The brain is an exceedingly complex structure, a vital component of the central nervous system that is essential for life. It is well known that nutrition, especially early nutrition, plays a key role in the development and function of the brain. This being so, it would be expected that appropriate nutritional supplementation, one of the [...]
It is generally accepted that health doesn’t just miraculously appear. Rather, it is the end result of a process that begins at the cellular level in the body and cascades through tissues and organs to ultimately be identified at the clinical level. To be clinically healthy, it is essential that the process start with healthy [...]
A recent publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 30% of U.S. adults do not exercise beyond that which is necessary to do their jobs. In some regions, that figure was as high as 47%. This was the third in a series of in-depth studies. The first two looked [...]
It is generally accepted that diet plays an important role in achieving optimal health and wellness. It is one of the three Pillars of Health proposed by the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) in 2010, the other two being nutritional supplementation and exercise.¹ The fact is, the vast majority of people in the developed world [...]
In a departure from statements made in the past, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) now agrees that nutritional supplements can boost athletic performance. In the IOC Consensus Statement on Sports Nutrition 2010 issued from its head office in Lausanne, Switzerland, on October 27, 2010, the organization concedes that some supplements may enhance performance for some [...]
Until a few years ago, body fat was regarded as a collection of cells that stored energy. If you ingested more energy than you used up, the fat cells grew bigger and heavier, with the opposite being the case if energy output exceeded energy intake. There has been a flurry of studies recently that have [...]
Much has been written about the connection between being overweight and burning fewer calories than are consumed. This connection can be viewed as part of a very simple process: take in more calories than you burn off, and they will be stored as fat. It is the imbalance in this simple energy equation that has [...]
Recent comments by T. Colin Campbell, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, have questioned the validity of isolating individual nutrients from food and conducting randomized clinical trials with them. He states that conducting such trials is a seriously flawed hypothesis and that more effort must be expended in order to understand the breadth and depth of health [...]
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