59The Skinny on Weight Management
The Skinny on Weight Management
Practitioners can help advise their patients about effective ways to lose and manage their weight. For many people, losing and keeping their weight at a healthy level is one of life’s most daunting challenges. Despite a healthy lifestyle movement sweeping the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 70 percent of ...
Best Defense: Tackling Inflammation
Inflammation is at the root of many conditions. Here’s how to spot it and what to do. It’s only recently that medical science has found that inflammation is a cause and risk factor of numerous illnesses. And the research to reveal more roles of chronic and systemic inflammation is fast and furious. The good news ...
New TRU NIAGEN PRO Launched for Expansive Distribution by Health Care Practitioners
ChromaDex Corp. (Irvine, CA), an integrated, science-based, nutraceutical company devoted to improving the way people age with its flagship ingredient NIAGEN and consumer product TRU NIAGEN, has announced the launch of TRU NIAGEN, a partnership with Natural Partners Fullscript, and a new online NAD education hub for health care practitioners. Tru Niagen Pro, which will be ...
Fish-rich Diets in Pregnancy May Boost Babies’ Brain Development
Women could enhance the development of their unborn child’s eyesight and brain function by regularly eating fatty fish during pregnancy. This is the suggestion from a small-scale study led by Kirsi Laitinen of the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital in Finland, in the journal Pediatric Research. The research supports previous findings that show how ...
First Gut Bacteria May Have Lasting Effect on Ability to Fight Chronic Diseases
New research showing that the first bacteria introduced into the gut have a lasting impact may one day allow science to adjust microbiomes—the one-of-a-kind microbial communities that live in our gastrointestinal (GI) tracts—to help ward off serious chronic diseases. Findings by the University of Alberta (U of A) microbial ecologist Jens Walter and his colleagues ...
NUNM President David Schleich Announces Plans to Retire
National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) President David J. Schleich, PhD, has announced his plans to retire July 1, 2019. During his tenure, NUNM has undergone a period of growth and transformational change, becoming one of the nation’s foremost leaders in integrative natural medicine education, clinical care and research. The NUNM Board of Directors announced ...
How Weight Loss is Linked to Future Health for Older Adults
Studies describing the effects of weight loss on health rarely consider age. However, weight loss during middle age likely has different effects on your health than does weight loss when you’re 65-years-old or older—especially when you’re older than 85. Although some studies have found that weight loss in older adults is generally linked to an ...
Healthy Diet Linked to Healthy Cellular Aging in Women
Eating a diet that is rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains and low in added sugar, sodium and processed meats could help promote healthy cellular aging in women, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. “The key takeaway is that following a healthy diet can help us maintain healthy cells ...
A4M and MMI Announce Official Launch of Blackboard, Inc.
The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) and Metabolic Medical Institute (MMI) have announced the official launch of Blackboard, Inc. An educational technology company known for Blackboard Learn, its learning management system, Blackboard’s products and services are used by 75 percent of colleges and universities in the United States. According to Times Higher Education Reputation ...
Consuming Milk at Breakfast Lowers Blood Glucose Throughout the Day
A change in breakfast routine may provide benefits for the management of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in the Journal of Dairy Science. H. Douglas Goff, PhD, and the team of scientists from the Human Nutraceutical Research Unit at the University of Guelph (Canada) in collaboration with the University of Toronto, examined ...
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