By Lisa Pecos Is eating healthy one of your New Year’s resolution? Eating healthy can be daunting, but these 5 simple swaps will help. Not only are they easy changes to make, but they’re also delicious so you don’t feel…
Lifestyle Changes More Important than Drugs for Diabetes
Healthy Habits Work Better for Diabetes than Drugs, Say Many Doctors Diabetes and prediabetes are potentially very serious, chronic conditions that are rising in incidence at a shocking rate. Currently, the number of diabetics and prediabetics in the United States…
Foods that Improve Circulation Naturally
Improve Blood Flow with the Foods You Eat Many of us are aware of the great importance of healthy blood circulation to our whole well-being. Poor circulation can result in milder problems, such as cold extremities and water retention; moderate…
Cholesterol Not as Bad as Once Thought
Health Experts Now Agree: Cholesterol Not as Bad as Most Doctors Believed For decades, Americans were told that they needed to carefully watch their cholesterol, as high cholesterol was linked to cardiovascular disease. Prescriptions in the United States for cholesterol-lowering…
14 Million Disease Cases Caused by Smoking
Cigarettes Cause 14 Million Cases of Diseases and One-Third of All Cancer Deaths in U.S. Quitting cigarettes is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions for people who smoke. This year, a pair of recent studies may give those…
Number of Americans with Diabetes Doubled in 25 Years, Study Found
Most people have heard by now that the United States is in the middle of a large, and growing, diabetes epidemic. A recent review of statistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that an astounding 2 out…
Exercise as Effective as Drugs in Treating Cardiovascular Disease and Prediabetes
If you are one of the many folks taking medications for cardiovascular disease or prediabetes, a new study has found that getting regular exercise is often as effective, or more so, than taking medications. Instead of adding insult to injury,…