Articles on Healthy Aging

D to Prevent C-sections?

Running low on vitamin D might raise your risk of delivering a baby by caesarean section, according to recent research from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Scientists...

Hibiscus for High Blood Pressure

Sipping hibiscus tea may help tame high blood pressure, recent research from Tufts University suggests. For six weeks, a group of adults with mildly elevated blood pressure drank three...

Climate Change and Your Health

As climate change continues to trigger changes in air quality, people around the world will become more and more vulnerable to serious and even fatal respiratory problems, a new research...

A Chocolate Cure for Inflammation?

A small square of dark chocolate a day might not quash your cravings, but it could help shield you from heart disease, a new study from the Journal of Nutrition suggests. Sizing up...

How Breast Cancer Patients Benefit from Pilates Therapy

Pilates expert Dawn-Marie Ickes, MPT, has seen many times how Pilates can help someone who has breast cancer. But one post-mastectomy client who came to see her recently stands out...

4 Easy Ways to Prevent Foot Pain

Since your very first step, you have been moving around your life on your own two feet. Remarkable as that is, it’s even more amazing how little most of us know about how they...

Perfecting Your Posture to Relieve Chronic Pain

How long does your body hurt after your feet first hit the floor in the morning? Ten minutes? Sixty minutes? All day? If you have forgotten what it feels like to move without pain,...

Detox Buyer’s Guide: Top Products to Help You Cleanse

Detox is de rigueur these days, and it’s no wonder: Toxins assault us daily via stress, pollutants, additives and chemicals in our food, water and air, furnishings, cleaners and...

My L-Theanine Experiment

Not long ago, a friend started telling about L-Theanine, a natural supplement that she'd started taking to help her sleep.It helped her get a great night's rest, she told me,...

Acai Is Everywhere - Or Will Be Soon

I'm pretty sure that I didn't know anything about açai berries a year ago. Or if I did, I instantly lumped them into the same "exotic ingredients I'm unlikely to try" category,...