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My name is Robert Rister, and I'm the author or co-author of nine books about the rational use of scientifically based natural remedies, including Healing without Medication, 753 pages of documented complementary healing techniques. I'm also the author of all the articles you can read on on Savvy Natural Healer website. I'm generally considered a "conservative" commentator on natural health. That means I take care to give you the facts, and to tell you ... [More]

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Does an Aspirin a Day Keep Diabetes Away?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Could an aspirin a day keep diabetes away? If the question is can taking an aspirin a day absolutely protect anyone against developing type II diabetes, the answer is no. But over a period of about 20 years, it just might.

What Causes Uterine Fibroids?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] The growth of uterine fibroids is fueled by estrogen, but other factors, especially the Pill, can make existing fibroids worse. Here is a brief discussion of the causes of fibroids, including one easily controllable risk factor most women have never heard of.

Water and Cancer Prevention
[Cancer] At first a famous experiment in a French cancer laboratory seemed to show that bacon prevented colon cancer. As the scientists looked at their data more closely, however, they learned what many of us already know: Drinking water prevents cancer.

Dr Budwig's Anti-Cancer Diet
[Cancer] Dr. Johanna Budwig, who died in 2003 at the age of 92, was a practicing physician in Germany for over 60 years. In the 1950's she noticed that people with cancer whose diets were rich in foods containing more linoleic and linolenic acids lived longer and were more likely to go into remission. To make sure her patients got these essential fatty acids, she devised a simple food supplement based on flaxseed oil and cottage cheese.

Food Safety and Cancer - Five Things Your Doctor Won't Tell You
[Cancer] Anyone who has cancer suffers a battered immune system. Cancer patients are often treated for anemia and neutropenia and put on anti-inflammatories and antibiotics. Some of these treatments are essential, but sometimes the best way for people who have cancer to avoid infections simple food safety. Here are five essential steps for wiping out food-borne diseases that cause so many people with cancer so much grief.

Is Organic Food Essential For Fighting Cancer?
[Cancer] Natural, organic, whole foods are the best choice for fighting cancer, but this is not an obvious conclusion from scientific research. That is because there are so many variables in treating people who already have cancer that the benefits of an organic diet cannot be identified separately from the positive effects of medical treatment and the simple benefit of getting regular, healthy, tasty, home-cooked meals in a loving environment. Still, it is a reasonable assumption that natural foods are better. Here is why.

What to Do About Lymphedema After Cancer Surgery
[Cancer] When a lymph node is removed to stop the spread of cancer, the flow of lymph can be interrupted. Lymph, proteins, and other substances can build up where they can no longer flow. The resulting swelling called lymphedema can be disfiguring, debilitating, and painful, but fortunately there are a great number of ways to get relief naturally.

Oxygen, Sodium, and Cancer
[Cancer] The famous Warburg Hypothesis taught that cancer cells shun oxygen and thrive on sugar. The practical implication of the Warburg Hypothesis, however, is less about sugar than about salt.

Are There Really Super Foods For Cancer?
[Cancer] Are there really super foods for treating cancer? Genetic differences mean that no one food works for everyone, but patterns of food choices can be extremely important in cancer recovery.

Enhance Cancer Recovery by Exercising Just Fifteen Minutes a Week
[Cancer] When people are first dealing with a diagnosis of cancer, exercise usually falls far down their list of priorities. Just a little exercise, as little as fifteen minutes a week, however, can make a crucial difference in preventing permanent disability, especially among people with cancer who are over the age of 65.

Green Tea in Treating Cancer
[Cancer] Sometimes so many people get great results with a nutritional supplement that responsible scientific researchers have to find the reason why. This article discusses the patient-driven research at the Mayo Clinic finding considerable benefit for green tea supplements for people who have leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the potential benefits of green tea for cancers of the colon, lungs, liver, prostate, and breast.

Cancer and the China Study - What the China Study Really Said About Vitamins and Cancer
[Cancer] If you were to walk into a natural products store and ask the manager which supplements you need to treat and beat cancer, the answer might be "All of them." The fact is, however, people who have cancer should emphasize different supplements at different stages of disease and recovery, and different people may need different supplements at the same stage of disease and recovery. But don't nutritional supplements always help? This article explains why statistics about cancer and nutrition are sometimes misleading, as the Chinese study of vitamin C and cancer shows.

Iron Overload Causing Arthritis, Cancer, and Diabetes - The Undiagnosed Real Cause of Many Diseases
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Over 3 million people suffer one of the iron overload diseases and don't know it. Hemochromatosis, beta-thalassemia, and sickle cell anemia, along with 20 other conditions can all result in a toxic and potentially fatal buildup of this nutrient, creating serious symptoms that can go misdiagnosed for years. This article tells you what you need to know about the iron build-up that takes special measures to reduce.

Asbestos, Diet, and Mesothelioma - Could Eating Right Prevent One of the Deadliest Cancers?
[Cancer:Lung-Mesothelioma-Asbestos] Probably no cancer is more difficult to treat than asbestoses-induced mesothelioma, but not everyone who is exposed to asbestos develops cancer. Could differences in diet explain why some people who have heavy exposure to asbestos do not develop mesothelioma, but other people who have minimal exposure to asbestos get the cancer? Could identifying the foods and nutrients that lower the risk of mesothelioma lead to a safe and effective treatment for the disease?

Prevent Prostate Enlargement With Lycopene
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] For over 10 years cancer experts have been telling men that the lycopene in tomatoes may protect them against prostate cancer. The good news is, it may protect them against prostate enlargement (BPH), too.

Do You Need a Moisturizer For Your Skin?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Some marketers would tell us that everyone, women and men, old and young and in between, people in desert dry climates and people in rainy snowy climates, needs a skin moisturizer all year round. Many of us really do need moisturizers, but not all the time. Here's how to choose.

Curing Rheumatoid Arthritis The Old-Fashioned Way
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Although I've never heard of anyone else who cured arthritis with fried catfish, my neighbor's general approach to dealing with her disease was scarcely unique. People who have rheumatoid arthritis and their doctors in their more honest moments will often tell you that some foods aggravate arthritis and other foods make it better.

The Dengue Fever Alert - What Travelers Need to Know
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] With the announcement of three deaths from dengue fever in Bolivia, travelers to Latin America should take sensible precautions. Dengue fever is occasionally epidemic throughout most tropical South American countries, and can affect large numbers of people.

What to Do About Enlarged Pores
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Once an unsightly blackhead has been removed and a pore is empty, it can take a while for the pore left behind to close up. You can, of course, accelerate the healing of enlarged pores with Renova, Retin-A, or Differin. You can have AHA peels, BHA peels, microdermabrasion, and laser resurfacing of the skin. But what can you do on a budget? Here are some simple suggestions.

Healing Masks For Blemishes
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Facial masks generally are not a good idea for daily skin care. While a clay or silicone or vegetable mask can feel good, most masks can irritate the skin. Sometimes, however, a facial mask is just the thing to heal blemishes. And the good news is, you can make them for just pennies.

Removing Blemishes
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] It's not a pretty topic, but there are simple ways to zap zits, to get rid of the blemishes that plague otherwise healthy skin. Here are the basics you need to know.

Exfoliating Oily Skin
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Exfoliation is essential for healthy skin. This process of removing the outer layer of damaged skin is necessary for every skin type, but different skin types benefit from different skin products. Here's the 4-1-1 for exfoliating oily skin.

Skin Care - How Do You Use AHAs and BHAs?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Many people use products with AHAs (also known as alpha-hydroxy acids, primarily for dryer skin) and BHAs (also known as beta-hydroxy acids, primarily for oilier skin) every day. But in our cost-conscious times, it is really important to know how to use expensive skin care formulas effectively. Here are the basics for using AHAs and BHAs for best results.

Polyhydroxy Acids in Skin Care - What They Are and Who Should Use Them?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Millions of women (and men) who use skin conditioners have tried alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs) to lift off the tired, dry, flaking layers of sun-damaged or winter-weary skin, but many people find them too harsh. AHAs, such as citric acid, glycolic acid, lactic acid, malic acid, and tartaric acids, have to irritate the skin just a little to lift away old cells. For people who find even that little bit of irritation too much, there are polyhydroxy acids (PHAs). Here's an explanation of what they are and who should use them.

What Makes a Great Moisturizer?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] In these days of budget consciousness, are there any ways of making sure the moisturizers you buy for your skin care routine are the very best for the money you pay? There are, and although I don't sell any skin care products myself, here are some suggestions for making sure the moisturizer you buy is the best for your skin.

Do Pore Strips Work?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Among the most heavily promoted products for acne care is the pore strip. A pore strip is a piece of cloth with some kind of sticky glue on it. You put them on your face, wait a few minutes for them to dry, and then pull them off, hoping you also pull off a blackhead. But do pore strips really work?

Allergies to Skin Care Products - What to Do
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Wouldn't it be nice to have a complete list of every ingredient in every skin care product that could cause an allergic reaction? That way you could go down the list and be sure that your skin care product was safe. Unfortunately, each and every human being has a unique immune system that keeps changing through life, and each and every person will react just a little differently to allergens that wind up in skin care items. Fortunately, there are things you can do to make allergies a far less frequent event.

Fragrances in Skin Care Products - Are They Safe?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Cosmetics manufacturers do not always tell you the whole story about the ingredients they put into their products and how they affect your skin. If you have ever had your skin "go crazy" after using a skin care product, if it has tingled, burned, swollen, blistered, reddened, bruised, or just plain felt bad, the product may have been the fragrance you thought just smelled good.

Heat is the Enemy of Your Skin
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] People can spend fortunes on skin care products while overlooking the number one cause of skin irritation, heat. But the good news is, this source of skin damage is almost completely avoidable.

Anti-Inflammatories and Anti-Irritants For Your Skin
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] It's important to avoid irritants and inflammatory chemicals in your skin care products, and to avoid extremes of hot and cold to protect your skin from wrinkling and the appearance of tiny veins, but there are also some things you can do stop inflammation and irritation from ever becoming a problem in the first place. Here is a quick overview of key ingredients to look for to keep your skin in glowing good health.

How to Be Gentle to Your Skin
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] I've written several articles telling people that the prime directive for successful acne treatment can be summed up in two words, "Wash less." Constant rubbing and drying of the skin not only does not cure acne, it can dry out the skin, shrink pores, and trap sebum inside. But everybody does need to wash every day, and when we do, we need to be gentle. Here's how to avoid the skincare culprits that irritate and inflame as they cleanse the skin.

Ayurvedic Skin Care
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Does the venerable Indian practice of alternative healing known as Ayurveda offer breakthrough discoveries for the health of your skin? While Ayurveda is not the pancea some marketers would have you believe, there is a growing scientific understanding of how its products work.

Five Dangerous Myths About Antibiotics
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] After the anthrax attacks of 2001, thousands of Americans took the antibiotic Cipro (ciprofloxacin) prophylactically in fear that they had been exposed to the deadly anthrax bacterium. Unfortunately, while fewer than one in 5,000 had actually been exposed to the disease, about one in five users of the antibiotic suffered serious side effects, including hives, swelling of the throat, and difficulty breathing. Even though many people think that antibiotics are harmless, these potent infection fighters actually can endanger your health and the health of your family if they are not used properly. Here are the top five myths about antibiotics and why not having the facts can cause you harm.

The Simple Steps For Preventing Side Effects From Common Medications
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] In 2009, side effects of prescription medications will account for an estimated 115 million doctor visits. These side effects will result in 8.5 million hospitalizations. As one of the leading causes of death, side effects from improperly prescribed prescription drugs will result in loss of life of over 100,000 people in the United States alone. And most of these deaths will have been preventable.

What You Need to Know About Baby Aspirin For Your Heart
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] A daily dose of a "baby" 81-milligram aspirin is the most common prescription in American for ongoing heart health. But a baby aspirin a day does not always keep the heart doctor away. Here's what you need to know about how much aspirin some people need to take, what kind to take, and when to take it.

The Hidden Dangers of Gum Disease For Your Heart
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Bad breath, cavities, and loose teeth. These are the consequences of gum disease everyone knows. But did you know that gum disease can also pose a danger to your heart and even cause pneumonia?

Stop Knee Pain Without Knee Surgery
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] There are many factors that predispose the knee to injury, bad alignment, different leg lengths, and loose joints to name just a few. You can't do anything about those knee pain risks on your own. There are many small changes to your lifestyle, however, that will prevent "bad knees" from becoming painful knees.

How to Keep Your Hips Healthy As You Age
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Every year more than 150,000 people in the Untied States alone undergo hip-replacement surgery. Many of these surgeries could be postponed or avoided altogether, however, with proper hip care. Here are the essentials.

Treating Children's Ear Infections Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Ears-Hearing] One of the best natural remedies for children's ear infections is something that your great-grandparents might have used, or you might use every day now, if you happen to live in Norway. For an understanding of why ear infections keep trying to come back and what you can do nutritionally to keep them away forever, read on.

Does Horny Goat Weed Really Make Men Horny?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Does horny goat weed, the common name of the Himalayan herb epimedium, really make men horny? Well, the answer seems to be that it makes old men horny, but there are reasons for men of all ages to take it.

Beer Drinker's Droop - Least Known, Most Important Cause of Impotence in Middle-Aged Men
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] It should not come to a shock to any of us that middle-aged men with beer bellies tend to develop erectile dysfunction (ED). But the problem may not be just the belly. It's also the beer.

Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetic Men - Treat it Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common problem in men who have had diabetes for five years of longer. Constant high blood sugars eventually "sugar coats" the nerves controlling the blood vessels into the penis. This biochemical caramelizing of nerve fibers takes away their ability to release nitric oxide, the chemical that causes blood vessels to open and engorge the penis with blood to make it erect.

Quebracho For ED
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Quebracho is the South American cousin of the well-known African herb yohimbe. As more and more men discover that the Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra they have been using for erectile dysfunction (ED) won't be covered by their insurance, more and more men are seeking aphrodisiac herbs that work.

