By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Raise your hand if you want to eat healthy. Healthy eating isn’t just good for cinching your waistline; it’s great for overall health. From glowing skin, to heart health, to maintaining healthy teeth and bones; eating foods packed with certain nutrients can also protect your immune system and fight infections. It can boost your libido and decrease that lousy (LDL) cholesterol and boost your good (HDL) cholesterol. Healthy eating…
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Guest Post by Vandana Bhide, MD Greeks who live on the Island of Crete have significantly less heart disease and cancer than Americans. Research studies suggest it is the Mediterranean diet that may give Cretans their health advantage. The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish and nuts such as almonds and walnuts. It has been found to be associated with less risk of recurrent heart attacks than people who followed the…
Read More...7 Reasons Kids are Fat and 7 Simple Ways to Fight back
Guest Blog by Carol Torgan, Ph.D., FACSM School bus stops, food courts, video arcades – everywhere we look we see evidence of the often repeated stat that nearly one in three U.S. children and adolescents aged 2 through 19 years are overweight or obese. In a recent briefing on childhood obesity held in Washington, D.C. to highlight a special issue of the health policy journal Health Affairs, numerous scary stats were presented. A few of…
Read More...Healthy Eating: A Mediterranean Fish Dish That’s Quick and Simple
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Last week, I returned from Italy, Florence (Firenze) to be exact, a magical city in Tuscany, only to to realize how much I miss the delicious Mediterranean food. The little Trattorias (a little informal restaurant) can be found along the cobblestone streets through the narrow alleyways. Actually, the alleyways are very much active streets. You quickly realize that when you’re almost knocked over from speeding Vespa scooters or tiny…
Read More...Mediterranean Diet Can Help Improve Sexual Health in Men
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Mediterranean Diet is a healthful diet for men with and without metabolic syndrome, and with or without sexual dysfunction. The Mediterranean diet has been in the headlines recently because a new study shows that the diet is beneficial to help avoid strokes. Recognized for its ability to help improve heart health, the Mediterranean Diet also can help kick-start a flagging libido in men with metabolic syndrome. I asked John…
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