Consumer Trends in Food

Americans eat 14 billion hamburgers a year and according to the food industry research group “Dataessential”, the top ten fastest growing restaurant burger categories for 2012 were mini burgers, blue cheese burgers, chicken burgers, turkey burgers, veggie burgers, BBQ burgers, Swiss burgers, half-pound and buffalo burgers.

Posted by Ben Fuchs in Health

Skin Cells Making Vitamin D

Here is something else interesting about the skin and Vitamin D. For the most part, the liver and the kidneys are the two main sites of vitamin D activation. However, recently it has come to the attention of researchers that skin cells can activate vitamin D, too! The exact same chemistry that activates Vitamin D in the liver, and then super activates it in the kidney ..

Posted by Ben Fuchs in Skin Care

Cholesterol and the Steroid Hormones

In essence, excessive amounts of cholesterol are produced because of our lousy lifestyle choices. And, as always when it comes to lifestyle induced biochemical breakdowns, this is good news because we can fix the breakdowns simply by making better choices. Without drugs or doctors or health insurance. Reduce your intake of fast burning, high calorie carbs and ..

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Osteoporosis, Blood Sugar and Insulin

Dysglycemia (a fancy way of saying messed up blood sugar) is tragic, and pervasive biochemical pathology with involvement in almost all degenerative disease. But, because blood sugar and insulin can be manipulated and controlled by our food choices, for better or worse, this is actually good news. In other words, if we change the way we eat we can change our blood sugar too!

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Youngevity’s Dietary Supplement Z-Radical

Perhaps the most notable role that fucoidan plays in helping keep a human body healthy involves its ability to keep blood circulating smoothly. Embolisms and thrombosis and other defects in blood clotting are a significant and often fatal health condition. According to the National Blood Clot Alliance, every year, up to two million people develop clots.

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