Fighting Vaginal Dryness With Lactobacillus
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Vaginal drying is one of the most frequent complaints about menopause. A lack of lubrication leads to the development of red, itchy patches in the lining of the vagina and makes the vagina more subject to infection with Gardnerella, Trichomonas, and yeast. Ironically, the right kind of yeast is probably the best protection against post-menopausal dryness.

Are Hot Flashes Always Due to Menopause?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] We all know that hot flashes are one of the most common symptoms of menopause, but are they always due to menopause? Here's the information you need to know to choose whether to ask your doctor to test for something else.

Herbs For Hot Flashes
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] No single symptom turns more women to estrogen replacement therapy (ERT)than hot flashes. In women who have entered their "perimenopause," the two to seven years before complete menopause when periods are becoming irregular, and in women who have surgical menopause, the sensation of blood rushing to the head followed by heat, dizziness, redness, and profuse sweating is a common occurrence. Herbs, however, can also control hot flashes, sometimes as effectively as estrogen.

Restoring Male Sex Drive Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] There are a number of simple, practical, natural therapies that help restore the male sex drive. Here are just a few.

Homeopathy For Erectile Dysfunction
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] No scientific study has ever confirmed homeopathy as a reliable treatment for erectile dysfunction, but homeopathic remedies are entirely safe. Probably the reason science has not proved homeopathy for ED is that most scientific studies look for a single compound that works in every situation, while the objective of homeopathy is to find the exact treatment for the exact set of symptoms of the patient. Nonetheless, it often works.

Yohimbe For Erectile Dysfunction
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] Does the little blue pill conceal a deadly secret? The fact is, in some men, using Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra can extract a high price for sexual pleasure, including distorted vision, loss of coordination, fainting, and even death. Moreover, these prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction (ED) are not cheap and they are not covered by insurance or Medicare. That's why more and more men are turning to alternative remedies for impotence such as yohimbe.

All About Diabetic Neuropathy
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The tingling, burning, itching, and numbness of diabetic neuropathy are well known to all too many diabetics. But did you know that the condition can be triggered not just by high blood sugars but also by too much salt?

The Natural Wrinkle Cure
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] If the main cause of wrinkled skin is sun exposure, the main preventive measure would seem to be avoiding the sun. But if you already have wrinkles, what can you do. Fortunately, there are natural remedies for wrinkling that begin by making skin healthy from the inside out.

Understanding Wrinkles
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Everybody knows that wrinkles, age spots, creases, crow's feet, sagging, and sallow skin is caused by too much sun or too much smoking, but did you know they can also be caused by too much salt? Here's what you need to understand about the process of aging skin so that you can keep your own skin supple, healthy, youthful, and beautiful.

Treating Vitiligo Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] One of the first thing anyone who has patches of depigmented skin caused by vitiligo can do is to apply makeup. There is a variety of coverups for men and women, boys and girls, in a wide range of shades to match natural skin. Common brand names in the United States include Covermark, Dermablend, Chromelin, and Clinique. But there are other simple, holistic steps that can get at the causes of the disease.

Understanding Vitiligo
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] It's a vexing and misunderstood condition resulting in loss of pigment in irregular patches on the skin. It's vitiligo. And it's a condition science has only recently come to understand.

Diabetes Fuels Infection and Infection Fuels Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Whether you are a newly diagnosed diabetic or you have had diabetes for many years, one of the most critical aspects of blood sugar control is the profoundly negative effects of high blood glucose levels on the immune system. Infections, especially gum, bladder, and kidney infections, can wreak havoc on diabetes control. And poorly controlled blood sugars can feed gum, bladder, and kidney infections.

Treating Basal Cell Carcinoma
[Cancer:Skin-Cancer] Basal cell carcinoma is the most common cancer, but it's also the most easily treatable. Simple procedures that can be done in a doctor's office are usually sufficient, but there are also measures you can take at home to prevent recurrences.

Skin Cancer 101 - Antioxidants and Actinic Keratosis
[Cancer:Skin-Cancer] Actinic keratoses (the plural of actinic keratosis) are those tiny areas of sun-damaged skin that can metamorphose from slightly pink, slightly pink areas of inflammation to full-fledged squamous cell carcinoma, although only over a period of years. Fortunately, you can stop the progression and even reverse this form of skin pre-cancer with the judicious use of antioxidants.

Recognizing Basal Cell Carcinoma
[Cancer:Skin-Cancer] It's the most common of all skin cancers. It strikes 3 out of every 10 women and 4 out of every 10 men in the United States. It is diagnosed 900,000 times a year in the USA alone. This most common of all cancers is basal cell carcinoma.

Skin Cancer 101 - Recognizing Actinic Keratosis
[Cancer:Skin-Cancer] It's the most common form of skin cancer, but most of us have never heard of it. A keratosis is a growth on the skin, and an actinic keratosis is a growth on the skin that is activated by the sun. Actinic keratoses (the plural of actinic keratosis) are formed in summer sun but usually manifest themselves in winter when the skin dries out. And left unchecked, they can grow from barely noticeable blemishes to aggressive squamous cell carcinomas, capable of spreading throughout the body.

Cancer-Fighting Lingonberries
[Cancer] Have you ever heard of antizymes? Most foods are valued for their enzyme content, but the lingonberry of Swedish and Danish cuisine provides compounds that deactive enzymes needed for the spread of cancer, particularly estrogen-sensitive cancers. Here's what you need to know to enjoy this tart and tangy import from the Far North and to use it effectively.

Relieving Migraine With Homeopathy
[Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] One of the most common applications of homeopathic medicine is the treatment of migraine headaches. In its truest sense, homeopathy is about more than taking a little pill containing some infinitesimally small concentration of a natural substance.

Diet For Migraine
[Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] If eliminating migraine triggers doesn't work, what can you do instead of drugs? Both men and women who suffer migraine are typically deficient in magnesium. An imbalance between magnesium and calcium is an important factor in premenstrual migraine.

A Healthy Breakfast Helps You Control Your Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Dr. Won Song of Michigan State University and collaborators reported in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association that you're 30 per cent less likely to be overweight if you regularly eat breakfast - and you're a woman. The Michigan States Study of data from more than 4,000 people did not find that eating breakfast was linked to staying slimmer in men.

How to Avoid the Artery-Clogging Effects of a High-Fat Meal
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] If you want to avoid the atherogenic (artery clogging) effects of a high-fat meal, Dutch scientists say, the main thing to do is not to eat a second one, at least not within four hours of eating the first. That is, if you're not diabetic. If you are diabetic, the secret a successful heart healthy diet is not to eat carbs and fat at the same time.

Does Every Diabetic Diet Need Carbs?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] If you have been given a diabetic diet, chances are it's loaded with carbohydrates, despite the fact that those carbohydrates will make you need more insulin and more medication. Fortunately, there are ways you can make sure you get all the "fuel" you need without repeating the cycle of sugar rush and sugar crash after every meal.

Is Gestational Diabetes Really Diabetes?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Sometimes when women are diagnosed with high blood sugars during pregnancy, that is, with gestational diabetes, their doctors are so casual that they could wonder whether gestational diabetes is really diabetes. After all, some doctors say, you will probably be fine after you deliver, just keep your sugars in control for the time being. The problems is that uncontrolled blood sugars during pregnancy can be the first sign of a kind of diabetes that is neither type 1 nor type 2 called LADA.

What Can You Do About Diabetic Retinopathy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] What doctors don't tell diabetics about laser coagulation surgery for retinopathy is that everywhere the laser seals a blood vessel, the diabetic develops a tiny blind spot. Fortunately, there are things you can do that prevent or even reverse retinopathy without surgery.

What Causes Diabetic Retinopathy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Five or ten years after the onset of diabetes, many diabetics begin to notice that their vision is just a little fuzzy. They may think they need new glasses, but the changing lens does not help. In far too many cases the visual impairment is diabetic retinopathy, a condition caused by uncontrolled high blood sugars and high blood pressure that can lead to blindness if left untreated.

Swimmer's Ear - The Vacation Infection You Probably Never Heard About
[Health-and-Fitness:Ears-Hearing] Lucky enough to take a winter break at the seaside in the tropics? Or a spring or summer break at the beach? That nagging earache you have when you get home might be swimmer's ear. Here's what it is and what you can do about it.

A Diet For Lower Back Pain
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] No diet for lower back pain will change your life overnight, but two foods generally help. And building healthy bones will eventually stop back pain, too.

Can a Healthy Diet Include Bacon and Bratwurst?
[Food-and-Drink] Several years ago I was doing a book tour and giving radio interviews in northern Illinois and Wisconsin. A question that came up more than once was, is there any way bacon and bratwurst can ever be healthy foods? Well, there's no way you will ever convince your nutritionist to approve of them, but everything about bacon and bratwurst nutritionally is not bad. Here's the healthy side of these two favorite foods.

Diabetic Gastroparesis - The Most Common Diabetes Complication Most Diabetics Don't Know About
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Since you were diagnosed with diabetes, have you noticed that you have a problem with belching, bloating, and feeling full? A nagging pain you can't quite identify in the upper abdomen, or heartburn that antacids can't help? If you do, you might be suffering from diabetic gastroparesis, the most common complication of diabetes that most diabetics don't know anything about.

Tips For Preventing Diabetic Foot Ulcers
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Are you at risk for diabetic foot ulcers? If you have the tingling, burning, or numb sensation in your feet caused by diabetic neuropathy, chances are, you are. But there is a great deal you can do to avoid diabetic neuropathy progressing to diabetic foot ulcers. Here are some easy but important tips.

What Causes Diabetic Foot Ulcers?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] It's the sign of advanced diabetes that diabetics dread, ulcers of the feet and lower legs. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDKD) has published estimated that one in six diabetics oeventually develop a foot ulcer, and 6 out of every 1,000 diabetics will undergo an amputation. Here's what you need to know to prevent this dreaded complication of diabetes.

Ten Tips For Celiac Disease
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] If you're recently diagnosed with celiac disease or dermatitis herpetiformis, you are probably finding that getting all the gluten out of your diet is a daunting task. Every little bit you can eliminate, however, helps. Here are ten tips for getting your diet clean for freedom from celiac disease.

The Best Diabetes Diet - Low-Carb, Low Glycemic Index, Or Something in Between?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Is the best diabetic diet low-carb, high-carb, or something in between? There are two diabetes diet that can help diabetics control their blood sugars, although no useful diet is recommended by the American Diabetes Association. Which diet works best for you depends on your choices to exercise or not.

Natural Therapies For Endometriosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Most drug therapies for endometriosis attempt to limit estrogen. Natural therapies for endometriosis attempt to limit inflammation. For more on how to limit inflammation in endometriosis by diet and (optionally) supplements, please read on.

Who Gets Hives?
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Hives, known in the medical literature as urticaria, are a localized itchy outbreak of the skin. In this essentially allergic reaction, the skin breaks out in bumps surrounded by elongated flares. These "hives" are referred to as wheals or welts.

What Are the Risk Factors For Macular Degeneration?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eyes-Vision] The macula is the circular disk in the center of the retina that recognizes fine details in the center of the field of vision. In the less common form of macular degeneration, "wet" macular degeneration, misplaced blood vessels grow behind the retina. These weakened blood vessels tend to leak.

Measles and Vitamin A
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Measles, also known as rubeola, is a viral infection of the respiratory system that is usually accompanied by a red rash. (Rubella, or German measles, is caused by a different virus.) Since the advent of vaccination, measles has become a relatively rare condition in the Untied States, but serious outbreaks occur almost every year among unvaccinated children, especially in New York, New Jersey, Texas, and the Southwest.

Migraine Headaches and the "Deadly C's"
[Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] Many people suffer all their lives with migraine headaches. Migraines can last for hours or even days. Often affecting only one side of the head and face, migraines almost always cause severe pain, although men who have migraine may have milder pain and greater visual disturbance.

Prevent Macular Degeneration With Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Eyes-Vision] Conventional medicine offers no effective prevention for macular degeneration. Over 40 scientific studies, however, confirm the value of food in preventing this leading cause of blindness.

Where is Obesity Really an Epidemic?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Obesity is epidemic in the USA. If you were to look at a map of the United States with county-by-county data of the percentage of people who are obese, however, you would find that there are many places where 90 percent of the population is normal weight.

Understanding Multiple Sclerosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases-Multiple-Sclerosis] Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition of period inflammation at various places along of the white fatty sheath covering the nerves of the brain and spinal cord. Made of a material called myelin, this sheath normally insulates the nerve fibers, allowing electrical impulses to move without "static" between the brain, spinal cord, and the muscles and sense organs.

Diet and Multiple Sclerosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] The cyclical nature of MS complicates the evaluation of both conventional and complementary treatments. In the early stages of relapsing-remitting MS, almost any intervention works-for a time. Knowing which treatments are truly effective requires patient use of a period of months or years. And that's why anyone making recommendations for an MS diet has to be careful.

The Right Diet For Your Body Type
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Just as in shoes one size does not fit all, no one diet works for every dieter. Here's how you can look in the mirror and choose the type of diet that will work for you.

How Dieters Can Trick Their Metabolisms Into Burning More Calories
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Diet experts and trainers almost always advise their clients to lose weight by the Law of Energy Balance. To lose weight, you must burn more calories than you consume each day.To gain weight, you must consume more calories than you burn each day. But the fact is, sometimes you can lose weight faster if there are some days you eat more than others.

Six Frequently Asked Questions About Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] As dieting season approaches, lots of us are making decisions about how much weight to lose, how much body fat to try to lose in a week, how to preserve muscle while losing fat, and other issues. Here are answers to six commonly asked diet questions.

Is Thinner Always Healthier For Men?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Would you be shocked to learn that thinner is not always healthier? The Buffalo Health Study found that in men over 45, being overweight did not predict heart attack risk. And one German study even found that the fatter men were, the longer they lived.

Could Your Arthritis Pain Reliever Be Eating Away at Your Joints?
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Some pain relievers destroy the cartilage that cushions joints damaged by osteorarthritis. Others actually restore it. For what you need to choose the best pain relievers for joint health, plus information on a natural source of chondroitin you can get from food, please read on.

What is MSG Sensitivity Syndrome?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] In 1968 Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok, an American physician who had been born in China, experienced a severe reaction after eating food in a Chinese restaurant. Noting that similar symptoms were unknown in China, he coined the term "Chinese restaurant syndrome" to describe toxicity of MSG.

