
BPA, otherwise known as bisphenol A, has a rap sheet as long as the Gambino family (despite the FDA’s blessing), and the list of charges keeps growing. ...

Tootsie rolls and jellybeans, Snickers bars and Jujubes — these are among the things that send kids into ecstasy. But in one of life’s first cruel ironies, children learn that they pay a price for eating candy. It causes cavities. It causes pimples. It causes bouncing off the walls. I...

For pure misery, a sinus infection does the trick nicely — making the head pound, the tissues of the nasal passages feel like they’ll burst from pressure, even making the ears and gums and roof of the mouth throb. Plus, they trigger coughs and cause fever. No...

The expression "stop bellyaching" tells a lot about how stress affects the body. For many people, when problems attack, so does a stomach ache. Certainly it’s no surprise that tension messes up the gut, but the degree to which it creates serious gastrointestinal issues might surprise you. ...

Incredible though it seems, over 11 percent of Americans now have diabetes, and the rate keeps climbing. In another few years, at the current pace of increase, a full 15 percent of the population will have the disease according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index...

If you want to catch up on sleep, don’t plan a vacation to West Virginia. People there are more sleep-deprived than anywhere else in the US. ...

At the turn of the last century, a popular cure for most major ailments was a stay in the country. The fresh air, it was believed, could strengthen a weak constitution and restore health...

In at least five states, parents have had their children taken away by the government and placed into foster care, or they have completely lost custody, because the kids weighed too much. Ditto in Canada and in the United Kingdom...

If it wasn’t for bratty kids and their exasperated parents, television shows like SuperNanny and Nanny 911 wouldn’t be so incredibly popular. Th...

Back in September of 1968, 100 women became famous for protesting outside a Miss America pageant — throwing their girdles, bras, hair curlers, high heels, and other "instruments of torture" into a huge trashcan. ...

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When the economy tanks, not everything goes into the toilet. Though it seems as counterintuitive as Magnetic Hill, where cars in neutral roll up the mountain, history shows that during economic recessions, longevity increases and health improves...

One of the great advantages of HMOs, at least according to advocates, is that they typically offer patient education, a key preventative health measure. But recent evidence indicates that merely providing health information and medical advice doesn’t guarantee that patients will heed it. ...








