How to Lose Weight Fast? – 16 Steps to get you started

While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don’t go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably. Read More »

Best Home Remedies for Upset Stomach

You and the wife celebrated your promotion with dinner at your favorite barbecue joint. You’ve been working hard for months, you think, so you deserve to cut loose a little. On the way home you groan and mutter that you wish you had stopped after that first barbecue platter. Your wife shrugs her shoulders. You both know the price for your revelry will be a painful night of bloating, gas and heartburn. Read More »

10 Health Habits That Will Help You Live to 100

The biggest factor that determines how well you age is not your genes but how well you live. Not convinced? Read More »

Think Before You Ink: Are Tattoos Safe?

Some color inks are harder to remove than others. Many repeat visits every several weeks may be required to remove a tattoo, and it may never be entirely gone. Read More »

Want tighter abs or bigger biceps?

There is a strong connection between muscle mass and good health, says Robert Wolfe, director of Translational Research in Aging and Longevity at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. “As we age, we tend to lose muscle, especially if we are not using it,” says Wolfe. “These losses eventually affect quality of life, our balance, strength and ability to recover from an illness or accident.” Read More »

Cheers! Drinking with friends good for you

Having a supportive social network enhances the health benefits of having a few drinks, new research from Japan suggests.

The study of Japanese men years found that moderate to light alcohol consumption, coupled with high levels of social support, were linked to lower rates of heart disease and stroke. Read More »

9 Resistance foods to boost immunity

It takes more than an apple a day to keep viruses at bay. You can improve your body’s resistance by getting your seven servings of fruits and veggies and eight to 10 glasses of water a day, at the very least. While an all-around diet is the key to stronger immunity, these particular immune system-boosting foods and ingredients can keep you in fighting condition. Read More »

7 Foods you may think are healthy, but are not

Pick a fruit, any fruit, and you know it’s good for you. It’s the same with vegetables and many whole grain foods. They deserve their nutritional halos. Some foods, however, have gotten the healthy nod, when they’re actually laden with fat, sugar or both. Some of you may be scratching your heads, wondering, “you mean, frozen yogurt isn’t good for me?” Read More »

Coke, McDonald’s & Nestle get kids personal info

JUNK food companies are collecting children’s personal details via websites to direct marketing messages to them.New advertising regulations standards and privacy concerns have not stopped companies such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Nestle obtaining children’s phone numbers, dates of birth, and even home addresses through their youth-friendly websites. Read More »

Dentists sell out to Coca-Cola

This past month, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) announced they were accepting a million dollar research grant from Coca-Cola. Read More »

Top 10 Diets

Diets are all rage now a days, with our population being almost 50% (depending on the statistic), overweight people are looking for quick solutions to decreasing their body fat as fast as possible. With that in mind there are certain diets that work better at keeping the weight off than others. Many diets focus on drugs and a lack of calories which can’t be sustained over the long haul. Below is the best top 10 diets available: Read More »

Heart Attacks and Drinking Cold Water

The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating.

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.  Read More »

Red Wine is Good for You! Have a Glass Today!

Researchers have found that men who drink an average of four to seven glasses of red wine per week are only 52% as likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer as those who do not drink red wine, reports the June 2007 issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch. In addition, red wine appears particularly protective against advanced or aggressive cancers. Read More »

Food makers want to sell cheap food for big profits

Gone are the days of pushing “premium” food offerings, says the Wall Street Journal -big food manufacturers like Kraft and Campbell are going to be pushing “cheap” foods like tomato soup and cheese singles – foods which are thought of as “easy on the wallet” but are still hugely profitable for the manufacturers. Read More »

Man Sues Doctors For Amputating Penis

What part of “circumcision” was unclear? That’s basically what a Kentucky man and his wife are asking of two doctors who cut off the man’s penis while he was under the knife. The doctors say they discovered cancer and made an emergency decision. The man says, dude, wtf, you cut off my penis. It doesn’t grow back, and it was kind of important to me. Read More »

Spray-On Condoms: Still a Hard Sell

Edison had his lightbulb, Ford had his Model T, and Jan Vinzenz Krause has his spray-on condom. Inspired by the mechanics of a drive-through car wash, the German sexual-health educator designed a custom-fitting male contraceptive using liquid latex and some materials from a hardware store. “I felt a little like MacGyver,” he says of building the contraption. Read More »