Vitamin D and the Connection to Health and Weight – All Your Questions Answered
The Ultimate Guide to Vitamin D and it’s Connection to Health and Weight Hi, this is Galit Goldfarb, nutritionist and medical scientist, and welcome to my blog where you will find great articles to help you transform your health easily through practical lifestyle changes based on science. My articles will guide you, step-by-step, to lasting…
Is GMO Golden Rice Really What We Need To Stop Vitamin A Deficiency?
This post was written in response to a comment I received for my article: “To Avoid or Not To Avoid Genetically Modified Organisms GMO’s For Health.” You can find the article HERE. Is GMO Golden Rice Really What We Need To Stop Vitamin A Deficiency? In 2015, Patents for Humanity awarded The Golden Rice Project…
Hepatitis Management with Diet, Lifestyle Changes, and Supplements
Hepatitis is another term for liver inflammation which is usually caused by a viral infection causing liver inflammation. Viral hepatitis comes from different viruses named Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. [1] However, hepatitis may also come from certain drugs and other toxins, such as excess alcohol, and from diseases, especially autoimmune diseases that…
The Best Nutritional Interventions for Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure is a chronic heart disease that affects the whole body. It is a serious public health concern due to its high prevalence, high risk of hospitalizations, mortality risk, cost of care, and reduced quality of life. The progressively weakened heart muscle is unable to pump enough blood to sustain normal blood circulation…
Supporting Crohn’s Disease with Diet, Lifestyle Changes, and Supplements
Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. It causes inflammation of the digestive tract, leading to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, tiredness, malnutrition, and weight loss. The exact cause of Crohn’s disease is unknown. Crohn’s disease originates in genetically susceptible individuals exposed to certain yet unknown environmental risk factors. [1-2] Crohn’s disease may affect any portion…
How To Stop Muscle Cramps/Spasms From Recurring
Muscle cramps are a sudden contraction or tightening of a muscle that usually lasts a few seconds to a few minutes, caused by muscle twitches or spasms. Muscle spasms are involuntary, painful contractions of either an entire muscle group, an individual muscle, or some muscle fibers. [1] The cramp last from a few seconds to…
How To Prevent and Heal Acne
Acne can be a big nuisance for most people at some stage in their life. Research shows that about 80% of people will have acne at some point in life, most commonly, but not solely, between the ages of 11 to the age of 30. [1] The causes of acne vulgaris are many: hormones, bacteria,…
How to Get Relief from PMS with Diet, Supplement, and Lifestyle Changes
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affects the daily functioning of women from a week before to a few days into their menstruation, with emotional and physical symptoms substantially interfering with the quality of everyday life. [1-2] PMS has a wide variety of emotional and physical symptoms, including increased appetite, weight gain, body pain, headache, swelling and tenderness…
Managing Osteoporosis With Diet, Lifestyle, and Supplements
Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in humans. It is a disease of bone fragility from a low bone mineral density that leads to bone deterioration predisposing people to easy fracturing of bones. It generally comes from aging and a simultaneous decrease in sex hormones. But it can also come from excessive exercise, malnutrition,…
Managing Hashimoto Thyroiditis With Diet, Lifestyle Changes, and Supplements
Hashimoto thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid tissue through an immune process, often intermittently. The disease first appears with the gradual enlargement of the thyroid gland and slow progression of hypothyroidism due to the infiltration of immune cells into the thyroid tissue, causing its destruction. Hashimoto thyroiditis is the most common endocrine…
Overactive Bladder? Here Are Diet, Supplements, and Activities that Support Bladder Health
Do you find yourself waking up in the night to urinate or notice that you need to urinate more often than most people? If you cannot hold your urine or experience leakage when you cough, sneeze, laugh or when you need to empty your bladder, you may have an overactive bladder. Overactive bladder is a…