Osteoporosis - Key Concepts of a Good Diet For Healthy Bones
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Keeping bones healthy is not all about how much calcium you take. Here is what you need to know about calcium, sodium, and other nutrients and how they can keep bones healthy and strong.

For Preventing Osteoporosis, Don't Just Increase Calcium - Lower Sodium
[Health-and-Fitness] Everybody knows that healthy bones need calcium, but did you know that they also need protection from too much sodium? Giving you everything you need to know to speak knowledgeably with your doctor, this article tells you how sodium harms bones and how sodium restriction ends bone pain and, over time, reduces fractures.

Three Foods For Peptic Ulcers
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Three foods help heal peptic ulcers. And one food most people suppose hurts, actually helps.

Garlic For Treating Peptic Ulcers?
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Garlic and garlic oil are touted as treatments for peptic ulcer disease. They are not a miracle cure for peptic or duodenal ulcers, but in certain situations they just might help. Here's how they may work for you.

What Causes Rosacea?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Rosacea is a skin condition resembling a bad case of acne. There are no blackheads or whiteheads, but there may be crusty pimples (papules), pus-filled pimples (pustules), or a cosmetically damaging called rhinophyma, a bulbous, enlarged red nose and puffy cheeks. Rosacea can also cause greasy skin (seborrhea) or spider veins (telangiectasia).

Treating Scurvy Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] As hard as it is to believe, scurvy has reemerged as a health problem in the United States in the twenty-first century. Beginning with scattered reports in the early 1990s, the resurgence of scurvy became a national health concern by 1999.

What Causes Peptic Ulcer Disease?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] About 25 years ago doctors started noticing that peptic ulcers sometimes occurred in people who were not undergoing stress and who did not eat acid foods. The major culprit in most cases of peptic ulcers is now thought to be the bacterium H. pylori, but there are other factors to consider case by case.

Treating Shingles Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Shingles (herpes zoster) is an acute and painful infection with the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), the organism that causes chicken pox. Nearly everyone in temperate climates is exposed to the virus by the age of 15, although in many cases it does not cause symptoms.

Healing Sinus Problems Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] Sinusitis is an inflammation of the sinuses, air-filled cavities in the bones of the face that are fully formed after age 7. The linings of the sinuses are filled with mucus-producing cells. The blanket of mucus they form is carried toward the openings of the sinuses by the rhythmic beating of tiny hairs known as cilia.

Healing Hypothyroidism With Iodine and One Other Essential Element
[Health-and-Fitness:Thyroid] Hypothyroidism is a very difficult disease to diagnose. It can creep up on you with a variety of symptoms that don't seem to fit a pattern, symptoms as different as hoarseness, joint pain, thinning nails, muscle cramps, headaches, and thinning hair. Iodine is essential in the nutritional healing of an underactive thyroid, but one other trace element is essential, too.

What Are the Causes of Psoriasis?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Psoriasis can be compared to skin cells gone wild. Overreacting to infection, overreacting to stress, skin afflicted with psoriasis multiplies up to a thousand times too fast and builds up in reddish, silvery rash. For a detailed understanding of psoriasis at the cell level, please read further.

Getting the Vitamins You Need to Fight Psoriasis From Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Eating the right foods prepared in the wrong way won't provide the vitamins the body needs to heal psoriasis. Here's what you need to know about preparing foods in ways that maximize absorption of vitamin A, beta-carotene, and B vitamins.

Lithium, Vegetables, and Recovery From Drug and Alcohol Addiction
[Health-and-Fitness:Drug-Abuse] Could eating salsa make recovering from drug or alcohol addiction easier? Surprising research into the relationship between diet and recovery suggests that certain vegetables support sobriety. Here's what the research says and why vegetables are helpful in the diet of anyone in recovery.

Healing Urinary Tract Infections With Water and Cranberry Juice
[Health-and-Fitness] Chances are you have heard about drinking cranberry juice to cure cystitis, that is, a urinary tract infection, but do know which kind works best? Or other juices that cure cystitis, too? Here's what you need to know about using cranberry juice and water to help fight urinary tract infections in men, women, children, and infants.

Looking For an Inexpensive HGH Supplement?
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Human growth hormone, also known as HGH, helps build muscle, burn fat, and reverse aging, but it's incredibly expensive. Some supplements promise to stimulate the body to make more of its own HGH, and a few actually do. But here's an HGH stimulant that actually works and costs no more than groceries, because you get in the food section, not the supplements aisle.

Oh Carrots Are Divine
[Food-and-Drink] "Oh, carrots are divine, you get a dozen for a dime, it's magic." Tens of millions of American children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s heard Bugs Bunny croon this ditty every Saturday morning. Although inflation has pushed the price of carrots from a dime a dozen to more than a dollar, carrots remain almost universally available, inexpensive, and packed with nutrition. For you to unlock the nutritional of the carrot, however, you may have to adopt some new methods, or revisit some not so new methods, of preparation.

Cucumbers and Pickles in the Diabetic Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Although they are no miracle cure, fresh cucumbers and pickles in a diabetic's diet can make a measurable difference in diabetes control. Read how cucumbers may help the liver detoxify medications and pickles make help take the "white" out of white bread, white rice, and potatoes for diabetics.

Diet, Age Spots, and Wrinkles
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Can food make a difference in preventing wrinkles? Understand how wrinkles happen and how diet can slow down the aging of your skin.

What's the World's Best Source of Natural Vitamin C?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The world's best source of natural vitamin c is a tiny, cherry-like fruit found in Puerto Rico. While orange juice might provide 500 parts per million of vitamin C, this fruit can be packed with up to 172,000 parts per million of vitamin C, almost a supplement that grows on a tree.

Lower Your Cholesterol by Eating Almonds
[Food-and-Drink] Here's a high-fat food that lowers cholesterol, and if you eat more of it, you don't gain weight. How can that be? Read here to find out.

Bamboo Shoots - So Packed With Nutrition They Literally Glow in the Dark
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Bamboo shoots are so good for you they literally glow in the dark. Researchers in Japan have found that freshly cut bamboo emits a gentle glow as the plant's internal self-defense system activates antioxidants to prevent oxidation and browning. These antioxidants also counteract bacterial infections in the people that eat bamboo shoots. But as a health food, bamboo shoots do so much more.

Bitter Melon For Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Bitter melon is cultivated in both India and China and in Asian immigrant communities around the world for food and medicinal uses. Contemporary scientific testing with laboratory animals finds that a diet that is 1.5 percent bitter melon (the equivalent of a serving a day) reduces weight gain on high-fat diets by about 25 percent, reduces leptin levels by about 50 percent, and drastically reduces insulin levels.

Nutritional Recovery From Alcoholism
[Health-and-Fitness:Drug-Abuse] During your recovery from alcoholism, your body begins to repair its nutritional damage. During this critical time, what you don't do is probably as important as what you do. Here are some guidelines.

The Nutritional Problems of Alcohol Abuse
[Health-and-Fitness:Drug-Abuse] There are reasons people skip meals to drink alcohol, but nutritional damage is left in its wake. Understand exactly what alcohol's empty calories do to nutritional balance and the effect alcohol has on body fat.

Should Alcoholics Cook With Alcohol?
[Health-and-Fitness:Drug-Abuse] Nutritional research finds that the alcohol in brandy, Grand Marnier, cooking sherry, and cooking wines really doesn't "evaporate" from foods in which they are used. It is still often possible, however, to get the flavors of wine and spirits without the alcohol.

Treating Rosacea Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] If rosacea has been a long-term problem for you, I strongly recommend that you invest some time with a physician with special expertise in the condition so that your unique symptoms can be properly diagnosed. Reputable physicians will insist on making a diagnosis before they treat you, but multiple repeat visits are usually not required. In the meantime, here are some safe, effective, and inexpensive treatments you can do on your own.

Jujube Fruit Isn't Just For Movie Theaters Any More
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The jujube fruit is a Chinese date. Jujubes are oval and about the size of an olive, containing a bright red flesh when they are fresh, but shrinking and shriveling and turning brown to an appearance similar to other dates when they are dried.

How Endives Help Your Body Absorb Calcium
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Like other bitter greens, endives are nutritionally important for what they do rather than the nutrients they contain. Endives produce a special class of carbohydrates known as fructans, a group containing inulin (not to be confused with insulin) and oligofructoses.

Daikon Radish As Detoxifier
[Health-and-Fitness:Detoxification] Daikon, a Japanese word that literally means "really big radish," is an Asian radish with extremely large roots. Daikon radish has really big nutritional value. It helps the body absorb beta-carotene from other vegetables and detoxifies smoked meat and fish.

Hawthorn Teas For Heart Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Lowering blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, helpful in lupus, hawthorn teas are good for your heart. Here's how to find them, how to use them, and what to expect.

Eggplants in Ayurveda and Other Healing Traditions
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] The ancient medical discipline of Ayurveda suggests that there is a certain personality type, kapha, for whom eggplants would be appealing. Persons of the kapha type have solid, powerful bodies of great strength and endurance, providing steady energy for slow and graceful action. They have cool, smooth, supple skin, and they tend to be affectionate, tolerant, and forgiving. And they tend to have problems with weight, fatty liver, and cholesterol. Eggplants relieve all three.

Why Diabetics Should Like Leeks
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The slightly sulfurous aromatics in the leek give it medicinal properties. S-methyl cysteine sulfoxide lowers blood sugars. I even know one newly diagnosed diabetic who reversed his condition by eating enormous quantities of leeks. The sulfoxide in leeks is not as effective as medication, but it has a beneficial side effect that medication does not.

Is Ketchup Really a Vegetable?
[Food-and-Drink] After I had listened to Prairie Home Companion for many years, one day it occurred to me to research the question of whether ketchup really contains "natural mellowing agents" as Keillor's comedy troupe alludes on their show. I was shocked to learn that it really does.

Healthy Cooking With Lamb's Quarters (The Vegetable)
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] Lamb's quarters, also known by its less appetizing name pigweed, is an odorless, branching, annual herb, with stalked, opposite, simple leaves. There are many medicinal herbs that look like this vegetable. The general rule for distinguishing them is, if it's odorless, it's a food, but if it's pungent, it's medicinal.

Soothing Lavender As a Culinary Herb
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] If you find the scent of lavender intensely relaxing, there is good reason. Scientists at the University of Miami School of Medicine have found inhaling essential oil of lavender alters brain wave patterns, shifting relaxing rhythms from the right brain to the left. British researchers have found that lavender specifically relieves feelings of anger and aggression and anxiety about the future. And you can even use lavender in your cooking. Here are some tips.

How to Make a Healthier Pancake
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Until some nutritionist uncovers a group of beneficial chemicals in pancakes she might call crepeceuticals, it is going to be difficult to commend pancakes as a healthy food. The problem with pancakes is that they can be delicious, but they are usually not satisfying.

Lower Blood Pressure With Hibiscus Tea
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] One of the world's most popular detoxification teas is a delicious, bright red brew made from hibiscus blossoms. Scientific research shows that hibiscus does not so much detoxify as it strengthens the liver to do its own detoxification as it soothes, calms, and lowers blood pressure.

Peppermint As An Herbal Healer
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Nearly every tradition of herbal healing uses peppermint to calm upset stomachs. But did you know peppermint can fight food poisoning, too? Here is what you need to know to store, brew, and enjoy healthy peppermint teas.

The Incredible, Edible Octopus
[Food-and-Drink] Eating octopus can lower cholesterol. Scientists do not know exactly why this occurs, but they do know there is some substance or group of substances in the protein of the flesh that stops the liver from producing cholesterol and also accelerates the excretion of cholesterol. Japanese scientists publishing in the International Journal of Epidemiology noted that eating not just octopi but also squid or shrimp lowers plasma fibrinogen, the protein that forms a framework for blood clots, at least in middle-aged men.

Is Orange Juice Really Healthy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Most people drink orange juice (OJ) for its vitamin C, but if you are trying to prevent a cold, other foods and fruits are more effective. On the other hand, OJ is an excellent source of the polyphenols hesperidin and diosmin. These chemical strengthen varicose veins and reduce bruising. You can drink up to a quart (approximately a liter) a day and absorb hesperidin.

Pineapple As a Health Food
[Food-and-Drink] Pineapple- for people who aren't allergic to it- is generally helpful for any condition involving inflammation. This fruit is a source of bromelain, a protein-dissolving enzyme. Bromelain breaks up the fibers that hold areas of inflammation in place and is helpful in over a dozen health conditions.

Prunes - They're Not Just For Regularity Anymore
[Food-and-Drink] Everybody knows that eating prunes can keep you regular, but did you know that they also help balance estrogen in a woman's body? May lower the risk of cancer? Learn more about the surprisingly nutritious prune.

Purslane, The Omega-3 Rich Salad Vegetable
[Food-and-Drink:Salads] You can't read the natural health news without knowing about fish oil as a source of the heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, but did you know omega-3's are also found in some salad greens. Here is what you need to know about the nutrition and flavor packed in purslane, the tangy salad green that grows like a weed.

Pinones - Healthy, Tasty, American Treat
[Food-and-Drink] Pinones are the nuts of the pinon pine tree. Not the same as the stone pine nuts produced in Italy, China, and Spain, American pine nuts are harvested by hand every September and October in the northern New Mexico woodlands.

In Praise of Pork Chops
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The quality of the pork chop is an indicator of the health of the hog. Hog chow is supplemented with vitamin E to make the meat chill faster. If pigs were the same size as human beings, the dosage of vitamin E would be roughly 60,000 IU per day, or an entire bottle of 1,000 IU tablets.

Fight Food-Borne Infection With Sauerkraut
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Sauerkraut is a surprisingly healthy food. It's one of the rare foods that can become more vitamin-enriched through processing. And it fights a particular strain of foodborne infection that few other foods do.

