Gut microbiota and your metabolic health

The conversion of food into energy is a wonderfully complicated thing. It’s an undertaking so complicated, in fact, that our muscles and organs can’t do it alone. There needs to be a middleman between ingestion and digestion — and it requires billions of living organisms housed inside your gut. Experts suggest up to 10 trillion

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The dangers of a low fat diet

You’ve been told eating fatty foods will lead to an early death. So you made the switch to a low fat diet to protect yourself from heart disease.  But after years of following doctor recommendations and buying fat free yogurt, your lab work clearly shows that your risk factors have gone up, not down. What

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Managing workplace health in a high-pressure industry

“I don’t have time.” That’s a common remark for people in high-pressure jobs, particularly business owners and senior members of the organization. But as the common saying goes, if you can’t find time to be healthy, you’ll have to find time to be ill.  You wouldn’t be the first person to make the mistake of

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