3 Sources of Flavonoids for Your Best Health

Flavonoids are plant compounds whose main dietary sources are fruits and vegetables, as well as tea and wine, almost 9,000 different health-benefiting compounds! Flavonoids are thought to offer support for heart health, the immune system, and brain health, including cognitive impairment that comes with age, along with a wide variety of other important health benefits,…

5 Top Posts From 2016

Our blog, Health to Heart Matters, is filled with the latest nutrient information, as well as tips for healthy living. Here are five of our top posts from 2016 that you don’t want to miss: How Motivations Can Keep You Exercising Have resolutions that involve improving your workout consistency? Check out these tips to help you…

3 Tips For Your Mental Health Day

It’s that time of year when all things turn to wrapping up the dozen months that came before.  What major events made a real difference in our personal lives? Did we make and achieve a significant goal? Did we overcome a problem in a surprisingly creative way? These mental reflections help us stay focused on…

At Betsy’s, We Make Your Holiday Healthy

We’re making a list and checking it twice this holiday season at Betsy’s, where we offer healthy solutions to your gift-giving dilemmas.  Whether it’s a GIFT CERTIFICATE that allows your loved ones to choose the healthy supplements that serve them best, or an incredibly clean body butter or aromatherapy kit to take pampering to the healthiest level,…

Three of our Favorite Places

Our family-owned business focuses on helping other families meet their health goals. That’s one reason we are excited to announce the opening of our third location, at Cypresswood Dr. and I-45. At Betsy’s, we are always taking your health and your budget to heart®, which means we put our customer service and product knowledge first….

3 Antioxidants For Your Best Health

As your body is exposed to toxins, stress, and lack of exercise, some of the molecules become unstable and begin fishing around for other molecules to help them. We call these unstable molecules free radicals. As they wander in the body, they create more free radicals and damage your health in the process. The bad…

Improve Your Post Workout With These “Winter-Season” Nutrients

Any person serious about getting the most from a workout knows that the nutrients you supply before, during, and after exercise can be vital to your meeting your exercise goals. In these studies, researchers looked at specific forms of probiotic and zinc, two nutrients often high on the list of must-haves for the winter season,…

Breathe: Can vitamin D levels affect asthma attacks?

According to the National Institutes of Health, some 25 million people in the United States, 7 million of them children, suffer from the chronic lung disease known as asthma. In these studies, researchers investigated the role healthy vitamin D levels may play in supporting the health in those fighting the disease. Vitamin D reduces asthma…

How To Start A Meditation Habit

The idea of being mindful of the things we experience and do is nothing new.  “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life,” the Roman emperor/philosopher,  Marcus Aurelius, wrote in Meditations (ca. 180 A.D.).  The poet, Theodore Roethke, put it this way, “I wake to sleep and…

A Healthy Diet Ain’t What It Used To Be

Google the words “healthy soil,” and you’ll find a plethora of initiatives across the country seeking to save our farms and ranches. Why is the quantity and quality of our soil so important? Our food supply depends on the soil in order to offer the full variety of nutrients our bodies need to be healthy….

Boost Mobility and Reduce Stiffness in OA of the Knee

According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 1 in 2 people may develop symptomatic knee osteoarthritis by age 85, making the health of our knees a point of concern for both young and old. Taking care of your knees now will surely pay dividends in the future, when your risk for knee problems may…

Nutritional Supplement and Omega-3 Aid Cognition

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the number of people living with cognitive impairment in the United States is equal to twice the population for New York City. As more and more people live longer, the importance of keeping our brains working well increases. In these studies, nutritional supplements proved helpful in improving cognition…