort.
Healthy Tip: Biofield Therapies: Helpful or Full of Hype?
The term “biofield” is used by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to collectively describe energy healing therapies. Reiki is one natural healing form of biofield therapy.
Find out how a scientific review of 66 biofield therapy studies found what those who use these therapies have known for a very long time: energy healing works! "Biofield therapies: helpful or full of hype?"
Healthy Tips: You Are Amazing Just the Way You Are
Animals have so much to teach us: acceptance, love, gratitude, and so much more—all releasing life affirming chemicals in your body that promote natural healing!
Improve Your Heart Health & Prevent Cancer, Enjoy 3 Cups of Green Tea a Day
You probably know that too much stress harms you and that relaxation techniques can help. But, some have a hard time learning and using these techniques. If you’re one of them you may want to try stress reducing technology tools.
Millions Suffer Needlessly When There is a Cure for Their Pain
Over 60 years ago, Dr. George Stuart Hackett discovered that most musculoskeletal pain is due to ligament and/or tendon injury… that injuries over time lead to loose ligaments and unstable joints, and that unstable joints cause chronic pain.
Dr. Hackett built on the work of others, and created a new treatment that addresses the cause of most forms of chronic pain by stimulating or restarting the body’s own natural healing ability. And it works because…
You Are a Self-Healing Organism.
Find out how you can learn more about this little-known treatment that provides substantial to complete elimination of pain for 80 percent of those who receive it… even those who have suffered for many years in… "The Cure for Chronic Pain".
There are plenty of home remedies for earache that a person can use in order to treat this condition. Try applying some heat to your aching ear using a heating pad or a warm cloth.
There is a Direct Link Between Your Mouth's Health and Your Body's Health!
For tips in choosing a dentist, take a look at Comprehensive Dental Center Associates. They provide an example of holistic, natural, biocompatible dentistry that promotes whole-body health through supporting oral health and the oral immune system.
They understand that there is a direct link between the mouth's health and the entire body's health. All their therapies and treatments are designed with that in mind.
Healthy Tip: Your Amazing Heart
You likely know how important your heart is. After all, when it stops beating so does life.
However, did you know it has its own intelligence too?
The heart contains over 40,000 neurons and it can independently sense, process information, and demonstrate a type of learning, say scientists of the new field of medicine, neurocardiology.
You can feed your heart’s intelligence with positive emotions and improve the quality of your life too!
If so, you may have missed an important step in the change process.
The most common error is jumping to action before understanding yourself and your problem.
Studies of over 30,000 people working to change themselves found that those that were successful used a 6-stage process.
It didn’t matter whether they used professional help or did it themselves. As long as they went through the 6-stages and used the right tools at each stage – they succeeded.
The New Year, birthdays, and other special events offer a great time to set goals for what you want more of in life.
Those who set realistic goals for what they want, tend to get it.
See "10 Best Health Tips" for proven, simple, easy to do tips that help you take the first step to a healthier you!
Healthy Tip: How to Get the Right Diagnosis
A healthy tip of any sort may not work if you have the wrong diagnosis.
The diagnosis the doctor gives you determines the treatment you receive. If the diagnosis is wrong, the treatment will be wrong.
Yet, studies find that 1 out of 6 to 7 patients get a wrong diagnosis. The most common causes of this medical error are traps in doctors’ thinking and not listening to their patients.
You can help your doctor make the “right diagnosis” by asking simple questions like this, “What else could it be?” says medical writer Jerome Groopman, MD.
This question helps prevent the doctor from making the diagnosis too quickly and prompts thinking of other possibilities.
Healthy Tip: Should You Take Vitamin D Based on The 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report?
Although the IOM increased the vitamin D recommended daily intake from 200 IUs per day to between 400 and 600 IUs per day, some top scientists think it’s not enough.
