
What Cold Hands And Feet Could Be Telling You About Your Health
Everyone gets cold hands and feet, especially in winter. But what if you get them constantly, even in warm conditions? It could be a medical problem. After all, you don’t want to be walking around in the middle of summer with socks!

Understanding The Food Label: What Are You Putting In Your Mouth?
Food labelling is taking on more emphasis in a society that is a lot more nutrition and diet conscious. But what does it all really mean? There are lots of numbers and percentages but what should you be looking for/

Do Weight Loss Supplements Work?
Weight loss supplements are considered by many as a quick-fix approach to the excessive body weight problem. The evidences of their efficiency and safety, however, are limited.

Vaccinations: What You Really Need To Know
Do vaccines work - and how? What about the alleged dangers of vaccination? And if a vaccine doesn't work, why should I get my shots anyway?

Warning: Don't End Up In The Nursing Home From Hell
Nursing homes can be wonderful, nurturing facilities that enable you to live life to the fullest, or they can be clinical, impersonal, and unpleasant. How do you choose the right nursing home?

Sweet Treats You Can’t Believe Are Healthy!
Everybody loves a bit of sweetness, but it often comes at a cost to our health. This article looks at some healthier alternatives to traditional chocolates, cookies and pastries both on the supermarket shelves and stuff you can make at home.

How To Read Nutrition Labels For Weight Loss And For General Health
The labels on the foods your eat offer a great deal of information that can help you lose weight and stay healthy. Deciphering food labels, however, practically takes a Rosetta stone. Here are 10 rules for reading nutrition labels for useful information.

Decline And Fall: Injury Prevention For Older People
What’s more likely to kill you: kidney disease, pneumonia, Alzheimer's, or falling over? Surprisingly the answer is falling over. Falls kill tens of thousands of people a year in America every year. What can we do about this?

Magnesium Deficiency: A Silent Epidemic?
In an ideal world, most of magnesium would come from green, leafy plants. Unfortunately, farming practices have depleted a lot of the magnesium in the soils around the world and the result is that the levels of magnesium in foods has decreased.

Gym Germs - What You Need to Know
Why are gyms at the top of the “Germiest Places” lists? They are there for a good reason: they are packed with a bunch of sweaty bodies in small places. There is no reason for panic: just know what to watch for and what to do and you will be fine.