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Eggplant water might be good for you…really? Really!
Not long ago Sasha Ottey of PCOS Challenge e-mailed me to see if I knew anything about"eggplant water". Seems it had been written up in the Los Angeles Times as a weight loss aid. It sounded strange, and she was looking to see if there was any scientific backing.I was a little skeptical, but I did go to the National Library of Med…
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Food of the week: hibiscus
It's getting hot outside, and that likely means you're getting thirsty.A consistency I've noticed, in the years of examining food diaries, is how we seem to write off what we drink as far as its influence on our health. Calories, caffeine, sugar, even healthy ingredients such as antioxidants, get far less credit for what they do, …
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Omega-3 blood testing now available through the inCYST network
It's finally here! Ever since we started talking about omega-3 fatty acids and fish oil, we've been asked how you all can test to see what your own profile looks like. At the recent Natural Products West Expo, we met omega-3 scientist Doug Bibus, who developed a blood test allowing us to see in detail how your own blood test looks…
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inCYST and PCOS Challenge Team Up This Afternoon!
Join Sasha Ottey on the PCOS Challenge Radio Show on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 6 p.m. (EDT) as she speaks to Monika Woolsey, an expert in PCOS and nutrition for managing PCOS. Monika M. Woolsey, President and Founder of After the Diet Network, is a nutritionist and exercise physiologist with 25 years of experience in nutrition and…
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Not sure how you talk about not dieting by talking about it but I'm going to try
I know you readers. The surest way to get you thinking about something…is to bring it up in conversation and then tell you not to think about it.That personality characteristic is why infertility drives you so crazy…why you spend hours on the Internet looking for more information, getting excited about a new piece of information t…
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Are you an old person in a young person's body?
I hope you all are not tired of my drumming into you the importance of sleep! This time, I want to look at a study about menopause. A 7 1/2 year study (which really is long and not common to see), discovered that administering melatonin delayed the events of menopause.If you think of melatonin as one of the body's most powerful (p…
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So you think eating healthfully is monotonous? Have I got fun for you!
If you're a regular reader of the blog, you may have noticed I missed a few days of posting. I was on the road, with Beauty Foods CEO Jacque Gibson, introducing her brand to spa buyers at the Green Spa Networork conference in Santa Fe, NM.Though we did work hard, there was a little bit of time for fun. One afternoon I went for a w…