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Top five low-impact exercises for overall health
To anyone who doesn't frequently engage in exercise, just mentioning the word brings up images of exhaustion, pain, and lots of sweat. These are more than enough to turn plenty of us off from physical activity. Yet according to one Harvard doctor, the best exercises may actually be the easiest
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Poor sleep is NOT just part of growing older: Experts encourage non-medical intervention
Although one-third of older Americans take prescription sleep medication, the majority don't discuss their sleep problems with their healthcare providers. This shocking finding comes from the most recent National Poll on Healthy Aging, conducted by the University of Michigan Institute for Healt
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Is your gallbladder healthy? 10 signs in may not be, and what to do about it
The gallbladder plays a central role in maintaining a healthy digestive profile. This tiny organ is located just below the liver and is essential in releasing bile into the digestive tract in order to metabolize food. Fatty foods are known to negatively impact the organ's overall health. Choles
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Has Big Pharma destroyed Nancy Pelosi's brain?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., appears to be slowly but surely losing her mind. And it's possible that Big Pharma is partially responsible. Pelosi, a far-Left "progressive," has always had kooky ideas about how our country should be run. But legitimate questions about her mental he
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LAUNCHING: See the new lab test results format for supplements, superfoods and fast food
As promised, the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center is rolling out a new format that details the lab test results for off-the-shelf products, including foods, supplements and fast food. An example of the new format is shown below. It aggregates testing results from two mass spec lab instruments
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Chemical hormone blockers used to turn children into transgenders deemed "child abuse" by pediatricians
The President of the American College of Pediatricians has expressed concern about the dangerous practice of prescribing hormone blockers to children who think they are transgender in order to prevent their bodies from developing the way nature intended them to. Dr. Michelle Cretella told a forum
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CDC-funded study finds shockingly high rate of miscarriages among pregnant women who receive flu shots
If you were told that obediently getting your flu shot every year would give you a 40 to 60 percent shot at avoiding the flu (or zero, if the experts get it wrong that year), but would double your chances of having a miscarriage one day, would you find those odds acceptable?
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EpiPen maker only cares about sales, not human lives
Mylan Pharmaceuticals has had a rough time of it in the past 18 months or so. The pharma giant is the distributor of the live-saving EpiPen - a device which administers exact doses of epinephrine (adrenaline) using special autoinjector technology. When someone has a life-threatening allergic reactio
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