"Ramen Eater's Syndrome" (Modern Beri-Beri) And How to Avoid It
[Food-and-Drink] An astonishing number modern college students develop a modern form of beri-beri. They suddenly develop enlarged heart, irregular blood pressure, swollen ankles and hands, and general loopiness and fatigue. Their skin turns dry and flaky, they want to walk around wearing sweaters on a hot summer day, and they both lose weight and suffer abdominal swelling. Treatment, however, is simple. Here's what you need to know.

Cancer-Fighting Wasabi
[Cancer] There is growing evidence that wasabi every day keeps the cancer specialist away. Wasabi is an aquatic vegetable in the same family as broccoli, cabbage, kale, and watercress. Like the other crucifers, wasabi contains high concentrations of cancer-fighting isothiocyanates. Unlike the other crucifers, the wasabi root produces primarily only one of these anticancer chemicals, 6-methylsulfinylhexyl isothiocyanate. These chemicals kill certain kinds of cancer cells.

Nutritious, Delicious Watercress
[Food-and-Drink] Watercress conjures up an image of English nobles at high tea, nibbling tiny sandwiches of watercress and while balancing cups of tea. Although watercress sandwiches are commonly served at English high teas, this peppery salad green is also one of the most popular vegetables in Chinese cooking and one of the most potent vegetables for fighting cancer.

Food As Aromatherapy
[Food-and-Drink] Is there a physiological explanation of why some foods are found in "fine dining" establishments and others are found in fast food places? Is there a relationship between the work you do and the food you want to eat? And is the way to a man's, uh, "heart," really through his stomach? What about a woman? The science of olfaction gives us some clues.

Tuna For Your Heart
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Supposedly after decades of research, cardiologists discovered that cardiac arrhythmia leading to sudden death could be prevented with, of all things, tuna fish sandwiches. That is precisely what was reported in a lead article in the prestigious medical journal Circulation.

Heart-Healthy Wakame
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Scientists have identified compounds in the Japanese seaweed known as wakame that prevent the formation of blood clots, stop the growth of tumors, lower cholesterol, and prevent allergies through the action of the same fatty acids found in cold-water fish. And it helps burn fat, too.

Diabetes and the Foods Diabetics Really Eat
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Everybody knows that cheeseburgers and French fries and white rice aren't good for diabetics-or are they? Sometimes the key to a successful diabetic diet isn't so much what you eat, as what you eat it with. Here's why.

Got Lettuce? The Surprising Nutritional Value of America's Favorite Green Vegetable
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Got lettuce? Most people would be surprised to learn that lettuce is an excellent food for maintaining healthy bones. And more surprised that it fills in the vitamin gaps in your diet and helps prevent cancer.

What's to Love About a Lima Bean?
[Food-and-Drink] The green, moon-shaped lima bean, also known as butterbean, is a staple of Southern kitchens. Available fresh in states in the South of the United States and canned or frozen elsewhere, lima beans are served as an accompaniment to rice or stirred in with corn to make succotash, although more complex presentations are possible. These beans are rich in protein, may lower cholesterol, and have several other exciting nutritional applications.

To Lower Cholesterol and Lose Weight, Go Macadamia Nuts
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Macadamia nuts are a high-fat food, but an Australian study found that eating 40 to 90 grams (1-1/2 oz to 3 oz) of them a day lowered the "bad" LDL cholesterol, raised "good" HDL cholesterol, and even led to loss of weight. And there's even more that these tasty tropical treats can do for your health.

The Nutritious Stinging Nettle
[Food-and-Drink] If you have a garden or a lawn, chances are you have encountered stinging nettles. Their tiny hairs sting when you brush up against them and leave lingering burning sensation, making the plant a major garden pest. Stinging nettles dunked in boiling water, however, lose their irritant toxins. You can get even with your stinging nettles by turning them into a vitamin-rich and therapeutic herbal addition to natural home cooking. Cooked nettles, ironically, relieve allergies.

Papaya As a Healing Food
[Food-and-Drink] Whether its the tiny but intensely flavored Hawaiian fruit or the larger, vitamin A-packed Mexican version, the papaya is a powerhouse of vitamin and enzyme nutrition. Read more about the nutritional qualities and practical health applications of this versatile tropical fruit.

The Nutritious, Delicious Radicchio
[Food-and-Drink] Nutritionally, radicchio is more important for what it does than for what it contains. Radicchio and other chicories contain a special class of carbohydrates known as fructans, a group containing inulin (not to be confused with insulin) and oligofructoses. These carbohydrates feed the symbiotic bacteria living in the intestine rather than the human body itself. Here's more about how the radicchio is uniquely nutritious and how to keep it tasty.

Tips For Coping With Fibromyalgia
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Did you know fibromyalgia can afflict children? That sometimes children's ear aches, tummy aches, and itches are actually manifestations of fibromyalgia? Or have you heard about the two supplements researchers at the Medical College of Virginia found actually help fibromyalgia? Here are some tips for coping with this all-too-real and all-too-common painful condition.

All About Genital Warts
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases-STDs] Medical treatment of genital warts consists of several unpleasant treatment options. One nutritional component of dark green and orange fruits and vegetables, however, can at least greatly reduce the risk of spreading the infection.

Can Diet Cure Herpes?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases-STDs] One amino acid in your diet hurts herpes-infected skin, another amino acid helps. Learn which foods to avoid and which foods to emphasize to reduce the inflammation of herpes.

The Lithium-Rich Tomatillo and Your Health
[Food-and-Drink] The tomatillo not only makes a tangy, lemony, green salsa, it's an excellent source of calcium, folic acid, vitamin A, vitamin B, and vitamin C. And its exceptionally high content of lithium may explain why eating chips with tomatillo salsa make such great comfort food.

How My Cat Taught Me to Keep My Heart Purring
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] I once owned a cat, or, from the cat's point of view, I once was owned by a cat, who was possessed by her appetite for tuna, the omega-3 fatty acid food I kept in my cupboard, and portulaca, the omega-3 fatty acid plant I attempted to grow in my flower bed. Here is what my cat taught me about cardiac nutrition that kept my own heart purring.

Diet, Diabetes, and Phantom Taste Perception
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The seldom-mentioned condition of phantogeusia is actually is a relatively common phenomenon. Phantom bitterness, a "bad taste in the mouth," is the most common form of phantogeusia. Sometimes the bitterness is due to bleeding from sores in the gums or fissures in the tongue.

Foods That Don't Want Us to Eat Them
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] We sometimes don't want to eat our food, and sometimes we do, but our food almost never wants to be eaten by us. Both animals and plants have elaborate defenses that keep them from being eaten. The simple pinto bean, for example, discourages animals, including humans, from eating it by causing gassiness.

Diet and Gout
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] I once counseled a man who had something approaching an addiction for hot dogs. He would eat Hebrew Nationals with scrambled eggs for breakfast, Nathan's with a dab of coleslaw (for the vitamins) for lunch, and Ball Park Franks, the kind that balloon to twice their size when you boil them, for a hearty dinner.

Healing Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) With Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a condition of chronic intestinal discomfort. Sufferers may experience lower abdominal pain, bloating, constipation alternating with diarrhea or frequent diarrhea, gas, mucus, urgent bowel movement, and a feeling of incomplete evacuation after a bowel movement.

The Chocolate Candy Bar Cure For Your Heart
[Food-and-Drink:Chocolate] Not all the news about the things we love to eat and their effect on our health is bad, especially this study done at the University of California Health Sciences Center in San Francisco. California scientists confirm that consuming just a small bar of dark chocolate every day is good for you. It's very good for you, according to UCSF researcher Mary Engler, PhD, RN, and her research team.

Bran For Lowering Cholesterol
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Bran can indeed lower your cholesterol. Eating bran also, however, can have a completely unexpected effect on how your body uses and stores dietary fats.

Lowering High Homocysteine With Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Homocysteine, like cholesterol, occurs naturally in the body and is not inherently toxic. Even if you could totally eliminate homocysteine from your body, you would not want to. Homocysteine is a byproduct of the chemical steps the body uses to transform methionine, an amino acid abundant in meat, fish, and dairy products, into S-adenosyl-methionine, better known as SAM-e. The linings of cells in the arteries and the brain are repaired by SAM-e.

Healing Kidney Stones With Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Excruciatingly painful kidney stones strike some people time and time again. But as I can tell you from personal experience, simple changes in diet can make recurring attacks less painful and less frequent.

Healing Heartburn Naturally
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Heartburn is an uncomfortable burning or feeling of warmth in the chest that has nothing to with the heart. Controlling heartburn, however, may have more to do with how much you eat rather than what you eat or even which drugs you take.

Does High Cholesterol Cause High Blood Pressure?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] For most of us, our first experience with the label of chronic illness is a diagnosis of high blood pressure. Before we ever get high blood pressure, however, the underlying problem may be high cholesterol.

Who Should Avoid Salt to Lower Blood Pressure?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Almost everybody with heart disease is told to reduce sodium consumption. Some people, however, get far better results from cutting the salt out of the diets than others.

Could Curcumin Cure Congestive Heart Failure?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] The Journal of Clinical Investigation reports a study that suggests that eating curries and other foods including the antioxidant curcumin found in turmeric just might prevent or correct congestive heart failure. Ayurvedic medicine has used turmeric to prevent scar formation for centuries.

Frequently Asked Questions About Beano
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] Is Beano safe for diabetics? Does it work for fruit? Is it safe in pregnancy? Get the answers to frequently asked questions about Beano here.

Wash Less - The Prime Directive For Healing Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] For most people who have acne, the prime directive for effective skin care should be "Wash less." Repeated washing of the surface of the skin not only does not remove embedded cell debris or putrefacted oils, it can even dry out the skin and make it wrinkle-prone. Even worse, regularly rubbing facial skin too hard can injure it so that infection is inevitable. A quick rinse with soap and warm water in the morning and in the evening is enough.

Fat, Fiber, Yeast, and Acne
[Health-and-Fitness] If you grew up in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, or 70's, chances are you were told constantly that eating chocolate and eating fatty foods in general caused acne. Surprisingly, over the decades scientists have adduced little or no evidence that high-fat foods, in and of themselves, cause acne. So what about the old advice on fat, fiber, and brewer's yeast?

Vinegar and Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Vinegar in the daily diabetic menu does help diabetics keep blood sugars lower by effectively lowering the glycemic index of foods (slowing the rate at which carbohydrates are converted to glucose), and here's how it works: Most diabetics are aware of the glycemic index as an explanation of high blood sugar spikes. The higher the glycemic index, the faster the glucose released by digestion is absorbed. Vinegar essentially overrides the glycemic index.

Fruit Antioxidant Supplements
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] What's the best fruit antioxidant supplement? It's hard to beat that old standby, acerola.

Vitamins and Healthy Gums
[Health-and-Fitness:Dental-Care] Next to regular brushing, flossing, and dental care, vitamins have the closest relationship to healthy gums. Vitamin A stimulates the gums to make keratin, the same protein that makes the skin just "tough enough" to resist wounds and infection.

Fruits, Vegetables, and Breast Cancer
[Cancer:Breast-Cancer] You'd almost think that in their search for the latest breast cancer treatment, scientists recently discovered that fruit, vegetables, and fiber weren't good for women who have had breast cancer. But a closer reading of the findings of the breast cancer clinical trials sponsored by the Women's Healthy Eating and Living study shows that the scientists discovered no such thing.

The Good News About Osteoarthritis
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] The good news about osteoarthritis (OA) is that, if it is treated early enough, it is frequently reversible. In fact, even advanced OA sometimes reverses itself with no treatment at all, natural or otherwise. But if you can't wait the usual 10 years or so for OA to heal on its own, here are some simple and inexpensive natural interventions that you can start right now.

Is Your "Pollen Allergy" Really a Food Allergy
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Is your pollen allergy really a food allergy? Here are ten ways to tell.

Is the Human Body Really a Furnace?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Most of us have been raised with one variation or another of the "your body is a furnace" or "your body is a race car" model of human nutrition. If we put in enough of the right kind of fuel, so the conventional wisdom goes, we can draw out enough of the right kind of energy to give maximum torque to our health and our lives.

Treating Prostate Problems With Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil and nuts are essential nutrition for shrinking an enlarged prostate, but other kinds of fat are needed, too. Here's what you need to know about a balanced diet for regaining prostate health.

Preventing Prostate Problems With Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] From what you read in natural health news, would seem logical that one way to prevent BPH would be to avoid meat and to eat fish or a vegetarian diet including seeds, such as pumpkin seeds. This simply is not true, but there is a diet that will prevent benign prostate enlargement in men over 50.

Are You Really What You Eat?
[Food-and-Drink] The value of food to human health doesn't depend on the food as much as on ourselves. Read one author's experience in a different food culture that turned out to be not so different after all.

Is Goat's Milk Nutritionally Superior to Cow's Milk?
[Food-and-Drink] There are some exaggerations about goat milk floating around in the literature of natural health. As someone who has raised both goats and cows, I can tell you goats in fact get diseases and goat's milk is not a perfect food. It's a very good food, however, and for some people it is superior to cow's milk. Here's why.

Is Luncheon Meat Ever Healthy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] No nutritionist recommends luncheon meats as a healthy food, and, although I am not a nutritionist, neither do I. The nutritionists' recommendation to give up luncheon meat in favor of other heart-healthy, low-sodium, or low-fat foods, however, may not be appropriate for everyone. Sometimes lunch meat isn't just cheap, it's the best alternative for certain nutrients if you have to stay in a budget.

Does All Pork Contain Parasites?
[Food-and-Drink] In the 1960's, my father and his brother attempted to raise what they believed to be the first parasite-free, disease-free pork. We had piglets delivered by Cesarean section and returned to their mothers in a large, concrete, climate-controlled stall that my cousin and I had the honor of cleaning (mostly my cousin, since he was twelve and I was eight).

Managing PMS With Magnesium and Vitamin B6
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Many women with PMS benefit from supplemental magnesium combined with vitamin B6. These two nutrients are particularly beneficial for anxiety. A study at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom found that supplementation with 200 mg of magnesium plus 50 mg of vitamin B6 for just one month led to a reduction in anxiety, irritability, mood swings, and nervous tension.

Calcium For PMS
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Premenstrual syndrome, or PMS, is a recurrent condition of discomfort before and during menstruation affecting approximately 1 in 3 women in the United States. PMS can begin in adolescence, but it is most severe for women in their 40's. Symptoms disappear at menopause.

