Category Archives: General Health

Have you ever noticed that on the weekends, you have a lot more time to go out and eat a chili cheese dog or buttered popcorn? Maybe a flavored milkshake or two — or three. These kinds of end-of-the-week splurges aren’t exactly harmful for you. But to lose weight or maintain your fine form, it’s ...click here to read more

Is your hair thinning, looking like there’s less and less of it? With full vibrant hair a sign of good health and attractiveness, thin lackluster hair can make you feel self-conscious about your appearance. We don’t all have to have the Robert Redford or Brooke Shields locks of beauty, but something to really run our ...click here to read more

It’s the secret to treating everything from autism to Alzheimer’s disease, and warding off cancer, heart disease and dementia. But you likely don’t know much about it – if at all. The secret? Glutathione. Dubbed the “mother of all antioxidants,” glutathione is considered to be a critical, life-giving molecule. Our ability to produce and maintain a high ...click here to read more

Too many burgers and French fries with a donut chaser aren’t doing your ticker any favors. In moderation, please! In fact, poor diet is setting you up for heart disease and stroke, and it’s bound to catch up with you – given the odds. Cardiovascular disease accounts for one in three deaths in the United ...click here to read more

Did you know that too much sugar not only makes us fatter, but a lot sicker, too? In fact, new evidence from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly suggests that sugar is harmful to our tickers, in particular. Examining data from 31,000 people — those who participated in the National Health and Nutrition ...click here to read more

Today, children with depression are more likely to show signs of heart disease as early as their teen years, a new study reveals. No question, depression hurts –and leads to further health problems. Depression experienced at an early age not only leads to obesity, smoking and inactivity, but can cause heart problems later in life, according ...click here to read more

Has your husband been acting a little odd lately? Driving too fast, changing car lanes aggressively and cutting people off more so than usual? Is he more openly hostile than ever before, while at the same time more sullen and introverted, cutting himself off from friends and family? It could be your cat. That’s right. ...click here to read more

Hey, all of you nut eaters, did you know that you may live longer because of your simple dietary choice? Snack on! Eating nuts frequently is now associated with a lower risk of death, according to a study in the United States, notably the largest of its kind. Researchers found that by eating 28 g ...click here to read more

Smoking has never been good for us, no matter how cool James Dean made it look. Now the cigarette habit has been linked to even more diseases and deaths than previously thought. The latest report by the Surgeon General, recently published in USA Today, finds that smoking causes a slew of diseases, including diabetes, liver ...click here to read more

Did you know that inside industrial hatcheries, eggs are routinely injected with small amounts of an antibiotic used to treat a myriad of bacterial infections? Well, the practice is allowed in organic production, too, and could lead to the occurrence of superbugs in the future, according to a new Consumer Reports study republished in Mothers ...click here to read more

Pop a dance workout DVD into your player and start to shake, shimmy and exercise your pelvic floor muscles to get relief from urinary incontinence. That’s small effort for big payoff. If you’ve experienced the frustration and embarrassment of urinary incontinence (UI), an involuntary loss of urine, you might be dancing up a storm in no ...click here to read more

Waking up to a fresh pot of coffee is routine for many of us. We can’t get out of bed without it! Having an additional two or three cups to get through the day seems normal, but could your daily coffee intake be taking its toll on your health? Your dependency on coffee could mean ...click here to read more

Kicking the smoking habit could be the best thing you do for your health. Add another negative to the long list of smoking hazards: poor eyesight. Your vision concerns now will only get worse if you’re a smoker, according to a recent Swedish study, published this January in JAMA Ophthalmology from the American Medical Association. Science ...click here to read more

If keeping your bones healthy is one of your health priorities, chances are you have tried many popular treatments to prevent osteoporosis. Most of these treatments utilize vitamins and minerals in tandem with a medication to reduce the risk of fractures. But what if there was a way to reverse the effects of osteoporosis altogether, ...click here to read more