At Christmastime, I always enjoy listening to Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. It’s a beautiful piece of music that’s easy to keep in the background during the busy holidays. We also have a [...]
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This holiday favorite protects against Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease
Nuts often make their way into family recipes around the holidays. Perhaps at your Thanksgiving feast last week, you sprinkled some chopped pecans on top of your sweet potato casserole…or added [...]
This tasty snack lowers risk of Type II diabetes, heart disease, and early death
Getting a diagnosis of pre-diabetes isn’t a life sentence. In fact, as I told you earlier this week, a new study found that most people diagnosed with “pre-diabetes” never go on to develop [...]
Halt aging in its tracks by cutting these foods from your diet
Chronic inflammation is the No. 1 cause of disease and aging. In fact, research links it to virtually every major disease of our time, including Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, cancer, heart [...]
Nuts and honey for your heart
I remember a cleverly packaged and promoted boxed cereal with nuts and honey. They made it sound quite appealing. But it was just another processed product containing carbs and sugar masquerading [...]
Just a handful a day can do wonders
A huge, new review of scientific literature confirms what we already knew about eating nuts — they benefit your heart. But two years ago, California nut growers got into a heap of trouble [...]