Why Are Doughnuts Round? (And What Does That Have to Do With Weight Loss?)
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Understanding the answer to this question may help you understand why you eat what you eat, and how you can resist high-calorie temptation. Why do they have a hole in the middle? If you can understand the visual appeal of the doughnut, you can recognize many of the environmental triggers that urge you to eat.

How to Make Salad Safe (If Not Low-Calorie)
[Food-and-Drink:Salads] The question often is, "If I don't have time to buy and cook vegetables, what's wrong with picking up something at the deli?" The two most commonly consumed deli salads in the United States are coleslaw (cabbage with mayonnaise and/or a vinaigrette) and potato salad. Here's how you can know they are not contaminated.

Is Beano Safe?
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] A question that comes up occasionally about the digestive aid Beano is, "Is it safe to use it?" Beano is a preparation delivering a tiny dosage of a human digestive enzyme (made by bacteria which are killed in the manufacturing process) alpha-galactosidase.

Is Soup Really Good Food?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The eminent nutritionist Dr. Francis Pottenger believed that stocks, broths, and gelatins are easy to digest because they contain "water-loving" or hydrophilic proteins. Most of the proteins in cooked food are hydrophobic, that is, they repel water.

5-HTP For Depression
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Given a boost by celebrities in recovery from depression such as Jim Carrey, 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) is once again the up-and-coming nutritional supplement for the treatment of depression. 5-HTP supplies the source of the amino acid tryptophan in a form that readily enters the brain. The human brain converts tryptophan into the key mood regulator serotonin.

Niacin For Lowering Cholesterol - How Much is Enough?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] A typical, successful amount of niacin to reduce cholesterol is 3,000 mg a day, but there are certain precautions you should take. Here's what you need to know and what you need to ask your doctor.

Brain Detox Diets - Basic Principles of Treating Depression With Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] From the morning cup of coffee to an indulgent chocolate fudge sundae, dozens of foods have definite influences on the way we think and feel. While this article is far too brief to give an in-depth explanation of how foods affect moods, here is an overview of diets that "detox" the brain stuck in undesirable patterns. Depression is usually responsive to foods that contain any or all of these amino acids: Phenylalanine,Tyrosine, and/orTryptophan.

Are Raw Foods Always Nutritionally Superior to Cooked Foods?
[Food-and-Drink] Is raw food healthier than cooked food? The answer is, it depends on the food. Here is what you need about plant lectins and digestive enzymes that can help you make the right choices in raw and cooked foods.

Raw Honey, Quercetin and Allergies
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] The conventional wisdom about allergies is that eating locally produced honey, especially in the winter, prevents hay fever. The conventional wisdom is correct, although not for the reasons commonly believed.

Is There a Healthier Way to Cook Bacon?
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] The healthiest way to cook bacon is in the microwave, but this is really effective only if you are cooking three to six slices, that is one or two adult servings. Place the bacon on a triple layer of paper towels on a microwave-safe plate, and cover with another double layer of paper towels.

Diet and Asthma - What Tutwiler Can Teach Us
[Health-and-Fitness:Asthma] No community in the United States has more people with more health problems than Tutwiler, Mississippi. The weather is dependably hot and humid much of the year, and if environmental contamination doesn't get you from the ground or the water, it will fall on you from the sky. Even here in America's epicenter for asthma, however, diet can make a difference.

How Babies Get Colic
[Home-and-Family:Babies-Toddler] As almost every parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle, and friend of new parents knows, babies can get fussy. Crying and upset, especially in the evening, are a normal part of the baby's development during the first months of life. The most dramatically effective nutritional approach-when it works, and it often does-to treating colic nutritionally involves what you don't offer your infant, not what you do.

A Diet For Depression
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] If you are chronically depressed, tired, forgetful, or just plain bad tempered, chances are you deserve a break today. If you suffer depression, the break you need and deserve, however, may be a break from too much food rather than a break for fast food.

Practical Relief From Pinworms
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] How do you get rid of pinworms (and, under medical supervision, tapeworms)? The main prescription Rx for pinworms is Vermox (mebendazole). It takes at least 2-3 doses three weeks apart. It's not a heavy-duty drug, although it can interfere with asthma medications and steroid treatments for eczema.

Understanding Amenorrhea
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Amenorrhea is the absence of menstrual periods. More specifically, amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation in a woman who is not pregnant or breastfeeding and who has not reached menopause. Failure to have a period usually results from a deficiency of the female reproductive hormones that stimulate menstruation, but there can be many other causes. Understanding cause is essential to treatment.

Selenium For Cancer Prevention, Cardiovascular Protection, and More
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] With the news coming from New Zealand researchers that two Brazil nuts a day is probably the ideal way to get added selenium, this is a good time to review what selenium can do for you. The human body contains, on average, only about 14 mg of the trace mineral selenium, but that 14 mg plays important roles in the function and growth of every cell in the body

Safe Travel For People at Risk of Anaphylaxis
[Travel-and-Leisure] Safe travel when there is a risk of anaphylaxis is a concern anytime for people who have known, severe allergies, typically to wasps and bees. Choosing the right Epi-Pen for emergency treatment is something you want to have discussed with your doctor long before your trip. And there are other steps you can take to reduce your risk.

Curing Coughs After Colds and Flu
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] A persistent cough after a cold or the flu can be a frustrating experience. Coughing that comes with an upper respiratory infection goes away eventually, but those two, three, four, or even six weeks of suffering can be miserable. Fortunately, there are several things you can do about it.

Foot Odor - Best Home Remedies
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] The average human foot, scientists tell us, produces about one-quarter cup (60 ml) of sweat each and every day. By the end of 12 hours of wearing tight-fitting shoes, that's like irrigating hundreds of billions of bacteria and yeast with a good soppy splash of water to encourage them to eat, drink, reproduce, and produce smelly feet. So how can you stop them from stinking up your shoes?

Starve a Fever, Feed a Cold?
[Health-and-Fitness] If you have trouble remembering whether the old adage was to starve a fever and feed a cold or maybe it was to feed a fever and starve a cold, well, forget it. The old adage (starve a fever, feed a cold) was wrong, at least with regard to carbohydrates. Here's what works.

Homeopathy For the Flu
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Homeopathy really isn't all about the pill you take. It's about the changes you recognize in your life. The pills are almost a shorthand for the changes you make in your health as the homeopathic treatment works. Nonetheless, you can get real results from taking homeopathics as part of your treatment for the flu.

Understanding Achilles Tendonitis
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Achilles tendonitis is a painful and often debilitating inflammation of the Achilles tendon, a cord running down the back of the lower leg and connecting the calf muscles to the heel bone. The Achilles tendon derives its name from the Greek mythological character Achilles, a mighty warrior whose mother Thetis bathed him in the magical waters of the river Styx at birth to make him invulnerable to harm.

Natural Products For Achilles Tendonitis
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] If you have ever suffered Achilles tendonitis, chances are you tried the trusted and true recommedations for rest, ice, compression, and elevation. Several inexpensive natural products, however, can bring pain relief even better than aspirin and NSAIDs.

Vitamin E For Achilles Tendonitis
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] If you have ever suffered painful Achilles tendonitis, chances are you have tried the traditional recommendation of rest, ice, compression, and elevation. You can speed your recovery, however, with this simple, inexpensive, and effective vitamin therapy.

Preventing Achilles Tendonitis
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] If you have a literal Achilles heel, you have probably tried rest, ice, compression, and elevation. Here are even more therapies that can help you heal your heel over a period a few days to a few months.

Treating Acoustic Trauma (Sudden Deafness) Nutritionally
[Health-and-Fitness:Ears-Hearing] What your doctor is not likely to tell you about nutrition after sudden hearing loss just might make the difference between recovering your hearing with your physician's help or losing your hearing permanently. Here are a few simple considerations for nutritional support of medical treatment for the most common kinds of traumatic hearing loss.

Natural Noise Protection
[Health-and-Fitness:Ears-Hearing] Protecting your hearing sometimes goes far beyond the obvious. We all know that ear muffs can protect your hearing from loud noise, but did you know you can also protect your hearing by avoiding salty foods? Here's a round-up of the simple, (usually) inexpensive, and helpful things you can do to preserve your hearing from acoustic trauma.

Understanding Acoustic Trauma and Sudden Hearing Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Ears-Hearing] Did you know that what you eat makes a difference in how fast your hearing recovers after an explosion or a rock concert? That loss of appetite can precede loss of hearing even from an accident? Here's what you need to know to make the right choices to support treating hearing loss under your doctor's care.

A Natural Approach to Addison's Disease
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] There are no alternatives to hormone replacement therapy for Addison's disease. Untreated Addison's disease is nearly always fatal. With hormone replacement therapy, however, a person with Addison's disease can expect to live a normal life span.

Essential Oils For Alopecia
[Health-and-Fitness:Hair-Loss] The easiest and most promising natural treatment for alopecia areata is a combination of essential oils. A clinical trial at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland enrolled 84 individuals who massaged either essential oils or a non-treatment oil into their scalps every night for 7 months. At the end of the study, 44 percent of the treatment group experienced new hair growth compared to only 15 percent in the control group.

Natural Therapies For Alopecia
[Health-and-Fitness:Hair-Loss] Acupuncture treatments sometimes produce dramatic improvements in alopecia universalis. In successful acupuncture treatment, hair usually returns the same way it fell out, in clumps. It may be necessary to take acupuncture treatments for 6 months to a year to get results.

The Essentials About Essential Fatty Acids
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Probably by now you've heard about the numerous potential and proven benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids are unquestionably good for you, but they aren't the only essential fatty acids. This group also includes the omega-6's. Here's what you need to know about keeping omega-3's and omega-6's in healthy balance.

Natural Remedies For Conjunctivitis
[Health-and-Fitness:Eyes-Vision] Natural remedies for conjunctivitis are simple and inexpensive. Consider these basic measures for keeping stopping the spread of conjunctivitis.

Coffee and Heart Attacks
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Whether coffee is heart-healthy or heart-harmful seems to depend on whether you have a "slow" or a "fast" version of the gene that tells the liver how to use an enzyme known as CYP1A2. This enzyme breaks down the caffeine in coffee. If your liver can break down caffeine quickly, then the body benefits from all the antioxidants coffee provides. If your liver breaks down caffeine slowly, then the benefits of coffee's antioxidants is more than offset by the stress on the heart caused by caffeine.

Smoking, Folate, and the Risk of Stroke
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] From the Finnish National Public Health Institute and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden comes recent research finding that smokers who get more folic acid have lower risk of stroke. These two Scandinavian research centers have been analyzing data they've collected from 26,000 Finnish smokers since at least 1994.

Non-Stimulant Pycnogenol For Children's ADHD
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Many parents are understandably hesitant to give their children amphetamine-like medications such as Ritalin to treat hyperactivity. The idea behind stimulant medications for ADHD is that they activate parts of the brain involved in coordination and control, such as the corpus ceruleus, so the child's brain might be able to control the child's actions. But from Slovakia comes a clinical study that finds that the pine bark extract pycnogenol may relieve some of the symptoms of children's ADHD.

Omega-3's For ADHD
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] If you've ever spent time in Japan, one of the things you can't help noticing is how well behaved the children are. Some scientists think the famously serene children of Japan might be benefiting from the omega-3 fatty acid rich Japanese diet.

Amblyopia - Could a Supplement Help?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eyes-Vision] Two scientific studies confirm the usefulness of CDP-choline as an aid to conventional treatment of amblyopia. Also known by its scientific name cytidine-5'-diphosphocholine, this chemical is a major component of cell membranes throughout the body, helping them to maintain both form and function.

Amenorrhea - A Natural Treatment Checklist
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Here are some key concepts for coping with amenorrhea, written from a holistic health perspective. Any of these considerations might make the critical difference in re-establishing normal periods.

Natural Therapies For Amenorrhea
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Supporting recovery from amenorrhea in young women athletes can be a simple matter of exercising less and eating more. Some women athletes with amenorrhea resume menstruation when they train less often and add additional calories, protein, and fat to their diets. But sometimes improvement comes with the addition of the right micronutrients to the diet from simple, inexpensive, whole foods.

Migraine and Feverfew
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Feverfew is the most popular herb for preventing migraine headaches, but it must be used carefully to prevent unintended effects. Even in the times of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, healers turned to this headache-prevention plant for treating headache, fever, dizziness, and depression. A beautiful garden plant noted for its feathery foliage, feverfew is a member of the same plant family as chrysanthemums.

Homeopathy For Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Homeopathic medicine offers a number of treatments for acne. While homeopathic preparations are generally more effective than a placebo, the full benefit of homeopathy is found through interaction with a homeopathic physician who can match the symptoms of the whole person to a specific remedy. But here is how you can start.

Azelaic Acids For Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Ever considered azelaic acid for acne? Azelaic acid is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon, found in wheat, rye, and barley. It is one of the acids used in "facial peels" performed in a doctor's office. This organic product prevents the process of hyperkeratosis, or overgrowth of skin cells, forcing follicles shut.

Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid) And Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Vitamin B5 (panthothenic acid) is a useful treatment for acne, but some women should use it with caution. Here's what you need to know to avoid an unpleasant reaction with this useful natural skin health aid.

Zinc, Glutathione, and Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Several clinical studies report that zinc is only slightly less effective than antibiotics in controlling acne (although antibiotics by themselves seldom are adequate treatment). The key to using zinc effectively is buying the right kind of zinc.

Alpha-Hydroxy Acids For Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Looking for a truly natural treatment for acne? Alpha-hydroxy acids can work wonders, but some people should use them with caution or not use them at all.

Calendula and Tea Tree Oil For Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Looking for herbs for treating acne? Two herbs are especially useful for clearing up skin infections, but not everyone should use them. Here's how to use them effectively.

Selenium For Treating Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] I don't sell any natural products for acne, but over the years I've reviewed most (and once, served as an expert witness in a trial about one that seemed to cause skin spots). Here is what you need to know about readily available, inexpensive, selenium can and can't do for acne.

