Manage Your Medications
Add over-the-counter and herbal supplements and it’s easy to see how medication problems can arise. Test your medication knowledge: Which medications do you take? What do your medications do? When and how should you...
Your Health. Your Lifestyle. Vitamins and Minerals
Take a Deep Breath
Breathing is one of the body’s most basic functions, but it doubles as a powerful relaxation tool with real health benefits. In times of stress, your internal “fight or flight” response gets triggered. Your...
Move More, Ache Less
Exercise has many health benefits. Even if you are overweight, have hip or knee injuries, or arthritis, you don’t have to miss out on all the rewards. In fact, regular physical activity can help...
Stay Safe in the Sun
Outdoor activity promotes wellness – and natural sunlight also boosts the body’s production of vitamin D, which protects bones and prevents certain diseases. Too much sun, however, damages skin and raises skin cancer risk....
For Better Health, Head Outdoors
Want to ease stress and improve health? Start with a walk in the park. Increasingly, evidence says that getting outside is good for our health and happiness. In Japan, researchers link “Forest bathing” –...
Happiness by the cup
Many coffee lovers know the health benefits packed into their favorite brewed beverage. Coffee is rich in antioxidants, and, according to the Mayo Clinic, it may help guard against liver cancer, Parkinson’s disease and...
Add Weight to Lose Weight
Add weights to your workouts, and you’ll lose more. Research shows that strength training speeds up metabolism, which means you’ll burn more calories even at rest. One study found that participants who pumped iron...
Grow and Heal
Horticultural therapy has long been known to be an effective treatment method for mentally ill patients. In fact, the first garden therapy program was started in 1879 in Philadelphia. Today, these types of programs...
Natural supplements that can stave off hot-weather hassles
For four or five months each year, we dream of summer – beach days, sultry nights and outdoor picnics. But sometimes, the season can bring a few nightmares: think sunburns, mosquito bites and severe...
Vitamin C For The Heart
The World Health Organization estimates 15 million people every year die of heart disease (1997 statistic). It’s the number one killer in all industrialized countries. According to one California doctor, a cure may be...
Sun Protection
The best sunscreens, plus other tips to keep you from frying When you’re shopping for sunscreens, is it enough to pick a sun protection factor (SPF) and just choose whatever goo smells best? Not...
Petting Cancer
Doctors checking x-rays and cat scans for tumors have long faced a dilemma when they do find a suspicious spot. There’s been no way to tell whether or not the spot’s actually cancer without...
No More Morning Sickness
Pregnancy is a time when women are supposed to have that “glow.” However, if you suffer from morning sickness, the nausea and vomiting can make you feel anything but radiant. For those who haven’t...
Washing Hands
It’s so simple, but so hard for some people to do. And it’s such a critical way to stop people from getting sick. Even medical schools teach it to soon-to-be doctors. Day care centers...
Heart Card
Imagine you feel your heart pounding. Is it a heart attack or just indigestion? If you’re a heart patient, you know the frustration of trying to describe your symptoms to your doctor after the...
Kidney Saver
About 10,000 life-saving kidney transplants are performed each year in the United States. The critical period comes after surgeons do their job. A drug helps patients live normal lives. A year after she was...
Road Tip
It’s National Safety Month. Rev your mind with these driver safety reminders: Hang up the phone. The Institute of Highway Safety suggests you’re 4 times more likely to crash while chatting on your mobile…...
digg Preventing Birth Defects
There are nearly 3,000 pregnancies each year in the United States where babies have birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTD). Hispanic women have the highest rate of...
Fighting Malaria
Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium and results in more than 750,000 deaths annually, but what if there was a more effective approach to curing it? Malaria is transported from one person...
How Alcohol Damages the Brain
Although alcohol affects many areas in the body, the brain is the primary target. Previously, not much was known about the molecular mechanisms by which alcohol alters brain activity, but now researchers have discovered...
BEST Beauty Sites
For discovering new products and lots of free samples Beautyhabit.com Beautyofasite.com Beautysak.com Bluemercury.com These sites carry a well-curated selection of high-end, trendy, and hard-to-find brands of makeup and skin-care products. You can shop by...
What is Vitamin B17?
Vitamin B17 was the name given to the purified form of Amygdalin by a biochemist named Ernst T Krebs in 1952. It is a non-toxic natural product found in over 1,000 foods. Today Amygdalin...
Smite the Mite
If your nose constantly begs for a tissue, your eyes tear and burn, and you hear the word Gesundheit several times a day, you might be suffering from a dust mite allergy. But even...
Home Grown Physique
Though the outdoors beckons you for physical activity, scorching temperatures, humid air, and pesky bugs may shun your efforts. A fitness facility might be a cooler alternative, but fiscal cinching has forced many to...
Intervention for Prostate Cancer Patients
The side effects of prostate cancer treatment can cause depression and emotional distress in men. A new study outlines intervention therapies for helping men deal with these adverse side effects. Researchers in North Carolina...
A Kinder, Gentler Death
Seven out of ten Americans say they want to die at home, yet 75 percent die in medical institutions. Nearly half of Americans die in pain, surrounded and treated by strangers. These are statistics...
A Clearer View
You’ve probably seen x-rays at your doctor’s office. To the untrained eye, the image can look pretty vague and murky. Sometimes they’re not much better for doctors. Now, doctors are studying a new technology...
Cancer Probe
Women who have fought breast cancer often find themselves in limbo. Has their cancer spread or not? Now, a new technique could help those women by finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. As...
The Risk Factor
Nearly $1 out of every $7 spent on health care in the United States is spent on diabetes. Now 4,000 people are now taking part in the largest diabetes prevention study ever done. They...
Red Flags
While Old Glory symbolizes the spirit of a nation, flags raised by your body often denote something more physical in nature: illness. Be on alert for these subtle cues that could signify a sinister...