When you wake up in the morning, are you refreshed and ready to go, or groggy and grumpy? For many people, the second scenario is all too common.
Numerous health conditions and medications can interfere with normal sleep - including...
California is on the leading edge of the food fight once again. With their historic Proposition 37, the state is putting the presence of genetically altered foods and the need for labeling of these foods front-and-center for voters. While...
While researchers are still gaining an understanding of how gut health affects our overall health, one thing has become clear – interfering with natural gut microbes can have unforeseen long term impact on multiple health issues. One of the...
Do your knees ache the moment your feet hit the floor?
If climbing out of bed feels harder than it did a few years ago—but your knees gradually loosen up as the morning goes on—you're not alone. Millions of adults...
Like Dorian Grey, the fictional ageless man, whose wrinkled face was invisible to those around him, the newly devised Arctic Apple defies oxygenation, almost never browning. Seems this genetically engineered fruit has had its genes for an apple enzyme...
Health nuts are getting serious about seeds. The blogosphere is going crazy for chia seeds (yes, like the "pets") and hemp seed sales grew 156 percent between 2008 and 2010. It's no wonder: Seeds deliver as much protein as...
Hershey Foods was recently slammed by the Food and Drug Administration for placing words on their food labels that were misleading. Although Hershey jumped to correct the misleading labels, they are not alone in trying to dupe the public...
Doctors have known for a long time that cancer is caused by healthy cells that mutate into dangerous cancer cells. However, researchers are now finding that cancer is often the expression of a gene that is turned on by...
Good news for autumn babies: Those born in the fall are more likely to live to 100 than those born in other seasons.
The month of your birth can influence the environment in which you develop -- inside the womb...
Q: I've had almost constant diarrhea since I got out of the hospital. They say I picked up an infection from a bug called C. difficile - difficult isn't the half of it! Help! - Susan P., Moline, Ill.
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