Developed in the first half of the twentieth century by Joseph Pilates, many of his initial students were dancers who believed wholeheartedly in the discipline of structured and specifically designed exercise routines. These students went on to open their own studios...
Packed into a relatively small space is a myriad of complex and coordinated muscles, tendons, ligaments, tissue, fluids, blood vessels, nerve fibers, and glands that bring us immediate information about the world around us; our eyes. How our eyes work and what allows...
Anemia has a very simple definition but can cause a complicated collection of signs and symptoms. It all starts with your red blood cells (RBC) which are responsible for delivering oxygen from the lungs to every cell, tissue and organ in your body. A decrease in the...
"Bless you" season is almost upon us again. Some allergies can be seasonal and some allergies can be year-round. Your health care professional will diagnose your symptoms to be an allergy when it becomes obvious that your body is overreacting to things that don't...
Not all oils are created equal. That's the best piece of advice you can take with you when shopping for healthy oils/fats to incorporate into your diet. But hold on a minute...why would anyone want to incorporate more fats into their diet? Well, we know that the food...
There are many reasons to hold your breath; a frightful situation, a moment of anticipation, but few cause you to stop breathing without knowing it. This is what people who live with sleep apnea deal with every night. While asleep, pauses in breathing can last from a...
What can be said about weight loss that hasn’t already been said or written? It’s hard to count the number of books that have been published on the subject but I bet you can list the top five as quickly as recalling your kids’ names. How many television specials and...
Sometimes getting through a normal day’s work when you’re healthy can be taxing. Struggling through the day when you’re unwell is harder still. Now imagine just trying to get through a few hours without feeling confused, exhausted or in pain. This is only the...
Your thyroid gland is part of the endocrine system in your body. The endocrine system is in charge of body processes that happen slowly, such as cell growth. Faster processes like breathing and body movement are controlled by the nervous system. But even though the...
Yogurt is an ancient food, thought to have been consumed as far back as 2000 BC. But because of all the variations on the theme that we have today, the ancients wouldn't recognize yogurt as the yogurt they once knew. Once upon a time yogurt was simply a starter...
April generally signals the end of the cold and flu season but that doesn't mean there aren't germs still lurking in our environment that can make us sick. Everything we touch outside our homes has germs on its surface; shopping carts, door handles, computer...
More people think of chromium as something that makes their car bumper shine than an essential trace mineral needed by your body every day. But wait a minute…how can chromium be both an essential and a trace mineral at the same time? Simply put, it's a mineral we...