Your daily mood booster It’s prime time for the “winter blahs” to set in. But some new research shows there may be a simple solution. According to a report published by [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
Impressive new research on some old standbys
There are some forms of cancer that are just really difficult to treat. And pancreatic cancer ranks at the very top of that list. Sadly, it has the worst survival rate of any form of the disease. [...]
Your brain on chocolate
I’ve been talking about the benefits of dark chocolate for years. Study after study has shown that the antioxidants in cocoa and chocolate are abundant. And in July, an impressive review of [...]
Sit less, move more
We need to sit less and move more. It’s a message I can’t stress enough. Back in February, I told you about a new medical condition known as “sitting disease.” Researchers [...]
PSA not so “useless” after all
There’s been a lot of bad press lately about the PSA screening test for prostate cancer. Maybe you caught my message awhile back, when I came out pro-PSA amid all the naysayers. [...]
The healthiest comfort food there is
Cheese may very well be the healthiest “comfort food” there is. And not just because its fat content will keep you satisfied longer than most other snacks. According to some new [...]
Nature triumphs over Alzheimer’s disease
There are very few diseases more heartbreaking for family members than Alzheimer’s. There’s no cure and the drugs that are currently available are little more than a placebo. [...]
Getting serious about vitamin D
There’s a new movement underway by the Council for Responsible Nutrition–a really excellent group of watch-dog researchers who take their job seriously. The CRN is urging the Feds to [...]
Trans-fats–beyond the ban
I remember it well. The landmark day in 2006 when Mayor Bloomberg declared that New York City would lead the nation in the first ban on trans fats in restaurant food. And, according to a new [...]
Fad diets go high-tech
It looks like fad diets have gone high-tech. There are a few laboratories out there advertising “DNA dieting.” And according to research by Stanford University scientists, subjects [...]