The Alternative Daily

A popular food for thousands of years, olives pack a powerful nutritional punch along with their rich flavor. THE FOLKLORE One of the oldest cultivated trees,...

Q: I'm 70-year-old woman, and for the last two or three years my fingernails have begun to split in a lateral manner. I take...

“The mainstay of conservative treatment for neck pain is non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication and the evidence of its effectiveness is contradictory, while side effects such...

While we might not think about the health of our brain and mind when we are exercising, recent research reveals that regular physical activity...

In a study published in the online journal Environmental Health, researchers set out to outline the link between breast cancer risk and workplace exposure...

As the childhood obesity epidemic continues (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates that 1/5 of American children are obese), public health officials continue to look at ways...

Weight gain is hard on the ego, but it's even harder on your heart--especially when that weight is centered around your middle. Fat is dangerous...

We all know that obesity rates in the US are staggeringly high. And the sad part is, according to a recent study at Rice...

Curious about the long term effects of meditation on the brain, researchers from Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital examined functional MRI (fMRI) images...

Medical researchers have known for a long time that kidney disease can lead to renal failure. In one of the first studies to examine...