When you have blood, urine, stool, or laboratory tests, you are being compared to a lot of other people. The laboratory takes thousands of results like yours and plots them...
In the 1964 comedy, The Disorderly Orderly, the hospital orderly Jerome Littlefield (played by Jerry Lewis) had a serious problem. Every day that he came to work at the hospital, sick...
“You need more fiber.” We’ve all heard it before, from the doctor, from a concerned friend. But they’ve all said it for good reason! Fiber is critical for your entire...
Saturated fats and trans fats are generally considered "bad" because they increase the production of LDL cholesterol. They also cause plaque to form in the coronary arteries, narrowing them and forcing...
Haidee went to an anti-aging doctor a couple of years ago and was given human growth hormone (HGH) to prevent aging and improve her endurance. She wanted to continue taking...
When author Isak Dinesen poetically wrote, “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea,” her statement was more accurate than she may have realized—especially when it comes...
Have you ever had the experience of smelling something that causes you to relive an old experience? You actually feel the old feeling as if you were living it again...
You are curled up beside the fire with a cup of tea. You have your cozy socks and slippers on and are snuggled up in a warm throw blanket. Everything...
“BUT HE HAD THE PNEUMONIA SHOT, HE CAN’T HAVE PNEUMONIA!” said the distraught daughter of an elderly man in a nursing home with a severe case of pneumonia. She had...
Vitamin B12 is one of those micronutrients that our bodies require in order to live and thrive. Vitamin B12 also goes by the name cyanocobalamin. (No wonder we’ve shortened it...
Okay, try to say this ten times real fast, “How much nooch could a smooching pooch mooch, if a smooching pooch could mooch nooch?” No, you didn’t land by accident...
It's important to pay attention to the signs and signals the body gives us. Diabetes has a number of early signs, but because they're rather subtle, you might not notice....
