Energy Drinks: How Healthy Are They?

Energy Drinks: How Healthy Are They?

It’s been a long, stressful work week and you’re about to embark on the long drive to the cottage for the weekend – but you’re really, really tired. What do you do? Many of us would be reaching for that coffee, tea, or other beverage 

Have Your 2012 Fitness Resolutions Gone Off Course?

Have Your 2012 Fitness Resolutions Gone Off Course?

The major reason most fitness endeavors crash and burn is the unrealistic goals people set for themselves. And as you wallow on the floor in self pity amid spent chocolate wrappers, keep this in mind, you are only human, not super human. It’s all about 

Antioxidants in Foods

Antioxidants in Foods

It can be hard to eat healthy, and even harder to eat healthy the right way. Sure, eating your fruits and veggies is an excellent way to slim your waistline, but what about your other health concerns? If you don’t eat a balanced diet you 

Various Tips to Stay Healthy and in Good Shape

Various Tips to Stay Healthy and in Good Shape

There are various tips to stay healthy and in good shape that are small things you can change here and there in your daily routine and diet. If you stick to changing the little habits one at a time, pretty soon you will realize that 

Healthy New Year’s Checklist for People with Kidney Disease

Healthy New Year’s Checklist for People with Kidney Disease

It’s a new year and a great time to make sure your health is in order. The following checklist can be taken to your doctor to review your overall well-being. In addition, Dr. Mary Meyer, who has been practicing in the areas of critical care, 

Top 10 Anti-Aging Foods

Top 10 Anti-Aging Foods

1. Spinach Spinach is high in antioxidants, which help in reducing the slowdown and weakening of learning capabilities and damage of the central nervous system. The rich vitamin C and vitamin E content in spinach is the antioxidant source that helps in this particular case. 

Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating for Patients on Dialysis

Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating for Patients on Dialysis

By Margaret, DaVita dietitian in El Paso, Texas We’re all familiar with the busy schedule of the holiday season. We rush through shopping, decorating and holiday parties. On top of all that, there is an extra challenge: continuing healthy, safe eating habits during the holidays. 

Holiday Eating Tips for People on Dialysis

Holiday Eating Tips for People on Dialysis

After Halloween (and all the diet pitfalls that holiday brings), it seems there’s an array of foods tempting us to overindulge. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and New Year’s Day all seem to revolve around traditions that include food. Because diet is so critical for people 

Healthy Meals for People with Diabetes

Healthy Meals for People with Diabetes

Diabetes can be a debilitating disease if it gets worse, but you can enhance the quality of your life by keeping to the right diabetic diet. In order to find out what the best meal options should be you will definitely have to talk to 

Five Holiday Eating Tips for People with Kidney Disease

Five Holiday Eating Tips for People with Kidney Disease

Written by Karen Dunker, RD Did you know that the average Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner has over 2,000 calories? That number of calories is usually what you would consume over an entire day. The holidays are sometimes challenging if you are watching your waistline and