Articles About Rupina Meer


  • 12 Easy Ways to Slim Down Your Stress
    12 Easy Ways to Slim Down Your Stress

    Author Rupina Meer

    Are you frustrated from eating the "perfect" diet, doing yoga/exercise, and still struggling with less than perfect health? When it comes to your health, there is one factor that surpasses almost any other. It is more important than cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, or any other risk factor in determining whether you will live a healthy life. But it doesn't come in a pill, and it can't be found in a hospital or at your doctor's office. So, what is this critical factor that determines so much about how healthy or how sick you are?
  • Cacao: Stimulant or Superfood?
    Cacao: Stimulant or Superfood?

    Author Rupina Meer

    There is in fact a growing body of credible scientific evidence that chocolate contains a host of heart-healthy and mood-enhancing phytochemicals, with benefits to both body and mind. David Wolfe and many other raw food advocates tout cacao as a superfood with its high antioxidant, vitamin C and magnesium content, but is there a dark side to chocolate?
  • Unravel the Food-Mood Connection to Beat the Blues
    Unravel the Food-Mood Connection to Beat the Blues

    Author Rupina Meer

    We connect what we eat to our expanding waistlines but have you ever paused to tune in to the food-mood connection? Often we don't realize the emotional roller coaster ride from our wildly fluctuating blood sugar levels. We feel happy and energetic for a while and then suddenly inexplicably, we find ourselves arguing with our spouse or a friend. The truth is that the mind and body exist on an exquisite continuum, and profoundly impact one another.
  • Coming Clean
    Coming Clean

    Author Rupina Meer

    Many of you are still looking to follow through on your New Year's resolutions, to start out with a clean slate and a clean belly. But how? Detoxification is a natural part of our body’s daily functions. As living organisms, we are constantly taking in fresh forms of nourishment and eliminating the components that have been used up, as well as those that were not beneficial to begin with. But does this process always work efficiently?
  • Surviving the Holidays Without Sugar or Stress
    Surviving the Holidays Without Sugar or Stress

    Author Rupina Meer

    Ahh the holidays are a wonderful period of celebration, family and gratitude.  Unfortunately there's something about cold, wet, dark days and long nights that scream out for comfort filled meals and the inevitable overeating. Let's face it, there's extra calories lurking around every corner—frosted cookies at the office, eggnog at your neighbor's, jelly doughnuts for Hanukkah or chocolates in your stocking. All these extras add up. By imperceptible degrees, the stealth fat inserts itself around your middle and suddenly you're moving to the next belt hole and wondering why your jeans are so tight - yikes!
  • Probiotics for Optimal Health
    Probiotics for Optimal Health

    Author Rupina Meer

    With cold and flu season around the corner, many of you are obsessively using your hand sanitizers and wet wipes thinking they will keep your family safe and prevent sick days. The truth is that this growing germaphobia movement and our culture’s obsession with sanitizing has destroyed our inner flora of healthy bacteria and set us up to be even more susceptible to attacks from stronger bugs. Probiotics may be just the immune boost your body is looking for. In fact, the importance of your gut flora, and its influence on your overall health cannot be overstated. 
  • 9 Ways to Banish Belly Bloat
    9 Ways to Banish Belly Bloat

    Author Rupina Meer

    On the heels of summer, many of you are returning back to reality from those all-you-can-eat indulgent cruises, road trips fueled with fast food and endless BBQs with a firm resolve to banish that unsightly belly fat. And according to a new study conducted at the Mayo Clinic, you may want to really follow through on this resolve. It turns out that even people of normal weight, but with a higher waist-to-hip ratio (with fat concentrated in their bellies) have a higher death risk than those who are obese. Yikes!  “We knew from previous research that central obesity is bad, but what is new in this research is that the distribution of the fat is very important even in people with a normal weight,” says Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic.