Muscles require a large amount of energy to work properly. The ability of muscles to utilize oxygen and properly burn calories is of vital importance to health. Any athlete can support muscle function with nutrient fortification. Muscles are directed into action by nerves. Stress-tension banging into muscles may cause muscles to tighten (stiff shoulders...

Wellness Resources® Daily DHA™ contains the highest quality mercury free fish oil, high in DHA omega-3 oil. DHA is needed for optimal brain function, focus, eyesight, and cardiovascular health. You get omega-3 oils from eating fatty fish like salmon or tuna. The problem is, you also get a dose of mercury from the same fish. Range raised animals that graze...

A January 2008 study showed that older white Americans with the highest levels of vitamin D had the healthiest blood pressure levels. Vitamin D supplementation may be quite important for those living in the northern climates especially during the winter, as there is little chance of getting vitamin D from the sun during colder months.* We provide vitamin...

A newly published research article connects brain and heart health into a very interesting perspective.

The kindergarten-level public health mantra is to lower your sodium intake to reduce blood pressure. This idea is being promoted as a healthy way to eat. A new study shows that reducing sodium intake may actually be dangerous to your health and set up stressors that actually cause heart disease.

The American health care system is not economically sustainable in its current form, in the Obamacare plan, or in any plan the Republicans have proposed. Big Pharma has run wild, expensive and questionable medical procedures rule the day. Care is provided independent of personal responsibility for one’s own health, and fraud and needless waste are...

A new report published in the journal Health Affairs shows that the cost of treating obesity-related health problems has doubled in the past decade, from 78 billion a year in 1998 to 147 billion in 2008. Each obese person costs the overall health system an extra $1,429 per year, a 42% higher cost to insure compared to a normal weight person.

Obesity is rampant in America's youth, threatening their health and robbing their futures. It's also preventable.

The cost for ObamaCare has many Americans trying to understand how we can foot the bill. It will connect millions more Americans to a sickness industry gone wild. States are realizing that the mandates within the legislation will force them to spend money through the Medicaid program that they do not have – and unlike the federal government states don’t...

Treatment of periodontal disease results in improvements in endothelial dysfunction and reduction of the carotid intima-media thickness

Vitamin D supplementation enhances the beneficial effects of weight loss on cardiovascular disease risk markers.

What men should know about the impact of physical activity on their health.

Plasma pyridoxal 5'-phosphate in the US population: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2003–2004

Vitamin D Levels Linked With Health of Blood Vessels

The Biological Responses to Resveratrol and Other Polyphenols From Alcoholic Beverages.