Antibiotics Can Stop Your Body from Healing
Many doctors seem to dole out antibiotics without much thought about their harmful side effects. Unfortunately, the potential side effects of these drugs can be as bad or worse than the original health complaints that prompted the prescriptions. They can lead to life-threatening complications. So the danger of antibiotics is two-pronged: We’re not only reaching [...]
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 danger? What they do to your immune system. That’s right. Your immune system reacts in [...]
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 the water you drink. But it’s just as damaging as the more familiar toxins found [...]
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 lot anyway. Yet some snacks are good for your health. When it comes to the [...]
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 of eating these fruits and vegetables can devastate your digestion. That’s why scientists are raising [...]
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 you cook and consume it, you may ingest any of more than 50 different natural [...]
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 more appetizing sources. The ingredient is argan oil. And it’s popping up on the menus [...]
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 these encounters with microbes, men are more likely to find themselves confined to a hospital [...]
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 the subject of her 9th Annual Report released in March. It’s entitled, “Health Impacts of [...]
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 defend the body from life-threatening conditions like cancer and cardiovascular disease. This nutrient all by [...]
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 back to ancient times. In a book written in the first century A.D., it is [...]
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 body weight and control glucose if you have diabetes. Sounds sensible and reasonable. Problem is, [...]
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 even screams “Natural!” from the labels. But it can wreak havoc on your blood sugar, [...]
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 attack are not very well-known. These dangers are a surprise to many. I call them [...]
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 symptoms could be macular degeneration. This condition threatens you with blindness, and it sneaks up on [...]
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, which included academics from Northwestern, the University of Minnesota, Indiana University and other institutions, concluded [...]
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 of this painkiller – which you can buy in any drug store, and probably have. [...]
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 is at a loss to heal deteriorating blood vessels or heart tissue. However, research at [...]
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 condition over the weekend. What happened was that Big Medicine change the definition of high [...]
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 glands that play a crucial role in handling stress - the adrenals. Our stressed-out lifestyles [...]