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Three million men in the U.S. are currently living with prostate cancer. If you want to survive this scourge, a 14-year study shows that adjusting what you eat at dinner tonight may offer your best bet. If you’re a devotee of articles about natural health, you’ve read about the dangers of the typical American, overly-processed diet. And now researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have provided…
The destructiveness of arthritis is a gradual autoimmune process. As it slowly inflames joints, it cuts back on your ability to move, causing pain and stiffness. In the beginning throes of the condition, it may seem like a mild annoyance. But once it becomes chronic and well-established its inflammation grows into a major lifestyle issue because it hurts so much. If you suffer from arthritis, you’re far from alone. I’ve…
Medical researchers have been seeking a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease for decades without success. Since there’s no cure in sight, you should take the most important precautions right now that lower your risk for brain problems as you age. Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, have found that four central risk factors that are involved in heart disease are just…
I keep reading about the health effects of coffee, yet I have been taught all my life to stay away from this beverage. Seems there are articles and opinions on both sides. It gives me confidence to know that there are actually loads of science about coffee’s health benefits and potential adverse effects…so I’d like to share with you what I’ve learned about coffee and caffeine — including that you…
Many Americans are victims of diabetes and insulin resistance, thanks to the unstoppable marketing of processed foods by big food companies. And without the proper precautions, morning may be the most dangerous time for your blood sugar if you have these problems. A study at Tel Aviv University in Israel shows that if you have type 2 diabetes and you skip breakfast, you can harmfully alter your body’s blood sugar…
Claim your FREE copy of Doctor’s Inside Secrets for Natural Cleansing and Detoxification and your FREE subscription to Easy Health Digest™ when you sign up today! I went for my annual physical last week, and my doctor asked about my digestive health. “No worries there,” I told him, “I eat prunes every day.” In case you don’t know, prunes are dried plums. A few years ago, the dried fruit got…
Despite what you may have heard, you don’t have to pay a fortune to eat healthy. Follow the right path, and you may even find you save money by foregoing the ‘convenient’ health risks of processed foods. Megan Kimble, a writer who focuses on health and food in Tucson, Arizona, spent a year researching how to eat an unprocessed diet on a tight budget and has written a book about…
The tart cranberry, which is an excellent source of vitamin C and other antioxidants, can protect your body by keeping a large number of ailments at bay. Luckily for us, a rich source of polyphenols and proanthocyanidins is only a glass of cranberry juice away. Among the commonly consumed fruits in our diets, cranberries boast some of the highest levels of polyphenols — more than apples, blueberries, grapes or cherries.…
Concussions and traumatic brain injury, or TBIs, affect over a million Americans every year. The vast majority are relatively mild, not requiring hospitalization. However, even in these mild concussions, over 75% will develop chronic pain, problems with memory and attention, irritability, and other neurocognitive issues that interfere with school, work, and family life. When people are discharged from the emergency room after a TBI, they usually receive little guidance on…
It is a thoroughly ingrained “fact” in America that people who have hypertension must avoid salt. It is so thoroughly ingrained as fact that reasonable discussion on the subject with otherwise reasonable people is almost impossible. I know people who will all but come to blows over salt and refuse to eat any food in which salt is added if they know it beforehand. But according to respected integrative medicine…