Five Tips for a Healthy Vacation

Five Tips for a Healthy Vacation When you go on vacation, you want to leave your worries behind and just enjoy yourself. But have you ever gone away and felt worse after you came home? That can happen if you’re not adequately prepared for your travels. Here are my five...

What Baldness Says About Your Health

What Baldness Says About Your Health The majority of men will go bald by the time they reach 35—with some men claiming they experienced their first significant hair loss when they got married! While you can’t blame marriage on your hair loss problems, going bald can be...

Struggling with Fainting Spells? Read This

Struggling with Fainting Spells? Read This On a daily basis, many people suffer from fainting spells. Fainting, also known as syncope, occurs when you suddenly lose consciousness. Usually, it’s a result of a rapid decrease in your blood pressure level and when oxygen...

Three Foods That Could Reverse Memory Loss

Three Foods That Could Reverse Memory Loss Would you like to be able to remember the names of everyone as you age? Want to keep acing those puzzles in the Saturday paper? All you need to do is fortify your diet with lots of flavonoids. Flavonoids are antioxidants that head...

How to Find Healthy Food in Your Grocery Store

How to Find Healthy Food in Your Grocery Store One of the best places to start improving your health is the grocery store. It can keep you out of the doctor’s office or the hospital, and it’s much more cost-effective than going to the pharmacy. Most of us don’t look...

How Temperature Can Impact Your Health

How Temperature Can Impact Your Health Temperature is one of those things we don’t really think about—it’s just something we deal with. If it’s cold outside, we put on a coat. If things get a little chilly in bed, we reach for a blanket. Easy and inconsequential...

Breeze Through Allergy Season with This

Breeze Through Allergy Season with This Ginger is a wonderful, pungent healing food that could come to the rescue this allergy season. This herbal remedy could help the almost 40% of asthma sufferers who use alternative treatments to manage their condition. Ginger...

The Truth About Children’s Multivitamins

The Truth About Children’s Multivitamins You would think giving a young child a multivitamin would be a good thing. Anyone who has witnessed a baby grow from infancy to toddler age knows how miraculous this stage of life is—so many systems inside the body are...

An Easy Way to Boost Your Lung Function

An Easy Way to Boost Your Lung Function In the normal course of aging, your lungs become less efficient. I wish I could tell you otherwise, but the truth is, changes take place that make your lungs work harder, while at the same time your capacity for taking in oxygen...

Debunking the Organic Myth

Debunking the Organic Myth There’s always been a lot of controversy surrounding organic foods. Near my house, there’s a grocery store called Whole Foods, a national chain that sells primarily organic and natural products and calls itself “America’s Healthiest...

Four Reasons Why Prostate Screening May Be Harmful

Four Reasons Why Prostate Screening May Be Harmful Every year, about 250,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in the U.S. After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in American men. Every American man has a one in six chance of being...

Running or Walking: What’s the Health Difference?

Running or Walking: What’s the Health Difference? Do you know someone who is a runner? Perhaps it’s you who hits the pavement in the early hours of the morning to get some jogging in. Runners will tell you that this is the best form of exercise. You’re not just...

These Kinds of Foods May Help Prevent ALS

These Kinds of Foods May Help Prevent ALS A new health breakthrough says that eating colorful fruits and vegetables may delay or even prevent the condition known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or more widely known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The natural chemicals...

Could Wearing a Splint Help with Carpal Tunnel?

Could Wearing a Splint Help with Carpal Tunnel?Carpal tunnel syndrome, or CTS as it has been nicknamed, can create quite a lot of pain when it flares up. And this pain often lingers for days. Resting sometimes helps, but more likely than not, as soon as you start using your...

The Summertime Staple You Should Be Wearing This Winter

The Summertime Staple You Should Be Wearing This WinterHeading outdoors to do a little skiing or snowboarding? Great! The exercise you get could help your heart, lungs, and immune system stay healthy. But before you step out into the winter sun and snow, make sure you follow...