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Seven Steps To Staying Healthy Through The Holidays

Although the Holiday season is a great opportunity to enjoy time with family and friends—the days can be stressful. Here are seven easy ways to help you relax and stay healthy so you can enjoy the season to the fullest.

Exercise, for 20 minutes every day. Take a brisk walk or even get on the treadmill. It [...]

Two Easy Steps to Start Controlling Weight and Improving Your Health

Millions of words have been written and thousands of products and plans are offered for weight control and weight loss. The holiday season, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years offer challenges to maintaining our weight. Good food, wonderfully tempting snacks, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic calorie rich beverages are everywhere. Although you can’t avoid all those calories everyday, [...]

Why Cleansing Is Necessary For Weight Loss

Toxins are possibly the greatest problem, when you are trying to loose weight.

We are surrounded by toxic substances that we breathe in, absorb through our skin, and ingest daily. These toxins are in our cleaning and household products; pesticides and herbicides on our lawns and gardens; steroids, growth hormones and antibiotics in our dairy products, chicken, [...]

How to Beat the Diabetes Epidemic

Reposted from Isagenix Nutritional Sciences, December 2, 2009 

Three Steps to Beating the Diabetes Epidemic

Step 1: Getting Diagnosed

Beating diabetes starts with a short visit to the doctor’s office. Regrettably, many fail in achieving this step. An approximate 30 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are undiagnosed, according to the most recent data from National Health and [...]

Are You Destined to Have Diabetes?

Reposted from Isagenix Nutritional Sciences, December 2, 2009

Unless more people lose weight, diabetes cases will double in 24 years.

Before today’s kindergartners reach their college years, the number of people with diabetes is expected to at least double and the cost of diabetes care to at least triple in the U.S.—that is if we are to believe [...]

Diet Advice for People with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes

Repost from Isagenix Nutritional Sciences, July 24, 2009

Monitor Your Glucose Levels Closely When You Are Dieting

If you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, then there are a few things of which you should be aware if deciding to use the Cleansing and Fat Burning System. 

Type 1 diabetes

It’s common to have lower levels of glucose while on the products. Be careful with your use of insulin. I [...]

Why You Need Protein to Lose Weight

The concept that you could lose weight by cutting out carbohydrates and eating protein was once rejected by the medical community, because such diets seemed to be based on little more than speculation. On the other hand,  head-to-head trials that pitted high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets against low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets have provided some recent evidence that a low-carbohydrate [...]

Does Turkey Make You Sleepy?

Repost of blog by Dr. David Macallan, Clinical Director of The Trump Network

Does Turkey Really Make You Sleepy?

You’ve heard it said a dozen times – it’s all the tryptophan in the turkey that makes people feel sleepy on Thanksgiving afternoon.  Well, it was a good theory, but I think it’s time to send it gobbling off [...]

When the Munchies Attack Fight Back

 Adapted from a Blog Posted By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences, October 30, 2009

It’s a frightening time of year for your waistline. Junk food seems to lurk behind every door and at every party.  Here are a few holiday tricks to stop cravings from creeping up on you.

Tip 1: Eat high protein and keep away haunting hunger.

The reason: [...]

Food Toxins: FDA Calls for Reduction of Acrylamide in Foods

Repost from Isagenix Nutritional Sciences. September 18, 2009

Government bodies, Health Canada and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are both taking steps on reducing amounts of acrylamide in food. A Canadian ruling added the carcinogen to the nation’s list of toxic substances and FDA has suggested it will soon issue guidance to the food industry. FDA [...]