Cedric Garland, DrPh, top researcher who documented the linkage of low vitamin D levels to cancer says, “This is a stunning disappointment.” His research found:
“The evidence suggests that efforts to improve vitamin D status, for example by supplementation, could reduce cancer incidence and mortality at low cost, with few or no adverse effects.”
Follow these steps, then, decide what’s right for you!
Consider the IOM report recommendations.
Know your vitamin D blood level so you can correct for any deficiency.
Ask your doctor or a nutritional medicine expert for a recommendation based on your unique health condition.
Healthy Tip: Meditation Lowers Blood Pressure, Improves Brain Coherence, and May Modulate the Response to Stress and Help Prevent and Treat Heart Disease!
Meditation, used through the ages to promote spiritual growth, proves good for the mind and body’s health too!
Not surprising since “You” are not just your body or your mind or your spirit. “You” are whole: body, mind, and spirit. Your wholeness continuously interacts with your environment…it affects “You” and “You” affect it.
Healthy Tip: Good Fats like Olive Oil Provide Important Nutrients. Yet, Even These “Good Fats” Can Be Bad for You When Not Treated Right!
For instance, stale fats and fats exposed to air oxidize, making them extremely unhealthy. Further, the rate of oxidation increases with exposure to light and warmer temperature.
“Oxidized fats can damage DNA, promote the development of cancer, and speed up aging and degenerative changes in our tissues,” says Andrew Weil, in 8 Weeks to Optimum Health.
During studies of the effectiveness of medical treatments (like surgery and drugs), researchers use placebos for comparison.
Placebos are substances that have no inherent benefit. The patients under study believe that they are receiving the medical treatment even those who receive the placebo.
Surprisingly, researchers repeatedly find that 30 to 90 percent of patients improve with the placebo treatment!
What does this mean?
It means your belief is a powerful ally in healing and getting what you want in life. This is great news because it puts you in the driver’s seat!
You can train your mind to create what you want more of in life by using techniques like creative visualization, meditation, cognitive therapy, and the new energy psychology, PSYCH-K.
Healthy Tip: Which nutrient is most critical for your health?
Some scientists now view vitamin D as “nature’s antibiotic.” Making sure you have adequate vitamin D is the most important thing you can do for your health.
Almost everyone living north of 40 degrees latitude suffers vitamin D deficiency (includes most of the United States, Canada, and Europe).
Evidence now links low levels of vitamin D with a growing list of chronic, inflammatory, and infectious diseases:
Cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke
Osteomalacia, softening of bone surfaces, which causes pain
Infectious diseases: influenza, tuberculosis, HIV, respiratory and wound infections
Most of your vitamin D comes from your skin’s exposure to the sun’s UV-B radiation. Dietary sources of vitamin D through fortified milk and other sources are rarely adequate.
You likely need a vitamin D supplement. Get your vitamin D blood level tested soon!
Saliva, rich in calcium and phosphate ions, quietly and powerfully keeps your mouth healthy:
Washing away food and plaque (a sticky acid-producing film)
Fighting bacteria
Neutralizing damaging acids
If you don’t have enough saliva (a dry mouth), chew gum sweetened with xylitol, a naturally occurring sugar substitute. Studies show that when used frequently, it can prevent tooth decay and even harden the tooth surface where a cavity has begun.
If your mouth continues to be dry, see a doctor or dentist. Some medications and health conditions may cause deceased saliva.
Healthy Tip: Are You a Lark or an Owl?
Larks prefer to be active in the morning; Owls prefer to be active in the evening. Knowing your natural biological rhythm helps match your internal clock to the clock of the cosmos.
Scientists call these daily rhythms responding to the sun-lit day and the dark night,
circadian rhythms.
Being in-syc with your natural circadian rhythm helps sleep and mood problems, jet lag, and performance.
Healthy Tips: Diverticulosis: An Epidemic
Diverticulosis earns its name from diverticula, small pouches that bulge outward through weak areas in the bowel’s lining.
