If you’ve ever seen a Cirque du Soleil performance, you’ve no doubt been dazzled by the acrobatics and the energy of the performers. And you’ve probably thought that these superb…
Author: David Schardt
A huge new international study has confirmed that physical activity may really be the best medicine. Moving, lifting, walking, sweeping, scrubbing, or doing almost anything physical for the equivalent of…
“Every kind of living thing is dependent on communities of microbes we call microbiomes, and that includes humans,” says Lita Proctor. Proctor is director of the Human Microbiome Project, an…
Is your tap water ever cloudy? That’s a sign of turbidity. Unfortunately, most of the time it’s not that obvious. Turbidity happens when particles of clay, silt, decaying plants, parasites,…
The flavanol content of cocoa and chocolate products “can vary tremendously,” but consumers have little or no one way of knowing this from the package labels, a dietary supplement testing…
Seven in 10 Americans believe that coconut oil is a healthy food, but that’s not what the nation’s heart disease experts think. “There’s no basis at all for that,” Frank…
“A woman reaches a higher blood alcohol level than a man after drinking the same amount of alcohol, even if they’re the same height and weight,” says George Koob, director…
There are three steps people can take that might delay or prevent cognitive decline and dementia, a new report from a panel of experts has announced. The evidence is modest…
Researchers have again shown that it’s a crap shoot when it comes to buying red yeast rice supplements. These are supplements that theoretically can lower cholesterol levels just like prescription…
Ken Koehler lay curled up on the floor of his bathroom in late November of 2011, waiting for the diarrhea and stomach pain to finally end. A week earlier, the…