Just as what you eat can affect your heart, a growing body of research shows it’s just as important for your brain health.
For example, a recent study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago shows the MIND diet—a plan...
Ideally, we’d all like to find a type of exercise that we genuinely enjoy. Not all of us like going to the gym, for example, but maybe going for a jog or a bike ride may be more appealing....
Dealing in rhino horn is a tantalizingly lucrative business. One kilogram (35 ounces) of a complete horn can bring in $60,000 on the illegal market. Another report found the horn of an Asian Rhino – which is typically smaller in...
The black-footed ferret is in trouble. The kind of trouble that can wipe a species off the map. This particular species has been endangered since 1967, and at last count only 300 were known to live in the wild....
Twenty years ago, American Star Trek fans gasped in awe and fascinated fear as the Borg announced, “You will be assimilated.” They were humanoid, but they weren’t quite human. Flesh and bone had been intertwined with metal and electronics,...
While living in England for six months, I ate a ridiculous amount of watercress. Being able to purchase a large organic bag for one British pound (approximately $1.33) meant that watercress side salads were often on the menu.
Of course,...
Summer is finally upon us, a time in which fresh, vibrant citrus fruits are brought to the forefront of our diet. As the matriarch of the citrus family, oranges provide our mouths with a flavor explosion, our immune systems...
There’s a saying that goes, “you snooze, you lose.” That aphorism doesn’t apply to bears, however. They typically hibernate anywhere from two to seven months of the year, depending on the weather and their location, but they don’t shed...
Hippotherapy has nothing to do with hippos, but it does involve another large animal. In Greek, “hippos” means horse, so hippotherapy is treatment via the help of equines.
There’s a major reason hippotherapy benefits so many patients. Unlike some other...
Article: Turning your burger up a notch by adding sweet potato fries and a creamy yogurt dip on the side does more than simply tantalize your taste buds. Apart from being one of nature’s supreme sources of beta-carotene, the...
