The Best Foods to Lower Your Blood Pressure

The Best Foods to Lower Your Blood Pressure

Before we get to the list of foods that lower blood pressure, let’s talk.  Blood pressure…those mysterious dual numbers that are read to you every time you visit a health-related office, including the dentist.  Ever wonder what they mean?  They simply measure the amount of 

Osteoporosis: It’s All About Your Density, Not Your Destiny

Osteoporosis: It’s All About Your Density, Not Your Destiny

You’ve all heard the jokes about hip fractures and/or hip replacements… An elderly man is told he needs a hip replacement and his wife replies, “He’s never been ‘hip’ a day in his life.  How can you replace something he’s never had?” Have you ever 

Best Foods for Arthritis Relief

Best Foods for Arthritis Relief

While no diet can cure either rheumatoid or osteoarthritis, there are some foods that can provide symptom relief if eaten on a regular basis.  And while each form of arthritis is different (rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disorder that produces inflammation within the joints and 

Best Exercises to Rid Your Waist of Waste

Best Exercises to Rid Your Waist of Waste

So, we normally consider an apple core as waste, but with humans, our core IS, essentially, our waist and for many of us, our waist has a bit of waste (in the form of fat) attached to it.  This waste on our waists has a 

Diet Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle

Diet Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle

So, you say you’re a relatively healthy individual that gets out for the recommended 2-3 hours of physical activity every week.  However, are you still having some difficulty keeping those unwanted pounds off? Then perhaps it’s time to take a serious look at your diet.  

March is (also) National Nutrition Month

March is (also) National Nutrition Month

Holy heck, March is one busy month.  It is home to 24 national “whatever” designations.  Of course, some are better known than others, such as National Women’s History Month and the previously discussed National Kidney Month.  Others, are, how shall we say, not so well 

The Superfoods of 2018

The Superfoods of 2018

Yes, here it is.  The much anticipated annual post regarding 2018 superfoods.  Faster than a speeding antioxidant, more powerful than an amino acid, able to leap tall viruses in a single bound.  Look, inside at your immune system.  It’s a flavonoid.  It’s an omega-3 fatty 

Are Your Elderly Parents Eating Properly?

Are Your Elderly Parents Eating Properly?

Whew!  It’s finally over, the holiday season that is.  Now the grind of winter begins with the light at the end of the tunnel (in the form of spring) almost too far away to see.  We all settle in to our “winter routines” and tend 

New Meals

New Meals

We’ve got new meals! We’ve got new items on both the a la carte and the complete meals menus. Let me introduce you! [wonderplugin_slider id=”5″] More meals are available, and even more are on the way. Keep checking our website! MagicKitchen.com

Sensible Tips for Getting and Staying Healthy in the New Year

Sensible Tips for Getting and Staying Healthy in the New Year

Yeah, no this isn’t a New Year’s resolution post.  It’s simply a post about how to improve your health that can be applied at any time.  I’m just simply writing about getting healthy on January third.  That, in no way, associates this post with the