Common Thanksgiving Health Woes
November 28, 2016Thanksgiving is a time for families to get together. With it comes the ruckus of roughhousing and cooking too much food at any given time. With so many people inside the house, it’s no wonder that accidents and mishaps happen – and your health can be compromised. Here are some of the common health woes […]
Monsanto’s Deadly Poison in Foods
November 27, 2016The most used agricultural chemical in history is Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. In 2014 farmers sprayed enough glyphosate to apply 0.8 pounds of this chemical to every acre of cultivated cropland in the U.S. and nearly 0.5 pounds of this chemical to all cropland worldwide. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) […]
Just for fun I have listed below some of the amazing medical facts and thought it would be good to share these. 1) Did you know that from the age of 30, humans begin to shrink? 2) Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight. 3) The surface […]
Going back to prehistoric time it is believed that peppermint was used medicinally. Peppermint is known to be one of the world’s oldest medicines. The history goes back as far as Roman times where the Romans and Greeks used peppermint to flavor food, wine and sweets. It was also mentioned by Aristotle that it […]
Debunking Myths: Can You Get Sick from the Rain?
November 24, 2016Do you remember getting sick after getting caught in the rain? You may have suddenly developed the sniffles after being surprised by a downpour, or after hurrying from your office to your car in a torrential rainfall. Or maybe you found yourself sneezing incessantly after trying to beat the rain. With the fall season upon […]
Even though broccoli is a “super food”, not everybody likes it. It offers much in the way of health benefits and researchers have found even more super reasons to eat broccoli. Researchers from the University of Illinois have identified genes controlling the accumulation of phenolic compounds in broccoli. Consumption of these compounds, including certain flavonoids, […]
Cancer Patients, Watch Your Words!
November 22, 2016Charles Ruhigg is an investigator reporter for the New York Times and author of the book, The Power of Habit. I once heard him give a great interview on how words we speak can be from a habit we have. Have you ever realized that just about everything we do in life is a habit? […]
Here is some interesting new findings! A sibling or first-degree relative who has a history of staph infection, significantly increases a person’s risk for the disease. The sex, comorbid conditions or direct contamination of the family member does not matter. Results of this study are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Over the past few […]
Thanksgiving is among the holidays wherein people tend to overindulge, along with Christmas. With the stuffed turkey filled to the brim, most people would make every effort to make it in time for the Thanksgiving dinner and to be with their families. It is a time for most families to reconnect and to see their […]
Cell Changes that Affect Breast Cancer Growth
November 20, 2016In order to fight cancer, you must know as much as you can about the molecular workings of cancer growth. Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shown how small, radically imperceptible structural changes in a key breast cancer receptor are directly linked to regulating molecules and can produce predictable […]
