With the holiday season ahead, more time off, and an abundance of holiday meals on the calendar, many of us tend to go overboard, and as a result, throw the body off balance.

You have probably heard about the word 'inflammation' before, but what does it really boil down to?

In our lives when we get injured, like a sprained ankle or broken arm, the body moves into a natural and healthy inflammation response that begins the healing process of the affected area.

Looking great naked involves restoring our youthful glow through a few simple and effective means.

In our last article we discussed using Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) to keep you in the gym, pain-free and working on that hot bod. This non-surgical technique can also be used to restore volume to the face and fill fine lines and wrinkles, while continuing to enhance your natural beauty daily, long after it is injected, giving you a youthful, refreshed look.

One of the rotating diet trends in American culture is the attack on carbohydrates and the resulting ‘carbofobia’ that ensues.

Yet, not all carbohydrate foods are equal.

Simple carbs from refined white flour (muffins, white fluffy bread, danish) are very different than whole grains or complex carbs (brown rice, whole wheat flour, quinoa) that integrate into the blood stream more slowly and don’t create havoc in our blood sugar.

In this line of thinking, whole grain bread is not as big of a culprit as white bread.

LOS ANGELES –– A new study released today by the Williams Institute found that five percent of dental offices in Los Angeles County have a blanket policy of refusing dental services to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

The study also found that an additional 5% of dental providers would treat PLWHA differently than other patients in ways that could potentially violate anti-discrimination laws. Examples of such different treatment include only providing the most basic of services to PLWHA, such as a cleaning, or only treating them on certain days of the week or in an isolated room.