For the third year in a row, the Mediterranean diet has been named the best diet overall in the U.S. News & World Report annual rankings. In 2018, the Mediterranean diet shared top honors with the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet. Both focus on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. The ketogenic diet, one […]
Yes, Tongue Fat. People with sleep apnea are often told to lose weight to ease their symptoms. Now a new study suggests that shedding fat in a particular trouble spot may be key: the tongue. But if you didn’t know the tongue harbors body fat, you’re probably not alone. “Most people aren’t thinking about tongue […]
While it’s no surprise that heavy drinking comes with health consequences, women in particular are more prone to serious complications from alcohol — including an increased risk of alcohol-related death, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, looked at the death certificates of Americans 16 and older […]
Fitness expert and personal trainer Jillian Michaels has a message for fans of Lizzo, a singer whose chart-topping anthems preach self-love: celebrate her music, but not her body. “Why are we celebrating her body? Why does it matter? Why aren’t we celebrating her music?” Michaels asked during a Wednesday appearance on BuzzFeed News’s morning show, […]
Your smartphone, television and computer screens may be contaminating your home with potentially toxic chemicals, suggests a new study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. An international team of researchers found the chemicals — called liquid crystal monomers — in nearly half of dozens of samples of household dust they […]
It’s a New Year, no doubt with resolutions to be healthier. Part of that “be healthy” mindset needs to be about the mind, as in incorporating affirmations, meditation, motivation, self-love and positivity into your daily routines. While this may seem like a high mountain to climb, there are several apps out there to help make […]
You can make exercising — in and out of the gym — a much more organized endeavor with fitness apps. They hold you accountable, track your progress, and can also give you some awesome exercise plans. Some of them cost money, but they’re much cheaper than personal trainers, which WebMD says cost on average $50 per […]
Here we are in the new year, and many of us are making resolutions to “be healthier.” But if all of us want it to be healthy and make consistent efforts to achieve it, how is it that the United States spends the most money on healthcare, and yet still has the one of the […]
Everyone is buying into the wellness culture. The industry is worth $4.2 trillion, according to the Global Wellness Summit’s 2019 report. But some of those trends that were at best bogus, at worst downright dangerous. CBD / Cannabidiol. The short definition is that it’s a non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana and hemp. Someone, somewhere, […]
Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased. And that was just the United States. Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an unrelenting Ebola outbreak in Africa and a surge in dengue fever in Asia. There were also backslides in some diseases, like polio, that the world […]