Winter Weight
5 Ways To Avoid Getting Fat This Winter People get fatter in winter — it seems like a natural law. Whether it's because of all the feast-based holidays, the ton of comfort food needed to contend with the cold and dark, or the reduced amount of exercise, we all feel like we've put on about five pounds before spring shows its fat…
Dangerous sleep habits you didn't know you had
Sleep is the critical element that allows you to attain success in your peak performance, weight loss and longevity goals. No matter how clean you eat or how often you exercise, if you’re chronically sleep-deprived and stressed, or if you’re not getting regular quality sleep, you’re sabotaging your efforts. Read the full article…
Fecal Transplant
They've Discovered Something That Might Cure Obesity. But It's Seriously Gross. The brown slurry is piped through tubes into the colon, or through the nose into the stomach. There’s even a possibility that it soon becomes available in pill form. A fecal transplant, also known as fecal biotherapy, involves the transfer of…
Long-Term Weight Loss
Is It Impossible To Keep The Weight Off? If long-term weight loss were impossible, would it even be worth trying to lose weight? Well, bad news. A report that hit headlines recently suggests that permanent weight loss is near impossible. Decades of clinical research, public health initiatives and personal attempts at diet and…
The Sunscreen Debate
How Important Is Sunscreen? Read This Article Before You Spend Your Weekend In The Sun. Exposure to the sun is the best way to get your vitamin D, and several studies show that those who shun the rays are at much greater risk of developing vitamin D deficiencies. Yet national guidelines encourage us to lather on sunscreen or avoid…
Gluten-Free Diets
Should You Be Cutting Gluten Out Of Your Diet, Too? It’s a law of human nature that as soon as something becomes popular, haters and skeptics will rise and ridicule. I get it. As a skeptic myself, I encourage everyone to properly inform themselves on a topic before hopping on any bandwagon. In the nutrition sphere, gluten is a…
Coffee Cravings Explained
You're Not Going To Believe The Stunning Relationship Between Coffee And Your Genes. After years of research looking at the health impacts of drinking coffee, you’d be forgiven if you weren’t clear about whether it’s good or bad for you. Scientists have known for quite some time that coffee affects different people in different…
The Health Benefits of Nuts & Seeds
Next Time You Reach For A Bag Of Peanuts, Here's Something You Should Know First. By now, we should all know that nutrition and body weight is not all about calories. It took a while, but we’ve managed to convince many calorie-counters that it’s the quality of our food (and its effects on our hormones), and not the quantity of…
Top 10: Pre-Workout Foods
Easy Pre-Workout Meals To Try Next Time You Hit The GymEasy Pre-Workout Meals To Try Next Time You Hit The Gym Before talking about what we should eat before a workout, what about not eating at all? A popular fat-burning strategy is to exercise first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. In his book Body for Life, Bill…
Xanthine oxidase inhibitory activity of northeastern North American plant remedies used for gout
DOWNLOAD PDF P.L. Owen, T. Johns Journal of Ethnopharmacology 64(2): 149-60 (1999) Xanthine oxidase (xanthine: oxygen oxidoreductase EC 1.2.3.2) inhibitory activity was assayed from 26 species belonging to 18 families traditionally used for the treatment of gout and related symptoms by Indigenous people of northeastern North…
Antioxidants in Medicines and Spices as Cardioprotective Agents in Tibetan Highlanders
DOWNLOAD PDF P.L. Owen, T. Johns Pharmaceutical Biology 40(5): 347-357. (2002) Dietary and medicinal phytochemicals may contribute to the reportedly low incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among Tibetan highlanders, despite elevated hematocrit levels and a diet high in saturated fat and low in fruits and vegetables.…
Endothelial cytoprotection from oxidized LDL by some crude Melanesian plant extracts is not related to their antioxidant capacity.
DOWNLOAD PDF P.L. Owen, T. Matainaho, M. Sirois, T. Johns Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology 21(5): 231-42. (2007) Habitual consumption of some Melanesian medicinal and food plants may influence atherosclerosis development via their antioxidant capacity at theendothelial level. Areca nut (AN; Areca catechu), piper…
Medicinal plants of Cree communities (Québec, Canada): antioxidant activity of plants used to treat type 2 diabetes symptoms.
DOWNLOAD PDF M.H. Fraser, A. Cuerrier, P.S. Haddad, J.T. Arnason, P.L. Owen, T. Johns Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 85(11): 1200-14 (2007) Traditional medicines (TM) used to treat symptoms of diabetes by two Cree communities were assessed for their free radical scavenging activity using the stable…
Consumption of guava (Psidium guajava L) and noni (Morinda citrifolia L) may protect betel quid-chewing Papua New Guineans against diabetes.
P.L. Owen, L.C. Martineau, D. Caves, P.S. Haddad, T. Matainaho, T. Johns Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 17(4): 635-43 (2008) Rapid increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes (DM2) in Papua New Guinea, coupled with compelling epidemiological evidence supporting a diabetogenic association with betel quid (BQ) chewing…
Bridging the “two cultures” in ethnopharmacology: barriers against interdisciplinarity in postgraduate education
DOWNLOAD PDF P.L. Owen, T. Johns, N.L. Etkin Journal of Ethnopharmacology 134 (3) 999-1005 (2011) As significant contributors to the generation, dissemination and publication of scientific knowledge, graduate students have considerable leverage on publication trends and the future direction of ethnopharmacology. The rigid…
Inhibition of advanced glycation end product formation by medicinal plant extracts correlates with phenolic metabolites and antioxidant activity.
Inhibition of advanced glycation end product formation by medicinal plant extracts correlates with phenolic metabolites and antioxidant activity. C.S. Harris, L.P. Beaulieu, M.H. Fraser, K.L. McIntyre, P.L. Owen, L.C. Martineau, A. Cuerrier, T. Johns, P.S. Haddad, S.A. Bennett, J.T. Arnason Planta Medica 77 (2):196-204 (2011)…
PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS
DOWNLOAD PDF Traditional Cree medicines modulate steatosis and antioxidant activity, but not insulin sensitivity in fat-laden H4IIE liver cells A. Afshar, P.L. Owen, L. Martineau, T. Johns, J.T. Arnason, P.S. Haddad Revista de Fitoterapia 10 (Suppl. 1) p. 145 (2010) The Canadian Institute of Health Research Team in Aboriginal…
TRADITIONAL MEDICINES FOR MODERN TIMES : ANTIDIABETIC PLANTS
CRC Press (2005) Chapter 16: Flavanoids, xanthones, and other antioxidant polyphenols Environmental factors play an essential role in both the etiology and the management of diabetes, and antioxidants in food and medicinal plants are potential modulators of diabetes onset, progression and complications. Among naturally-occurring…
Vikings Training - #3: Running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcorUH2hsqw&t=50sWant To Train Like A Viking Warrior? This Is Viking Archery Training.