How to fight obesity. It’s a formidable challenge. Intervention is usually aimed either at preventing people from becoming overweight or fighting obesity for  people who already have a weight problem . There is no simple solution. Attempts to prevent obesity that are targeted at groups of people ...

Not surprisingly, understanding stress and treating stress it are increasingly important in conventional medicine. Between 60 and 90 percent of all medical visits in the United States are for stress related disorders . The three major components of stress are physiological, behavioural and psychological. Let’s ...

Heart disease is the biggest killer, but it’s slightly misnamed. The real culprit is artery disease. Those thousands of pipes that connect your heart to everything else carry the food and oxygen for life . When they are clogged with clot or cholesterol, they fail in their ...

Of all the body’s minerals, calcium is the most important. We would all be jellyfish without it. It not only gives your bones their sturdiness (as steel does for buildings), but it also serves as a vital participant in innumerable bodily chemical reactions. It helps muscles contract, ...

Blood pressure Many studies have shown an association between elevated blood pressure and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in both women and men. Studies also have shown that controlling blood pressure through weight reduction and antihypertensive (blood pressure lowering) medication results in ...

What is Ginkgo? Technically, the anti aging agent is called extract of ginkgo biloba (EGb). Ginkgo is the name of a two hundred million year old large ornamental tree that still thrives in temperate climates throughout the world, including the United States. Its leaves the medicinal part ...

Low fat diets are bad for your health. If low fat diets really worked then there would be millions of slimmer, happier people around. The media and food industry have given fat such a bad name that people are terrified to eat it, thinking they will put ...