Most people who have diverticulosis don’t even know it. You usually don’t have symptoms until diverticulitis, a potentially serious complication develops where one or more of the pouches become inflamed.
As you age, your chances of having diverticulosis increase dramatically:
over age 40 you have a 10 percent chance,
between ages 60 and 80 you have a 50 percent chance,
over age 80 almost everyone has diverticulosis.
Learn how you can prevent diverticulosis and its complications in our next article coming soon.
Healthy Tips: Have fun and Get Healthy the Virtual Way
Virtual game programs gain the respect of health experts as they watch their users’ bloom in a host of heath indicators (regardless of their limitations due to age or disease):
Physical activity and fitness scores
Balance
Eye-to-Hand coordination
Problem solving skills
Social skills
The prototype, Nintendo’s Wii combines the virtual environment with wireless motion sensitive controllers that allow interaction with life-like games. Newer versions can track your progress as you do yoga, aerobics, or slide down the mountain on your snowboard.
Step or slide into the virtual health world today!
Heathy Tips: Heal Yourself with Creative Visualization!
Health exists within you. It may be a dim ember, but it is there awaiting the conditions for its full expression. Healing is the movement toward health. The word heal is derived from the old English word “haelan” meaning to restore wholeness. True health exists in the full expression of who you are…body, mind, and spirit. You may have an incurable disease or an injury so extensive that a function is forever lost, but you can always heal.
Healthy Tips: How Olympians Use Natural-Healing-Health
The Olympians inspire us. They provide real life examples of the power of knowing what you want and going for it.
They use many of the same skills and tools you’ll find in articles on this site. For example, Dennis Waitley, trainer of Super Bowl and Olympic Athletes and Apollo astronauts, started using visualization in the form of “Visual Motor Rehearsal” in the US Olympic Team’s program in the 1980s.
He credits visualization exercises as being as important as physical exercises for their success.
You may not aspire to being an Olympian, but you can use visualization exercise to create the life you want.
Healthy Tips: A Healing Riddle: What action has the most power to heal?
Often unnoticed, your breath feeds, cleanses, and heals your body. An intentional focus on your breath can boost its healing power. Here’s an easy powerful exercise proven to enrich body, mind, and spirit.
Breathe in, bringing full awareness to the sensation of breathing. Feel the air as it moves through your nose and into your lungs. Feel the gentle rise of your abdomen.
Breathe out, silently saying a word with deep meaning to you like “peace,” “relax,” “joy,” “gratitude,” or another word that is affirming for you.
Repeat ten times.
Use this simple exercise anytime and anywhere to boost the healing power of breathing.
Healthy Tips: Oxidative Stress Antidote
Oxidative stress speeds up aging and leads to over 70 degenerative life-sapping diseases. Unbeknownst to many, you can prevent it by simply investing in optimal cellular nutrition.
Optimal cellular nutrition may be the best Life Insurance on the planet!
Healthy Tips: Healthy bowels thrive in partnership with over 100 trillion bacteria!
If you took a “fantastic voyage” into your bowels, you would see these “good” bacteria busy at work: fighting off harmful organisms, helping digestion, and supporting your immune system. As a part of a “healthy gut ecosystem” they:
Help break down carbohydrates.
Seek out and neutralize toxins and free radicals.
Form a barrier to “bad” bacteria by lining the intestinal wall.
Coenzyme Q10 is a fat-soluble vitamin-like substance present in all of your cells. It’s a potent antioxidant, fighting excess free radicals that contribute to disease and accelerated aging. It’s also vital for the production of cellular energy.
Medical scientists now report that people taking certain prescription drugs and those with chronic diseases have low levels of this mighty substance.
Healthy Tips: Why don’t more studies show vitamin E’s benefits?
One reason is that researchers study nutrients one nutrient at a time. Nutrients like vitamin E work with other nutrients to accomplish their benefits.
