12 Tips to Minimize Allergies During Peak Allergy Season Over half of Americans (more than 50 million people) are allergic to one or more allergens, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). And never is it more apparent than during the springtime, when seasonal [...]
Diabetes and Your Oral Health: Facts You Need to Know Nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes, 6 million of whom have not yet been diagnosed. Another 57 million suffer from pre-diabetes, which often progresses to the full-blown disease, and many of these people are also unaware they have [...]
Physical Pain: 8 Non-Drug Tactics to Eliminate Back, Joint & Other Pain For the majority of Americans, pain -- either chronic or the kind that comes and goes -- is a way of life. More than half of us suffer from physical pain, which means that if you [...]
Spring Cleaning for Your Body: 10 Steps to Detoxify and Get Healthier for Spring > Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, the ancient healing system from India, both recommend springtime as the ideal season to detox your body. The rebirth of nature that happens during this time harmonizes with a [...]
Dangers of Fat in Your Blood Vessels … We all have fat in our blood vessels to varying degrees. This buildup of fatty substances, cholesterol, cellular waste products and more is called plaque, and most often it’s associated with atherosclerosis, which typically refers to a buildup of plaque in [...]
How to Have Younger Looking Skin: 9 Key Natural Steps George Orwell once said, "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." By that time the signs of life -- food, sun, smiling, frowning -- will certainly have either taken their toll on, or offered their protection to, [...]
Anti-Aging Benefits of Strengthening Your Core Do you run religiously on a treadmill for hours every week? Do you lift weights, too, and assume you’re covering all of your fitness basics? Well you’ve got a good start, but you’re missing out on a very important fitness staple that [...]
Research Shows You Can Worry Yourself Into Dementia and Even Alzheimer's It's well known that an optimistic attitude is good for you -- mentally and physically. Optimists are healthier, happier and likely to live longer than people who are not so cheerful. Over time, negative emotions like worry [...]
How to Prevent and Treat Sunburn It used to be that sunburns were as much a part of summer as picnics and pool parties. Today, we know that too much sun -- i.e. when your skin gets red and feels hot to the touch -- can, over time, [...]
Five Things to Beware of This Barbecue Season By now you have likely brought your barbecue grill out from hibernation and have it fired up from the proverbial start of summer: Memorial Day. Over 75 percent of American households own a barbecue grill (and more than half of [...]