Healthy articles

If you can't fit into your jeans, it is easy to blame it on your genes. The fact is, however, that skinny people often have eating habits that make it easier to eat less.

There have always been doubts regarding the safety of breast feeding by a hepatitis B positive mother. The researchers have never been sure whether the virus is transmitted through the breast milk, compromising the health of the infant.

Can you control your diabetes with diet, herbs and supplements? The short answer is yes-you can.

It may come as a surprise to many of you that our health care system is appalling. We spend more money per capita on health care than any other country in the world. We produce over half the world's drugs and consume just as much.

America has the distinction of consuming more than half the drugs in the world.  We also produce more than half the world’s drugs. We supposedly have the best health care system in the world, or do we?

A new study from Denmark finds that diabetics may have relatively high risk of developing Parkinson's disease, especially people who are diagnosed with diabetes before the age of 60.

Once popularized as the food that helps the medicine go down, sugar is now blamed as the culprit behind a world-wide epidemic of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other manifestations of metabolic syndrome, even high cholesterol and heart disease.

Everybody knows that crushing chest pain is the sure sign of a heart attack, but in this case, “everybody” is wrong. More often than not, and especially for women, the symptoms of heart attack are likely to be what you don't expect.

Eating healthy does not have to be boring. If you are trying to lose weight, the key lies in creating foods that satisfy your appetite without packing on the pounds. Learn how to create delicious meals that fill you up and slim you down.

Anticoagulants are useful substances and medications, defined as "all possible compounds that do not allow blood to clot".