Cutting Edge Research Made Easy
by Linda Woolven, B.A., Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist and Ted Snider, B.Ed., M.A.
A surprising new study shows that simply eating more fruits and vegetables could be one of the most important steps to improve kidney disease.
Rates of depression and anxiety are soaring among adolescents. Increasingly, research is showing that nutrition plays a crucial role in mental health. This new study provides important new clues for adolescents.
Acne is often thought of as an adolescent problem. But hiding outside the spotlight is a large number of adults who continue to struggle with the inflammatory skin condition. New research suggests that diet can help.
Want to sleep better at night? Then eat better during the day!
Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting women worldwide. If something as inexpensive and simple as dietary changes could reduce the risk, that would be a potentially important finding.
It should no longer be surprising that a healthy diet, loaded in, among other things, fruits and vegetables, fiber and healthy fats, can help prevent breast cancer and death from breast cancer. This exciting new study adds to the evidence and points to a particular class of antioxidant.
Want a tasty way to live longer? Check out this huge new study of diet and all-cause mortality.
You know melatonin as a hormone secreted by the human pineal gland. But a surprising discovery is that there is a plethora of plant sources of melatonin.
More than 1% of the US population, nearly 1% of the Canadian population and around 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological conditions in the world. For about one-third of them drugs don’t do the job because they have drug-resistant epilepsy. Could something as simple as more magnesium…
As science discovers lifestyle patterns that prevent dementia, you might want to take advantage of all of them. Research is moving from single nutrients to dietary patterns. This dietary pattern is one you should know about.
You wouldn’t know it from the amount of attention it gets, but 39.5% of non-pregnant women and 45% of pregnant women worldwide are anaemic. Preliminary research suggests that a simple fruit can help.
Here’s the problem: high blood pressure affects 1.4 billion people and is a huge risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Here’s the hope: high blood pressure is one of the most modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Now here’s the best news: modifying the risk may be way easier than you thought.