Statins – those ubiquitous drugs used to lower cholesterol levels – are big business! Over 20 million Americans are currently being treated with statin drugs at a cost that runs into billions of dollars every year. Some of my cardiologist friends are so convinced that statin drugs prevent death from heart attacks that they have [...]
If you have been looking for natural approaches for lowering your cholesterol, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about plant stanols and sterols lately. Just what are plant stanols and sterols and why does the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommend them as a natural approach for lowering cholesterol? Stanols and sterols are natural substances [...]
Choosing a good multivitamin isn’t easy. Everyone claims that theirs is the best. Many of them have exotic juices and exotic claims to go along with them. And nobody is minding the store. The food supplement industry is essentially unregulated. Unless the product kills people the FDA can’t take it off the market. So what [...]
The problem is that whenever we lose weight we generally
lose muscle mass as well as fat. To be precise, you
lose about 5 pounds of muscle for every 12 pounds of
weight loss.
And if maybe the question should be: What vitamins should I be spending my money on?
Health is a Choice. We make choices for either health or for disease every single day. By taking ownership of your own health then you have the power to improve it.
My goal is to provide relative information to help you take control of your health. I hope to achieve this through sharing recent research and my own personal experiences while on my own quest for health, a journey that has taken over 34 years. Please come along as we continue this journey together.
To Your Health, Caroline
