No, you didn’t read the name of this article incorrectly. A new study is taking place to see if the nutrients in dark chocolate can actually promote heart health. Chocolate pills may sound exciting, but you won’t be getting the same enjoyment as eating an actually chocolate bar unfortunately. This may not actually be a bad thing though. How many
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If you haven’t noticed (or you have been living under a rock) we are in the heart of winter. With this weather you probably can’t wait for summer. Well there are a number of products that claim to raise your mood, energy, and immune system to the same levels as they are during the summer months. Do I believe there
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If you ever plan on using a workout supplement, it’s important to do some research on the product first. The combination of bad products and hundreds of new supplement companies popping up every year makes trying a new workout supplement a risky procedure. Fortunately, the FDA has been cracking down on more supplement companies recently. Unfortunately, with the growing volume
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There are a lot of diets and supplements that make claims that they protect the body and/or fight off diseases. They claim “All you have to do is follow A and B and the chances of you getting a disease are very low”! Thinking about this today, there is one diet and one supplement that comes to mind. Macrobiotics Macrobiotics
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lternative medicine has grown in popularity among the United States in the past ten years. Due to the dangers of prescription and over the counter drugs, people are taking a different approach. While alternative medicine has many documented benefits, it also has it dangers as well. Many of these dangers are unfortunately overlooked. First, it’s important not to rely on
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Many of you have been told by your doctor to take a multivitamin. After all, a multivitamin is a great concept. Most people don’t get the required amounts of vitamins in a given day from their food, so a multivitamin should theoretically fill in the gaps. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work out this way. Here is the reason why. Multivitamins
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A few days ago, headlines went flying about “Fish Oil Supplements Causing Prostate Cancer.” This has put many people in panic-mode. It has been thought for many years that fish oil was extremely beneficial for your health and your joints. I am going to briefly explain why I have trouble believing that they have “proof” for fish oil causing prostate
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We all know that water is essential to the human body. Some of us are even aware that water makes up close to 70% of our body composition! One thing that many people are unaware of is the extreme effectiveness of water when it comes to fat loss. If you are looking to lose body fat, one of the most
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Well, I don’t know if you all have heard but the supplement Jack3d has reared its ugly head in the health news in the past couple of weeks. The recent popularity for this product is its connection to the death of a 30 year old UK runner that passed away earlier this year. She was less than a mile from
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