Health & Wellness
by Mark Hyman, M.D. | November 19th, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Health & Wellness, Healthy Eating | tags: allergies, anti-inflammatory, avoid stress, causes of inflammation, chronic illness, cures for inflammation, exercise, healthy living, healthy-eating, hidden inflammation, inflammation

Could something as simple as a quick and easy blood test save your life? Absolutely.
It’s called a C-reactive protein test, and it measures the degree of HIDDEN inflammation in your body.
Finding out whether or not you are suffering from hidden inflammation is critical because almost every modern disease is caused or affected by it. If your immune system and its ability to quell inflammation in your body are impaired, watch out. You are headed toward illness and premature aging.
by Leslie Garrett | November 18th, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Health & Wellness, Healthy Eating | tags: alternative therapies, ancient remedies, cures of the past, fighting colds, fighting sickness, fighting the flu, good health, healthy-eating, holistic remedies, how to stay healthy, remedies of the past, swine flu
I know exactly what my grandmother would say. With all the sturm-und-drang about swine flu vaccinations, she would scoff and mutter, “What they need is a good mustard poultice.”
A mustard poultice could cure anything — from “women’s problems” to a stuffy nose.
by Mark Hyman, M.D. | October 30th, 2009 | Comments (1)
topic: Health & Wellness, Healthy Eating | tags: diabetes, diet, exercise, glucose, health, how to prevent diabetes, how to reverse diabetes, insulin, insulin resistance, lifestyle, lifestyle habits, medication, nutrition, stress, supplements, type 2 diabetes
Breaking news! Some newly discovered compounds have just been found to turn off all of the genes that cause diabetes. Are these compounds found in a pill bottle? No!
Diabetes and insulin resistance are completely preventable and often reversible through aggressive lifestyle changes, including diet, supplements, exercise and stress management.
by Katy Santiago Bowman | October 22nd, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Health & Wellness | tags: back, body, comfortable traveling, health, healthy traveling, healthy-eating, heavy luggage, neck, physically demanding, shoulders, travel, traveling tips, trips, vacation
I’m back from my vacation, and what an adventure it was.
And in addition to being great, I found it completely amazing how physically exhausting a vacation can be (tour bus pick-up at 6:30 a.m., plane rides, bus rides, and scary car episodes with a French taxi driver who insisted on taking all the Corsican island curves — which, did I mention, are only one lane — at 100 kilometers an hour by looking BACK at me so that I could confirm that yes, the island was beautiful, and yes, I was completely relaxed … just not right at that moment).
by Mark Hyman, M.D. | October 15th, 2009 | Comments (1)
topic: Health & Wellness, Healthy Eating | tags: blood sugar, blood sugar tests, diabetes, diabetes testing, diet, glucose, high blood sugar, insulin, insulin resistance, lifestyle, lifestyle habits, tests, tests for diabetes, type 2 diabetes
Diabetes is not reversible, and controlling your blood sugar with drugs or insulin will protect you from organ damage and death. That is what the medical profession would have you believe, but medication and insulin can actually increase your risk of getting a heart attack or dying.
The diabetes epidemic is accelerating along with the obesity epidemic, and what you are not hearing about is another way to treat it.
by Jill Miller | October 12th, 2009 | Comments (4)
topic: Fitness, Green Living, Health & Wellness, Yoga | tags: benefits of walking, Core Immersion Training, depression, diabetes, exercise, Fitness, health, health benefits, Los Angeles, Oprah, osteoporosis, walking, Yoga, Yoga Tune Up®

A few weeks ago, I taught my Core Immersion Training at the Century City Equinox in Los Angeles, Calif. Each day, we valet parked our cars before entering the club. Those who live outside of Los Angeles may have to re-read the prior sentence: Yes, we VALET PARKED our cars to go to the gym, as do thousands of other Angelenos all around the city, where valet parking is an unfortunate fact of life in a city where the car is king, and vast distances separate us from getting here to there.
by Chris Freytag | October 8th, 2009 | Comments (1)
topic: Fitness, Health & Wellness, Weight Loss | tags: BMI, body composition, body fat, fitness assessment, healthy weight, measurements, muscle, scale, weight, weight gain, weight-loss

Numbers on the scale often become the center of focus when trying to determine a healthy weight. Annual exams at the doctor’s office include a weigh in; weight loss centers determine success by a drop in pounds; and there is talk from time to time about Body Mass Index (BMI) in the media, which refers to your “appropriate” weight based on your height.
by Patricia Moreno | October 8th, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Fitness, Health & Wellness, Healthy Aging, Healthy Eating, Weight Loss | tags: attitude, diet, energy, exercise, food, goals, habits, health, healthy-eating, IntenSati, intention, mood, Patricia Moreno, portion size, positive change, self-discipline

Yes, you can have it all, really!
How you eat, think and exercise dramatically affects your mood. You can break the cycle of unhealthy habits and learn to have it all.
by Katy Santiago Bowman | October 5th, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Health & Wellness | tags: caffeine, cramps, exercise, healthy-eating, hormones, lifestyle habits, menstrual cycle, menstruation, period, PMS, stimulants, stress, toxins, uterus
I consider myself a very “healthy” person. I eat well and walk and stretch every day. I challenge my balance to make sure I still can. I look both ways before crossing the street. But even with this preventative mindset, I still manage to end up wounded every month like clockwork. Don’t worry. It’s nothing my body isn’t designed to handle. And it is a wound borne by half of the people on the planet at about the same frequency.
by The FIRM Master Instructor Team | October 1st, 2009 | Comments (1)
topic: Fitness, Health & Wellness, Weight Loss | tags: blood pressure, BMI, body fat percentage, Body Mass Index, building muscle, cholesterol, clothing size, diet, exercise, healthy-eating, losing fat, measurements, metabolism, sizes, weight-loss

By The FIRM Master Instructor Kirsten Palmer
Have you heard the awful rumor that clothing manufacturers use “vanity sizing”? It turns out it’s true. They’ve adjusted their sizes to fit our expanding waistlines. What that means for you is that, without changing your weight or measurements at all, you might suddenly fit into a size 8 when you never could before. Or, you could have gained five or so pounds, but not notice it (or want to notice it) because you can still buy the same size clothes.