Years ago, health care giant Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) sold Band-Aid bandages containing the spice turmeric.
Turmeric bandages might seem odd, but the spice has a long history of medicinal use in India.
Years ago, health care giant Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) sold Band-Aid bandages containing the spice turmeric.
Turmeric bandages might seem odd, but the spice has a long history of medicinal use in India.
This time of year, I like to thaw out my stash of superfoods.
That’s because I load up on blueberries each spring and summer. So much so, that I freeze the leftovers to help tide me over until the next time they’re in season.
It’s as much a tradition as watching the ball drop on Times Square…
Each year, millions of Americans celebrate New Year’s Eve with a glass of champagne.
If one more person tells me that my glass of Riesling will give me cancer, I might lose my mind.
You’re likely familiar with news stories claiming consuming alcohol will increase your cancer risk. Some folks are even advocating total abstinence to “save themselves.”
I’m sick of seeing headlines claiming to have a “silver bullet” for diabetes.
The truth is that folks don’t want to do the work to lose weight, eat a proper diet, exercise, and take care of themselves. They want a quick pill to magically lower their blood sugar.
Right in the middle of cooking dinner, Annie lost her vision.
Annie, one of our managing editors, had no other symptoms. She just suddenly couldn’t see.
“Hey Doc, would you consider writing about this topic?”
It’s a question I get all the time from readers and folks in our office.
I hate diets.
Many diets out there have nearly impossible-to-follow rules and it’s discouraging trying to sift out what works and what doesn’t. In fact, the only diet I recommend to anyone is the Mediterranean diet, which features fruits, veggies, whole grains, olive oil, nuts, fish, and lean meat.
This is the oil boom that everyone’s talking about.
I see it everywhere… in magazines, on the front page of USA Today, and from concerned readers filling up our inbox. But it’s probably not the oil boom you’re thinking of…
The other day, a news headline claiming that “low-fat dairy intake may raise Parkinson’s risk” caught my attention.
The study, run out of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, analyzed data from about 129,000 participants over a 25-year study. In that time, a little more than 1,000 participants developed Parkinson’s.