Many a times doctors have seen that patients with one not-so-serious health problem, being affected by life-threatening diseases that are unrelated. One classic example is the link between migraine and heart attack or stroke. Recent researches have... 

Denis Cortese , the doc who runs the Mayo Clinic, swung by the Health Blog’s office today to talk health reform. His bottom line, which he’s been repeating in public in the past few days: The big health-care bill unveiled last week in the... 

When you walk into a health food store you have a few different ways of acquiring information about prospective products. You can look product labels, ask for guidance from a store employee, or peruse the books that are often sold alongside nutritional... 

Sometimes we need to look back to the distant past in order to create a better future. This certainly seems to be the case in terms of dietary choices. A relatively unpublicized, but growing body of research is telling us that so called “primal... 

Perhaps you heard or read about the recent news concerning caffeine and its purported effect on the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. I know those headlines certainly caught my attention. I’m a frequent coffee drinker and regularly advocate... 

Do you have bad breath? Can you tell on your own, or would you need someone else to tell you that you do? And will anyone else tell you if you had bad breath? Many people don’t know if they have bad breath most of the time. After eating something aromatic,... 

One of my primary goals for this site is to provide practical and topical information that can be incorporated into daily life. The following research has all been published within the past seven months. 2009 may ultimately be considered the “year... 

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know my general philosophy is to steer you toward antioxidant and nutrient dense whole foods that are low in sugar. This is the basic tenet of most low carbohydrate diets. But there is a common misconception... 

  Earlier, Celiac Disease was regarded as a rare disease caused by the intolerance to gluten. However, a recent study has turned this assumption upside down by claiming that it affects about one-hundredth of Americans, which is as bad as Type-I diabetes.... 

Diabetes also affect children as well as adults and older ones. The pancreas is unable to generate the right proportion of insulin or stop producing it. This hormone is necessary for conversion of sugar, food and starches into energy. Body demands energy...