What’s the biggest health scourge America faces today?
Heart disease is a good answer. It kills more Americans than anything else.
Cancer comes in a close second.
Alzheimer’s is another good guess, especially since there is nothing doctors can do to stop it or even slow it down.
Diabetes is also terrible and has reached epidemic proportions. Nearly half of American adults now have prediabetes or full-blown diabetes. … Read More
Eat eggs without guilt…even if you have heart problems, high cholesterol, or diabetes.
That’s the message from a new study that debunks warnings from mainstream doctors that we shouldn’t eat eggs.
For decades, conventional physicians have been telling us that eggs are one of the worst foods for your heart. They raise cholesterol, they said. They increase the risk of heart attack, they said. … Read More
There are few things more horrible than watching a loved one die of Alzheimer’s. Each day they lose more of themselves.
Not only does the disease destroy their memory and intelligence, but it wipes out their personality. It takes away the very essence of who they are.
Alzheimer’s can run in families. So while watching a blood relative sink into the abyss of the disease, you can’t help but wonder if you’re seeing your own future. … Read More
Health regrets? Most of us have a few.
Maybe you were a smoker. Maybe you didn’t exercise enough or eat right.
And now that you’re older, it’s catching up to you.
Not only is your body out of shape, your mind is not as sharp as it used to be.
New research shows that one food can help seniors overcome a lifetime of health sins to delay brain aging.… Read More
There was a time when walking was a standard medical treatment.
In her book Your Brain on Nature, Dr. Eva Selhub of Harvard Medical School notes that health resorts and “sanitariums” sprang up in newly urbanized America during the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s.[1]
There, doctors would treat patients with long nature walks. They saw walking as an antidote to sedentary city living. … Read More
When it comes to food oils, we have a confusing array of choices when we go to the grocery store.
Olive oil… corn oil… canola oil… peanut oil… soybean oil… sunflower oil… safflower oil…and many others.
Which ones should you be eating?
A new study shows that the most widely consumed oil may also be the unhealthiest.[i]
In 2015, researchers from the University of California, Riverside gave mice soybean oil.… Read More