HEALTH & WELLBEING

Back in January, the state of California added to its list of cancer-causing chemicals an ingredient commonly used in flavored soda beverages, which has sent major shockwaves throughout the processed food industry.

Are older men overdosing in testosterone, unnecessarily? A new research noted the growing overuse among the aforesaid demographic, with the surge of testosterone prescriptions since 2006.

Fellow MNN blogger Jenn Savedge thinks the ban is a bad idea. Here's why I think it will work.

Health Minister Tanya Plibersek, the Federal Member for Sydney, is among the 8,500 Australian women starting the Heart Foundation’s Healthy Heart Challenge today.

We here at NaturalNews.com pride ourselves in providing our readers with the most valuable, up-to-date news and information on a wide range of health-related issues, but we especially like to discuss nutrition because so much of our health depends on what we put in our bodies - and what we don't put in them.

The Big Apple has become unfriendly to unhealthy lifestyles as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced a new ordinance what would outlaw the serving of large-size soda drinks on select public venues.

Chocolate lovers all over the world finally have a legitimate reason to indulge on their sinfully delicious cravings daily! A new research shows that a daily dose of dark chocolate “could lower the risk of stroke and heart attack.”

The Australian government has stepped up its efforts to crackdown on tobacco smugglers as Attorney-General Nicola Roxon announced on Thursday proposals to amend the country's Customs Act before the end of 2012.

As a co-signatory to the national Close the Gap campaign, the National Heart Foundation of Australia is today (Saturday) joining thousands of other organisations in recognising National Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week, which starts tomorrow.

Scientists know that Vitamin D deficiency is not healthy. However, new research from the University of Copenhagen now indicates that too high a level of the essential vitamin is not good either. The study is based on blood samples from 247,574 Copenhageners.

We need to hydrate with pure water to retain our physical and mental health. All our tissues' cells need to be hydrated to function properly. Would you believe that most of us are dehydrated?

Over the past several years, astaxanthin has earned a reputation as one of the most potent and powerful nutritional supplements ever made.

Finally, UAB Assistant Professor of Medicine Amy LeJuene, M.D., provided the first glimpse into Harvard's problem, and it changed - and saved - her life. A chest X-ray revealed a tumor the size of a football, and LeJuene immediately referred her to the Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Even after weight loss, obese people may not be able to escape from the painful stigma of obesity, a new study led by a UH Mānoa researcher has found.

A former Florida resident who now lives in Peru recently filed a lawsuit against a doctor whose negligence, he says, resulted in his penis being completely eaten by flesh-eating bacteria.

The Caterpillar got down off the mushroom ... remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.' -Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

An Ernst & Young study has estimated the cost of underproductivity of Australian workers at over $41 billion a year in salaries alone.

The Australian government vowed to repeal efforts by giant tobacco firms to frustrate its aim of further limiting the flow of cigarette products in the country.

Autism was once thought to be a psychological disorder because of the lack of eye contact that is hallmark in the child with autism.

The simple art of folding a bed sheet could encourage the creativity of people living with advanced dementia, researchers have found.

Conventional estimates of dementia incidence in middle-income countries have been too optimistic, suggests one of the largest studies of dementia incidence to date, led by researchers at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry and published online in The Lancet today.

Passive smoking has been blamed by medical experts for the deaths of more than half-a-million around the world and soon enough a big number of the fatalities could include individuals who were inadvertently exposed to second-hand smoke their parents when they were young.

The device could help premature babies learn how to feed.

Children born to women with gluten sensitivity may be at a higher risk of developing schizophrenia or other psychiatric diseases later in life, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Johns Hopkins Children's Center and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Cancer. Heart disease. High blood pressure. Obesity. Diabetes. Premature aging. What we take for granted as hallmarks of life in the most affluent country on Earth have been popularly linked to everything from genetics to fast food.

Preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study by Yale School of Medicine researchers shows that oxytocin — a naturally occurring substance produced in the brain and throughout the body— increased brain function in regions that are known to process social information in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Detoxing in our incredibly polluted environment is not an occasional endeavor. In order to maintain a healthy immune system with a slightly alkaline pH, we need to consider constant slow detoxing to counter the "slow kill" from the myriad toxins pervading every element of our environment.

Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flight attendants have filed a formal complaint about uniforms they suspect might be causing their skin to rash and develop lesions, and their hair to fall out.

There is only one kind of immunity and that is natural immunity which is achieved by battling the infectious diseases itself. Vaccination is merely the artificial triggering of temporary responses to manmade pathogens. Vaccines are both harmful and dangerous and are leading to generations of humans with no natural defenses to disease.