Are The Claims Too Good To Be True? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney Did another phony nutritional supplement, the jellyfish memory supplement, just bite the dust? You’ve seen the TV ads reminding us that our memory starts to fade as we age. You’ve heard the claims about a protein derived from a jellyfish improving your memory. You’ve seen ...
200th Issue Celebration: Highlights From the Past Two Years on Health, Nutrition, and Fitness Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney For four years I have been providing you with the latest health articles on various health, nutrition, and fitness topics by publishing “Health Tips From The Professor.” I have tried to go behind the headlines to provide you with ...
Surgery Is Not the Only Option Author: Julie Donnelly, LMT –The Pain Relief Expert Editor: Dr. Steve Chaney I was at my sailing club and a man was sitting watching the water, rubbing his painful shoulder. I asked him what was wrong and he said he had a sore shoulder for the past three months. He told me ...
Can You Believe The “Experts”? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney Your blood sugar levels have been creeping up. Your doctor has been bugging you to do something about it – even threatening to put you on medications if you don’t get your blood sugar under control. So, which foods lower blood sugar? Now it’s the first of the year, ...
Choose Healthy Foods, Not Diet Foods Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney How do you lose weight without counting calories? Most adult Americans gain at least a pound or two each year. That may not sound like much on a yearly basis, but over a lifetime it is huge – if you’ll pardon the pun. Because the health consequences of weight ...
Are You Getting Too Much Protein? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney How much protein do you need? In a recent article entitled “Can You Get Too Much Protein?” the New York Times asserted that most Americans were getting too much protein in their diet. They went on to imply that protein supplements were useless at best and might ...
Merry Christmas Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney The Christmas season is a wonderful time of year. It is a time when we get together with family and reconnect with friends. It’s a time of year when we remember the joy of giving and the joy of making the world a better place. For those of us who are Christians, ...
TMJ Treatment Can Relieve Stress & Pain Author: Julie Donnelly, LMT –The Pain Relief Expert Editor: Dr. Steve Chaney TMJ is the common term for a jaw condition called temporomandibular joint dysfunction. The muscle that is key to the TMJ pain relief treatment described below is the masseter muscle. The holiday season is “famous” for increasing stress as ...
Does Your Prenatal Contain Enough Iodine? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney A recent study (S.M. O’Kane et al, British Journal of Nutrition, doi.org/10.1017/S0007114516003925) concluded that 2/3 of Irish women had no idea that iodine was important during pregnancy. In fact, 57% of the women had no idea what iodine was, and 41% were unable to name any health ...
Was Popeye Right? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney You may have seen the recent headlines proclaiming that eating spinach will make you stronger. The more “mature” adults among my readers may remember the Popeye cartoons of our youth. Every time Popeye was on the brink of disaster he would down a can of spinach and become superhuman. Was ...
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