What Himalayan Salt Lamps Can Do for Your Health
One side effect of our modern lifestyle is the often-poor quality of our indoor air. Our indoor air quality is affected by allergens, chemical residues from conventional cleaning products, and the large amount of electronics that we use in our homes, often at the same time. According to leading health expert Dr. Joseph Mercola, air that is filled with...
5 Delicious Brain Boosting Tonics
Are you more apt to worry about the aspects of physical health that you can see with your eyes, such as the fact that your size 9 jeans no longer button up, or that you can actually feel your thighs slapping together when you move? While these are sure signs that you may be carrying a little extra weight,...
Breaking News: Chikungunya Fever Now In Florida
For the first time ever, the presence of chikungunya fever, a tropical ailment spread by mosquitoes, has been confirmed in the United States. Two cases of the illness have been documented in Florida, and health officials are urging residents to take precautions and protect themselves from mosquitoes to avoid its further spread. One of the chikungunya fever cases was detected...
What is Your “Position” on Public Toilets? ( Video)
Do you hover or cover? This video answers the age old question regarding the germs that collect on public toilets and in public restrooms. You might just be surprised...
Drug-Resistant Superbug Increasing in Hospitals Throughout the Southeastern U.S.
A highly contagious and drug-resistant bacteria is spreading throughout hospitals in the southeastern United States at an alarming rate, with a fivefold increase in the number of cases involving the highly contagious bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) over the past five years, according to researchers in a new study that will be published in the August issue of...
6 Ways to Have a Healthier Office Space
For many of us, a typical weekday involves spending most of the daylight hours at the office. While there are likely some things about your work spaces that you cannot change, there are a number of things within your control to either make your environment work against you, or work for you. The following are six ideas to optimize your office...
Battling Your Ego – Why Letting Go is Healthy
Sometimes we just want to have our way. While our individual desires and identities make us who we are, there are times when it gets to the point where what we want directly clashes with others, with the environment and even with ourselves. When our ego goes at odds with living a peaceful, happy life, it becomes imperative to swim...
5 Ways to Bypass the Industrial Diet
The industrial diet, also known as the Western diet and the Standard American Diet (SAD), is quite literally killing us. The rise in popularity of convenient, processed, chemical-laden, sugary, packaged and individually wrapped foods of all types coincides a little too neatly with our nation's steady rise in obesity, heart disease and diabetes rates. The popularity of processed foods is so...
4 Foods and 2 Drinks that Fight Pain
Pain comes in many forms and intensities, from mildly uncomfortable to downright excruciating. A variety of conditions can lead to what is known as chronic pain, pain which persists over a long period of time and may be experienced constantly in some cases. One main factor in chronic pain, as well as many types of other pain, is inflammation....
Seafood Industry Byproduct Holds Promise for IBD Sufferers
Who could have guessed that crustacean shells would prove so incredibly useful to humans? Late last spring, Harvard researchers designed a new biodegradable plastic, known as "shrilk," from the shells. Now, researchers at Florida Atlantic University have received a grant to study their possible applications in the treatment of irritable bowel disorder (IBD). The National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
