by drebanks | Apr 17, 2011 | Blog, Cancer, healthy aging, Heart Disease, Longevity, Nutrition, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Type-2 Diabetes, Youthful Aging
Mary Poppins may have recommended adding a spoonful of sugar to make some things a little more palatable, but Americans have taken that benign suggestion and run amok with it. American consumption of added sugars has increased drastically over the last several...
by drebanks | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Cancer, Exercise, healthy aging, Longevity, Nutrition, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Youthful Aging
So what does that say about most Americans? An increasingly large segment of the US population is overweight or obese, and nearly as many admit to being couch potatoes. Convincing evidence shows that weight gain and obesity increases the risk of several different...
by drebanks | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Exercise, healthy aging, Longevity, Nutrition, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Type-2 Diabetes, Youthful Aging
Remember how good you felt in your twenties? You were full of energy, vigor and lust. Your responsibilities were few and just having fun was fairly routine. The world was your oyster. You really had the mojo-thing going on. But life can get in the way. Career,...
by drebanks | Jan 27, 2011 | Blog, Exercise, healthy aging, Longevity, Nutrition, Preventive Wellness, stress, Youthful Aging
Many of us are fascinated by stories of unusual longevity. It seems every television network has some variation of a segment celebrating birthdays at or around 100 years old. Perhaps it is because those over the century mark are one of the fastest growing segments...
by drebanks | Dec 23, 2010 | Blog, healthy aging, Heart Disease, Nutrition, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Type-2 Diabetes
We are all aware of the current obesity trend in this country and across the globe. Avoiding fat in our diet has been the conventional mantra now for the last 4 or 5 decades. But what has this low-fat obsession gotten us? Well, Americans are now fatter than ever. ...
by drebanks | Nov 14, 2010 | Blog, Exercise, Nutrition, Preventive Wellness, Vitamin D
Despite all of the tremendous medical advances of the last century, strategies to fight the viruses that cause seasonal flu and the common cold remain largely unchanged. There are no cures for either which makes prevention all the more important. Last year, we...