Tips For Healing Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Need some tips for getting your acne under control? Here are some important pointers you are not likely to find in product literature or on websites devoted to selling you "natural" products.

A-C-E Your Acne - Vitamins For Treating Acne
[Health-and-Fitness:Acne] Looking for a low-cost treatment for acne? Here's how you can A-C-E your acne treatment with simple, inexpensive, and, if you take only the recommended dosage, safe vitamin therapies.

Five Natural Remedies For Nasal Allergies
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Breathing is basic to life, and allergies are an awful intrusion on the easy, regular, deep breathing we all need to stay active and healthy. Fortunately, there are many ways to breathe easier despite nasal allergies without expensive, sedating allergy drugs. Here are my top 5.

Difficult Foods For Diabetics
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] As every diabetic learns very quickly, most carbohydrate foods require extra planning for successful use in a diabetic diet. For the short while it will take you to get your blood sugars under control, you will have to use carbs with caution. This even includes items that are labeled "no sugar added" or "sugar-free" unless they truly contain no carbohydrate at all. Here's how to recognize the sugars that aren't labeled as "sugar" on the label and what to do about fructose.

Diabetes and Treating Gum Disease
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Low-carb eating is especially important for diabetics who have gum infections. If you have high blood sugars you cannot explain, and you are sure your medications are not out of date and your insulin (if you take it) is not contaminated, the very first place you should check for infection is your mouth. Here's how to check for diabetes-aggravated gum disease.

Diabetes, Carbohydrates, and Weight Gain - The Big Fat Lie
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Fat is the bugaboo of the American diet. There's no denying that nearly two-thirds of Americans and similar large numbers in Australia, Canada, and the UK are overweight. There is also no doubt that some fats are better than others. It is a myth, however, that dietary fat in and of itself is the cause of overweight, high cholesterol, or heart disease.

Diabetics Beware - The Secret Source of Elevated Blood Sugars
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] A lot what you've probably been taught about the basic food groups is just plain wrong. That's particularly true for diabetics who go on diets to control their blood sugars. For lowering blood glucose levels, diet is essential, but just because you have to limit your carbs doesn't mean you can gorge your proteins.

Blood Sugar Control - Take Baby Steps First
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The bottom line for successful control of blood sugars is predictability. It is impossible to use insulin or medications unless you can predict the effects they will have. Nor can you normalize blood sugars unless you can predict the effects of the foods you eat.

Diabetes and the All-You-Can-Eat Effect
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Part of the peculiar biology of diabetes is a reaction called sometimes called the buffet effect, or the all-you-can-eat effect. Even the healthiest salad or a low-carb, high-soy Asian meal can cause drastic increases in blood sugars. Here's the reason why and what you can do about it.

Melatonin For Jet Lag - How to Use it Successfully
[Travel-and-Leisure:Airline-Travel] If you've tried melatonin for insomnia caused by jet lag when you've traveled across multiple time zones, maybe melatonin has worked for you-but maybe it's made your symptoms a lot worse. Here's what you need to know to use melatonin with success.

Travel Health - To Vaccinate Or Not to Vaccinate
[Travel-and-Leisure] A lingering infection is not the souvenir you want to bring home from your foreign vacation. Here are the basics you need to know to make your decision or whether to get vaccinations for yourself and your loved ones before you take off for your next international trip. It's a long article and not especially interesting reading, but the decisions you make regarding travel health safety may save not just your vacation but your life.

Africa Travel Health
[Travel-and-Leisure:Destination-Tips] Here's a piece that won't be light or interesting reading, but where you will find some very important health considerations for travel to Africa. Planning ahead for these infectious disease hazards can save your trip or even save your life.

Losing Fat Weight Vs Losing Water Weight on Low-Carb Diets
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you have ever been on a low-carb diet, you probably noticed two things. One, low-carb diets help you take off 3 to 8 pounds (or 2 or 3 kilos) very quickly, and, two going off your low-carb diet for even one meal will put that lost weight right back on. Don't be discouraged. Pounds you lose easily come back easily but pounds that you lost by reducing calorie intake do not.

Insulin-Dependent Diabetes and Travel
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] First time you've traveled by air since you were diagnosed with diabetes? Here are the basics every insulin-dependent diabetic needs to know before air travel.

Travel and Altitude Sickness
[Travel-and-Leisure] Just in time for the travel season, here is a guide to travel and altitude sickness that can help you prepare for any destination. The term "altitude sickness" describes a group of disorders affecting the lungs, brain, and central nervous system after travelers arrive at an elevation over 8,000 feet (2,500 meters). The most common altitude-related disorder is acute mountain sickness, or AMS.

Traveler's Diarrhea - More Than You Probably Ever Wanted to Know
[Health-and-Fitness] Just in time for the holiday travel season, here's more than you probably ever wanted to know about traveler's diarrhea. Diarrhea is the abrupt accumulation of abnormally high fluid content in the stool. In its severest form diarrhea can make you "go" as many as twenty times a day.

How to Avoid Dehydration on the Plane
[Travel-and-Leisure:Airline-Travel] Just in time for the travel season, here is what you need to know about how you and your family can avoid dehydration on the plane. Water is essential to life, and without water we die quickly. The average sedentary adult male needs to consume about 2900 ml (a little under three quarts) of water each day and the average sedentary adult female needs about 2200 ml(a little over two quarts), although water from food and other drinks counts toward that amount.

Avoiding Fish and Shellfish Poisoning on Your Next Vacation
[Travel-and-Leisure] Just in time for the travel season, here is all you need to know to avoid an unpleasant surprise from that seaside feast on your next vacation. A frequently overlooked source of food poisoning is toxins in seafood. Shellfish poisoning, fish poisoning, ciguatera, red tide illness, and sombroid are special hazards to travelers because the toxins typically do not affect the taste, smell, or appearance of the fish or shellfish.

Mashed Potatoes on a Diabetic Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Mashed potatoes are the downfall of many diabetic' diets. But even if you just have to have your mashed potatoes, there are ways to lower their impact on blood sugar control (if you don't eat the whole bowl).

Could Diabetes Be Caused by a Dysfunctional Body Clock?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] I've been diabetic for many years, since I caught a viral infection, but I've noticed from time to time when I'm working in northern Europe (I live and work mostly in Texas and California) my diabetes almost seems to go away. That is, my diabetes almost seems to go away if I go there in the depth of winter, when days are very short and nights are very long. An article in this month's Nature Genetics suggests a reason why.

Can Adding Olive Oil to Your Diet Help Exenatide Control Your Blood Sugar Better?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The hottest new medication for type 2 diabetes is the GLP-1 mimetic exenatide, marketed in the USA as Byetta. The clinical evidence is highly preliminary, but it just may be that adding olive oil to the diet, without increasing total calories, may help Byetta work better.

Cauliflower "Mashed Potatoes" on a Diabetic Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Cauliflower can have the taste, look, feel, and even smell of mashed potatoes. It is possible to go wrong cooking cauliflower, and it took me several attempts to get a "just like potatoes" appearance that can make them an acceptable potato substitute for a diabetic diet.

Antidepressants and Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Aggressive treatment for depression may increase your risk for diabetes, at least if you live in Canada. The journal Diabetes Research & Clinical Practice reported a study finding a 30 per cent increased risk of diabetes among people who have been treated for diabetes. There are at least two reasons, however, the findings of this study may not apply to diabetics outside Canada.

Go Nuts to Keep Healthy
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Want to know one of the secrets to good health in a nutshell? Eating a handful (1-1/2 to 3 ounces, or about 40 to 80 grams) of nuts every day along with fresh vegetables and fruits will help keep a long list of cardiovascular risk factors under control.

Does a Red Meat Diet Increase the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer?
[Cancer] Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of death among people who die of cancer, and because it is usually not diagnosed until the tumors have begun to spread elsewhere in the body, survival rates are especially low. That's why people who have known risk factors for pancreatic cancer (a parent, grandparent, or sibling who had the disease, work in the petrochemical industry, work with solvents, smoking) may benefit from dietary changes that lower the risk of the disease. Or at least lower the risk of the disease on a population-wide level.

Jet Lag and the Rhythm Method of Family Planning
[Travel-and-Leisure] Not many babies are born when their parents are on vacation, but many babies are conceived when their parents are out of town. Any kind of birth control, including the rhythm method, requires prior planning when couples travel out of town.

Personal Hygiene Abroad - Not Knowing How to Go Even When You Get There
[Travel-and-Leisure] One of the truly awkward experiences of international travel is going into a place you were told was a toilet and then not knowing where to "go" and what to do when you find it. Toilets reflect traditions, local needs, and even religious practices.

Insulin Doesn't Have to Break Your Budget
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] It's not unusual for type II diabetics to need 100 units of insulin a day, or even more. And if your insurance does not pay for the insulin your doctor prescribes at first, chances are you're saddled with an extremely heavy expense. Fortunately, there are low-cost brands of insulin that not only work, they may work better.

Diabetics - Lower Your Blood Sugars 1-2-3
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] If you are newly diagnosed with diabetes, lowering your blood sugars may seem like an impossible task. The fact is, however, nearly all diabetics can lower their blood sugars as easy as 1-2-3. You may see results in as little as a day, or a week, and you have to be willing to test your blood sugars regularly, but blood sugar control is possible.

Gifts For Diabetics - The Insulin Cooling Wallet
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Insulin is vital for many diabetics, and temperature control is essential for keeping insulin active. If there's a diabetic on your gift list for the holidays, and especially if your diabetic friend or family member loves to travel, consider giving a Frio wallet.

Gifts For Diabetics - Low-Carb Cooking Supplies
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] When you are shopping for a gift for the diabetics among your friends and family, consider giving the low-carbohydrate cooking ingredients they may have trouble finding on their own. Da Vinci syrups are great for flavoring low-carb desserts. Coming in banana, caramel, cherry, chocolate, coconut, cookie dough, pancake, peanut butter, and watermelon, and over 30 other flavors, these Splenda-sweetened syrups can make even the lowest-carb dessert tasty.

Gifts For Diabetics - Three Bottles of Vitamin D
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] If you are looking for a useful yet inexpensive gift for the diabetics in your life this year, consider giving the gift of sunlight with three bottles of vitamin D. Diabetics (and other people) who live anywhere in Europe or Russia, and north of Atlanta or Los Angeles in North America, or south of Sydney in Australia or anywhere in New Zealand, run the risk of vitamin D deficiency in the winter months. For just pennies a day, vitamin D deficiency can be eliminated.

Gifts For Diabetics - Test Strips
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetics who stay healthy test their blood sugars regularly as often as six to ten times a day. And the cost of test strips can approach the cost of car payments. Blood glucose test strips make a wonderful gift for diabetics who are striving to keep their blood sugars in control. Just be sure you know what kind of meter the diabetic is using.

Gifts For Diabetics - Food Scales
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetics are only successful in controlling blood sugars to the extent they measure their calories, their grams of carbohydrate, and, in many cases, their insulin. Knowing how much carbohydrate is really being consumed makes the difference between success and failure in both blood glucose control and controlling weight. Here are some gifts for the diabetics in your life that can help a great deal toward lowering blood sugar and losing weight.

What Can You Do About Night Terrors?
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Night terrors can be just as terrifying for the parents of small children and spouses, rooomates, friends, and lovers who observe them as they are for the unfortunates who have to endure them. Here are some suggestions both for night terror sufferers and those who care for them.

Natural Remedies For Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] What can be done about pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)? From the standpoint of holistic, natural, and complementary therapy, the answer is, a lot, and many natural remedies for PID cost little or nothing at all.

Whey Powder For Preventing Malnutrition During Emergencies
[Reference-and-Education:Survival-and-Emergency] Any emergency disaster plan for a hospitality facility receiving refugees should give careful consideration to having the right kind of food for starving people. And the foods you carry in auto emergency supply kit should be the foods that help your body overcome stress. Whey powder and whey products can play a key role in surviving a disaster without malnutrition.

Supplementing Vitamin B-12 - Vitamin Side Effects?
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Although the body's daily needs for vitamin B12 can be measured in millionths of a gram, vitamin B12 is extraordinarily non-toxic. In fact, when the RDA's for vitamins were established, scientists did not bother to set an upper limit to how much vitamin B12 it is safe to take. Even 1 gram (which is to say, one million micrograms) per day day is non-toxic. Where you can run into trouble is trying to make up a specific B-vitamin deficiency with an all-purpose vitamin B pill.

Fish Oil and LDL Cholesterol - What to Do When Lowering Your Triglycerides Raises Your LDL
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] If you're diabetic and you've been taking fish oil to lower your triglycerides, you may have noticed a nasty (but misleading) relationship between fish oil and LDL cholesterol: When your triglycerides go down, your LDL goes up. Or at least it appears to. Here is what is really happening.

Follic Acid For Preventing Pancreatic Cancer
[Cancer] The B-vitamin folic acid (the vitamin form of folate) seems to play an important role in preventing pancreatic cancer. In the modern population as a whole, the risk of ever developing pancreatic cancer is less than 1 percent, but certain groups are much more likely to develop this dreaded disease.

Raw Hempseed Powder As a Substitute For Whey
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Looking for a vegan substitute for whey powder in your body building program? Consider hempseed.

Tapeworms - The Forgotten Parasite
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] When people visualize parasites, they often think of something like a tapeworm. A segmented worm that grows up to 12 feet (4 meters) long in the intestines, the tapeworm lives on nourishment from its hosts--potentially you or your children. Here's what you can do to avoid and treat tapeworms.

Avoiding Flatulence on the Plane and in Other Public Places
[Health-and-Fitness] First of all, as a frequent-flier, I want to thank you for taking time to read this article. If gassiness is an issue for you, a little planning ahead can help you avoid embarrassment on the plane. The familiar standby for flatulence is Pepto-Bismol.

Need a Natural Remedy For Mosquito Bites?
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Try a mixture baking soap and vinegar, mixing a teaspoon of each in a small bowl or dish and applying directly to the bite. The resulting bubbly poultice stops pain immediately and reduces redness and swelling later.

Vitamin B12 and Nocturnal Leg Cramps
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Can vitamin B12 help nighttime leg cramps in the elderly? Some research in Taiwan suggests that a combination of vitamin B12, vitamin B6, and riboflavin does, but vitamin deficiency is not your only consideration.

