Mehmet C. Oz's Blog, page 66

Eating Healthy on a Budget -- Pay by Cash

You make more unhealthy impulse buys at the supermarket when you pay with plastic than with real money. Pay with cash and your shopping cart will contain just as much good-for-you stuff but about 30% fewer unhealthful foods.

Detox Your Body with a Liver-Cleansing Diet

When you overload your body with toxins, your liver goes into overdrive trying to filter out the gunk. Over time, excess wear and tear on its filtering system accelerates aging. What can you do about the toxins in your life? Avoid ’em whenever you can. When you can’t, help your liver dispose of the vandals.

Brain Food to Increase Your Brainpower

Maintaining a sharp mind takes solid sleep, regular exercise, time off, stimulation, and the right food and drink -- in the right "doses." All are crucial if YOU want your neurons to fire on all cylinders today and for years to come.

Benefits of Meditation: Train Your Brain

What happens inside my brain when I meditate? I love the feeling but would like to know what's going on in there.

Signs of Anemia: Chewing Ice?

Is craving ice a symptom of something deficient in my diet? I've been eating ice like crazy for about a month now.

Lower Blood Pressure Naturally with the DASH Diet

What is a good diet to help lower your blood pressure? I've lost 30 pounds, but my high blood pressure is at a standstill.

Winter Squash 101: How to Cook Pumpkin

Now that summer's riot of leafy salad greens is past peak, make extra room on your plate for the deep-orange fall veggies cramming produce aisles and greenmarket bins, including pumpkins, which aren't just for porches and pies.

Want to Lose Weight? Try Interval Training Workouts

There's growing evidence that you get big payoffs from interval training -- adding short, high-intensity bursts of speed to moderate activities. For instance, it's an A+ fat blaster. In one study, doing 4-minutes of high-speed cycling followed by 2-minutes of rest for an hour boosted women's fat-burning by 36%!

Lower Blood Pressure, Go Nuts!

Eating walnuts (which are packed with alpha-linolenic acid) daily helps keep diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) from climbing when you're stressed.

Healthy Eating for Kids Includes Veggies!

Healthy eating for kids may not come naturally, but if you eat various vegetables both before and after children are born, you can train their taste buds.