“All the antioxidants need the so called antioxidant minerals, and B cofactors available in all their enzymatic reactions to do their job,” says Ray Strand, nutritional medicine expert.
Find out 16 vitamin E benefits. Learn what nutritional medicine experts say about when and how to take vitamin E in
Vitamin E Benefits.
Healthy Tip: What the Indigenous Peoples Have to Teach Us
As we gain more awareness of the dark side of our excess, its time to explore other ways of being.
The shamans of the Americas and the aboriginal peoples hold themselves responsible to consciously-co-create reality with the help of the infinite (universal intelligence)… they dream their world into being.
They understand that when we don’t dream our existence, we have to settle for the nightmare that others are conceiving.
We explore how we might apply their wisdom in “Finding Dreamtime Power” using insights from Courageous Dreaming by Alberto Villoldo, PhD.
Healthy Tips: Are you worried about your cholesterol levels?
Cholesterol lowering drugs are the most prescribed drugs in the world!
Yet, these drugs can have serious side effects for some including muscle damage and kidney failure.
Studies show that vitamin B3 (Niacin) can reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol levels by as much as 30 percent.
It also lowers triglycerides levels and raises HDL (good) cholesterol levels by as much as 33 percent… all good news for the prevention of heart disease.
Healthy Tips: Would you like to have the most powerful anti-aging potion on the planet?
Would you like to have the most powerful anti-aging potion on the planet?
Science proves this potion makes you feel good, rejuvenates your heart and circulation, makes your joints, muscles and bones stronger, and improves your overall health.
Plus, it’s free!
This potion lies within you… only it requires exercise for activation!
All you need to do is to make the natural act of walking a habit.
Healthy Tips: Weight Training isn’t Just for Body Builders!
Research published in the 1994 Journal of the American Medical Association found that after a year of strength training twice a week, women’s bodies were 15 to 20 years more youthful.
Women who participated in the study enjoyed:
More muscle and less fat.
Prevention or reversal of bone loss.
Dramatic increase in strength and energy.
Gains in balance and flexibility.
Increased self-confidence and felt more empowered and involved in life.
Wouldn’t you want more of these benefits in your life?
Your core is more than your “abs” (abdominals or as some say, “the six-pack”). The “abs” tend to get a lot of attention when doing weight training exercises as they’re the visible, superficial muscles of your core.
Your true core, however, is a corset like overlapping muscle that links the upper and lower body, anchors the strength movement of limbs with a solid pillar of support, and stabilizes the pelvis.
Strengthening your true core deserves a lot of respect and attention.
NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) like ibuprofen(Motrin or Advil) use is so common that you may not realize how deadly they can be.
While these drugs do relieve pain, their regular use is associated with very serious side effects.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lists these potential dangers:
Taking NSAIDs increases the chance of a heart attack or stroke that can lead to death.
NSAIDs can cause ulcers and bleeding in the stomach and intestines… this can happen suddenly without warning and may cause sudden death.
NSAID-induced disease causes at least 103,000 hospitalizations per year.
Every year 16,500 arthritis patients die from NSAID-related gastrointestinal damage.
21 percent of all adverse drug reactions are due to NSAID use.
Avoid these drugs if possible. More on natural health methods for pain relief will be coming soon!
Healthy Tips: Can Natural Pain Relief Methods Work as Well as Pharmaceuticals?
During my last seminar someone asked about natural ways to relieve pain. Here's a sample of what I found.
The 2002 National Health Interview found that a majority of survey respondents who used Complementary and Alternative Medicine therapies for back pain perceived "a great deal" of benefit plus they reported improved health status.
For instance, in a 2006 study 59% of patients with degenerative spine disease who were taking NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) for chronic spinal pain were able to discontinue their prescription NSAIDs.
Eighty percent stated they were satisfied with their improvement, and 88% stated they would continue to take the fish oil.
Find out more about natural pain relief and “LEARNS” an acronym to 6 steps for finding and treating the cause of pain in "Natural Pain Relief: But How?”
