We all know that brushing and flossing are the best way to keep your smile looking its best, but top natural teeth whitening tips include enjoying foods that are “tooth friendly”, and avoiding ones that are trouble go a long way toward keeping your smile sparkling and your gums healthy.
Your teeth are [...]
Finally, some good news for balding men. Receding hairlines may just be good for you according to U.S. researchers out of the University of Washington School of Medicine who have found that men who lose their hair by age 30 seem less likely to develop prostate cancer.
The results of the work suggest [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
You may have heard (and believed) the expression, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” but there’s new study that might just turn this conventional wisdom on its head, finding that the conclusions we arrive at after first meeting someone are rather accurate after all.
We know the role that physical appearance plays in creating first [...]
Nature is an amazing thing, and according to some University of Georgia research appearing in a recent issue of HortScience, there are some plants that can actually remove dangerous airborne contaminants that might be found in anyone’s home – even yours.
Things like harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, toluene, octane, alpha-pinene and trichloroethylene [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Want to have your skin looking healthy, golden and glowing? You don’t have to spend hours in the sun, risk your health in tanning beds or spend a fortune on special creams and cleansers to get a healthy body blow.
Instead, the answer to glowing skin is a lot easier, and more natural – eat lots [...]
When it comes right down to it, there’s no magic formula or miracle cure to staying healthy and cut disease. The things you need to do are things we all can do…
1. Don’t smoke – if you do, try to quit
2. Get active – at least 3.5 hours a week
3. Stay away from junk food [...]
While we all know time spent baking on a beach without sunscreen is not a good idea, there are other, more routine things we all do that can be just as damaging to our skin and lead to UV skin damage.
Since skin cancers account for just about half of all cancers in the U.S. according [...]
While more education is no guarantee of anything these days, there is one area where more schooling has been shown to offer a benefit. And that is education linked to your own personal health.
A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Commission to Build a Healthier America finds that those with more education report better health [...]
Wondering why the weight isn’t coming off?
Consider this – you might be unknowingly interfering with your goal, even if your resolve to shed those extra pounds is rock solid.
This according to new research just seeing a healthy food option on a menu actually tempts you to chose a fattening food instead.
It doesn’t make sense, but [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
No single human emotion has received as much attention, inspired so many actions or brought so much wonder and joy to our lives. In short, love is happiness.
Love makes the world go around, keeps us together and may even be responsible for some incredible benefits to your body as well.
Not only lowered blood pressure and [...]
