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If you’ve been feeling sluggish, spring weather and its accompanying activities can really highlight that fact. Energy levels can be affected by many things, so here’s a few tricks on how to get them higher, including which vitamins to take for energy: 1) Make sure you’re getting enough quality sleep. Whether you don’t have the [...]

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Previous studies have found that turmeric, a spice used in curries and other South Asian cuisines, may have many benefits. So much are turmeric’s benefits that they’re getting incorporated into modern medical treatment: a new medical trial is going to pair curcumin pills with mainstream treatments in an effort to improve outcomes for patients with [...]

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Inflammation is gaining an increasing amount of awareness. People are realizing that certain diets contributes to it, that certain foods fight it, and that it may be responsible for many diseases, including cancer. Analyzing a number of studies that were looking at heart disease, researchers noticed a trend. People taking a daily regimen of aspirin [...]

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In the past twenty years, the rate of gout has doubled—mostly due to a change in diet and exercise habits in the American population. If you remember your history, you may also remember that gout symptoms are traditionally thought of as affecting king’s and rich men, and that Benjamin Franklin, who suffered from gout symptoms, [...]

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Should Sugar Be Banned?

February 15, 2012

That’s the argument of Dr. Lustig, a bit of a sugar eccentric who pops up on the internet every few years with attention grabbing flare. His latest opinion piece, printed in Nature, suggests that sugar is so toxic it should be regulated outright. He’s not entirely wrong—Americans in particular consume far too much sugar, causing [...]

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