Healthy Tips: Don’t you love it when the thing that works the best costs nothing and you can do it yourself… easily!
That’s what I found out about using expressive writing to heal the pain of trauma and other sources of emotional upheaval.
Repeatedly, studies find that putting traumatic experiences into words releases their emotional grip on our lives.
Writing about traumatic experiences for as little as twenty minutes a day for four days can produce measurable changes in physical and mental health.
I’ve seen the power of expressive writing in helping people heal and I’ve used it myself.
Healthy Tips: Ever feel overwhelmed trying to choose your dietary supplement product?
I sure have… It’s hard to know how to choose. Yet, choosing the right supplement product is critical.
For instance, one study published in the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science found that less than half of the supplements tested disintegrated properly… otherwise over 50% were not able to be absorbed by the body due to how they were manufactured.
Worse yet, independent testing found that others were contaminated with heavy metals…they exceeded limits for lead and/or cadmium.
Few of us count as nutritional science experts, so how do you choose?
Well…I’ve been doing my own research on resources to help you determine which supplement products are best for you.
Healthy Tips: Osteoporosis Sneaks Up on Women and Men!
Women suffer 2 to 5 percent loss in bone mass per year in over a five-year period during and after menopause.… but as much as 50 percent of a woman’s life time bone loss happens before the onset of menopause.
And… its not just women that develop this disease: 2 million American men have osteoporosis, and another 12 million are at risk. Yet, despite the large number of men affected, it remains under diagnosed and under reported, says the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
Osteoporosis is a preventable, but common disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to break. It progresses painlessly until a bone breaks leading to falls, surgery, and a whole host of potentially deadly complications as well as chronic pain.
Science says yes! Now science has sensitive indicators showing that you and the choices you make are even more powerful than they thought.
The measurement of telomeres and telomerase (genetic substances) offers significant clues on how to slow down aging and fend off cancer.
Your genes may carry your genetic blueprint, but that blue print is not fixed. Your lifestyle choices and related actions influence your genes just as your genes influence your destiny.
Healthy Tips: Did you know that a low glycemic breakfast can actually help you lose pounds?
Did you know that a low glycemic breakfast can actually help you lose pounds?
In a 1999 study published in Pediatrics two groups of boys ate breakfast with the same number but different types of calories.
One group had high glycemic foods (instant oatmeal) and the other group had low glycemic foods (a vegetable omelet and fruit). They were also given lunch with an equal amount of calories and the low glycemic or the high glycemic foods. The rest of the day, both groups could eat what ever they wanted.
Researchers found that the group that ate the high glycemic breakfast ate over 80 percent more calories during the day than the group who ate the low glycemic breakfast. They also had higher insulin levels and epinephrine (stress hormone) levels in their blood.
To make sure their study results were not due to the characteristics of the boys in the two groups, they switched the meals between them.
Again, they found that the group that ate the high-glycemic meals ate 80 percent more calories than the group that ate the low glycemic meals.
Healthy Tips: Do you ever wonder if there isn’t more to life?
Most of us feel like our life can be more fulfilling. Usually it’s some flaw that we think we have that holds us back or keeps us stuck in an unfulfilling situation. For me it was shyness.
I invite you to consider your flaw and the associated pain it causes in your life as an invitation to set your intention for self actualization.
Self actualization describes the full expression of your potential, capacity, talent, and power. Most of us haven’t even scratched the surface of expressing who we really are.
“I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capacities," says Abraham Maslow, a world-renowned psychologist who coined the term.
Self actualization for most of us doesn’t just happen, it take your intention to move it into action.
Heathy Tips: Medical Science Finds Reiki Therapy Helps Recovery From Heart Attack
Reiki Therapy, a gentle process whereby its practitioners transmit Reiki (universal life energy) through their hands, has long been used to promote general wellness, relaxation, and stress reduction.
