Breathing-Based Yoga May Help Lift Depression
Depression is the most prevalent mental illness in the United States, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. The numbers are staggering:...
5 Health-Harming Ingredients to Avoid in Plant-Based Milks
Plant-based milk options are multiplying rapidly. In addition to classics like soy and rice milk, you can now find new varieties such as…
Almond...
7 Reasons to Start Bouncing!
For years, the only people who regularly jumped on trampolines were children, elite athletes, and NASA astronauts. But recently, as information about the remarkable...
Can’t Stand the Sound of Chewing? Here’s Why … And What Can Help
Crunch, slurp, sniff, wheeze—if you can’t stand common sounds like these, you may have a condition called misophonia. Those with misophonia respond to their...
Most Fad Diets Use the Same Guidelines
It seems like every other month, a new fad diet comes out, declaring new revolutions in the science and health community that guarantee quick...
Exercise Prevents and Even Reverses Aging on a Cellular Level
Scientists have known for years that many of the changes commonly attributed to aging actually arise from inactivity. Because of this, exercise can prevent...
The Superbug Crisis
Superbugs: A Public Health Crisis
The use of antibiotics in meat affects every single person on the planet in a very big way—whether or not...
One Hour of Sleep: A Matter of Life and Death
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety recently conducted the first-ever study to actually quantify the relationship between lack of sleep and car crash risk....
Experts Believe We Need Taxes and Restrictions on Soda to Protect Public Health
For millions of Americans, soda is their drink of choice, despite the link to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity,...
Benefits of Turmeric Root: Curcumin and Its Powerful Anti-Cancer Properties
An $8 “Nutritional Chemotherapy” for Cancer
An extract from the turmeric root, called curcumin, has been shown in...