Your joints are important structures in the human body. The tendons in your body help to connect your bones so you can move your elbows, knees, and other extremities. Your joints prevent your bones from coming into direct contact with each other and becoming damaged as a result of thatContinue Reading

Dietary fats, especially omega-3 fatty acids, are essential for human health, yet very few people get enough of these fats from their diet.  Approximately 30% of your total daily calorie intake should come from fat, according to dietary guidelines. However, the quality and composition of that fat is just asContinue Reading

Steak, Hungry, Turkey, Fry

Our ability to control our behavioral and emotional responses is known as self-regulation. Different things can make us react strongly, and our ability to control those reactions is determined by our capacity to self-regulate. If we can’t control ourselves very well, we often have trouble controlling our emotions and actContinue Reading

Woman, Pain, Period, Portrait, Female

That “time of the month” arrives with all the fanfare one would expect with an entourage of sidekicks including mood swings, bloating, food cravings, ballooning breasts, uncontrollable irritability, and of course, tears. PMS is not something that is easy to deal with, you can’t avoid it, escape it, or ignoreContinue Reading