Hi this is Oakdale, MN Chiropractor Dr. Ben Smetana and i found this great article on the Doctor’s Resource Center of our website.  The article talks about using ginger as a way to help improve diabetes naturally.

A study in the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition reports that, in people with diabetes, a ginger supplement may lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels and improve insulin sensitivity.

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Hi, this is Oakdale, MN Chiropractor Dr. Ben Smetana, I found this great article in the Doctor’s Resource Center on our website.  The article looks at the connection between vitamin D deficiency and the increase in physical limitations with age.

Older people with higher vitamin D levels are better able to perform activities of daily living than those with lower levels, reports a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

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Twin brothers Eric and Evan Edwards grew up with serious food allergies and were under doctor’s orders to carry their medicine everywhere they went. The device they carried to inject the medicine, known as an…

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We hear so many stories about how unhealthy children and teens are, but here is a story of a young girl who cares about what she eats and drinks. She is a 15 year old from Mississippi who started a…

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Hi this is Oakdale MN chiropractor Dr. Ben Smetana and I found this great article in our Doctor’s Resource Center on our website.  The article talks about the FDA’s newly released “gluten free” labeling guidelines.

It might seem like avoiding gluten is as easy as reading a few labels, but until now the lack of a concrete “gluten-free” definition has made that task complicated.

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Hi, this is Oakdale, MN chiropractor Dr. Ben Smetana and I found this interesting article on the Doctor’s Resource Center of our website.  The article looks at the link between the lack of sleep and weight gain.

Lose weight while sleeping! It sounds too good to be true, but scientists have found some interesting connections between sleep and weight control. In a study published in the journal Sleep, healthy adults who were only allowed four hours in bed per night ate more calories and gained more weight than people who were allowed to sleep normally.

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Hi, this is Oakdale MN Chiropractor, Dr. Ben Smetana.  I just found this great article on Flavonols for Heart Health in the Doctor’s Resource Center of our website.

Flavonols are a group of nutrients found in foods such as tea, onions, chocolate, and berries. While health experts have long known that flavonols may offer general health benefits, the heart appears to be one of the specific areas where flavonol-rich foods may enhance health.

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