Healthy articles

Have you ever wondered when the earliest memories form in childhood, or why you can't recall so much of your own younger years? Research sheds an interesting new light on memory development.

Manuka honey, gathered from groves of manuka trees growing naturally on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, is known around the world for its amazing power in promoting healing of skin diseases.

Looks at the health benefits and dangers of wine drinking as they relate to health and also defines moderation

Is your workout becoming boring, are you lacking results, or worse, is it becoming something you don’t want to do? There’s no room for that way of thinking! Gail Kasper shares four ways to make your workout fun!

Excessive personal hygiene in childhood seems to be linked to a number of serious conditions such as asthma, multiple sclerosis and ulcerative colitis later in life. Does it really make sense to ensure that your child is meticulously clean and tidy?

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS is a rare disease that has now become more familiar to many people because of the on-going Ice Bucket Challenge used to raise funds for research. Beyond the fun involved, awareness about the disease is most important.

Are you left or right-brained? Does this have to do with personality? The brain is a very complex organ to study and there are certain beliefs around brain dominance that are actually not true. Here are some examples to explain how brain dominance works.

Food labeling is there to help us make the right decisions about the foods we eat. But it's so inaccurate that it's leading us astray. We're ending up eating more processed foods, and getting less healthy - and food labeling is partly to blame.

Psychiatrists usually refer to a limited menu of potential diagnoses for serious mental health issues, including relatively common conditions such as depression and schizophrenia. Some psychiatric conditions, however, can be described as "exotic."

Oral cancer may not get the media attention of other cancers, but worldwide almost half a million people are diagnosed with the disease each year. While smoking is still a risk factor, infection with HPV is now a leading cause of oral cancer.