Carl Lowe has decades of experience writing about health and nutrition for many publications, including Prevention Magazine and Self Magazine (where he served as the food and nutrition editor). He has authored and edited over 10 books about natural health, nutrition, and other subjects. He edited The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide and was the nutrition editor for a Time-Life book series on health and nutrition. As a musician, he played viola with the Yale Symphony and bass with the Tommy Dorsey Band, and he has appeared on national TV.
Diseases that normally come with aging such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and Alzheimer’s, all have something in common — low grade, chronic inflammation.Even in healthy people, inflammation
If you’ve been paying attention to recent health trends, you’ve probably noticed the growing popularity of bone broth.This kind of broth is usually made from the bones of beef, chicken or ham which
The health benefits of green tea are widely known, but coffee? Not so much. Now exciting new research from Japan shows both popular beverages can benefit people with diabetes in life-saving ways. So
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Over the years, many so-called “experts” have pooh-poohed the idea of eating organic food. They maintain that the nutrients in all foods are basically the same and that the small residues of
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