Lucky Blog continues to explain the importance of amino acids. This week we focus on L-Phenylalanine (LPA), one of the top selling amino acids on Lucky Vitamin . L-Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid, which performs as an antidepressant and pain reliever with many therapeutic roles. Besides helping to…

I’m not sure why, but I seem to be on a reality TV kick. Regardless, I think it’s pretty clear I need to pick up a book. ( I welcome any suggestions for some good summer reading!) Quite by accident I watched the opening episode of a new realty…

There’s a reason why most women don’t wear thong bikini bottoms. I’m not sure I know one woman who loves the shape of her bottom…OK, maybe one. But the majority of the bathing suit wearing population strives for a more toned and shapely derriere. So I asked our resident…

Because my husband usually rises before me and switches on the tv in the other room, I often wake to the childhood jingle about stealing cookies from the cookie jar, repeated by a woman and a man touting their weight loss success on the Cookie Diet. It really bugs…

Lucky Vitamin continues to add new companies to our vast list of sports supplements. The latest newcomer is StarChem Labs products . StarChem is the opposite of most companies in the supplement industry. StartChem only releases a product when 100% certain that it works. During research and development process…

I love Philosophy products. I use their bath scrubs, lotions, all that good stuff. They aren’t too thick, and they smell good, and that’s about the extent of what I need. So I thought I’d try their face wash. It’s called Philosophy’s Purity Made Simple face cleanser. They claim…

A few years ago, we wrote a blog post about a book called Screaming to be Heard : Hormonal Connections Women Suspect, and Doctors Still Ignore by Elizabeth Vliet, MD. “It’s for those women that have repeatedly heard ‘it’s all in your head’ from their doctors,” wrote our blogger…

Eating disorders are something everyone should worry about. The problem is increasing dramatically in recent years. Teenagers are generally the age group with the highest number of eating disorders. However, recent reports show that this self-destructive habit has become an issue at any age. Eating disorders can be classified in…

I am delighted to see that at the recent American Medical Association’s annual meeting a report was presented that reviewed more than 1500 articles, including 300 studies that were published in 2008 alone.

I’ve just returned from the West coast of Scotland, where I visited a traditional smokehouse. At Inverawe Smokehouse , they slow-smoke salmon and trout straight from nearby Loch Etive. It’s a true pleasure to eat food that’s been lovingly and slowly prepared — hanging in a handcrafted brick smokebox…