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20 Fabulous Skin Care Secrets for Women

Are the summer heat, long hours and daily stress in the workplace taking a toll on your skin? Women often struggle with looking their best in the face of a busy work environment that does little to support healthy, glowing skin. You have to take extra steps to pamper yourself if you want to look fabulous! Here are 20 easy tips that you can use throughout the day to maintain beautiful skin. Reevaluate Your Hand Hygiene Hand washing and glove use are the cornerstones of infection prevention in healthcare, some other job settings and even when cleaning at home. Lots […]

Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?

Author Jonathon Goldstein once said, “Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it’s 5 o’clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.” Maybe for many of us breakfast represents that “new day dawning” attitude, but is there really something more to it — physiologically speaking? There’s no doubt that one of the most popular statements ever made in nutrition and medicine is that breakfast is the most important meal of […]

New Water Study Results From Murad Research Labs Busts “Eight Glasses a Day” Myth

Initial results from a scientific study on water consumption and cellular dehydration conducted at the Murad Research Labs in El Segundo, California, have uncovered surprising results, dramatically challenging and debunking the ages-old notion that everyone should drink “eight glasses of water per day.” In an ongoing effort to gather and analyze data pertaining to healthy living, researchers at the Murad Research Labs, directed by Howard Murad, M.D., FAAD, measured the intracellular water levels of 104 women, revealing that those who regularly drink 7-8 cups of water per day actually have a lower average intracellular water level than those subjects who […]

Book Signing This Sunday!

Grace O presents and signs Foodtrients  This Sunday, Grace O will be visiting Vromans Book Store for a book signing and discussion of her wonderful book, FoodTrients.  With 66 beautifully illustrated recipes, chef, restaurateur, and senior living executive Grace O brings healthful aging out of the science lab and into the kitchen. Combining delicious foods with the latest research in rejuvenating nutrients, Grace O’s age-defying strategy enhances your well-being and helps keep you young, inside and out. For more information, please check out the Vroman Book Store Website. Start: 07/29/2012 4pm. Location: 695 E. Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA 91101 Also don’t […]

Grace O on Culinary Confessions Radio Show

Recently, Grace O made an appearance on the Culinary Confessions Radio Show hosted by Kim and Don on 1440 KAZG (KimandDon.com) to talk about her cookbook, FOODTRIENTS: Age-Defying Recipes for a Sustainable Life. Don loved that baked lobster tails are good for the brain. Lobster has omega-3 fatty acids which the brain needs to function properly. Grace talked about how her dad got her thinking about healthy eating after her mother died. She began to seriously take his advice once she turned 40, she revealed. He was truly the inspiration for her whole FoodTrients program and cookbook. Kim was intrigued […]

Rheumatoid Arthritis Now Thought Triggered by Obesity

Several of my patients have rheumatoid arthritis.  Most of them also have a little extra poundage than I would like them to have.  Many of them feel that it’s been their aching joints that have kept them from exercising more and so they have gained weight.  However, looking back at their records, in many cases their overweight preceded the onset of their RA by a few years.  It had always been my suspicion that, like other diseases, their obesity had somehow contributed to the development of their condition.  Now, researchers at the Mayo Clinic have backed up my suspicions.  I’d […]

Reduced Vitamin D Levels Associated with Weight Gain in Women

An article published online ahead of print on June 25, 2012 in the Journal of Women’s Health reports the finding of researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon of increased weight gain in women with vitamin D insufficiency. The study included 4,659 women aged 65 and older enrolled in the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures, a prospective, multicenter study. Serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels were assessed upon enrollment and in a subset of participants at follow-up. Seventy-eight percent of the subjects were found to have insufficient levels of the vitamin at 30 nanograms per milliliter or lower. Over the 4.5 […]

Cataract Surgery Could Be Unnecessary With Carnosine

Many of my patients are 60 plus, which is the age when cataracts may start to form in one or both eyes.  The news from your eye doctor of having a cataract can be very anxiety producing as it always carries with it the dread of “surgery-down-the road”.  However, surgery doesn’t have to be the answer.  There is a completely natural treatment for cataracts that has been around for a few decades that your eye doctor may not have told you about. This treatment has garnered more attention lately with new research findings about its proven success rate in animal […]