The Toxic Workplace: Know the Risks of Where You Work
In a study published in the online journal Environmental Health, researchers set out to outline the link between breast cancer risk and workplace exposure...
1 in 5 Children Now Obese: Are Lax School Laws to Blame?
As the childhood obesity epidemic continues (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates that 1/5 of American children are obese), public health officials continue to look at ways...
Naturally Boost Your Libido With These 5 Delicious Treats
It would be hard to heat up your love life if, after "50 First Dates" with the same guy, your amnesia made it impossible...
5 Belly Fat Risk Factors That Lead to Heart Disease
Weight gain is hard on the ego, but it's even harder on your heart--especially when that weight is centered around your middle.
Fat is dangerous...
Debunking 7 Myths About Alcohol
Blame it on craft beers, inexpensive wine or the down economy - North Americans are sipping more alcohol, more often. (Twenty-two percent of you say you drink too much, up from 17 percent a decade ago.)
Childhood Obesity in Poor Neighborhoods Spinning Out of Control
We all know that obesity rates in the US are staggeringly high. And the sad part is, according to a recent study at Rice...
Scientists Prove Meditation Benefits Practitioners Even When They Aren’t Meditating
Curious about the long term effects of meditation on the brain, researchers from Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital examined functional MRI (fMRI) images...
Probiotics Cut Cold Symptoms Two Days Short
When Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef mixed it up in the spaghetti Western "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," they...
Take Care of Your Kidneys Now, Not Tomorrow
Medical researchers have known for a long time that kidney disease can lead to renal failure. In one of the first studies to examine...
How to Kick That Soda Habit
Drinking one 20-ounce bottle of soda daily for a year can pack on 25 extra pounds! But when the NYC Board of Health banned...
