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 weight losers feel, researchers say there are measures you can take that will help you [...]
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. And of course, for obvious reasons we now have to worry about viruses even in the summer. Lots of [...]
One of the easiest, most useful ways to help you lose weight is something you’ve probably never heard about or thought of before. Timing. A growing number of studies show that while the types of foods you eat affect how much you weigh and how much body fat you carry [...]
Weighing two to four pounds, the “friendly” microbes in your colon are considered so important, some of the best scientists in America have been enrolled by the National Institutes of Health to explore their association with health and disease. These microbes affect our health in multiple ways, including the production [...]
This Cheap Food May be the Best “Supplement” You’ll Ever Buy! If it sometimes seems like supplements are too expensive – and there are too many you “should” take – I can sympathize. I take something like 30 or 35 pills and capsules every morning. So today I’m happy to [...]
The Refreshing Sip that That Gives Bad Health the Slip Ordinary tea is anything but ordinary when you take a look at how it helps the body. Researchers are finding remarkable benefits in tea – including black tea, green tea and herbal teas. When you consider that tea is the most [...]
It’s as close to a genuine fountain of youth as you can get. And yet it’s not new. It was first put forward as a way of extending life in the 16th century, and was extolled by Benjamin Franklin two centuries after that. In the 1930s, scientists showed that, using [...]
There are plenty of studies that show that sitting too long in one place is bad for your health. Still, there is one place you should sit that can soothe the mind, improve your heart, add to your life-expectancy and even drop your risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The healthiest place [...]
A distinguished businessman in my little town recently passed away from a heart attack. He’d run into some terrible business reverses, after years of having been very successful and admired. I suspect these painful, humiliating events helped lead to his heart attack. Since he was almost exactly my age, the [...]
It’s the latest rage in plastic surgery. Extracting platelet-rich plasma from the patient’s own blood and injecting it back in the face or breasts. This stimulates the growth of collagen and elastin for a face or breast lift. But while these cosmetic procedures help people look younger, you may get [...]
