Prevent Inflammation, Disease, Pain without Drugs You get a splinter in your finger, and you notice that the area where the splinter is lodged gets red, swollen and starts to throb with pain. Or you get a headache — you…
E-Cigarette Explosions
Exploding E-Cigarettes Can Injure Users Seriously, Cause Fires Electronic cigarettes came on the market only recently, heralded as healthier, safer alternatives for cigarette smokers wanting to quit smoking. Instead of cancer-causing smoke, lung-coating tar, and the thousands of chemicals in…
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…
Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Doctors, Universities, Agencies Billions
Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Doctors, Universities, FDA Billions of Dollars; Critics Say that’s a Conflict of Interest If you’re a fan of natural remedies, you’re already aware of the real dangers posed by many pharmaceutical drugs and devices. Whether it’s the…
Americans Drink More Water than Sodas
Is Drinking Water Important? Public health authorities have made inroads in convincing Americans that drinking water is very important for good health. From the late 1970’s to the late 1990’s, people in the United States were drinking more soda than…
Pesticides and Farmers’ Mental Health
Use of Pesticides Linked to Suicides, Depression Among Farmers As people have become increasingly concerned about toxic chemicals in our food, air and water, worries have been raised about what synthetic pesticides could be doing — or are doing —…
Eating More After the Holidays
People Eat More Food After the Holidays, Says Study! Millions of Americans make the New Year’s resolution each year to lose weight — it’s the most common yearly resolution. But according to a recent study, many people may actually be…
Young at Heart Live Longer
People Who Feel Younger than Their Age Live Longer, Study Finds We’ve heard life-loving older folks boast that they feel a lot younger than their chronological age. Well, according to a study published recently in the Journal of the American…
BPA Exposure from Store Receipts, and How to Avoid It
In our chemical-laden world, toxic chemicals are often hard to avoid. Add one more way in which we can unknowingly expose ourselves to harmful chemicals: cash register receipts. Studies have shown that a large percentage of thermal-paper receipts we get…
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…