Category Archives: Health News

There are two types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. These conditions can lead to diarrhea, cramping, and bloating. An estimated three million Americans live with IBD. It is known that IBD patients have a higher risk of cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, but links between IBD and prostate cancer have ...click here to read more

It is recommended that you exercise regularly in order to keep your bones strong and reduce the risk of fractures. But have you ever wondered how this happens? A group of researchers pondered the idea of how exercise benefits bone strength to give us an answer. The researchers worked with mice to uncover a hormone ...click here to read more

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer of men. Risk factors of heart disease in men include being older in age, smoking, high cholesterol, hypertension, inactivity, family history, obesity, and diabetes. Many of these factors are controllable, which means you can work to reduce your risk of heart disease. Now, researchers are suggesting ...click here to read more

If you have diabetes, then it’s essential that you control your sugar levels. But there is another health concern that diabetics should aim to manage as well, that being cholesterol. New guidelines were released during the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, where doctors suggested that diabetics should be prescribed statins based on their age and ...click here to read more

If you’re overweight, it’s advised that you lose weight, as being overweight is unhealthy and can contribute to many complications. Ideally, when losing weight, you want to burn fat and build muscle. But how do you know if you’re achieving this properly and not losing muscle in the process? Maintaining strong muscles at any age ...click here to read more

Soursop and custard apple may help lower fibromyalgia symptoms, according to the latest research findings. The study comes from Spain and is based on decades of collected data. Soursop and custard apple are tropical fruits and have long been used in traditional medicine for a variety of ailments. Fibromyalgia is a disease categorized by widespread ...click here to read more

Sorry ladies, but the latest research findings on foods to eat to protect your memory was explicitly done on men. That doesn’t mean that you can’t benefit from these health foods anyways, it just means additional research is needed to determine if the same results hold true in women. Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School ...click here to read more

The latest research findings have uncovered that depression and anxiety are risk factors for heart disease, hypertension, arthritis, headaches, back pain, and upset stomach. The study found that depression and anxiety affect the body in a similar way to smoking and obesity, which can also lead to the aforementioned conditions. Typical annual physical exams touch ...click here to read more

Your risk of heart disease may increase with the use of certain type 2 diabetes drugs, according to research findings. Researchers have uncovered that specific type 2 diabetes drugs may increase a patient’s risk of a cardiovascular event such as stroke, heart attack, heart failure, or amputation. Lead author of the study Dr. Matthew O’Brien ...click here to read more

Ever notice that after a night of poor sleep, you’re more irritable – it seems like everything becomes so much more frustrating. Research findings suggest that missing out on a few hours of sleep is enough to turn you into an angry person the next day. Furthermore, your ability to deal with frustrating situations is ...click here to read more

As we age, it’s natural to see some minor decline in our abilities, including in our thinking and memory skills. Anything more than that, though, could be an indicator for the development of dementia in the future. One issue researchers are currently facing is the ambiguity of mild cognitive decline. Some studies have found it ...click here to read more

After a long day, do you come home with heavy, tired legs? Is your ability to sleep halted because you experience restless leg syndrome? You may only think you’re merely overworking your legs, but these symptoms could be a sign of venous reflux disease. Venous reflux disease doesn’t always reveal itself in spider or varicose ...click here to read more

Being overweight is unhealthy, we all know this. Too much fat in the body can negatively affect health in several ways including increasing the risk of sleep apnea, diabetes, hypertension, and joint pain, to name a few. But researchers now suggest that you can add vision loss to the list of health consequences of being ...click here to read more

About Hyperlipidemia When fat particles, known as lipids, build up in the blood to abnormally high levels, it is known medically as hyperlipidemia, which is another term for high cholesterol. There are two major types of lipids found in the blood: triglycerides and cholesterols. Cholesterols are used by every cell in the body. They are ...click here to read more