In a recent study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, researchers at UCLA demonstrated the importance of a healthy diet and regular exercise, and their impact on reducing amyloid plaque build-ups that are associated with Alzheimer's disease. In the study, 44 adults ranging from...
Parents dealing with children who display limited and strong food preferences as well as an unwillingness to try new foods are not strangers to the frustration and anxiety picky eating can provoke. Picky eating is a relatively common problem among children, affecting up to 50 percent...
In a world where clickbait headlines and competition for “likes” and “shares” means sensible science is sidelined by sensationalist promises regarding the latest and greatest super fruit newly discovered deep in the Amazon rainforest, it’s nice to know that some of the tried and true,...
If you want to know how to lose weight naturally (or how to help someone lose weight), focus on what you can do, not what you can’t. Making healthy changes is hard. But studies show that the way we think about these changes can make a...
Call it a gut reaction. Doctors don’t know what triggers the body’s immune system to attack the joints that cause rheumatoid arthritis, but Veena Taneja, Ph.D., an immunologist at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, has long suspected a link between the trillions of microbes (microbiome) living...