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Make time for friends—real life ones, not the re-runs of the television show! More and more, science is proving what we woman have known forever: close friendships can help you live longer, better and wiser. In fact, some recent research suggests that building and maintaining social networks can add 30 years to your life. So … Read more
Feeling sluggish? Can’t think straight? You’re in good company. More than 50% of American women ages 18 to 49 complain of tiredness and a lack of energy, according to a recent survey. Stress saps your energy, and who isn’t feeling stress these days? The good news: these natural remedies can help you get your physical … Read more
We’ve all had those “moments.” You know the ones I mean: When you walk into a room to get something and can’t remember why you are there or when you’ve lost your car in the parking lot at the mall or you’ve forgotten your best friend’s name when you’re getting ready to introduce him at … Read more
We all want lifelong brain health. There is simple memory decline that my friends and I like to call “senior moments;” then there is a condition called age-related cognitive decline and finally the serious and ultimately fatal impairments like Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Knowing that Alzheimer’s runs in the female line of my … Read more
In my most recent post, I gave you information about the destructive nature of statin drugs. I’ll tell you here that most doctors want their patients to lower cholesterol levels to dangerously low levels. Since cholesterol is in large part a brain food, cholesterol levels that are too low can also affect brain function and … Read more
If you‘ve been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes or you’ve had a heart attack or, heck, if you’re breathing, you have probably heard at some point a doctor’s advice that you take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. In fact, there was even a movement a couple of years back to put statin drugs on the shelves. No … Read more
You’ve no doubt heard how “evil” salt is. How it raises your blood pressure and over-consumption is the root of many health problems, right? How about if I told you the problem is not in eating salt, but in the kind of salt you’re eating? How about if I told you that most of us … Read more
This has been a somewhat difficult gardening year. Thanks to a neighbor who likes to kill everything in sight, there are no coyotes or snakes to control the squirrel and rabbit population, so we lost all of our tomatoes and most of everything else. Sigh. The good news is that we have a bumper crop … Read more
Note from Kathleen: This is an excerpt from a book I recently published, Curcumin: Nature’s Answer to Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases by Ajay Goel, Ph.D., a cancer researcher at Baylor University. We must all recognize that cancer cells are the geniuses of the biochemical world. They’re undoubtedly smarter than your average brain, bone or … Read more
The growing concern over environmental degradation has reached a tipping point. Every day, we witness the alarming effects of our consumption habits on the planet—from overflowing landfills to oceans choked with plastic waste. The environmental cost of our throwaway culture is not just a distant problem but a pressing issue that affects our health, wildlife, … Read more