Health Wellness

Holistic Efforts are Making a Dent in Childhood Obesity

When it comes to childhood obesity, it might just take a village. Or that’s the implication of a two-year, community-wide intervention in two low-income Massachusetts towns, Fitchburg and New Bedford, which took place between 2012 and 2014. The effort focused on messages about: reducing screen time and soda consumption, replacing nutrient-poor foods with fruits and vegetables, increasing

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‘Bad Germs’ Make Us Healthy

There are dozens of supplements that have profound anti-aging effects. Yet cod liver oil is all my grandma had and she lived to be 91. How did she do it? Today we know the human immune system is critical to longevity. Longevity (aging with health) is directly related to quality of life. American conventional medicine