Is Getting Healthy by Drinking Water Really Possible?
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] At least with regard to cardiovascular disease, there is some evidence it is, but the number of glasses a day needed for protection is only five. Scientists at Loma Linda University in California began following 8,280 men and 12,017 women aged 28 to 100 who had never had heart attack, stroke, or diabetes.

Is an All-Natural Colon Cleanser Good For Diabetics?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] There are a lot of reasons to be very skeptical of any product advertised as a "colon cleanse." First of all, a lot a of the claims made about the need for the products are just plain false.

Does Colostrum Really Lower Cholesterol?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Colostrum is the very first milk produced by a mother after she gives birth. Although devotees of natural health think of colostrum as a food produced by cows, human mothers also produce this extraordinarily nutritious food. In calves (which are easier to research than babies), colostrum provides not just protein but beta-carotene, the eight components of vitamin E, and other antioxidants that "jump start" the calf's immune system and increase survival.

Can You Really Lose 6, 8, 10 Pounds Or More in Just 10 Days?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The hottest weight loss plan of 2008 has been the Suddenly Slim Diet, a program of meal-replacement drinks and herbal supplements that promises users will "lose 6 - 8 - 10 pounds or more!" in just 10 days. Can it possibly work? Is it safe? The answers are here.

Homeopathy For Flatulence
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] For most of my life, I was extremely skeptical of homeopathy. Even now, and even after meeting with research scientists like the late Jacques Benveniste, I can't say I really understand how homeopathy works. Moreover, classical homeopathy was as much about finding emotional causes of illness as in dispensing quick treatments for disease. Nonetheless, homeopathy often works, has no side effects, is compatible with medical treatment, and is widely available outside the USA. Here are some common homeopathic remedies for the most common (and embarrassing) health problem.

If You Are Diabetic, Fat is Not Your Fault
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Most newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics (and even some newly diagnosed type 1 diabetics) have a few extra pounds around the waist. It's common for diabetics, their families, their friends, their coworkers, and even their doctors to blame diabetes on fat. The fact is, diabetes makes diabetics fat, not the other way around. The reason is a phenomenon called insulin resistance. The way insulin resistance packs on the pounds is explained here.

What's the Significance of a Diabetic Feeling Drunk?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The downside of really successful blood sugar control for most diabetics, especially type I diabetics, is the risk of hypoglycemia, sporadic low blood sugars that cause a variety of symptoms. A diabetic feeling drunk without even drinking is a red flag for potentially life-threatening hypoglycemia that requires immediate consumption of glucose.

Fiber-One and Blood Sugar Control
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] What's the relationship between Kellogg's Fiber One cereal and blood sugar? Higher? Lower? Can Fiber One take the place of diabetic breakfast recipes?

Honey For Rehydration
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] You've probably heard the well-worn advice that when you get dehydrated, you need electrolytes in addition to water. The makers of Gatorade have made hundreds of millions on the basis of that fact. What you may not know is that when you get dehydrated, you need a little glucose, too.

What's a Good Home Remedy For Itchy Skin?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] This article is about lasting relief of eczema-induced itching and rashes, but there's no doubt that if you have eczema, you want relief right now. Before I tell you what you can do for eczema, however, I'd like to tell you what not to do and why.

The Basic Facts About Eczema
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Medical textbooks refer to eczema as "the itch that rashes." That's because one of the basic facts about eczema vs. infection is that eczema rash only appears after you scratch your itch. In the highly unlikely event you never scratched, soaked, heated, rubbed, or even touched your itchy skin, eczema would not cause a rash. Happily, it's possible to greatly reduce both itches and rashes.

How Long Can You Stay in Remission From Cancer?
[Cancer] When I started writing this blog, I had been in remission from cancer for 42 years, 5 months, and 26 days. I attribute my long life and health to a collection of loving family and friends, a terrific doctor, and a neighbor kid who moved a trash can. I was diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma the summer of 1965.

Supplements and Mesothelioma
[Cancer:Lung-Mesothelioma-Asbestos] Some inexpensive supplements may be helpful in supporting mesothelioma, and others may be harmful. Here is an explanation of what works, when, and why.

Does an Aspirin a Day Keep Asthma Away?
[Health-and-Fitness:Asthma] According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, over 20 million Americans suffer asthma, and just in the Untied States, about 5,000 people die each year of sthma attacks. The incidence of asthma has been increasing for many years, even in regions that have achieved lower levels of pollution and better air quality.

Does Drinking Espresso Inhibit Weight Loss?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] This is a question that's come up several times lately on my blog, so I'll attempt to give a cogent answer. The short answer is, it depends. Espresso, at least the high-caffeine version, has a beneficial effect on dieters who drink regular coffee on a regular basis, and the opposite effect on dieters who drink decaf or don't drink coffee regularly.

Travel and Trichinosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Although we all hear about pinworms, round worms, tape worms, and a variety of other parasites, probably the most familiar parasite in the world is trichinosis. Here's how not to take a trichinella as a souvenir from your next vacation.

Repairing the Nutritional Damage Left by a Pinworm Infection
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Getting rid of a parasite is only half the battle. Now that you've managed to get rid of pinworms, what do you need to repair the nutritional deficiencies left in their wake?

Do Whole Grains Really Lower the Risk of Heart Failure?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] A recent article in the nutrition journals found that whole grains are good for your heart and, predictably, eating eggs is bad. What the headlines leave out is that the study failed to find any benefit from eating your veggies or any harm from eating meat.

Eat More Often, Weigh Less
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One of the confounding results of diet research has been the discovery that eating more frequently seems to be associate with slimmer waists and lower weight. But Canadian scientists have found that, at least for women who have not reached menopause, eating more often has more to do with being "on the go" than any diet secret.

Eggs and Cholesterol
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] The relationship between eggs and cholesterol is not what most people have been led to believe. Not only do eggs not always raise cholesterol, sometimes they lower it.

Can You Really Lose Weight on a High-Fat Diet?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Can you really lose weight on a high-fat diet? Recent research from Denmark says the answer is yes, but it won't be easy to keep the weight off once you stop.

Green Tea and High Cholesterol
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] To be honest, I've become kind of burned out by all the hype about the health benefits of green tea. Recently, however, I came across a study of green for cholesterol in kids, however, that's really worth passing on. Nowadays there is pretty general acceptance of the idea that green tea has remarkable health benefits, and there is growing evidence that it is an essential element in the best diets for high cholesterol, notably for children with high cholesterol.

Should Everybody Be Taking Statins For High Cholesterol? Maybe Not
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] The latest blockbuster study of statin drugs for heart health finds that taking a pricey medication lowers your risk of heart attack. But you have to read the fine print to notice that it seems to raise the risk of heart attacks being fatal.

A Poster Boy For Surviving Pancreatic Cancer
[Cancer] The Austin American-Statesman in Texas recently reported the seven-year survival of pancreatic cancer patient and software executive Mike Beeman. Beeman, now 63, credits his survival to good luck and great medical care. "When they found the tumor, they really thought I probably should go home and enjoy the last six months I had left," he told the paper.

Memory Loss and Aging - Could an Apple a Day Keep Alzheimer's Away?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] A growing body of medical research finds that some of the compounds in apples might protect the brain from the kinds of changes that cause Alzheimer's disease. And broccoli and broccoli sprouts are even better.

Does Raisin Bran Lower Cholesterol?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] Does raisin bran lower cholesterol? Unfortunately, the answer is no, at least if the grain in your raisin bran cereal is wheat. A clinical study conducted at the University of Toronto in Canada nearly ten years ago found that there was no way to put enough bran content in wheat cereals to lower either total or LDL cholesterol.

What Are Night Terrors?
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Almost everybody has witnessed a night terror in a child, a spouse, a roommate, or a friend, but the precise definition of the condition known in the medical literature as pavor nocturnus requires a reference to the four stages of sleep. In a night terror, the sleeper awakens suddenly from stage 4 sleep, usually with screaming, shouting, moaning, or groaning, and then settles back to sleep without fully awakening. Stage 4 is the deepest, most regenerative phase of sleep.

The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Diabetics
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] With a note of appreciation to Dr. Stephen Covey to coining the phrase, here is my take on the seven habits of highly successful diabetics. These are not new ideas, and they certainly do not require diabetics to buy new products. They are seven simply common sensical, time-tested principles that can help every diabetic design a truly healthy blood sugar control diet.

How Teens With Type 2 Diabetes Can Lose Fat and Gain Muscle
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Managing diabetes is challenging at any age, but it's especially difficult for teens with type 2 diabetes, who have to gain muscle while they lose fat. Fortunately, the science of nutrient timing is beginning to give us some insight in just how this seemingly impossible feat is accomplished.

When It's (Really) Better for Diabetics to Be Couch Potatoes
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] It's a popular half-truth that exercise always lowers blood glucose levels. The reality is that exercise sometimes lowers and sometimes raises blood sugars, dramatically, and there are times diabetics should, and should not, exercise.

Is It Possible to Eat All the Foods You Love and Still Lose Weight?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Sometimes you can lose weight faster if you eat some of the foods you love, even if it runs up the daily total of calories. Just make sure your treats are planned, not spontaneous, if you want to keep burning calories and losing weight.

What Doctors Don't Tell Diabetics About LDL Numbers
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Sooner or later, nearly every diabetic is prescribed a statin drug to lower LDL cholesterol. But did you know that most doctors never bother to measure the LDL they are treating?

What Doctors Don't Tell Diabetics About Fats And Carbs
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] One of the mysteries of successful diabetes management is that high-carb and low-carb diets can both result in better blood sugars, as long as a key principle is observed. Here's what newly diagnosed diabetics need to know about carbohydrates, fats, and diabetes management that most doctors and diabetes educators will not tell them.

Pancreatic Cancer and L-Arginine Supplementation
[Cancer] Nutritional supplementation with the amino acid arginine is commonly recommended by natural healers, but for some people arginine can be harmful, rather than helpful. In cancer treatment, arginine supplementation is part of a strategy of giving cancer cells the amino acids they "don't want" while depriving them of amino acids they need to proliferate. The important consideration, however, is that different kinds of cancer cells have different metabolic requirements.

Vitamin D and Pancreatic Cancer Risk
[Cancer] The natural health news is abuzz with reports that vitamin D lowers the risk of cancer, but in the case of pancreatic cancer, this is not always the case. Smokers do not have the same response to vitamin D as non-smokers.

Is Salvia Divinorum Really a Hallucinogen?
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Salvia divinorum is widely discussed as a new and dangerous hallucinogen, but it's hardly new, and the scientific evidence is that it's not hallucinogenic. Here's what science knows about what the herb does, and a little about the sometimes unintended and undesirable consequences of taking it.

Is The Newest Drug for Eczema Safe and Effective?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Elidel (pimecrolimus 1% cream) has been hailed as the first non-steroid prescription eczema treatment. This drug fights dry skin, inflammation, and irritation by inhibiting part of the immune system in the skin. Used as part of a program of topical treatments, Elidel inhibits the action of T-cells, but skin care with Elidel does not interfere with infection-fighting ability of antibodies released elsewhere in the body.

Is Clostridium the Latest Super-Bug?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] More people have heard about MRSA, but far more people--up to 3 per cent of the entire population--are infected with the equally deadly Clostridium dificile bacterium. Here's what you need to know to recognize and avoid this potentially life-threatening infection.

Do Diabetics Really Need Statin Drugs?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Doctors write prescriptions for the statin drug Lipitor for their diabetic patients as if Lipitor were the new "Vitamin L." The diabetics who can actually benefit from Lipitor, however, is a relatively small group, and other measures can be even more important for preventing that first heart attack.

Disaster Preparedness - Coping Without Toilet Paper
[Reference-and-Education:Survival-and-Emergency] Few concerns cause more consternation during mass evacuations than toilet issues. Here is what you need to know about that very common problem during disasters, coping without toilet paper.

How Do You Treat First-Degree Burns In A Disaster Setting?
[Reference-and-Education:Survival-and-Emergency] First-degree burns are a common occurrence and a minor-concern--unless you are caught in a disaster setting. This article discusses how you can prepare to treat burns when the lights are out, the stores are closed, and medical help may not be available.

Is There a Flatulence-Free Bean?
[Food-and-Drink] Many people avoid one of the least expensive and most versatile sources of protein and fiber, the bean, because of it produces gas. From the UK, however, comes the promise of a "gas-less" bean popularized by Dr. Colin Leakey.

Botox for Anal Fissures? How About a Simpler Approach?
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] If you've ever been to the doctor for anal fissures, chances are you were prescribed not the modern alternative, Botox, but a cylindrical suppository containing steroid like hydrocortisone. The idea behind treating anal fissures with steroids is that the steroid will accelerate healing if the fissure is given some time to heal. And fairly frequently, they work.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Artichoke Leaf
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Is artichoke a miracle drug for IBS, the way some formulators, commentators, and marketers would have you believe it is? Well the product makers got a little ahead of the clinical research, but it turns out they were probably right. According to the American Botanical Council (which graciously employed me some years ago), some German research finds that (1) artichoke leaf stimulates the flow of bile from the liver and (2) the resulting extra bile in the intestine may relieve abdominal pain.

Bran and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Is bran a good idea when you're constipated and you have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)? The quick answer is, usually not, but it may have more to do with the kind of bran you eat and when you eat it. Finer bran irritates the stomach and bowel less than coarser bran.

Peppermint Oil for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] It's not often that a medical journal will recommend an herb as the first line of treatment for a medical condition, but that's the case with peppermint for irritable bowel syndrome. When taken in an enteric-coated capsules in a 180-200 mg dose three times a day, peppermint oil relieves the bloating, constipation, diarrhea and gas of mild IBS in adults and the same symptoms with mild recurrent abdominal pain (diagnosed by a doctor) in children. So what do you need to know to use peppermint oil successfully?

Home Remedy For Jellyfish Stings (That Works on Vacation, Too)
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] That urban myth about urine as a home remedy for jellyfish stings turns out to be true. Here are the reasons why, plus some other reliable methods for the squeamish.

