Step aside Vitamin C!  New research suggests that it’s a daily Vitamin D supplement that may help prevent the flu, particularly in kids and teens.

We know that we’re more likely to get sick in the winter, and we also know that we get Vitamin D primarily from sun exposure. Is this a coincidence?  One theory behind the seasonality of the flu is that lower levels of vitamin D during the winter leads to lower immunity.  Indeed, research has shown at least two ways in which Vitamin D boosts our immune systems.  First, it enhances the strength of our white blood cells, whose primary function is to fight off invaders– such as flu viruses.  Second, it has anti-inflammatory properties, which means that it can lessen symptoms when you have been infected with a virus.  Children are especially at risk for seasonal flu because their immune systems are less mature, and because flu can spread around a crowded classroom with ease....

Crossing the Line
In life, there often seems to be a line where many things move from being a positive to a negative. From a healthy part of our existence to an unhealthy one. From a functional and normal process to a dysfunctional and abnormal one. From something that should be life-enhancing, to something that becomes potentially life-destroying....

I don't drink Coke. It's brain-shockingly sweet, it rots your teeth and it's loaded with--ew--high-fructose corn syrup.

But Mexican Coke, that's different. It's the real thing, baby. Sweetened with cane sugar, not the artificial stuff, the Coca-Cola beverage made and bottled in Mexico, is, as some of its 31,000-plus Facebook fans tell it, "100 times better than American Coke," "sooo good once it hits your lips" and "what 'Coke' should be!!!!"...

If you pick the right personal trainer?you'll most definitely see faster results. If the personal trainer is registered with a governing body, it's likely the personal trainer would have gone through the proper training and education process. A personal trainers job is to motivate and inspire a client to push far beyond the boundaries of what they would normally do if they were exercising by themselves....

Gastric bypass surgery has become a popular surgical procedure in the last 5 years as a radical option for clinically obese patients to manage weight loss. During this time several notable celebrities have undergone this procedure such as Carnie Wilson, Al Roker, ? and ?.. With their physical transformation being televised to the world has contributed to the rising mainstream interest in this surgical weigh loss procedure....