Is Carrageenan Bad for My Health?

Carrageenan is a dietary fiber isolated from several species of seaweed and has been consumed by humans for more than 2,000 years. It is commonly used as a food ingredient due to its thickening and gelling properties. In dietary supplements, it works as a tableting aid and is often used to make sustained-release formulations. Safety…

The Stresses of Motherhood

Shaklee Health Sciences Mothers are the world’s best jugglers: arranging family schedules from soccer to band practice to doctor’s appointments, planning meals, and dealing with money issues, childcare and work — they seem to do it all. There is a price to pay, however—the evidence is mounting that women today are experiencing more stress at…

Why Should You Care About Diabetes?

Shaklee Health Sciences November is American Diabetes Month® and we’re asking the question – why should you care about diabetes? Because it is the leading cause of kidney disease, blindness, and amputations, yet nearly 25% of people who have it don’t even know it. In the United States 24 million people have been diagnosed with…

A Review of Leucine for Weight loss

The worldwide rise in obesity has become the public health issue of our day—and for good reason. The data paints a dismal picture of our current state, but suggest an even more foreboding future. As waistlines expand, so do cardiometabolic diseases (including diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and coronary heart disease), along with stroke, apnea, and osteoarthritis.…

The Power of Protein

It’s essential to the growth, repair, and maintenance of all body tissues. It’s also required for making enzymes – catalysts essential to all life processes, and hormones powerful chemical messengers that circulate through your bloodstream to specific target cells, where they generate a wide range of biological responses. It also helps your body maintain fluid…