Managing Flatulence During Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Gassiness and gastric distress are among the more common and less talked about symptoms of menopause. Here are some approaches to relieve the problem that doctors often overlook.

Asking About the Loo
[Travel-and-Leisure] No matter where you travel, you will eat, drink, and go to the bathroom. I've written this article to help you avoid embarrassment when attending to this necessary function, and also to help you avoid that so-very-common of travelers' afflictions, diarrhea. Just a little preparation can save you from hours of anxiety and days of gastrointestinal upset.

Making Mattress Magnets More Effective
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] The manufacturers of mattress magnets claim that their magnetic mattress pads radiate a soothing "sleep field" that increases circulation and relieves joint and muscle pain. Although I was once skeptical, mattress magnets really do have demonstrable health effects. How well they work for you, however, depends at least partially on your diet.

Is There a Home Remedy For Sex Headaches?
[Health-and-Fitness:Headaches-Migraines] "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache," is the punchline of countless jokes about the marital condition, but the fact is, millions of men and women experience headaches during and after intercourse. Here's why they may be serious, and what you can do to stop them from stopping lovemaking.

Lowering Cholesterol - Is Red Yeast Rice an Effective Home Remedy for High Cholesterol?
[Health-and-Fitness:Heart-Disease] One of the best-known over-the-counter nutritional supplements for naturally controlling your cholesterol is a product called Cholestin, which nowadays contains a sugar cane derivative called policosanol. Before the makers of Cholestin began making their product with policosanol, however, they used a natural product that contains exactly the same chemical that is in the cholesterol drug Mevachor. That natural product was red yeast rice.

Contraception with the Pill and Travel
[Health-and-Fitness:Contraceptives-Birth-Control] Not many babies are born when their parents are on vacation, but many babies are conceived when their parents are out of town. Any kind of contraception, but especially the Pill, requires planning ahead before traveling abroad. Women who take a progesterone-only "mini-Pill" because they are nursing or because they want to lower the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) on a flight need to be especially aware of the Seven Day Rule: If a Pill is more than three hours late, pregnancy is possible for the next seven days.

Disaster Preparedness - When Food Runs Low, Plan to Nibble
[Reference-and-Education:Survival-and-Emergency] Diets slow down your metabolism, but complete starvation speeds it up. Here's what you need to know to survive food shortages during an emergency.

Keeping Kids Infection Free at Home
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] If you've ever had to deal with fever for five days and then cough and nasal congestion in a toddler, you have a keen interest in children's meds that actually work. And with the recent news of the FDA advising parents not to give their children under the age of 2 over-the-counter cold and cough remedies (with a ban for children under the age of 6 expected this spring), what are parents to do? Here are some specifics for natural prevention and treatment.

Common Sense Health Care for Gonorrhea
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases-STDs] With the recent revelations that one in four American teens is infected with a sexually transmitted disease, it's appropriate in the midst of all the discussion of HIV and STD prevention for adolescents to consider home healthcare for gonorrhea. The problem in preventing this disease is that some of the very things people to do prevent it increase their risk.

Teas for Tummy Trouble
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] They are inexpensive, they are easy to make, they are safe and effective. Teas of various kinds make the perfect home remedy for all kinds of digestive distress. Just match the right tea to the symptoms.

Prevent Flatulence With The All-American Low-Gas Bean
[Health-and-Fitness] It's not a gas-free bean like the manteca bean, but the Rocky Mountains' Anasazi bean comes close. Having a mottled white and maroon coat reminiscent of a purple Appaloosa pony, this bean has none of the slightly toxic tannins found in the much better known pinto and white beans, and much less of the gas-inducing lectins found in better known beans. Anasazi beans have been cultivated in the American southwest for at least 1,500 years.

Parasite-Free Drinking Water - How to Be Sure Your Home Water is Safe
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] Want to make sure your water filter is keeping your home drinking water safe? Product labels can be misleading. Here's what you need to know to choose the most effective and affordable filtration system for your home.

Diabetes and Chromium
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Chromium is perhaps the best-known supplement for diabetes, but it does not work for every diabetic. Here's how to know whether chromium will work for you.

Diabetes and DHEA
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] From Italy comes a study suggesting that DHEA supplements might reduce some of the complications of type 2 diabetes. Many of the chronic complications of non-insulin dependent diabetes are vascular. In diabetes, there can be so much glucose in the bloodstream that it begins to "burn," that is, it begins to oxidize, even before it reaches the cells that need it.

Vitamin D and Diabetes
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] A noted author on natural health claims that using extra "Vitamin D is better than metformin (a common prescription drug also labeled Glucophage) for diabetes!" Is she right? Well, the answer to whether taking this supplement is as good as metformin the lowering blood sugars and controlling diabetes is probably yes and no.

When Green Tea Diets Don't Work, Try Nutrient Timing
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] For over a decade, trainers, coaches, and natural health experts have touted the benefits of green tea and green tea diet pills and capsules for losing weight and lowering blood sugars. Not everyone who uses these and similar products, however, benefits equally. Here's what the research literature is telling us now.

Pizza for Prostate Cancer Prevention?
[Cancer:Prostate-Cancer] It sounds more than a little unlikely, but scientists at the National Institutes of Health and three major universities have found that the lycopene in fresh tomatoes does little or nothing to prevent prostate cancer, while spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, and lasagna do. Scientists have known for a number of years that consumption of tomato products seems to be associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer, but the findings are not consistent. Sometimes tomatoes seem to help, and sometimes they don't, although overall the studies hint at a reduction of prostate cancer risk of as much ...

Could Curcumin Be Beneficial In Pancreatic Cancer?
[Cancer] There are few more dreaded diagnoses than cancer of the pancreas. Although some people actually survive pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and there are things you can do to increase your chances of being a survivor of pancreatic cancer, many patients and their doctors treat the diagnosis as if were a death sentence.

Could Curcumin Prevent Cancer?
[Cancer] Curcumin, the pigment that makes the curry spice turmeric a bright orange-yellow, is one of the best-researched potential preventatives for a number of kinds of cancer. On a molecular level, this potent antioxidant interacts with an extraordinary range of cellular processes involved in tumor development. Among its possible healing powers are: Stopping the activation of some "transcription factors" that lay down the DNA for a new cancerous cell.

Frequently Asked Questions About Ringworm
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Ringworm really isn't a worm at all. Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions about this common fungal condition.

Mustard, Chili, and Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It's a surprisingly frequent question, "Is there a relationship between mustard and weight loss? And what about chili peppers, too?" The benefit of mustard for dieters is very straightforward.

The Natural Cure for Nightsweats
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Nighttime "hot flashes" can strike men and women alike. Here are eight simple recommendations for a natural therapy.

Is It Eczema Or Psoriasis?
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] How to ease the scaling of psoriasis? How to prevent itching of psoriasis? What is a good home remedy for itchy skin?

Cheese and Indigestion
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] If you're seeking to stop flatulence, consider deleting cheese from your diet. About 30 per cent of the population of North America (and 50 per cent of Hispanics, 80 per cent of African-Americans, and 90 per cent of Asian-Americans) is lactose intolerant. Lactose intolerance is a hereditary predisposition to lack the enzymes needed to digest the milk sugars, lactose, in dairy products.

Lactose Intolerance and Back Pain
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] If you're familiar with lactose intolerance, you know that this hereditary deficiency in the enzymes that enable the body to digest the lactose sugars in dairy products commonly results in flatulence, diarrhea, and bloating. In a small number of the lactose intolerant, however, particularly among lactose intolerant children between the ages of 3 and 10 in China and Japan, the most common symptom is abdominal pain that may be referred by the central nervous system to the back. Otherwise, lactose intolerance may be related to back pain in a different way, through osteoporosis.

Don't Let Traveler's Constipation Ruin Your Next Trip
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Montezuma's revenge or traveler's diarrhea is not the only potential spoiler of your vacation. More people have problems with traveler's constipation. Here are some simple ways to keep constipation from interfering with your vacation.

Is Remission from Mesothelioma Possible?
[Cancer:Lung-Mesothelioma-Asbestos] Mesothelioma, even after decades of medical research, is one of the most aggressive and least treatable of all forms of cancer. Nonetheless, a very tiny percentage of patients go into remission from mesothelioma, and I can report two cases, one anecdotal (but I have seen the films myself), and the other from the medical literature.

The Law of Attraction and Cancer
[Cancer] Believers in a literal law of attraction may tell you that if you have cancer, you brought it on yourself. This writer, a cancer survivor for 43 years, believes otherwise.

Just How Much Curcumin Is There In Turmeric?
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] People who read about the health benefits of curcumin, which is derived from turmeric, often wonder if they couldn't just get the same benefits from adding a little curry to the diet. The answer is usually no.

Curcumin, Arjuna, and Pushkarmoola for Herbal Heart Care
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Did you read the recent articles on how the turmeric-derived supplement curcumin might cure congestive heart failure? Here are two more Ayurvedic herbs that millions of people use to support heart health.

Curcumin in Wound Care
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Curcumin supplements and curcuminoid creams are extraordinarily useful in supporting recovery from wounds, but this supplement is not equally useful at every stage of the healing process. Wounds heal through an orderly progression of events. In the early stages of a wound, inflammation is actually beneficial.

Curcumin, Coumadin, and Other Anticoagulants
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Curcumin is an extraordinarily useful natural supplement. But if you take Coumadin or other anticoagulants, there are certain precautions you need to take to get the most from your supplements and your medication working together.

Curcumin and Bioperine in Nutritional Supplements
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Bioperine helps your body absorb curcumin and some other supplements more completely. But there are some health aids you take that you do not want your body more completely to absorb.

Diabetes and Vitamin E
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Diabetics used to be told that they should take vitamin E to prevent heart disease, and then research announced that vitamin E might be harmful. Does vitamin E prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetics or not? The real answer seems to be "it depends."

Diabetes and Vitamin C
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Recent research suggests that vitamin C could be as useful in controlling diabetes as many of the most commonly prescribed medications, with the added advantage of lowering blood sugars without encouraging weight gain. And you don't need megadoses to get results.

Cross-Sensitivities and Allergy Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] If your winter or spring allergies seem to lap over into the summer and fall, the problem may not be pollen. People who have hay fever often have undetected food sensitivities that, controlled, can make controlling allergy easier.

Reduce Risk of Diabetes by Vegetables In Your Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The antioxidants, magnesium, and fiber of vegetables may reduce the risk of developing type-2 diabetes by up to 30 per cent, according to a new study coming from China. The study, published in the March 2008 edition of the Journal of Nutrition, tracked the eating habits of 64,191 women aged 40 to 70 in China. Food consumption patterns were tracked at the beginning of the study and four-and-a-half years later, and rates of metabolic diseases related to blood sugar compared.

A New Ayurvedic Herb for Diabetes?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] In the February 2008 edition of the medical journal Diabetes Care there is a report of a clinical trial of a "new" Ayurvedic herb for type-2 diabetes, Coccinia cordifolia. Also known as koval or ivy gourd, this herb is in the same plant family as the better known bitter melon. Koval is a common plant of India and Bangladesh that grows over the Indian sub-continent like kudzu grows over the southern USA.

Acupressure Rescue for Allergies
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Have allergies made you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you drowsy from too many antihistamines? Has your sinus spray started causing as many sinus problems as your allergies did? Acupressure offers safe, effective, drug-relief from allergies that begins to work in minutes.

Fighting Gingivitis with Yogurt
[Health-and-Fitness:Dental-Care] The main to way to prevent gum disease has always been to brush and floss. Yogurt, however, may also help.

Could an Apple or an Orange a Day Keep Allergies and Asthma Away?
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] When the British National Health Service looked for a way to reduce the incidence of allergies and asthma in Scotland, they found a surprising remedy: apples. Just one apple a week significantly reduced the frequency of both allergies and asthma. A similar benefit was found from eating oranges.

Go (Brazil) Nuts For Selenium
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] New research from New Zealand finds that eating two Brazil nuts a day can raise your body's stores of selenium by about 65 per cent. The research found that eating Brazil nuts was more beneficial than taking selenomethionine, the most common chemical form of selenium used in supplements and fortified foods.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids - How to Help Your Child Become an Athlete Even Before Birth
[Health-and-Fitness:Supplements] Scientists have known for a long time that growing brains benefit from the omega-3 fatty acid DHA, and that DHA can relieve ADHD. Now scientists have learned that DHA begins to enhance hand-eye coordination even before birth.

A New Antioxidant Fat-Burner for Overweight Diabetics?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] The natural products market in North America is saturated with products that claim to boost the metabolism to take off the pounds. You can find a hydroxycut caffeine-free fat burner, a liquid gel green tea product, and a variety of supplements that claim to correct "glucose intolerance" (the mainstream term is "insulin resistance") specifically to help diabetics lose weight.

Can Chicken Soup Really Cure a Cold?
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] Natural healers have known for over 2000 years that how to stop a common cold is with chicken soup. The twelfth century Jewish philosopher and doctor Maimonides recommended chicken soup for colds in his medical text, noting that he adapted the recipe from classical Greek sources written over fifteen hundred years before his time. It became the custom of Jewish housewives in what is now Germany to "boil a chicken to death" to make a hot and healing remedy for colds.

Preventing Influenza On Your Tropical Getaway
[Travel-and-Leisure] Planning a winter (or spring) break but don't want to come home with the flu? Flu shots aren't the only answer. Here are some tips that will keep you from catching flu, or, if you have influenza already, help you get over it faster.

For Preventing Diabetes, Low-Carb Is Better Than Low-Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] For decades doctors have been telling us that the best way to prevent diabetes is to cut out the fat from your diet and take off the pounds. Now the research is saying, oops, we meant you should cut out the carbs. And maybe Atkins and South Beach are really OK.

Cinnamon For Diabetes, Cholesterol And Blood Sugar Control - Does It Really Work?
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Cinnamon for diabetes, cholesterol, and blood sugar control is one of the hottest topics in natural products today. The problem is, there is more than one kind of cinnamon, and the most familiar cinnamon isn't the herb that helps lower your blood sugars and cholesterol.