by Janet Hemley Nowadays people are more health conscious than ever before and are more willing to spend money on their wellbeing. It’s no surprise that the market for dietary supplements is growing and we can see advertisements everywhere, in newspapers, magazines, on TV, buses, trains, and of course the internet. But are they safe to take and do we really need them? Congress passed a law that defines dietary supplements in 1994. All supplements must meet certain conditions. In short, they must contain ingredients that supplement the diet (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and so on), they must...

by Shaun Davids Are you interested in using grow taller exercises to gain an inch or two in height? You might as well need to get involved with these exercises to lengthen your spine to achieve your desired height. The secret is in between those vertebrae. Those discs, which are made up of cartilages, are found to be the most stretchable part of your spine, so that is how to become taller from the start. To maximize your height, you need to become familiar with certain parts of your body that help you grow taller. Today, you should be concentrating on your spine, to stretch out those compressed discs,...

by Dr. Markho Rafael In 3,300 B.C., a tribal elder from Val Venosta, Italy, trekked across an Alpine glacier in an attempted getaway from enemies. But his foes got the better of him and with a well-aimed arrow pierced his subclavian artery, leaving him to bleed to death in a glacial cave where his mummified remains were discovered in 1991. Among the belongings of Oetzi the Iceman were two medicinal mushrooms, the earliest evidence in existence of mushrooms used as remedies. One of the mushrooms was Birch polypore – Piptoporus betulinus – which it is believed he used as a remedy against...

by Amanda Z. Reynolds There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the acai berry in recent months, and almost none of it is scientifically proven to be true. Despite what you may have heard, the acai berry isn’t a weight loss “magic bullet”, nor is it a miracle pill that will cause you to lose twenty pounds in a week. Before you believe any of the claims about acai’s effectiveness remember this- the more outlandish the claim, the less likely that the supplement will live up to it. Discuss its use with your physician, and while there aren’t any major side effects that...

by Ashley R Richardson Many people want to lose weight these days. Obesity and being heavy has reached epidemic proportions. There are many aesthetic reasons why people want to lose weight as they aim to look good and fit into their jeans but the most imperative grounds to lose weight is for health reasons. We all carry our extra flab a little differently. One individual may have thunder thighs with a larger butt and a slighter upper body so she is shaped like a pear, while the next individual will carry it all around the middle, in the abdominal region so that she is shaped more like an apple on a...