Prediabetes is a worldwide epidemic. In the United States alone it affects 79 million people, or one in three adults and nearly one in four adolescents. Prediabetes is characterized by high levels of blood sugar and insulin and it increases the risk of five of the seven leading causes...

Researchers have linked a species of intestinal bacteria known as Prevotella copri to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, the first demonstration in humans that the chronic inflammatory joint disease may be mediated in part by specific intestinal bacteria. The new findings by laboratory scientists and clinical researchers...

Go figure: organic maple-syrup- sweetened yogurt from grassfed Jersey cow milk costs less than artifically flavored, chemically colored and carrageenan-stabilized yogurt in a tube. https://www.cornucopia.org/2013/10/busting-organic-expensive-myth/ ...

Why some women and not others get endometriosis – the growth of uterine tissue outside the uterus that can cause pain and infertility – is not known, but researchers have come up with one possible contributing factor: pesticide poisoning. Scientists studied 248 women with surgically confirmed...