Bad news about the effects of prescription sleep drugs
If you take just 18 sleeping pills in a year – about once every three weeks – you may be more than tripling your risk of death. Researchers in the UK have recently published an [...]
Maintaining Workout Motivation
Just as yo-yo dieting is bad for weight loss, having an on-again, off-again relationship with working out is not good for your health. Stay on track with these tips. Work out like crazy. Slack off. [...]
Good Holiday Habits
Does the word "holidays" conjure up images of cookies and pies, gorging yourself on turkey and all the trimmings, and consequently packing on the pounds? It doesn't have to! Healthy eating can be a realistic [...]
What your skin reveals about your health
Our skin is often a helpful indicator of what’s going on inside the body. Common symptoms such as acne can be a sign of hormonal imbalance or, in the case of deep cystic acne, also [...]
Train your taste buds
Eating a lot of sugar-laden and high fat foods will change the flavors that our taste buds expect. So if you give your children a lot of sweet, salty, high fat foods throughout the day [...]
Spongebob May Be Bad for Kids’ Brains
Some popular television may have a negative effect on children’s brain function. New studies are examining whether fast-paced, fantastical television has short- and long-term effects. One study divided sixty 4-year-old children into three groups. One [...]