Kidney Stones and Sports Drinks

Category: Chronic Illness

Hydration March is Kidney Awareness Month. We all know how critical it is to maintain proper hydration for optimal health. Our bodies are mostly water. Every bio-electro-chemical reaction that takes […]

Glycemic Index and Diabetes

Category: Chronic Illness

Did you know that according to the large-scale Nurses’ Health Study, women eating the highest glycemic load diets were much more likely on average to develop type 2 diabetes compared to […]

Plan B

Category: Chronic Illness

What do we do when the script for our life doesn’t work out? How do we graciously slip into Plan “B”? This is a question posed in the book Mr. Owita’s […]

Idiot Lights

Category: Chronic Illness

Most men take better care of their CARS than their own Health A great car guy, funny comedian, and long time former host of the Tonight show, Jay Leno, might […]

Kryptonite for Millions

Category: Chronic Illness

Kryptonite was a term coined by DC Comics for their “Superman” cartoon series in the 1940’s. A mineral from the planet Krypton that drained Superman of his powers. Exposure to […]

Hurrication

Category: Chronic Illness

  If you’ve ever taken a vacation without leaving home, you’ve taken a ‘staycation’.   If you’ve ever turned a hurricane evacuation into a short holiday, then you’ve been on […]

Heard it Through the Grapevine

Category: Chronic Illness

If you’ve heard of ‘Resveratrol‘ (a polyphenol from grapes that reportedly helps the human body reduce inflammation from oxidative stress), you may have seen a decades-old CBS News 60 minutes […]