Is Your Immune System Ready For Winter?

Is Your Immune System Ready For Winter?

Why do people get sick in winter? Have you ever thought about that? Have you ever opened the fridge and noticed we refrigerate food because pathogens generally steer clear of the cold? They prefer warmer temperatures like most of us. So then, why do we get sick in...
Five Ways To Healthier Holidays This Year

Five Ways To Healthier Holidays This Year

Dear friends, We used to dread the holidays anticipating the impact of the silly season deluge of overindulgence on our health and waistline. Although global trends indicate that this is changing, not all of us are on board yet. There are three categories of people:...
Could Antibiotics Be Making You Fat?

Could Antibiotics Be Making You Fat?

Have you ever wondered how gut microbes affect not only your health but also your weight? From as far back as the 1940s, farmers began to notice that low doses of antibiotics helped to fatten livestock. In humans, it has been noted that regular courses of antibiotics...