As more and more Americans shun the sun for shady beach umbrellas, super-SPF sunscreen, and air-conditioned offices, so do have the rates of Vitamin D deficiency climbed.
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Good Mood Foods
Here are some of the key foods that can help lift your mood and add the zest back into your life.
6 Ways to Stay Healthy This Winter
Want to stay well this winter? Here are six of my favorite ways to shore up your immunity.
The Problem With NSAIDs — Yes, We Mean Advil
The dangers of popping NSAIDs — and what to eat instead.
10 Ways to Stay Young, Slim and Happy This Summer
As you continue to enjoy the warm summer days, we want to make sure you are supporting your healthiest and happiest self! Pulling from Dr. Lipman’s most recent book, 10 Reasons You Feel Old and Get Fat…and How You Can Stay Young, Slim and Happy, we created 10 tips you can use to be well all summer long!
Be Well Team’s Favorite Supplements
Supplements enhance and support the benefits of a healthy diet. While we all have our go-to supplement regimens, we interviewed the Be Well Health Coaches to find out their favorite Be Well supplements.
6 Smart and Simple Points on Vitamin D
Vitamin D. It’s the cornerstone of good health, so it’s mind-boggling to me how often vitamin D levels are overlooked or given short shrift by primary-care physicians. Numerous studies have shown a link between vitamin D deficiency and devastating health problems, many of which might well be avoided if we paid more attention to filling the D-gap. If your doc gives you the brush-off when you ask him or her to measure your vitamin D level, then you need to take charge. Educate yourself, get tested (or test yourself), and then work with your doc to develop a plan to get your D up to an optimal level. Your continued health may depend on it!
6 Tips for Your Healthiest Summer Skin Ever
Keeping skin healthy and youthful looking is the desire that’s launched thousands of skin and so-called beauty products. But if you really want skin to glow this summer and beyond, skip the chemical-laden, endocrine-disrupting lotions and potions and instead focus on putting nature’s bounty to work for you.
Eating fresh, wholesome foods will not only help you get the radiant skin you’re after this summer, but also provide many other health benefits—you’d be crazy not to indulge! All those nutrient-rich foods will help enhance your skin’s appearance, boost its wrinkle-fighting ability, and protect against skin cancer. Summer is coming—here’s how to get your skin ready for it now:
15 Fast Fixes To Fight Inflammation
Inflammation – it’s the starting point for so many life-altering conditions and diseases. It’s also avoidable, yet every day millions of Americans prime themselves for health disasters – like cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and many auto-immune diseases– by making choices that unwittingly promote chronic inflammation.
10 Ways To Beat The Winter Blues
There are those who embrace winter and those who have to brace themselves for it. Not only does the profusion of cold and snow tend to drag spirits down, but the lack of daylight really does a number on mood, often sending it to a dark place. Be it a slight case of the blues or full-on SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), the symptoms tend to leave people feeling fairly lousy, with some combination of exhaustion (despite oversleeping), carb cravings, feeling withdrawn, moody or blue.