Better Nutrition

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Articles in March 2006 issue of Better Nutrition

• Milk thistle: your liver is your body's detox center. Keeping it healthy is the key reason to reach for this herb
  by Amber Ackerson
• Why did your last diet fall? It could be pre-menopausal or menopausal weight gain. So if you're over 35 … and gaining weight in places you've never gained weight before … you're not alone! But researchers may have just discovered the solution!
• Neem: this living pharmacy could help you ward off nasty bugs—and cancer
  by Sheryll Alexander
• Love your lotion: nourish the skin you're in with natural alternatives to conventional moisturizers
  by Anna Soref
• Zinc: this hard-working mineral is essential for health. Read on to determine who should be taking it
  by Maureen Meyers Farrar
• Special ingredient: licorice root: this sweet-tasting root benefits your body in many ways
  by Carey Rossi
• The super seed: the benefits of flaxseed are too abundant to pass up. Here's the lowdown on this healthful hero
  by Christi Hanson
• Gaining control: after years of migraine suffering, one woman faces her needle fears and challenges her spiky headaches
  by Gretchen Roberts
• The best herbs you've never heard of: Andrographis, guggul, passionflower and vinpocetine are lurking at a health food store near you. Here's why you should pick them up
  by Kimberly J. Retzlaff
• Ready, set, shop: fill your basket with our March picks
• Finding your center: yoga can help you form a better relationship with your body and improve you health, flexibility and tranquility—if you find the right class and instructor. Here's how
  by Lisa Palmer
• Asparagus: these succulent stalks seduced a king. Here's how to serve them up in royal fashion
  by Suzanne Hall
• A common mistake that prevents most people from losing weight… and how to avoid it! Have you ever felt tired, bloated and had trouble losing weight? This simple and often overlooked "first step" can help you successfully lose weight and be
• Mushrooms: from buttons to shiitakes, these umbrella-shaped fungi should sprout up in your grocery cart
  by Monica Bhide
• The healing kitchen: today, we hear a lot about foods that may ward off disease. Here, BN examines four of them and gives you delicious ways to put them to work for you
  by Gretchen Roberts
• Think faster!
• Buy herbs: use these 5 tips to shop for these fragrant cooking helpers
  by Kim Colwyn
• Pomegranate juice: the BN staff puts pomegranate's popularity to the test and finds some juicy ways to get this superfruit's disease-fighting benefits
  by Cristina Carrilo
• Smells like spring
  by Carey Rossi
• Pick a nut, any nut: these bona fide functional foods are chock-full of nutrients … now you just have to choose your favorite
  by Heidi Hoff