Category Archives: Health News

If you’re relying on statins to minimize your risk of heart attack, you need to keep reading. New research is leading to serious questions regarding their benefits. Challenging conventional wisdom, a new review of 35 studies is suggesting statin medications don’t offer much benefit in lowering the risk of heart attack, stroke, or preventing death. ...click here to read more

Think avoiding alcohol is the only way to keep your liver healthy? If you did, it wouldn’t be held against you. Alcohol has long been associated with liver disease. But there are a lot of other things you can do to keep your liver healthy. And there are just as many to take it in ...click here to read more

Education gives people an edge in their later years, helping them to keep dementia at bay and their memories intact. New research published in the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics adds to the mounting evidence that suggests a higher education is associated with a decreased risk of dementia. The study used scores determined by the ...click here to read more

What do you think about protein shakes? I’m not talking about plant-based protein shakes, either. I’m talking about whey protein. The stuff bodybuilders guzzle after a workout. Useless to you, right? Wrong. Whey protein could help lower cholesterol. Whey is one of the proteins found in dairy products. As a supplement, it is a by-product ...click here to read more

Your bones give your body structure. They play a significant role in keeping you upright and carrying you around. They protect your organs. Bones also store your supply of calcium. Keeping them healthy is a big job that takes a concerted effort. Since you were about 30, your bones have been slowly losing density and ...click here to read more

Patients who have been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to the recent analysis of a US commercial insurance database. The analysis, which was published in the journal Arthritis Care & Research, compared adults with rheumatoid arthritis to patients diagnosed with other health issues. A total of 449,327 ...click here to read more

Although memory loss is a significant concern among the aging population, new research is beginning to show how it could be reversed in patients with cognitive decline. The study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports considered more than 35 factors known to be associated with cognitive decline and found that memory loss does ...click here to read more

You’ve likely heard that blue light exposure can make it harder to sleep at night. But new data is showing they could negatively impact colon health too. Blue light emitted by most white LEDs (light-emitting diode) come through the screens of smartphones, tablets, and computer screens. Increasingly, they are coming out of city streetlights. And ...click here to read more

Erectile dysfunction (ED) might be one of the few outside indicators of high blood pressure. The inability to achieve or sustain a quality erection is not only frustrating but a sign of how blood is moving through your body. One study found that nearly half of men between 40 and 79 with high blood pressure ...click here to read more

Mounting evidence is finding that the use of antibiotics in children could increase the risk of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and type 1 diabetes. For example, a new study published in Genome Medicine has shown that even a short, single antibiotic course given to young animals can predispose them to inflammatory bowel ...click here to read more

What can you do to get better sleep? Poor quality sleep is becoming the norm in America. 70% of adults say they get insufficient sleep at least once per month, while more than 10% report nightly sleep troubles. According to SleepHealth, 50–70 million Americans are affected by sleep-related problems. These problems run deep. A lack ...click here to read more

Managing blood sugar for type-2 diabetes can be a challenge. What, when, and how much to eat can get confusing. And for many, lowering blood sugar might mean giving up the foods they love. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be that difficult. Making simple substitutions here and there can help prevent a surge in ...click here to read more

New research finds that a plant-based diet can lower blood pressure even if small amounts of meat and dairy are also consumed. The study from the University of Warwick suggests that any effort to increase plant-based foods into a diet could benefit blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attacks. Researchers reviewed 41 studies ...click here to read more

Other than hitting the pause button on your life, is there anything you can do to prevent cataracts? Getting older presents a slew of challenges. One of them is sight. As you get older and your eyes have more exposure to potentially damaging elements, the risk for vision-related conditions like cataracts goes way up. It’s ...click here to read more