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What Are Prebiotics?
The gut microbiome contains both helpful and potentially harmful bacteria, and when the healthy bacteria outnumber the potentially harmful bacteria, we have a healthier immune system and decreased risk of several chronic diseases...
Protect Your Microbiome
The key to good health is in your gut!
Improve Immunity with Food, Not Probiotic Supplements
High-fiber foods may be more powerful for immune function than probiotic supplements...
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Immunity
The impact of omega-3s on the immune system has been investigated for decades and highlights a relationship between omega-3s, stress, our immune systems, and health...
What is Zinc? What is Zinc's Role in the Immune System?
What is Vitamin A and What Does It Do?
The Health Impact of Vitamin D
Protein and Immunity
COVID-19 Nutrition 101: Staying Healthy in the Coronavirus Era
Aging, a High-Fat Eating Pattern, and Your Immune System
You have likely heard the connection between a high-fat diet, aging, and risk for diabetes and other chronic problems. But did you know that these factors may also impact your immune system?
Focusing on Dressing: Are We Missing the Point?
Any time we switch from pale "greens" like iceberg lettuce to darker-colored leafy greens like kale, spinach and Romaine, we gain important phytochemicals and antioxidants that are present in larger quantities in darker-colored vegetables...
What You Need to Know About Sugar
There is a difference between natural and refined sugar. Reducing your consumption of added sugar can be done by making small changes; choosing unsweetened beverages like water and teas in place of sweetened beverages, and reading food labels in order to determine the amount of added sugars in your foods is a good start.
Kids and the Benefits of Physical Activity
The CDC, AHA, and the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans all recommend that "Children and adolescents should do 60 minutes or more of physical activity each day." Most of that activity should be aerobic exercise, with some muscle-strengthening and bone-strengthening work thrown in too. But why be active every day? What are the benefits?
2 More Flu Prevention Tips
Here are two more tips to help your clients prevent the flu!
Scientific Facts About Sleep
Lack of sleep is linked to motor vehicle crashes, industrial disasters, and medical errors, among many other serious consequences. But why is sleep important? And what is its impact on health?
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