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You remember the margarine commercial with the saying “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” That should be the message for more than just fake butter … it goes for fake sugar, too. Drinks and food with artificial sweeteners exact unhealthy revenge by your body. Tests at the University of Michigan show that when you take in artificial sweeteners, your body doesn’t respond by feeling satiated by these non-caloric flavorings.…
The best medicines are the ones that have many uses and applications. In Asian medicine, if an herb has only one or two applications, it is considered insignificant. Because ailments, diseases and pain do not happen in a vacuum, it is important that any treatment do more than one thing. Essential oils do just that. Peppermint oil, in particular, is broadly effective at treating and easing a number of issues…
Want to elude father time and live a longer healthier life? There’s one dependable food that can improve your chances. In the search for extending your life expectancy, researchers offer one word: nuts. A study in the Netherlands shows that eating about half a handful of nuts or peanuts (although, technically, peanuts aren’t nuts, they’re legumes) every day gives you a lower risk of dying during the next few decades.…
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! The dog days of summer are yet to come, but in Alabama even the mid-June heat is oppressive. Once-tolerable activities like walking the dog or mowing the lawn are now major energy zappers. But there’s no rest for the weary; these things still have…
Too much stress can wreck your health. But scientists have found an uncomplicated approach that can take the bite out of its destructive effects. It may not always be easy, but if you can keep calm, cool and collected in the face of the stress that frequently confronts you, you can tamp down stress’s ill effects on your immune system and avoid its long term influence. Researchers at the Center…
If drug companies and many doctors can be believed, taking vitamins and other supplements are a waste of time. But is this true? Or do preventive, natural methods to stay healthy beat the high cost and suffering that results when you fall for the hype that doctors and Big Pharma know best when it comes to your well-being? If you analyze the benefits of supplements, as have researchers at the…
If you’ve been scared off of eating meat because of research supposedly linking it to colon cancer and other illnesses, you’ve been misled by a meaty oversimplification. It’s the kind of meat you eat that’s important. A certain natural chemical in the right kind of meat helps your digestive tract … and kills cancer cells. The problem with many of the studies that warn you off meat is that the…
Skin cancer … just the thought of suffering from it is overwhelming. But we have to think about it because here’s something even more overwhelming: One in five Americans will be diagnosed in their lifetime. And 3.5 million cases in over 2 million people are diagnosed each year. That’s more than all new cases of breast, prostate, lung and colon cancers combined. And these numbers are rising. Fast. There are…
Summertime is when many of us get more exercise – jogging, swimming, playing ball, biking and doing other outdoor activities. But when you are outside during the warmer months, you have to watch out for the type of wave that is the most deadly – and it isn’t a tsunami. It’s a heat wave. If you’re an outdoor exerciser, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on the temperature…
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 have a confession to make: I like my water plain. I don’t even want ice in it most of the time. But my children really like flavored water, so I looked for and found a recipe for a Mexican drink that is essentially…