Fall Allergy Season: What You Need to Know to Prepare

It’s that time of year again: just as you finally start to feel relief from the intense heat of summer, fall allergies strike with a vengeance. You don’t want to spend the next two months fighting allergy symptoms, so learn more about the most common allergy triggers to properly prepare your defenses.

Ragweed Is the Enemy

Ragweed doesn’t look dangerous, but about 75% of people who suffer from springtime allergies also experience strong allergic reactions to ragweed in the fall. This yellow flowering weed usually begins blooming in August and continues to cause problems until killed by a winter freeze. This means that in areas as hot as Florida, ragweed likes to linger.

If ragweed causes sneezing, itchy eyes, and congestion as soon as you leave the house, make sure to monitor your local pollen count. Stay indoors as much as possible on days with high counts, especially during mid-morning and early afternoon pollen peak hours. Always keep car and house windows completely closed and locked to prevent infiltration, vacuum your carpets regularly, and remove your outerwear before you go inside. Read More

The Coexistence of Natural and Pharmaceutical Medicines

From the very beginning the natural order has enabled our continued existence through the interaction of human physiology and food chemistry. The human cellular system and the ingredients of food exhibit an inherent synergy in bio-chemistry. The interdependent activities of the “natural system” involve ordered reactions for the purpose of maintaining balance (homeostasis) and regulated control of biochemical pathways. These physiological processes are ensured through food chemistry in respect of included ingredients, their proportions and concentrations.  Read More

Proper Nutrition is Critical For Cancer Patients

Cancer was once a rare and poorly understood disease, but it is now so common that 1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime. This is an astonishing statistics, but it isn’t hard to believe.

As cancer becomes more prevalent, experts are learning how to best address its symptoms and treat the disease into remission. Proper nutrition is one of the many essential components required to support the health of cancer patients.

Take Control Where You Can Find It

Cancer takes a great deal of control away from your body, but nutrition is one thing that you can always influence for yourself. Since cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and biological immunotherapy are likely to steal your appetite and energy levels, you become more vulnerable to malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies.

This is why eating a variety of high-calorie and high-protein foods is so important. Even if you don’t eat a large quantity of foods, make sure the foods you can eat are valuable to your health. Read More

Unique Wellness Products Powered by CellQuest

Most of us are aware and fully realize the importance of wellness products. Just what are they and what purpose do they serve? The answer is to maintain good health by extending the benefits of good diet habits in association with selected supplements.

There are numerous types of wellness products available and highly promoted in the market. They mostly include “formulations” which are selected combinations of ingredients generally claimed to advance health functions in general and some with emphasis on particular health benefits. Individual “experts” have favored varying proportions of included ingredients in their specific formulations often without verification of their combined effects and interdependent efficacy. Their marketing success often depends more on promotional expenditures than demonstrable benefits.      Read More