Nutrition plays an essential role in maintaining the health of seniors. Inadequate nutrition results from poor quality food choices and/or inadequate calories, both which can contribute to low energy, muscle loss, malnutrition, and obesity.
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New Year, New Recipe
You love to cook but have no time? Or, do you want to cook but don’t know where to begin? Try The Zen of Slow Cooking spice blends that make meal time easy. Your meals will be delicious and healthy with minimal effort.
Beware of Misleading Food Labels
Do the health claims on the packages of grocery store food influence which product you’ll buy? If so, you’re not alone. Studies on consumer buying habits show that people are more likely to purchase those products with health claims even though the claims can be very misleading.
Time for a Gut Check
We all experience symptoms of digestive distress from time to time, but many of us who have chronic symptoms write them off as “that’s just who I am.
Asparagus to Celebrate Spring
April is an ideal time to also do some spring cleaning in our bodies. The change of seasons brings more daylight and lighter foods to replace the richer, heavier foods of winter.
Enhance Nutrition Featured In Natural Awakenings Magazine
Natural Awakenings Chicago, a magazine about healthy and sustainable living (mind, body and spirit), featured Marcy as a nutrition expert in its March issue.
H-2-Oh, It’s So Important!
Humans can go without food for multiple weeks, but even one day without water can negatively impact health. Water helps nourish cells and tissues by transporting nutrients throughout the body; so just imagine how dehydration negatively affects the essential functions of the body.
Chocolate Covered Health Benefits
That heart shaped box of chocolates really can provide you with some heart health benefits – if that chocolate contains cacao beans. These beans, which are actually the seeds within the cacao pod are a powerhouse of nutrients.
Mmm Mmm Good . . . for You!
This bitter cold weather has me yearning for warm foods like homemade soup. My favorite, incredibly easy to make soup base is bone broth, which has an added benefit of being a healing food. So, what is bone broth, and why is it beneficial?
PDRS Newsletter – 2014
Poop is a frequent topic in my practice since a person’s bowels tell so much about the workings of one’s body. One of the many challenges that those living with Parkinson’s disease face is constipation, […]