Limit Caffeine, Limit Migraines

Headaches are no big deal, right? Not if you’ve ever suffered one. All it takes is one headache, particularly a migraine, to change your tune. After that, you’ll do just about anything to avoid experiencing a second one. But is a common daily behavior actually doing the damage? It’s called caffeine, and millions upon millions […]

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BMI: Better Than Genetics for Predicting Diabetes Risk

Body-mass index (BMI) certainly has its critics, particularly because it doesn’t always provide an accurate measure of overall health or fitness. For example, two adult males can each have the same BMI of 26 (considered overweight), even though one clearly is overweight, while the other is loaded with muscle. That said, BMI has a role […]

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Two Minutes of Exercise = Two Hours of Brain Health?

As few as two minutes – is that all it takes to optimize your brain for up to two hours? If what you’re doing is aerobic exercise, then the answer appears to be a resounding yes, according to a new research review. In evaluating 13 studies that investigated the influence of aerobic exercise on memory […]

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Why Chiropractic Is Your Best Option for Pain

Pain is a major problem, but so is medication used to help relieve the pain. If you haven’t realized by now that chiropractic care, not drugs, is your best option for pain, perhaps you’ll be swayed by some recent research. Let’s take a quick look at two studies in particular. Follow along and see how […]

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Don’t Sabotage Your Aerobic Fitness

All that aerobic exercise you used to be doing at the gym – and hopefully have been doing outdoors or at home, since COVID-19 restrictions took effect – may not be yielding the benefit it should if your diet is still in the dumps. In fact, a diet that features too many refined carbohydrates, sugars, […]

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