Project Body Smart

This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Exercise

One of the key health benefits of exercise is that it helps normalize your glucose, insulin, and leptin levels by optimizing insulin/leptin receptor sensitivity. This is perhaps the most important factor for optimizing your overall health and preventing chronic disease. But excercise affects your body…

True Health Assessment

A diet that works for one may not work for all

  CALLING FOR AN END TO NUTRITION AS RELIGION By YONI FREEDHOFF September 18, 2013  Q: “How can you tell if your friend is on a gluten-free diet?” A: “They’ll tell you.” And probably more than once. Same joke goes for paleo, low-carb, vegan and pretty much any organized dietary strategy…

Vitamins and Athletes

Contributed by Mark DeCotis The issue of the value of  vitamins and supplements for athletes can be confounding and confusing, to say the least. John Cuomo, Ph.D., the executive director of Research and Development at USANA Health Sciences addresses the most common questions on the subject.  …

Top tips for beauty from the inside out

September 16, 2013, 11:36 am Dr Libby Weaver Yahoo! New Zealand With the launch of Dr Libby’s new book ‘Beauty from the Inside Out’, she explains beauty in a way you may never have considered it before. Here she shares her top five beauty tips. 1….

Canning Tomatoes from the Garden

I received these tomatoes plants from my mother in law who passed just earlier this year.  She had gotten the tomatoes from an old Italian gardener and saved some seeds.  She germinated them and after she passed my father and law gave me the plants….