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A field guide for brain health

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Do you ever feel like your brain is fluttering around like a lost helium balloon on a breezy day? Words slipping away before you can yank them from the far corners of your mind? If you ask people over sixty what they fear most about aging, dementia and Alzheimer’s are at the top of the […]

Why is it often our impulse to think that food grown in some exotic, far-off place is more super-duper than food grown in a modest garden out in our own backyard? Think about it. Himalayan sea salt. Amazon rainforest acai berries. Borojo pulp (AKA: jugo de amor) from the jungles of Panama. Noni, goji, mangosteen. […]

According to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (a service of the National Institutes of Health), 25.8 million Americans of all ages have diabetes and 79 million Americans aged 20 and over have pre-diabetes. Fifty percent of people aged 65 or older have pre-diabetes. That’s a lot of people with a lot of associated complications. These […]