Your Guide to Good Health & Vitality

Gestational diabetes is a common complication of pregnancy, but the solution may be just a dinner plate away!

Flaxseeds have a long history of improving heart health. Now the research has all been put together, and it proves it!

With all the negative news about cancer treatment and cancer survival, what would you do if you heard there was a simple vitamin that could take a bite out of cancer’s power to kill?

Chocolate’s delicious! And it’s good for your heart and for diabetes. It even makes you smarter. But it’s bad for you because it’s so fattening, right? Right?

Diet plays a massive and underappreciated role in breast cancer. When women from countries with lower breast cancer rates move to North America and adopt our diet, their breast cancer rates climb as high as ours. And now there’s a new insight into the role of diet in breast cancer.

Drinking tea is good for your heart, but you should only do it if you want to live a long, long life.

Suicide hot sauce may be just the opposite. Not only will those spicy chili peppers not kill you, they may make you live a lot longer.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a very common disease that, for some reason, affects women almost three times as often as men. A safe treatment would be very desirable for two reasons: rheumatoid arthritis can be disablingly painful, and the drugs that are used to treat it are potentially dangerous. Well, here’s a safe treatment.

It’s been another bad year for the birth control pill. And the news just keeps getting worse. You knew the hormones were bad for your body, but did you know they were bad for your brain?

The connection between diet and the health of your body is well established and uncontroversial. But what about the effect of diet on the health of your mind? An expanding body of research is building the case that certain dietary patterns can make you happy.

Though hot flashes get all the media buzz, they are far from the only annoying symptom of menopause. Women suffer from many menopausal symptoms, including vaginal atrophy and the sexual dysfunction that comes with it. Well, this herbal cream can help.

Sometimes huge help comes from the smallest, most unexpected places, as this new microscopic help for depression and anxiety shows.