Can Baby Boomers Afford Healthcare in the New Year?

As reported on the Today Show in their segment “Today’s Boomer Nation” the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons (AARP) offered some staggering statistics related to Baby Boomers (those Americans born between 1946 and 1964) and Healthcare.  Of the nearly 78 million Baby Boomers living in the United States the AARP offered these very [...]

America is Suffering from an Obesity Epidemic

66 million Americans are clinically obese. That means that they have more than 30% fat by body weight, when a ‘normal’ body should have less than 25%. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions over the past twenty years. Obesity used to be thought of as a problem of a few states in Appalachia and the Southeast. [...]

Rvus- Whose Value is It, Anyway?

As I discuss career options with a group of third year medical students, I imagine a marketing brochure for psychiatry residencies in a world of mental health parity: The brain is undeniably the most complex organ of the human body. Beyond controlling virtually all body functions, the brain is the source of the mind, which [...]

Diabetes and Exercise Tips

With a proper diet and regular exercise diabetes can not only be maintained, some even say that it can be reversed. For those suffering from this disease we talk about exercise not only as a means of weight reduction but because exercise, particularly aerobic exercise, increases insulin sensitivity and, along with proper nutrition, helps restore [...]

Herbs for Diabetes – Natural Ways to Lower Blood Sugar Level

It is great to use natural herbs to improve the over all health and well being. And there are many herbs that can help with specific diseases. Diabetes is one of them. Herbs for diabetes are used more and more to complement or sometimes even replace conventional diabetes drugs. Here you will find tips on [...]

Your Diabetes Cure – Diabetes and Exercise

Regardless if you have diabetes exercise is helpful for all individuals. Even if you have had diabetic complications you can definitely benefit from exercise. If you have diabetes exercise is important for your heart health as well as weight loss; it will lower your high blood pressure, and, in some cases, improve blood sugar control [...]

Help With Diabetes – Best Foods to Lower Blood Sugar

It is important that if you have diabetes that you eat the right foods to lower your blood sugar levels. If you control what you eat then you can control your diabetes and have less complications in the long run. There are many foods that you can consume that will keep your blood sugar regulated [...]

Exercise for a Healthier Life

A huge chunk of the American population lives a sedentary lifestyle. Aside from having a life with very little to no physical activity, our poor eating habits contribute to an increased mortality rate. Approximately 300,000 adults in the United States die because of inactivity paired with a poor diet[1]. A recent study showed that a [...]

Natural Diabetes Cures

It’s not  unusual that diabetes is thought of as one of the most deadly diseases that we’re living with today. Diabetes is the primary cause of blindness among adults in the U.S.. Thousands of people are blinded each year because of this disease. Hundreds of thousands of limb amputations have been performed on diabetic patients [...]

Cure Diabetes – Get Diabetes Help to Lower Your Blood Sugar

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes then you may be scared and not sure what to do but it is important to understand that you can control your diabetes and have a long and healthy life. You have to remember that it does not matter how you got in this situation whether you did [...]

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