Category: Health Conditions

Apple Peels Put to the Test for Chronic Joint Pain

Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters? Regular apple intake is associated with all sorts of good things, like living longer—particularly a lower risk of dying from cancer. Here’s the survival curve of elderly women who don’t eat an apple a day. Ten years out, nearly…


Music Therapy Can Help Heal Neurological Diseases

They say music soothes the soul. It also soothes the brain, according to recent scientific studies. People with all kinds of neurological disorders like dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease are responding well to music therapy. In fact, some of the results doctors and music therapists are seeing are quite remarkable. What is music therapy? It is the simple…


Thrombosis vs. Embolism: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

Thrombosis and embolisms are different conditions, but they’re both characterized by a blood clot. Thrombosis happens when a thrombus, or blood clot, forms in a blood vessel. As a result, blood flow through the vessel is reduced. With an embolism, a piece of a blood clot (embolus), foreign object, or other bodily substance becomes lodged…


Cardamonin Shows Promise for Improving Tumor Therapy

A compound found in the spice cardamom shows promise in slowing the growth of an aggressive form of malignancy. These are other steps you can take to prevent tumors or support treatment. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Triple-negative breast cancer is among the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, which researchers showed responded positively in the lab when…


Discover 4 Incredibly Simple Ways to Increase Bone Density

Bone density becomes increasingly important as we age.  For some, bones become so brittle that a fall can lead to a fracture.  The challenge, of course, lies in figuring out how to maintain healthy bone density. A good bone density is easier to maintain when you consume foods rich in vitamin C and calcium.  Healthy foods…


How to Prevent Blood Sugar & Triglyceride Spikes After Meals

Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling our artery function, thickening our blood, and causing a fight-or-flight nerve response. Thankfully, there are foods we can eat at every meal to counter this reaction. Standard American meals, rich in processed junk and meat and dairy, lead to exaggerated…


Kids Who Walk to School Are More Likely to Stay Active

Children who walk or bike to school at a young age are more likely to continue the healthy habit as they age, according to a new study. “The walk to school is a wonderful moment in the day that provides children a glimpse of living an active lifestyle,” says David Tulloch, a professor of landscape…


‘Brain Fog’ During Menopause Is Real – It Can Disrupt Women’s Work and Spark Dementia Fears

For nearly two-thirds of women, menopause comes with an undesirable change in memory. Despite great progress in understanding the medical aspects of menopause – a natural part of life that occurs when a woman has not had a menstrual period for 12 months – we are only beginning to recognise the experience and impact of…


Pharmaceutical Adverse Reactions Are Skyrocketing

Researchers published some shocking statistics about the dramatic rise in adverse drug reactions in the UK in a study published in BMJ Open in July. Many of these adverse reactions were related to the number of prescriptions prescribed to the study participants. “Polypharmacy,” the term for prescribing multiple drugs, is at the heart of an…


The Body Is the Best Doctor: How to Harness Your Natural Ability to Heal Yourself

The average person who finds out they have cancer is faced with a frightening number of decisions. Those of us who have been there, understand that standing at the precipice of a cliff is not only scary, it’s mind-numbing. But don’t let the fear paralyze you. The first thing to do is to take a…