Blenders aren’t just for margaritas any more! “Often called the Rolls Royce of blenders, the Vitamix whips air into your food creating a fluffy and light texture,” explains Marti Wolfson, Culinary Director at the Blum Center for Health in New York. And since one machine can chop, cream, blend, cook, grind, knead and churn, you can create healthy soups, smoothies, nut butters, your own whole grain flour and more.
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Dr. Oz has assembled a team of four doctors to talk about a new approach to treating and curing disease today. It is called functional medicine and the guest doctors are Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Wendy Warner, Dr. David Perlmutter, and Dr. Susan Blum. Functional medicine is a new trend that actually looks at a person’s overall health and treats multiple diseases at once instead of the old cookie cutter approach where each symptom was a different problem. This show was originally aired on January 13 of this year and you can see our full recap by clicking the link at the bottom of this page.
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Have you ever wondered what doctors Dr. Oz and his family see when they get sick or have any health concerns? Today, Dr. Oz puts together his own personalized panel of Fantastic Four doctors of functional medicine: Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Wendy Warner, Dr. David Perlmutter, and Dr. Susan Blum.
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Fast food is easy when you’re rushed, but it’s hurting your health—and your company’s insurance premiums. Still, there might be a way to save both.
For six years, Joe Perera worked as an accountant in Manhattan and spent long hours and late nights on the job. During tax season, when at his busiest, lunch was “pizza and cupcakes” and dinner was greasy, high-calorie fare ordered in from neighborhood restaurants and eaten hastily at his desk.
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Plenty of health fads go like this: Flashy food gets a publicist, becomes famous overnight, and disappears forever. Then there are the legit healthy heroes—the less-hyped-yet-hard-working kind that go about quietly for years before finally getting their moment. And let’s not forget the salad-bar staples that are forced into the spotlight when new research surfaces, highlighting yet another health benefit. Even the fittest bodies can have a hard time keeping up. Here are the ones you should get to know:
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On Friday, the annual New Rochelle Farmers Market starts for the season, bringing fruits and vegetables—and other goodies—to downtown.
The market, located on Library Green between the New Rochelle Public Library and Huguenot Street, will be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony, with remarks by Mayor Noam Bramson, at 10:30 a.m.
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Fourteen experts in lifestyle medicine to present at groundbreaking conference
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Jun 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Metagenics, Inc., a nutrigenomics and lifestyle medicine company focused on reducing chronic health conditions and improving health, announced that it is convening its first Lifestyle Medicine Summit on September 28-30, 2012, in Dana Point, Calif. This landmark professional education event will bring together prominent leaders in this rapidly growing field to share how science-based protocols can be effectively applied in clinical practice to reduce or reverse chronic health conditions and transform lives.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 | Wendy Schmid

Plenty of health fads go like this: flashy food gets a publicist, becomes famous overnight, disappears forever. Then there are the legit healthy heros — the less-hyped-yet-hard-working kind that go about quietly for years before finally getting their moment. For matcha (pronounced MAH-cha), in the U.S. at least, that moment is now. A centuries-old Japanese staple, matcha is whole-leaf green tea that’s been ground into fine powder and boasts absurdly impressive health benefits. Traditionally whisked with hot water, it’s Japan’s veritable cup of joe — with the potential to be yours soon too. Read More at Equinox.com