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Pills, tablets and powders line our supermarket shelves calling to us "we will heal your ills".  They are a billion dollar industry designed not only to supplement our diets but, we hope, to make us younger and healthier.  Prescription medications are prescribed to address the ailments more often than not a result from poor diet and lifestyle.  Yet, there are several foods that regularly outperform these pills, powders and prescriptions when it comes to the health of our: joints digestive system Immune system skin (from eczema to common age-related skin elasticity) mood The first rule of what we call a complete food...

(Photo: Best of the Bone broth salad dressing)  One of the questions we're often asked is how is it that bone broth helps you lose weight and how is it that we're often referring to the 'healthy fats' in bone broth that actually help your body burn your fat, including that hard to lose belly fat? As with many questions the answers are a composite of the food and not simply one magic ingredient.  But one of those several magic ingredients is conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).  Foods from grass-fed cattle including meat, dairy products and bone broth measure consistently much higher...

The good news about aging muscles. You can rebuild them, even if you are middle-aged or older.  Both exercise and diet can play a significant role. “Our lab and others have shown repeatedly” that older muscles will grow and strengthen, says Marcas Bamman, the director of the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In his studies, men and women in their 60s and 70s who began supervised weight training developed muscles that were as large and strong as those of your average 40-year-old. But the process of adding muscle works differently in older people than...

Over the past couple of years we've seen an explosion of interest in gut-healthy diets and  overall gut health, including good gut bacteria and microbe diversity.  In large part, this is due to a rash of new research on our gut bacteria and the direct links established from this research between gut health and your overall health.  In fact, high gut 'biome' diversity is associated with a low risk of obesity and many diseases.   In short, there is a strongly established link that the more diverse the community of microbes in your gut the lower your risk of disease.   Our gut biome is comprised...

With age, people tend to lose bone mass, and postmenopausal women in particular are at a higher risk of osteoporosis and bone fracture. Women over 30 begin losing bone density.  However, there are things we can do to prevent this. A new study suggests that a diet rich in anti-inflammatory nutrients may reduce bone loss in some women.  A new study suggests that an anti-inflammatory diet - which tends to be rich in healthy fats, select proteins (such as collagen) plants, and whole grains - benefits bone density among postmenopausal women.  It was noted that there are certain foods that...