Month: July 2014

Aging is as inevitable as taxes. But Dr. Mehmet Oz says that by choosing the right foods (and avoiding the wrong ones), you can look and feel younger …

Moreover, calorie-counting weight loss methods ignore the fact that our … Belong in a Healthy Diet," it tracks the history of the current food pyramid.

It's time to get serious about losing weight again. …. successes of the day, and that gave me the will power to walk out of there with only healthy food.

New details from two studies reveal more side effects from niacin, a drug that hundreds of thousands of Americans take for cholesterol problems and general heart health. Some prominent doctors say the drug now seems too risky for routine use.

Food trackers, such as Jawbone, are released to help make achieving … When it comes to weight loss, there is an overwhelming plethora of fads, diets …

By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) – Roman Catholic officials in Chicago want to provide services, which may include housing, to undocumented immigrant children who have been pouring into the United States in recent months, church officials said on Wednesday. The Archdiocese of Chicago, the third-largest Catholic diocese in the country with 2.3 million members, has submitted a proposal offering to help the children to the refugee resettlement office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spokeswoman Colleen Dolan said. More than 400 unaccompanied minors caught crossing the Mexican border are being held at government shelters in Chicago, according to U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican. The Heartland Alliance, an anti-poverty organization, is coordinating services for children in the Chicago area, but a surge in need has the government seeking proposals for more help by Aug. 6, Dolan said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday in support of making it easier for banks to do business with legal pot shops and providers of medical marijuana.

Is there somewhere you want to travel that you haven't yet been to? Have you wanted to take a painting class? Do you want to write a book? Maybe you want to adopt a dog or a cat? Get married or divorced? Sell your house? Buy a house? What are you waiting for?

The declines in strokes and improvements in survival were similar between blacks, whites, men and women, according to the researchers. “Stroke is still the fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the U.S. but we’re doing better,” said Dr. Josef Coresh, the study’s senior author from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and about 130,000 die as a result. Coresh and his colleagues write in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, that some studies have reported a decline in stroke rates.