A healthy personal hygiene regimen is essential to good health. By keeping your inner and outer environment clean, you give yourself an optimal chance of avoiding both infections by pathogens, and chronic illness. Good hygiene also helps you to...
Health officials in Sarasota County, Florida issued a warning last week against eating raw oysters and exposing open wounds to coastal and inland waters following one death and one illness caused by a flesh-eating bacteria.
The deadly Vibrio vulnificus...
Ear candling is a technique that involves placing a lit, hollow, cone-shaped candle into your ear canal, with the theory being that the heat from the flame will create suction that draws the earwax into the hollow candle.
A person...
Essential omega-3 fatty acids, found in fatty fish and flax seeds, among other food sources, have been shown by a large body of research to have potent anti-inflammatory properties, thus benefitting heart and brain health, and helping to reduce...
Neonicotinoids, one of the most widely used classes of insecticides in the world, have been in the news lately due to their connection with colony collapse disorder (CCD), which has been wiping out adult bees in devastating numbers. Now,...
You've probably heard the statistics: over one-third of Americans, or 34.9 percent, are obese. The skyrocketing obesity problem has been one of the most discussed health topics in recent years, but what are the two main factors in this...
In response to more and more people in the Western world discovering and utilizing traditional Chinese remedies, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles Center for East-West Medicine have developed a set of guidelines for translating Chinese medical...
Every 39 seconds, on average, someone in the United States dies of cardiovascular disease. The frightening epidemic of this condition in our country has many people scared - and for good reason. Many of us know at least one...
Cayenne pepper has been used for centuries throughout the world, particularly in China and the Americas, for culinary as well as medicinal purposes.
It contains capsaicin, the compound which makes it spicy and also offers a number of therapeutic...
A new study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, revealed that runners may live an average of three years longer than those who don't run.
What was even more interesting was that the 15-year study...
