Everyone remembers the first time they fell in love. No matter what stage you were at in life, you can attest to the "puppy love" feelings that made you feel on top of the world. According to science, those feelings aren't merely passing sensations - they're real chemical reactions within your brain that actually deliver wonderful [...]
Keeping your body and mind healthy can be a challenge, especially if you stress out every time you think about it. But simple changes are easy when adding just a little something extra to your daily routine. Increase the number of healthy living choices you make every day by following the 5 basic steps of [...]
Every new year is a chance to make better choices and improve your health. You start the year with a blank slate, like a white room with empty walls. The health and lifestyle choices that you make for yourself add color to your room. The more healthy choices you make, the more vibrant your room becomes. [...]
What Does Detox Mean? When you go on a detox, you cleanse the blood in your body by eating healthier and staying away from unhealthy substances. When detoxifying, you remove the toxins in your body as well as eliminate the impurities from the blood in your liver. Think of it like pushing your liver to work double-time in [...]
Childhood obesity is an epidemic that is happening all across America. With the proliferation of junk foods and sweetened drinks that are available to kids, it can be hard for parents to monitor exactly how much they are consuming. Also, the rise of mobile entertainment and video games have resulted in an increasingly sedentary population [...]
Americans are more obese than the majority of other countries in the world. This is probably due to the Western culture of larger meal portions, lack of exercise, and our love of unhealthy habits. In fact, more than one-third of US adults are obese. That is 78.6 million people. What is more astonishing is that the estimated [...]
Around the holidays you might feel as though you’ve put on 10 pounds, but research indicates that the average American gains about one pound between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Unfortunately, this data from the New England Journal of Medicine, is nearly a decade old and sure to be outdated by now. In more recent studies, the Journal of Clinical Medicine [...]
It seems like common sense, but your parents were on to something when they told you to eat your vegetables and exercise regularly. According to recent studies, in many cases, lifestyle plays a huge role in whether or not you will end up with cancer. In a five year long study with over 7,000 scientific [...]
Alarming numbers of children are being diagnosed with Attention-Deficient/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) these days. A CDC survey completed last year found an estimated 6.4 million children ages 4 to 17 had been diagnosed at some point, a 53 percent increase over the past decade. [i] Doping these children with dangerous, mind-altering medications like Ritalin is common [...]
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