The abundance of protein here in the West is something that many of us take for granted. The custom of eating meat with almost every meal is pretty common and usually results in adequate protein intake. Photos of famine-struck areas featuring thin-limbed victims with distended...

Teenagers and young adults benefit from a high resting metabolic rate, which simply means that they burn more calories at rest than older adults. For those of us in the “older adult” group, wouldn’t it be nice if we could restore a more youthful resting...

Biotin is part of the B vitamin family. Like the rest of its mspanbers, it plays a key role in the body’s metabolic processes. Mainly known for the benefits it confers to nails, biotin is needed for so much more. Deficiencies may lead to many...

A Treatment Thousands of Years Old

Today in most Western cultures acupuncture is considered a new alternative medicine. Actually, acupuncture is a medical treatment that is more than 5,000 years old. Very basically, acupuncture is the insertion of very fine needles, sometimes in conjunction with...