Tag: diabetes
Obesity Still on the Rise in Adolescents, and is Linked to...
Recently, a study published in The Laryngoscope found that obese adolescents are two times as likely to have unilateral low-frequency hearing loss than non-obese...
5 Ways Apple Cider Vinegar Promotes Great Health
Why do we find it so hard to believe that one simple food can do so much good? Part of this is because we...
How Do You Want to Die: Painfully or Like a Whisper?
If you are not suffering from one of the top three killers, diabetes, cancer or heart disease, chances are someone you love is. Half...
Will Insurance Premiums Skyrocket Now that Obesity is a Disease?
Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) met last week in Chicago and voted to consider obesity as a disease, despite opposition from the...
Study: Soda Linked to Increased Risk of Prostate and Pancreatic Cancers
A 15-year Swedish study performed at Lund University has found that drinking just one soda per day could entail a 40 percent higher risk...
Do ‘Big Food’ Execs Eat Their Own Products? They Know Better
What do executives at Kraft and Frito Lay have in common with many other heads of American Big Food companies?
Many of them choose organic...
Smartphone Battles the Sandman
There have been numerous studies that indicate using electronics just before bedtime could be interrupting valuable shut-eye time. One of the latest was conducted...
Has Splenda Been Secretly Causing Diabetes?
There is definitely no synthetic replacement for sugar that is not dangerous. This, of course, is not what the big companies want you to...
Sneaky Trans Fat Hiding in These Deadly Foods
Trans fatty acids, or trans fats as they are more commonly referred to, are "fake" fats that clog arteries, increase the levels of low...
Just One Soda Per Day Spikes Diabetes Risk
A new study from Imperial College in London has shed light on some very disturbing soda statistics: drinking just ONE per day increases the...
