Exercise is definitely an important part of staying healthy. But it's only one part. Recently the Wall Street Journal published 10 tips that I think could help us all age gracefully.

The latest study from Canada compared the effectiveness of plant sterols for lowering cholesterol in those with diabetes and those without and found that they worked for everyone, but more dramatically for those with type 2 diabetes.

While investigations continue, there are ways to help lessen the impact this persistent and annoying condition has on your life — and wardrobe selection.

The scientists became interested in cranberry juice’s antibacterial properties after noting the growing number of studies that show the drink’s power fighting urinary tract infections in women.

Break out the guacamole. According to recent research, eating foods rich in vitamin E — such as avocados, olives, and nuts — can lower your risk of developing Parkinson's disease.

This time researchers used electrocardiograms to measure the heart function in patients with Type 2 diabetes who supplemented with chromium.

Tell all the mothers in the neighborhood that they might be able to toss those antibiotics that their kids have been swallowing for ear infections in favor of a safer treatment.

Clinical Tip 132 – How to prevent skin cancer and look younger doing it You can reduce your risk of skin cancer without becoming a mole hiding from sunlight and without slathering on vitamin D-blocking sunscreen every time you go outside. And while you’re preventing cancer, you can improve your complexion and slow down visible [...]

For an herb that’s well-known enough to get mentioned in Hollywood movies like You’ve Got Mail, there’s still a lot of confusion about Echinacea even among experts in herbal medicine. You’ve probably heard or even experienced mixed results. Some people swear by it for preventing colds and flu, but others don’t get much benefit.

If you’ve been following the news and our frequent updates, then you probably already know about the European Food Supplements Directive. The Directive, passed in 2002, was supposed to promote public safety by standardizing vitamin and mineral regulations across Europe. In reality, it threatened to remove thousands of perfectly safe products from the shelves.

Whenever I write about freedom and health care, a few readers write or e-mail complaining that they subscribe to Nutrition & Healing to read about health, not politics. But what they don’t realize is that without freedom, we’ll never have the best in health care or any other field, for that matter. And unfortunately, many people don’t realize that some enormous health care advances made generations ago, and many that are still being made today, aren’t available because our freedom (in this case, freedom of choice in health care) is still very limited in these United States.

Q: Quite by accident I discovered that ascorbic acid in water will remove the stains of Lugol’s solution (and I assume SSKI). Several years ago I had mixed ascorbic acid with water to drink. At the time I took a drop of Lugol’s every other day, as recommended 40-50 years ago in a newspaper column written by, I believe, a Dr. Brady. That day I dropped the iodine into the ascorbic solution and was fascinated by the disappearance of the brown color. It has worked very well for me since on fabric, paint and countertops, even after the spill has dried.

Helping your grandkids do well in school may have just gotten a little easier. A recent study suggests that taking more than the recommended daily amount of zinc could boost academic performance in children.

Medicare contractors have customer service representatives whose only job is to answer billing questions from physicians. Yet according to a 2002 report by los Federales own General Accounting Office (since renamed the Government Accountability Office, or just the GAO), these customer service representatives (CSRs) gave physicians the wrong answers 85 percent of the time.

IN THIS ISSUE: 2 cancer cures los Federales don’t want you to have and how to regain your freedom to choose them; The next step toward restoring health care freedom; A silver lining in the dark cloud over worldwide supplement access; New Echinacea discoveries help you get the most immune-boosting bang for your buck; How to prevent skin cancer and look younger doing it; Medicare goes to the toads; The safe, all-natural smart pill that could boost your grandkids test scores; Supplemental stain remover

I love it when science proves me, and all the other advocates of natural medicine, right.