After 12 weeks, the researchers found that the subjects in the oral and topical lutein and zeaxanthin group had a 63 percent increase in the surface lipids in their skin

The good news is, none of these vitamin D has doppelgangers has hit the market for yet. But they’re coming — as sure as you can say “patent medicine profits.”

As if the brownie-bingeing, looking-over-your-shoulder-for-the-cops effects of old-fashioned marijuana weren’t bad enough, today’s stronger version of pot comes with a much heftier price tag

Q: I’m getting ready to go on vacation for a few weeks, but I’m actually dreading it because I get a horrible sinus infection nearly every time I travel by plane.

Now researchers have found two more purple produce items that have anti-cancer effects on the skin: grapes and blackberries.

I’ve been drinking milk for years without problems — and my bones seem to be all the stronger for it. Can it really be that bad for me?

Reducing your salt intake can cut the risk of heart disease and stroke by as much as 30 percent.

While helping people to care for themselves using natural and nutritional therapies is always my primary goal, I am also very dedicated to fighting for every citizen’s rights to choose these treatments.

But when and if this situation should arise, there is one caution I can give you: Do not try to save a buck by buying your medication from an online source claiming to be a pharmacy.

When I find an abnormal 2/16 ratio in one of my patients, I recommend that he or she include more Brassica vegetables, like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and bok choy (to name a few), into their diet.

While no one would mistake the jewelry that comes out of vending machines for the crown jewels, most of us probably also don’t see much harm in letting a clamoring child have one of these trinkets now and then.

Eliminate refined sugar and refined carbohydrates from your diet — especially if you have Type II diabetes in your family or if you are insulin resistant

There’s always so much fuss about getting kids to eat more fruits and vegetables. But how can we possibly expect them to listen to us if we’re not doing it ourselves?

Most insurance companies will refuse to cover any treatment that is not “approved” by a government agency — no matter how safe, inexpensive, and effective it may be.

It looks like the FDA has actually made a sound decision for once — one based on the best interests of human health and safety and not on its own back pocket.

Since they’re made from real human collagen, it’s highly unlikely that they would ever cause any problems, so I consider them the safest of the cosmetic injections available.

There are just too many cards stacked against milk for it to be a good idea for anyone — except those baby cows — to drink it.

Part of the confusion and controversy over the issue is probably due to the fact that there are actually different types of standardized extracts.

This is inevitably the time of year when a lot of us end up coming down with the dreaded “summer cold.”

Q: I’m concerned about all the information I read linking aluminum to various health problems. Is there any way to keep from ingesting it?

We get letters every day from readers worried about cancer — how to prevent it, and how to cure it.

Giving children the hepatitis B vaccination triples their risk of developing multiple sclerosis.

In the U.S., breast cancer rates fell nearly 15 percent from 2001 to 2004 — the same time frame during which thousands of women stopped taking the HRT drugs Premarin and Prempro

So, like Botox, even though cow collagen has the FDA stamp of “approval,” I recommend you stay away from it

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