Now western science documents its benefits.
A September 2010 study on the use of Reiki for patients who suffered a recent heart attack published in the Journal of American College of Cardiology found that 20-minute Reiki treatments improved the patients' mood on all indicators and improved their heart rate variability (HRV).
Heart rate variability is a critical concern in heart health and stress reduction.
Reiki Therapy has helped support the healing process of thousands throughout the world. We hope that you too will enjoy Reiki Therapy.
If you ask people born blind and deaf which sense they would want restored, they usually say hearing.
“They understand the connection between hearing, speech, and communication, and how important communication is,” says Bill Yost, a leading psychoacoustic researcher.
We naturally lose some hearing as we age, but many of the toys, tools, and events of our technology rich culture can dramatically speed up the loss.
Fortunately, you can still have fun and protect your hearing too by following a few simple tips like this one:
MP3 Players—Use the “80-90 Rule:” Limit the volume to 80 percent of maximum and listen no longer than 90 minutes a day if using earbuds.
Healthy Tips: Are You Caught Up in the “Rat Race”…a Slave to Your “To-Do List”…or to Someone Else’s Agenda?
I know I sure was and still am at times.
The American mindset says that the more you accomplish, the more material goods and money you have, the more you are.
That may be true to a point (we all need to eat, have shelter, and care for our family)…but the pursuit of material success has become an obsession for many…a habit of the mind.
It’s become a habit that robs us of our sleep, our attention to our children and other loved ones, our attention to ourselves and who we really are.
You are not powerless though.
A time-tested natural health method releases you from this habit of the mind. It has many health benefits and costs you nothing except a few moments of your time—meditation.
Meditation is simple and easy to do. Absolutely anyone and everyone can do it. All it requires is your commitment to practice on a regular basis.
I invite you to click on the "Meditation" tab, review the articles, and choose a method that’s right for you.
Meditation has brought so much joy and peace to my life; I want to share it with you so you too can “Come Home to Your True Self.”
Healthy Tips: The Evidence Just Keeps Mounting!
In today’s stress filled world, you need a healthy diet and nutritional supplements. Low levels of essential nutrients silently rob health and lead to life sapping disease.
For Instance:
Low Vitamin D levels show up in many people with debilitating killer disease. It’s estimated that an alarming 90% of us are deficient in this critical vitamin-like nutrient.
A recent study revealed that for every small decrease in blood level of vitamin D there was a startling 86% increase in fatal strokes, reports nutritional medicine expert Ray Strand, MD.
Higher Vitamins B2 and B6 levels help lower risk of colorectal cancer finds a study reported in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
Decreased magnesium levels increase the risk for metabolic syndrome, possibly due to a low-grade inflammatory process reports a study published in Nutrition Research.
The term metabolic syndrome describes abdominal obesity combined with two of the following factors: high blood pressure, dyslipidemia (abnormal cholesterol and/or triglyceride levels), impaired glucose tolerance, or diabetes.
Importantly, the balance of nutrients is as important as the amount of each nutrient you take.
Healthy Tips: Ever wonder why some people thrive under stress and others get sick?
Those who do well and even flourish under stress approach life with the 3 Cs found Suzanne Kabasa, PhD, in her seminal research.
The 3 Cs stand for Control, Commitment, and Challenge.
Control, is believing that you can influence your own experience. Granted, life brings experiences that you can’t control, but you can control your attitude and how you respond to them.
Commitment means getting involved and finding meaning for your life.
Challenge is choosing to approach change or problems as opportunities for learning and growth.
Add one more C for Connection. There's a strong link of close social relationships with a lower risk of dying at any age.
This finding holds up even when health habits such as smoking, alcohol use, obesity, use of preventive health programs, and physical activity were taken into consideration says researcher, David Spiegel MD.
Fish oil contains omega-3 fatty acids important for the health of your heart, blood vessels, brain, and eyes. 
The best gift is to love your self. 
