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.