Certified Naturals™ AppleSlim™ Certified Natural’s™ AppleSlim™ is a natural supplement for use in weight management programs while also supporting cardiovascular health and maintaining healthy blood pressure levels. Contains clinically studied ApplePhenon™ apple polyphenols extracted from selected wildcrafted, immature green apples from Central Asia – “Land of the Original Apple.”
A Windfall of Science on Apples
We write about natural remedies we believe are good for human health. Why this focus? It’s not to encourage avoidance of pharmaceutical drugs when medical care is an imperative. To the contrary, Canadians and Americans have the luxury of the world’s best doctors, medicinal drugs, and healthcare facilities. But health systems are overwhelmed. To ease the crush, people who are not yet ill should take up responsibility to stay healthy. Good health is not achieved through inaction. Live a poor lifestyle and...
Unripe Apples Protect from Threat of a Fatty Liver
Worried about having too many alcoholic drinks during the coronavirus pandemic? Think you’re on the way to liver cirrhosis? If so, think again and wonder whether you are instead developing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). It can lead to cirrhosis and possibly liver cancer. A report from the University of California says NAFLD is now the most common liver disorder in North America. So how do unripe apples decrease the risk of this growing threat? Today, it’s estimated that worldwide 25...
How Apples Work for Your Waist
As this long period of isolation eases, are you noticing your friends and neighbours have put on weight around their middles? How unfortunate it is if the coronavirus crisis piles on additional chronic health problems for individuals and society due to weight gain, or what has come to be known as metabolic syndrome. The World Health Organization defines metabolic syndrome as a new non-communicable disease characterized by abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, and high blood fats. To make the...
Questions and Answers about InSea2®
Question 1: What are the active nutrients extracted from the InSea2® brown seaweed? Answer: InSea2® is a concentrated extract from two brown seaweeds harvested in the Canadian Maritimes: Ascophyllum nodosum (aka Kelp) and Fucus vesiculosus (aka Bladderwrack). InSea2® contains a healthy range of polyphenols, polysaccharides, fibres, amino acids, vitamins and minerals such as iodine. The key nutrients in InSea2® are a type of polyphenols specific to brown seaweeds called phlorotannins. These phlorotannins are responsible for inhibiting alpha amylase and alpha glucosidase. Question 2: I am just...
Healthy Conversations About Weight Should Not Be Taboo
This week launches a series of columns on the current crisis – not the COVID pandemic, which will eventually come to an end, but rather, the seemingly endless escalation of the type 2 diabetes pandemic. We begin this week with the greatest culprit: obesity. Worrisomely, changing attitudes about weight are making matters worse. We’ll continue next week with an article on the interplay between diabetes and COVID, followed the subsequent week by a challenge to powerful media houses to do better. Finally,...
It takes guts to have good health
Why is it that some people eat to their heart’s content and never gain a pound, while others gain weight with a glance at the plate? As Bill Gates said, “Life is not fair. Get used to it.” But fair or unfair, is there a complex, unseen system that plays a role in weight management for each of us? Your ability to maintain a healthy weight involves factors beyond diet and exercise. Some people’s metabolism, or operating system, is faster than...
