A recent study in the Journal Obesity finds that taking kids out of schools and locking them in their homes had a significant impact on their health. Kids gained weight and adopted/increased numerous bad habits. Here’s what the researchers reported… “Compared to behaviors recorded a year prior, the children ate an additional meal per day; […]
The 2020 Game Plan For The New Year!
2019, Is Behind Us… We Now Enter A New Year and A New Decade. 2019… it may have been good, bad, or somewhere in between for you but regardless, it’s over and it’s time to focus on 2020 (optometrist humor!) During January, most of us are thinking about what we would like to accomplish this […]
How To Improve Your Health and Wellness.
Do You Want Better Than Average Health As You Age? Mark Sisson’s headline could be… How to lose muscle mass, skeletal & mental health in 5 easy steps as we age. Mark is a best selling author of ‘Primal‘ Lifestyle books revolving around healthy lifestyle including diet and exercise. He makes a direct but good […]
Optimal Diet For Kid’s Health, Mental, and Physical Performance
There’s this current push to eat a heavily plant based or vegan diet and to give up eating any animal derived foods. The underlying theme is that vegan diets are healthier than diets that include animals. There is a good reason to question this idea. Certain key nutrients are missing if we don’t eat any […]
Pre-Diabetics Quickly Become Diabetics
How fast can pre-diabetics become diabetics? It can happen very quickly as shown in a recent study. Just 2 weeks of low activity pushed pre-diabetics into full blown diabetics and they did not return to pre-diabetic status after returning to normal activities for 2 weeks. Both prediabetes and diabetes are serious health problems. They are […]