What Fast Food Secretly Does to Your Body
When you eat fast food, your taste buds may be happy, but you probably realize you’re expanding your waistline. Pretty much everyone knows that. But gaining weight may be the least of the troubles these processed foods cause. The real [...]
High Noise Levels are a Serious Health Problem
The noise caused by trains, planes and automobiles is like a heart-threatening toxin that gets into your body. It can’t be measured by a blood test or found in a chemical analysis of your food, the air you breathe or [...]
This Healthy Snack Lowers the Risk of Common Heart Conditions
Chips, cookies and crackers. When we think of snacks, unhealthy options are often the first to come to mind. In fact, the word "snack" has acquired a bad taint - even though most people overcome their guilt and snack a [...]
Eating Canned Vegetables Can Ruin Your Digestion and Eventually Your Health
We’d like to think all fruits and vegetables are good for us, but researchers have discovered that certain ones can sabotage your health, not improve it. I’m talking about the ones that you get out of a can. The results [...]
This Herb Can Improve Your Health Fifty Ways
A popular herb that’s been used for cooking since the Pharaohs built the pyramids can fight heart disease, cancer and diabetes. It’s one of the most powerful “medicines” known. A remarkable fact about this herb – researchers recognize that when [...]
Olive Oil is Good for You, But This is Even Better
Why does this ingredient, once harvested from goat droppings (yew!), have master chefs and health researchers so excited? You read that right… it was harvested from goat droppings. But not just any goats… Moroccan goats. Fortunately, it now comes from [...]
Doctors Discover Shocking New Dangers in Common Infections
Every year five million Americans are admitted to hospital with an infectious disease. Over a third of these are for lower respiratory tract infections. This accounts for the largest proportion in both men and women. As for the rest of [...]
Pollution is Linked to Top Three Causes of Death
It causes 200,000 premature deaths each year. The highest rate was found in Baltimore, with 21,000 early deaths per year. In the UK, the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, is so concerned by this issue, she made it [...]
This Remarkable Nutrient Fights off Allergies, Cancer and Heart Problems
Want allergy relief, cancer protection and better heart health all rolled into one inexpensive remedy? A nutrient found in certain fruits and vegetables has now been shown to both relieve the annoying symptoms of hay fever and other allergies AND [...]
Fennel Reduced Lung Inflammation by 86 Percent
Fennel is a popular, tasty herb that chefs all over the world use to improve their entrees. And the plant is just as popular in the medicine cabinet as it is in the kitchen. The medicinal use of fennel goes [...]
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 reach and maintain a healthy [...]
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 famous food companies and sometimes [...]
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 sudden death from a heart [...]
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 complacent. The culprit behind these [...]
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. The folks at the workshop, [...]
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 hospitalized because of the effects [...]
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 count on it. Mainstream medicine [...]
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 people suddenly developed a medical [...]
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 help. The problem centers on [...]
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) often performs better. Now the [...]