Cutting Edge Research Made Easy
by Linda Woolven, B.A., Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist and Ted Snider, B.Ed., M.A.
Sugar is sweet. Maple syrup is sweet. What happens to your health when you swap sugar for maple syrup? No one has ever studied that before. Until now.
Conventional wisdom suggests that eating dark chocolate should be bad for diabetes. Conventional wisdom is wrong.
Once thought of as an unhealthy pleasure, research has been driving a reevaluation of drinking coffee. Instead of eliminating your coffee, the new research suggests you should feel good about enjoying it. But you have to enjoy it in the right way in the right amount.
Hops may be best known as an ingredient in beer. But it is also a versatile medicinal herb. And though beer is never going to help you lose weight, hops just might!
There are very few drugs for diabetes that prevent the progression of declining beta-cell function. But curcumin may do just that.
Affecting 20%-30% of all adults in the world, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged as the leading cause of chronic liver disease in the world. So, a safe, natural method of reversing it would help a lot of people. A new study says there is one!
People with type 2 diabetes have an 80% higher mortality rate from cardiovascular disease. Safely improving the risk factors could save a lot of lives. Exercise can help. This study wanted to see if the herb saffron could help and whether the two combined could help even more.
In one of the first studies of its kind, following a vegetarian diet has been shown to improve risk factors in women with metastatic breast cancer.
There may not be a lot of seaweed on the dinner plate in Western dining rooms. But seaweed is popular in Asia, and it has been a central ingredient in the diets of coastal people since prehistoric times. A new study points to helping you to achieve a healthy weight as another of the many…
Cardiovascular disease and cancer are the leading causes of death globally. Strong evidence supports the ability of diet to reduce the risk. This massive study took a closer look.
In our fast paced world so influenced by convenience and advertising, ultra-processed foods are filling a greater space on our menus. They may be fast, and they may be addictively tasty, but they may also be killing you.
There’s a ton of research showing that eating a Mediterranean diet is good for your health. More surprising is new research showing that if you eat a Mediterranean diet, it’s good for the health of others: even if they’re not even born yet.