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These Common U.S. Snack Ingredients are Banned or Restricted Abroad
From making our food look delicious to making it texturally satisfying, these ingredients are hard to let go of. Last year, the California Food Safety Act was introduced, prohibiting the ...
Ultraprocessed Foods Linked to Heart Disease, Diabetes, Mental Disorders and Early Death, Study Finds
Eating ultraprocessed foods raises the risk of developing or dying from dozens of adverse health conditions, according to a new review of 45 meta-analyses on almost 10 million people. “We found ...
Is Proton Therapy Safer than Traditional Radiation?
A type of radiation treatment called proton beam radiation therapy may be safer and just as effective as traditional radiation therapy for adults with advanced cancer. That finding comes from a study ...
Deep Sleep Nurtures the Brain
In this post, my aim is to explore the intricate and important relationships between sleep and brain health, with a specific focus on deep sleep and its role in enhancing the function ...
Neurosurgeon Works to Slow Alzheimer’s Progression, Treat Addiction with Cutting-Edge Technology
Anyone who has had experience with Alzheimer's disease knows the agony of watching someone fade away as it steals memory and at the end – a person's own identity. Tonight ...
What to Know When Buying Sunscreen
Do you know what to look for when you’re buying your sunscreen? Skin cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis in the U.S., with at least one in five Americans developing ...
How to Become Light and Carefree
How can we live lightly as the world becomes more complex? It is important we find answers, and unless we do, we will not reduce our carbon footprint enough to allow ...
Preventing Cancer Can Be a Family Affair: Ali’s Story
Between my parents, my daughter and me, you could say preventing cancer is a family affair. It started with my dad, Max. When I was a child, he found out ...
Winning at wellness: Healthy snacks for your Super Bowl party
Try these recipes for the best game day while keeping your health in mind. Some people watch the Super Bowl for football, others for the ads; a third group of ...
African American People and Cancer
Compared to members of other races, Black and African American people have higher rates of getting and dying from many kinds of cancer. Black people have the highest death rate ...
How to Protect Yourself from Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer may be the fourth most common type of cancer for women worldwide, but luckily it is amongst the most preventable types of cancers. This particular type of cancer is so ...
Foods That Fight Gynecologic Cancer
The World Cancer Research Fund, along with the American Institute for Cancer Research, analyzed research on nutrition and its role in cancer, and published the “Food, Nutrition and the Prevention ...
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