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This Is Your Brain on Diet Soda…

In All Health Watch, Cognitive Health, Diet and Nutrition, Featured Article, General Health, Health Warning

Diet soda is one of the worst things you can put in your body. Research links the artificial sweeteners in it to cancer. That’s on top of the other carcinogens they contain, like caramel coloring and sodium benzoate…  And low-cal soft drinks double your diabetes risk and make you gain weight—not lose it.

Now, research reveals yet another reason to avoid diet soda.… Read More

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This Vitamin Makes Cancer Treatments Work Better

In All Health Watch, Cancer, Featured Article

For decades, studies showed vitamin C killed cancer cells in the lab and in animals. But human trials were disappointing. Many were inconclusive.

Now, scientists at the University of Iowa say they know why. And they may have finally found the key to unlocking the natural cancer-fighting power of vitamin C.1

Previous human trials used vitamin C pills. But the digestive system limits the amount of oral vitamin C that can enter the bloodstream and reach cancer cells.… Read More

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Steroid Drugs Are Far More Dangerous Than Your Doctor Thinks

In All Health Watch, Featured Article, General Health, Pain Relief

Millions of Americans go to the doctor every year for back pain, a cough, allergy symptoms, or some other routine kind of inflammation… And they come home with a week’s worth of prednisone or another steroid drug.

Harmless, right?

A major new study finds these frequently prescribed medications are far more dangerous than previously believed.

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This Vitamin Protects You from Polluted Air, Study Finds

In All Health Watch, Diet and Nutrition, Featured Article, Heart and Cardiovascular

Air pollution is one of the world’s biggest killers, causing more than 7 million deaths a year.1

It causes heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). All told, air pollution kills one in eight people, according to the World Health Organization.

Now, a new study shows there is a simple way to protect yourself.

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