Managing Diebetes: Lose Weight and Control Blood Sugar

If you have diabetes and are considered overweight, you can improve the management of your diabetes and your overall health by losing weight. It may seem like a daunting task if you have tried to lose weight in the past and have failed, but there are steps you can take and support you can use to help you reach your weight loss goals.

How and Why to Use Coconut Oil Daily

Dr. Joseph Mercola reveals how and why to use coconut oil daily - and not just for cooking and weight loss.

Despite the fact that more than 2,000 studies1 have been performed on coconut oil, demonstrating a wide range of benefits, it continues to be wrongfully vilified to this day, mainly because 90 percent of its fat content is saturated fat. However, saturated fats, and most particularly coconut oil, are an important part of the human diet. If you have bought into the media hype that saturated fats are unhealthy and will raise your risk of heart disease, it may be time to reconsider your position. Read more

Bedtime Drink to Remove Belly Fat in One Week

This homemade bedtime drink will reduce belly fat in a single week.

How to Reverse Diabetes With Herbal Remedies

Thousands of people will reverse their type 2 diabetes naturally this year but the American Diabetes Association will not recognize a cure. So how are the thousands of diabetics reversing their disease? Many are using their diet and exercise but many are using herbal remedies. Herbal remedies have been around for centuries but only lately have they been researched to determine if they are actually effective. Surprisingly, many experts believe that many common herbs can begin the process of reversing diabetes. Here are four herbs you may want to start supplementing:

Performing a Particular Exercise Can Prevent Back Pain Caused by Running

Performing a particular exercise can prevent back pain caused by running, says Emily Lunardo.

Running is a great way to exercise as it involves the entire body. It is easy to do and allows you to stay moving and take you places compared to other more stationary exercises. Unfortunately, because the whole body is being utilized, many runners may suffer from eventual chronic back pain caused by excessive stress on the body. Read more

The Health Benefits of Coffee and Tea

Dr. Joseph Mercola shares the health benefits of drinking coffee and tea.

Just as you can make or break your health via the foods you choose at each meal, you can support or sabotage your well-being one beverage choice at a time. At one end of the spectrum would be soda — one of the absolute worst choices to drink. At the other, pure water — arguably the best for quenching your thirst and supporting optimal health.

For those times when you’re looking for something to savor and sip, an excellent alternative is coffee or tea, both of which have earned a solid spot among healthy beverages, with some caveats, however. Read more

Diabetic Diets: Co nsistency and Variety

Having both consistency and variety in your diet may seem hard to do, but it is possible, and it is the best way to control your diabetes with diet.  Consistency comes from specific meal times and the same servings from the different food groups.  Variety comes from trying as many different foods in the food groups as you can.

11 Steps to Stop Your Snoring

Jeremy Anderberg provides eleven steps to stop your snoring.

About half of all adults snore occasionally, and about a quarter snore regularly. While it’s sort of a funny topic, and often joked about in sitcoms, snoring can cause real issues in the bedroom. Whether it’s keeping you from getting the deep, restful sleep you need, or waking up your spouse at all hours (if they can get to sleep at all), snoring can create a boatload of tension. It’s worth your physical and relational health to try to get a handle on your noisy nighttime muffler. Read more

Motivation for Diabetics to Lose Weight

If you have diabetes , you have probably heard from your doctor how beneficial it is for you to lose weight, but that doesn’t make it any easier to do. Nevertheless, your doctor is right: you will gain many benefits from losing weight including managing blood glucose levels. No matter how beneficial losing weight is, however, it is still difficult for most diabetics to do.

9 Tips to Prevent Bone Loss

Osteoporosis is a common health issue among the elderly, especially women. Here are nine tips to prevent bone loss.

Osteoporosis is a bone disease that commonly affects older women. In osteoporosis, bones become fragile and brittle, increasing the risk of breaks and fractures leading to disability and a lower quality of life.

In osteoporosis, the body’s ability to create more bone becomes limited, so more bone is being broken down than replaced. Read more

Woman Recovers From Cancer After Treating It With Turmeric

A woman who battled blood cancer for five years 'recovered after treating it with turmeric in the first recorded case of its kind.

A woman who battled blood cancer for years without success finally halted the disease with turmeric, it has been reported.

Dieneke Ferguson is now leading a normal life after giving up on gruelling treatments that failed to stop it. Read more

Applying Heat or Cold for Migraine Relief

The pain of a migraine headache demands quick action. One simple, natural way for migraine sufferers to seek relief is with the judicious application of heat or cold. This type of pain relief is particularly popular with people trying to reduce or avoid prescription medication use, especially among children and their families.