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Dig a Little Deeper to Get the WHOLE Story

Posted by Kayla:

I am a self-described news hound. I probably watch, listen to and read more news than most people my age. I always start my day by turning on a morning news show while I’m getting ready. Last week, while watching Good Morning America, something caught my ear. A story about how vitamins and supplements could be bad made me stop eating my eggs and turn up the volume on my kitchen TV.

How Do You Read Food Labels? Watch & Learn

Posted by Ben:

So you think you can read, huh? Well, consider food labels. The first question is do you read them. The second question is do you understand them. Just because you can read the words doesn’t mean you really understand what you’re reading. Don’t be offended, most people don’t have a clue when it comes to extricating the true facts from the back of packaged foods. You may think know, but chances are you don’t.
 

Can Video Games Improve Your Mental Health?

Posted by Ben:

Video games and too much TV rot your brain, right? Well, too much TV maybe, but new evidence is coming out pointing to some positive mental health benefits of playing video games. Traditional games of strategy are believed by many researchers to protect against age-related cognitive decline and even boost brain power. Now, the research has gone digital, and video games are revealing some wonderful secrets.

Government Releases New Guidelines on Cancer Screening

Posted by Ben:

We’ve got more news out of the world of modern medicine today. This time, instead of a reversal on prescription drug efficacy (as with the Zetia and Vytorin study released earlier this week), we seem to have a reversal on one of the most common cancer screening methods: mammograms. Nearly everyone has or will be touched by breast cancer, either personally or, like me, through family members who have or will fight it. Thus, this news affects us all.

Zetia & Vytorin Outperformed by Niaspan (Rx form of Niacin) in New Cholesterol Study

Posted by Ben:

In case you missed the headlines this morning on all the national news shows, a new study was released today that basically called out Merck’s Zetia and Vytorin cholesterol-lowering drugs. According to the researchers who conducted the study, these two prescription drugs don’t work...at least not as well as Niacin, a good ol’ natural B vitamin.
 

Top Dieting Strategies: New & Old

Posted by Raena Morgan:

The on-going research in the field of healthy dieting and weight loss is exciting to say the least. It turns out that the fruit of the hot chili pepper, known as capsicum, can stimulate thermogenesis—stoke your metabolism in other words. Who would have thought? I know peppers make you sweat, but I had no idea they could really help with weight loss.

Attention Facebook Fans: E-cloth Winners Revealed!

Posted by Ben:

I knew the E-cloth was a great product (full disclosure: I have five of them). But I had no idea that this latest giveaway would generate the most response and the most comments we’ve ever seen on our Facebook Fan Page. We had over 100 comments posted...and most of you were very excited and intrigued by the eco-friendly cleaning product.