Archive for January, 2008

Oprah Kicks Off Best Life Challenge

Not many people get to start a life-altering decision with a nationally televised kickoff and a celebrity support system. But on Friday, more than 400 men and women from Meridian and the surrounding area did just that during a special filming of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in downtown Meridian.
The popular TV talk show host joined [...]

Does The Ultimate Tea Diet Work?

Drinking tea to lose weight?
Well that’s not all ‘Dr. Tea’ recommends in the ‘Ultimate Tea Diet‘. He’s straightforward in saying that you can’t just drink tea and lose weight. Tea certainly has benefits as it’s made from beneficial natural herbs (if you get the right kind) that can help your body reduce cravings and [...]

What Are Monounsaturated Fats?

Monounsaturated fats are fatty acids, often referred to as “good” or “healthy” fats.
They are found mainly in nuts, avocados, olive oil, tea seed oil, grapeseed oil, ground nut oil, peanut oil, flaxseed oil, sesame oil, corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, and tea-oil Camellia.
Monounsaturated fatty acids promote insulin resistance and lower LDL (bad) cholesterol, while [...]

What’s the Martha’s Vineyard Diet Detox (MVDietDetox) About?

With the new year come many new diets. The MVDietDetox is the Martha’s Vineyard Detox Diet developed by Roni DeLuz, RN, ND, founder and director of the Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat at the Martha’s Vineyard Inn, a naturopathic doctor, registered nurse, and colonic therapist who has been a healing professional for twenty years.
It’s a detox [...]

Fighting Cancer, Lymphedema with Massage

Nobody enjoys hearing bad news, especially when that bad news is a cancer diagnosis.
For Christina Danyluk, that bad news came twice; once in the form of lymphoma 22 years ago, the second as thyroid cancer six-and-a-half years ago.
Listening to Danyluk speak, one would never be able to tell that she is a cancer survivor. Her [...]

Is Mindless Eating The Secret To Weight Loss?

In Mindless Eating, Wansink, a marketing professor at Cornell University who has studied consumers’ food-related decisions for decades, focuses on the sort of gradual, modest weight loss that is achievable. Declaring that “the best diet is the one you don’t know you’re on,” he urges small changes in everyday behavior that over the course of [...]

What’s the SuperFoods Rx Diet About?

Rather than concentrating on the balance of protein, fat, and carbohydrates, The SuperFoodsRx Diet utilizes the incredible benefits of micronutrients – vitamins, minerals, bioflavonoids, fiber, antioxidants, and other phytochemicals – to burn calories. These powerhouse nutrients found in the 14 SuperFoods actually boost your body’s metabolism, and the specific combinations in this plan will give [...]

How To Prevent and Treat Constipation

Bowel movements are a daily routine for most people. But what about if you have a difficulty releasing those bowels because you are constipated, how could you go on? Constipation causes a lot of unease and heavy feeling to a person.
Constipation is not a disease. It is rather a symptom to a disease in the [...]

Medical Oddities on Display at Mutter Museum

Madame Dimanche or Widow Sunday was a 19th century woman with a 10 inch cornu cutaneum, a horn, on her head. You can see the wax cast of the Madame Dimanche horn and other medical oddities at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
Often referred to as a “baby-in-a-bottle freak show” the museum holds over 20,000 [...]

Master Cleanse Diet Reports Outstanding Results

New diet plan called The Master Cleanse Diet says that its weight loss results are ‘outstanding.’ The Master Cleanse Diet is also known as Lemonade Diet, however, the claims of being a healthy diet plan may not be substantiated. Below is the press release from the company presenting this diet plan.
The Master Cleanse Diet, which [...]