The Alternative Daily

We all know that eating a diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol is bad for us, right? Well that story that we’ve all...

Q. A few years ago, I switched from regular soda to diet soda--and lost 12 pounds. My husband tells me diet soda is bad...

For most people, paying attention to your gut means following your intuition and letting your informed self let you know if there are red...

Who doesn’t love a fresh fruit bowl or a Mesclun summer salad sprinkled with Parmesan and lemon? In the heat of the season, these...

Canny as it is, the brain deploys a number of ways to preserve its functions over time. Brain cells turn out a variety of...

Soon after Daphne Miller, M.D., began practicing medicine in San Francisco, Calif., she realized that so many of her patients' woes--heart disease, diabetes, cancer--could...

Look in almost any spice cabinet or on a kitchen table and you will likely see black pepper. Most of us don’t think anything...

If you have high cholesterol, you're certainly not alone; nearly half of all American adults have high cholesterol. Not all cholesterol is bad, though....

A leaky gut can cause you to feel countless unpleasant symptoms, but the condition itself seems to fly under the radar given the fact...

The wisdom of colonoscopy screening seems obvious. The test enables a physician to examine the lining of the entire colon and to remove small,...