Study suggests these nutrients can improve lean body mass in older adults

The progressive loss of muscle mass with advancing age is a major health issue facing older adults worldwide. With this in mind, researchers from the University of Alabama (UA) looked at whether amino acid supplementation can help ameliorate this muscle loss. Even among healthy adults, skeletal muscle mass decreases by as much as two percent each year after … Continue reading Study suggests these nutrients can improve lean body mass in older adults

Making your own hemp milk is easy and the health benefits beat store-bought cow’s milk

Growing up, children are bombarded by dairy advertisements and the constant message that cow’s milk will make them grow “big and strong.” Subsidized and popularized, cow’s milk is affordable and convenient, served up in cartons with every school lunch and splashed in cereal bowls morning after morning. What if, after all these years of dairy … Continue reading Making your own hemp milk is easy and the health benefits beat store-bought cow’s milk

Ever notice how you’re still hungry after eating fast food? Here’s why: Your brain detects the nutrients (or lack thereof) in food as you eat it, ground-breaking new study finds

There’s no denying the appeal of fast food. Who hasn’t felt the pull of a juicy burger at the end of a long and exhausting work day? And yet, eating that burger often leaves us feeling bloated, heavy and strangely unsatisfied. A groundbreaking new study by researchers from the University of Warwick in the United … Continue reading Ever notice how you’re still hungry after eating fast food? Here’s why: Your brain detects the nutrients (or lack thereof) in food as you eat it, ground-breaking new study finds