Tagged as: Health
The Real Benefits of Drinking Green Tea
Healers have promoted green tea as a powerful elixir for centuries. Packed with potent plant-based benefits, continued consumption of green tea is believed to have strong effects on health. Green tea benefits naturally improve overall wellbeing. Green tea’...
6 Health Tips For Better Aging
As the years pass, it may become more and more difficult to maintain overall health. The chaos of juggling a family, climbing a career ladder or managing a mortgage may reduce your ability to stick to a routine. With other challenges on the horizon, following ...
An Antibiotic Scorecard For Your Favorite Fast Food Joints
The 25 largest fast food chains in the United States are getting schooled -- not surprisingly, the report card doesn't look so good.The meat sold by the nation's major fast food providers has been analyzed for its antibiotic content. The scorecard expo...
HIV Vaccine Shows Promise in Primates
A team at the Scripps Research Institute in California has discovered a new means to fight HIV, which could forever change the way the virus is treated and prevented. A different means of approaching vaccination, the treatment has started to show promise i...
Blood Transfusions Potential Cure for Ebola
The military hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, conducted a controlled clinical trial in which 35 ebola patients received blood transfusions from donors who survived the disease. Though comparisons with the control arm of the study are not currently avail...
Taboo Medicine: Ayahuasca
The connection between the mind and body is as unbreakable as it is complex. Human beings are unique organisms, leaving health professionals with the never-ending task of uncovering different remedies for disease. Despite all that remains undiscovered, pol...
To Eat Meat, or Not to Eat Meat
It is no secret that "vegetarianism" and "veganism" have been on the rise in recent years. According to a New York Magazine article, "perhaps inspired by Jay Z and Beyoncé's 22-day vegan diet or the recent outing of Al Gore as a 'newly turned vegan,' news ...
Understanding Monsanto: Health Effects
As words like “organic” and “non-GMO” permeate our daily lives, we start to search for their true meaning. Although Monsanto is not the only company that produces genetically modified agriculture, its products and practices are a major focus of public contempt...
Men seeking youth may actually find death
Watch any football game or a news program, and you’re almost sure to see one of those commercials about how a-little-dab’ll-do-ya of testosterone can banish the “low-T” blues and put spark back into your life.
The ads work. Almost 3 percent of American men ag...
A cholesterol drug that comes with a side order of Diabetes
People on a high-dose regimen of the cholesterol drug Lipitor may have a slightly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes -- particularly if they have several of the classic diabetes risk factors, a study published Monday finds.A number of studies hav...