By Steve Hefferon, CMT, PTA Here at the Healthy Back Institute we discourage people from going straight into heel lifts. Sufferers need to understand why wearing lifts might end…
More than half of Americans (54 percent) have serious belly pooch, which officially is known as abdominal obesity (a waistline of more than 35 inches in women and 40 inches in…
Your body requires millions of biochemical reactions to keep you alive day-in and day-out. These reactions wouldn’t be possible without enzymes, which can perform up to several…
Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day, but one survey found only 34 percent of U.S. adults take the time to eat a morning meal. Whether or not eating…
Up to 84 percent of Americans will suffer from low back pain at some point during their lives. Sometimes there’s an obvious precursor to the pain, like a car accident or arthritis…
Pain is a highly individual complex experience involving biochemical and neurological reactions. Your experience of pain from, say, stubbing your toe will be entirely different…
Have you heard? Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, announced last summer that she was eating a raw-food diet at least one day a week. Her motivation? To achieve radiant…
You know that heavy, foggy feeling you get in your head after a night of too little sleep? It’s not a coincidence – your brain really is ‘hurting.’ Even one bad night’s sleep can…
In the US, the most popular fruits (in order) are bananas , apples, oranges, grapes and strawberries. These certainly have merit – for taste and nutrition – but there’s a whole…
Accidents, or unintentional injuries, are the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. Traffic accidents account for a significant number of these, but a surprisingly…
