The bounty of summer’s gardens and fall’s harvest quickly diminishes as the winter rolls on. This often leaves us with one option: a trip to the grocery store.
And while the produce appears clean and crisp, in many cases...
In a recent article, the Annals of Internal Medicine announced that it was essentially useless for healthy people to take multivitamin supplements. This research may have led some people to question the value of vitamins altogether.
However, not all supplements...
With so many day-to-day responsibilities, many people have a difficult time turning off the “mind chatter” so that they can fall asleep at night.
If you’ve tried using white noise, drinking herbal tea and other methods so that you can...
Stroke is a leading cause of death in the US, killing almost 130,000 Americans every year. As many as 80 percent of these strokes could be prevented by making some important lifestyle changes.
The following are some things you can...
Treadmills are perhaps the most popular piece of exercise equipment around. Over 50 million Americans claim to use them, a statistic that has been growing steadily over the past decade. And while avid road and trail-runners often look at...
The buffaloberry, a resilient, tart, red berry that grows in North America, is the focus of some promising new research. The potential antioxidant benefits of this little berry led the Daily Mail to declare it, "the new superfood of...
In America, one person dies of cardiovascular disease every 39 seconds. Are saturated fats like those found in butter to blame? Does dietary cholesterol really cause heart disease?
The answer, based on a mountainous volume of expanding peer reviewed...
According to the American Diabetes Association, over 25 million Americans are afflicted with type II diabetes with almost two million new cases are diagnosed each year.
Poor diet coupled with the sedentary lifestyle most Americans live these days, have...
When the swine flu swept the world a few years ago, hitting China particularly hard, the nation saw a significant increase in the cases of narcolepsy. This disorder is rather mysterious and involves sudden, uncontrollable urges to fall asleep.
It...
In a 2012 publication by Harvard Medical School, the authors state, "the brain and the gastrointestinal (GI) system are intimately connected - so intimately that they should be viewed as one system."
Based on this connection, researchers at the California...
