Written By: Liana Fahie Recently, there have been many conceptions about ADHD. Some question whether ADHD really exists or if it’s just a gimmick used by pharmaceutical companies to make money. Others would argue that it’s a valid disorder. The most popular opinion seems to be that it’s commonly misdiagnosed. ADHD is defined as Attention [...]
Written by Erin Marty If you’re attempting to lose weight, you’re not the only one; according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, more than 30 billion dollars is spent annually on weight loss solutions, and much of this is spent on fad diets. Unfortunately, fad diets are usually unsuccessful and can be harmful to your general health. [...]
Written by Erin Marty Tea, a popular drink around the globe, offers many health benefits, including that it could be a possible weight loss aid. Yes, it may lend a helping hand when it comes to losing stubborn, unwanted fat. In 2005, the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University reported an experiment involving 35 [...]
Written by Erin Marty There are many people who jump the stereotypical conclusion that all fats yield negative consequences on your health, like high blood cholesterol. Well, when considering fish and fish oil, rich in omega 3 fatty acids, this could not be further from the truth. Along with other health benefits such as lending [...]
Written by: Fruzsina Molnar While most scientists and physicians have widely held the belief that all alcohol consumption increases the risk of breast cancer, a new study in the Journal of Women’s Health has found one alcoholic beverage that’s the exception to this rule: red wine. Glenn Braunstein, M.D., and his colleagues at Cedars-Sinai Medical [...]
Are Apples Safe for Children? By: Barbara J. Ross The number one fruit eaten by children is our country is – the apple!!! Even for picky eaters it seems that this mainstay of the American diet is the one fruit that almost every child will eat. That begs the question [...]
Written by: Damian Roache On Friday the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement about a newly created version of bird flu that it considers a very dangerous liability. Their opinion comes a week after the U.S. National Institutes of Health requested that research on the new flu not be published due to the [...]
Written by: Damian Roache For most people, the sight of dead birds raining down from the sky would be one of the strangest sights ever. In Beebe, Arkansas it is almost starting to be expected. Last year residents of Beebe woke [...]
Written by: Vanessa Formato The New Year can is a time for celebration for many, but for many more it is a time of intense anxiety. In the final days of each December, people contemplate what they will strive to accomplish in the upcoming year, and for millions of women the goals center on losing [...]
With all the talk of declining home run numbers of this “post steroids” era of baseball, it still can’t be said that the game has cleaned up all that much. After all, Major League Baseball doesn’t even test for what is said to be one of the most popular performance enhancing drugs among players: Human [...]
