Posted on: March 20, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

In the kitchen with Kelley: Salmon lettuce wrap

Claim your FREE copy of Doctor’s Inside Secrets for Natural Cleansing and Detoxification and your FREE subscription to Easy Health Digest™ when you sign up today! I must confess that my favorite way to eat salmon is in patties made with eggs and cracker crumbs and deep-fried. They take me back to my childhood, since salmon patties were among the few things my mother cooked that I actually enjoyed. (Usually,…

Posted on: March 20, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Brain health and exercise

If you are like many Americans, your brain may be shrinking without your even knowing it. This is caused by a sedentary lifestyle that no longer promotes exercise and physical activity, both of which have a critical impact on the size of our brains. Exercise promotes the release of hormones in the brain called nerve growth factor. These hormones are needed to keep our brains big and well-connected. Our bodies…

Posted on: March 20, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

What your doctor told you about salt is probably wrong

It is conventional wisdom in allopathic medicine that reducing salt intake is essential for heart health. The doctor crowd, especially heart doctors, have literally scared the American people away from salt. But studies are increasingly showing that low-salt diets are not only ineffective in affecting heart health, but are actually hazardous to our overall health. A 2014 Cochrane study showed that “there is insufficient power to confirm clinically important effects…

Posted on: March 19, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

How many steps are you from dying?

No one can precisely predict how long you’ll live. But researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have come up with a way to predict if your heart is good to go for at least another 10 years. After examining the results of 58,000 cardiovascular stress tests performed on treadmills in medical clinics, cardiologists at Johns Hopkins have concocted a formula that can be used to predict your…

Posted on: March 19, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Protecting kids’ hearts and lungs

Riding on a school bus that drives down busy streets can expose children to high levels of air pollution that hurt their hearts and lungs. But there’s a fairly simple way to cut back on their exposure. Researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health have designed an air filter for school buses that eliminates 88 percent of pollutants in the vehicles. The researchers say that the high-efficiency cabin…

Posted on: March 19, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

How to end male pelvic pain

It’s one of the most frustrating and life-changing kinds of pain a man can experience … and in the worst place. I’m talking about male pelvic pain. Male pelvic pain has a number of different causes. One of the most common types of male pelvic pain, affecting 50% of men at some point in their lives, is prostatitis. If you have this, you already know that you want nothing more…

Posted on: March 19, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Fix the factors that disrupt your sleep

For good health, you need good sleep. And research into American sleep patterns reveals what you probably need to fix to get better sleep. A survey conducted by the National Sleep Foundation shows that both chronic and acute pain is keeping people awake at night. On average, someone with chronic pain has their nightly sleep shortened by an average of more than 40 minutes. For those who have suffered some…

Posted on: March 18, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

In the kitchen with Kelley: Simple banana crêpes

Being a Southerner, I grew up eating big, fluffy buttermilk pancakes. I liked the texture of them as much as the taste. So when I was married and my British husband’s relatives came to visit and were disgusted by the pancakes I made them for breakfast, I was stunned. “Pancakes are meant to be thin,” his sister told me. “We squirt a bit of lemon juice on them, roll them…

Posted on: March 18, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Are you sleeping your way to a stroke?

Scientists are just beginning to understand how sleep influences all aspects of your health. And now researchers have discovered a frequent sleep occurrence that increases your risk of stroke. A study at the University of Cambridge in England shows that people who sleep more than eight hours a day run an increased chance of suffering a stroke. The risk gets worse as you age: Older people who consistently sleep more…