Thanksgiving Dinner – Have a Healthy Feast!
Did you know that the average Thanksgiving dinner has over 2000 calories? It can be a real challenge if you are watching your waistline. Here are some eating tips as well as healthy holiday foods so that you can look good and be healthy after the Thanksgiving dinner without having to deprive yourself. Don’t go to [...]

November – National Diabetes Awareness Month
Did you know that diabetes can lead to heart attack and stroke, blindness, or kidney failure? Since November is National Diabetes Awareness Month we thought this would be a good time to review this condition that’s rapidly becoming a national level risk to the health of Americans. Consider that: 24 million children and adults in the United [...]

Consumers think drinks don’t count
A recent report examining what parents of young children and teenagers think about drinks reveals parents do not count drinks as part of their children’s daily food consumption. According to the report, parents and teenagers share a number of similar concerns but have very different purchasing patterns in terms of where they bought drinks, what [...]

Multivitamins & Birth Weight Study
Everyone knows that taking a good daily multivitamin is beneficial to our health, right? Well, if not, we’ll save that for another day. Here’s another story in the expanding knowledge base regarding the health benefits of multivitamins. This interesting study published in the New England Journal of Medicine details an experiment where the researchers reported multivitamin supplementation in Tanzanian [...]

Dr. Hackman presents Nutrition tips
As a follow-up to Dr. Hackman’s article on women’s health during menopause,  today we are happy to bring you nutrition tips for younger women. Nutrition and lifestyle tips for premenopausal women No matter how great nutritional supplements are, nothing replaces the need for wise and consistent lifestyle choices that promote wellness. Young women between the ages of [...]