Advice about face masks is all over the map…
You may have heard that they do nothing to protect you. They only stop you from spreading coronavirus if you’re infected.
You may have also heard that you shouldn’t wear face masks because there is a shortage of them and medical professionals need them more than you do.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted this in February: “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS!… Read More
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that opioid painkillers have caused a deadly wave of addiction in the U.S. over the last decade.
More than 400,000 Americans have died from overdoses. Many thousands more have been turned into addicts, their lives destroyed after their doctors prescribed them pain medications that Big Pharma swore were safe.[1]
But through all the death, addiction, and pharmaceutical industry lies, one thing was assumed to be true: Opioids effectively reduce pain.… Read More
Perhaps the most annoying thing about wearing a face mask is that they can cause your glasses to fog up.
Not only is it irritating, but it can be dangerous if you are driving or doing something else that requires sharp vision.
Foggy glasses happen when your breath seeps through the top of your mask. The warm air meets the cooler lenses and causes condensation.… Read More
Sugar has become perhaps our biggest dietary villain. It’s linked to virtually all the biggest killers that plague Americans: obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes… The list goes on and on.
Most of us think we know why sugar is harmful: It is packed with empty calories. It makes us fat while providing no nutrition. But new research shows there’s another way sugar damages our bodies and cuts our lives short.… Read More
There’s a health danger that is spreading even faster than the coronavirus.
Misinformation about COVID-19 is rampant.
Hundreds of Facebook posts and YouTube videos have gone viral with claims about the pandemic that have no basis in fact.
A study published online in BMJ Global Health has attempted to gauge the problem.[1]
The researchers focused on YouTube. They searched the website for the most popular videos having to do with coronavirus and COVID-19.… Read More
The coronavirus pandemic has us all thinking more about our lungs.
What many of us don’t know is that it’s easy to damage your respiratory system without knowing it. Potential lung dangers lurk where you’d least expect it.
Here are six ways you may be unknowingly hurting your lungs.