Do you get a good night’s sleep? Many people think that tossing and turning will only hurt your neck and back and make you irritable the next day. A new study conducted by Dutch researchers has found that not sleeping enough hours each night can impact the production of insulin in the body. The study was […]
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Can you satisfy your craving for Mexican food while considering your nutritional health?
It's been many years since I had to prepare lunches for schoolchildren. But I did do it for more than a decade, and mostly on a budget. With hot lunches at many schools being costly or of poor nutritional value, it is certainly wiser and healthier to pack your own.
Doctor's have given chocolate lovers a reason to celebrate with their findings in a recent heart-health study.
Sometimes eating healthy can be expensive but here are some items that won't break your pockets!
Could you be driving a perfectly good relationship onto a crash course? If you’re participating any of the following five romance-foiling pitfalls, the answer is yes. Instead of steering toward failure, you can increase your chances for a long-term love affair by avoiding these common self-destructive practices. 1. You’re frequently disappointed by your partner’s gifts […]
VIA: WEBMD.COM. PHOTO VIA: TOPNEWS.NI Diet, sleep, fitness, and more — how to strengthen and protect your heart right now How do you get a healthier heart, right now? The answer sounds too good to be true: “By simply leading a healthier life,” according to Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of New York […]
A new study finds that laughing a lot can actually make you healthier by lowering blood pressure and bad levels of cholesterol. Laughing was also found to increase a person’s appetite, relax their mood and reduce stress hormone production. You have probably heard of the saying, “laughter is the best form of medicine” and this study […]
A potentially deadly airborne fungus, widely dubbed the killer fungus, has infected more than 50 people in the U.S., according to the CDC, and is expected to spread from the Pacific Northwest where it first surfaced. Even so, public health officials say, there is cause only for concern and awareness, but not for alarm. The […]
With many Americans working longer hours many of them have started to take vitamins to supplement from some of the nutrients they’re missing. Now health experts are saying that vitamins may cause more harm than they may help.
A lot of times when we have a head ache, or heart burn we just brush it off as the norm; but what about that one time that it is not the norm? We should always pay attention to the warning signs. Here is a list of the seven warning signs you should never ignore.
Some foods get a bad rap for no good reason. Take chocolate, beef, and cheese, for example - we call them naughty nibbles and blame them for our high cholesterol, heart problems, and widening waistlines. But are they really so bad for us? Toronto-based dietitian Zannat Reza gives the lowdown on five so-called bad foods that are actually good for you.
