Millions of People Do This to Lose Weight; It Makes You Fat
The American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association are quite clear in their recommendations. Replacing regular sugar in food and drinks with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, sucralose, acesulfame-K, and neotame can help you [...]
These Sugary Foods Can Add Years to Your Life
Sugary foods have a bad reputation. And they deserve it. Supermarket shelves and fast food joints are filled with processed junk loaded with refined sugar. It comes in brightly colored packages, bears the names of [...]
You’d Never Think This Might Cause a Heart Attack
In spite of advances in prevention and a wealth of fancy, high-tech procedures, heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the US. Yet some of the factors that increase your risk of [...]
A Spicy New Solution to Macular Degeneration
Many people experience reduced eyesight as they get older. Problems with driving at night, blurry vision and losing the ability to enjoy reading a good book are often chalked up to old age. Don’t be [...]
Your Vitamin D is Largely a Waste of Time if You Lack This Mineral
There’s one mineral that’s so important for health and so lacking in the foods Americans eat that medical researchers from around the country recently attended a workshop in Massachusetts just to discuss this single nutrient. [...]
Did You Take the World’s Most Dangerous Drug Today?
There’s a common, over-the-counter drug that most people think is safe, but which some medical researchers believe is actually one of the most dangerous drugs in the world. More than 100 Americans a day are [...]
This May be the Only Nutrient That Can Heal the Damage of Heart Disease
When heart disease damages your arteries or blocks the heart’s blood supply, cardiologists have tools designed to stop the harm and restore blood flow. But do any of these treatments actually fix the damage? Don’t [...]
When High Blood Pressure Isn’t Really High at All
On Monday, November 13, 2017 something quite startling happened. The previous day, 72 million American adults were classified as having high blood pressure. On Monday this soared to 103 million. It’s not that 31 million [...]
Two out of Three Americans Affected by a Condition Doctors Say Doesn’t Exist
It's becoming an epidemic. So says an expert in this potentially devastating health condition. And yet his medical colleagues do not even recognize its existence. That leaves millions of people with nowhere to turn for [...]
Scientists Discover that Placebos Can be Powerful Medicine
A friend of mind once said it’s too bad we can’t bottle the placebo effect and sell it. In tests against pharmaceutical drugs – and other treatments, too – the placebo (usually a sugar pill) [...]
Sunshine Offers Far More Benefits than Just Vitamin D
Medical researchers are finally beginning to recognize the benefits of a health “secret” that natural health practitioners have recommended for thousands of years. It even precedes the era of the Greek physician Hippocrates, often called [...]
Gasp: Authorities Say Coconut Oil is Harmful
Because it's nearly 90% saturated fat, you should limit your intake of coconut oil to very small amounts -- or avoid it altogether. Why? Because it increases the risk of heart disease. That's not my [...]
New Test on The Way For Early Detection of Arthritis
It usually develops slowly and gradually gets worse. In time, the pain, stiffness and swelling of the joint is diagnosed as osteoarthritis. Or just plain arthritis, as most of us call it. Early detection – [...]
Trouble Sleeping? This Fruit Juice Can Help
If you have problems sleeping at night, and find yourself tossing and turning in bed, you may be alone in your bedroom, but you’re not alone in your frustration. About 60 million Americans suffer insomnia. [...]
Most Pleasant Way to Get Over a Cold
First described by the early Greeks, their writings were followed up in the 12th century by the Egyptian physician and philosopher Maimonides. His experience led him to recommend this food favorite as a treatment for [...]
Bad Things Happen to People Who Eat Too Fast
If you were asked the speed at which you eat – slow, normal, or fast – what would you say? That same question was posed to over a thousand healthy volunteers in Japan. The answers [...]
My Must-Have Remedy For Cold and Flu Viruses
Its healing abilities can be traced back thousands of years. Hippocrates – the “father of medicine” – called this plant his “medicine chest” because of its value in treating so many health conditions. Other historic [...]
How to Shed Pounds Without Dieting
Nothing is more annoying than the pounds around your waistline you can’t lose – except maybe the way they come back when you do manage to slim down a bit. Despite the frustration many would-be [...]
A New Tool to Fight off Colds and Flu
The winter season brings with it a host of nasty infections – most notably colds, sore throats and flu. Many also find their arthritic joints become more painful in cold weather. Lots of people will [...]
Have Scientists Discovered a New Vitamin?
More than 100 years ago, when researchers discovered an amino acid that is only made by certain mushrooms and bacteria, no one thought it was important. But, in fact, the presence of this remarkable natural [...]