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Lower Blood Pressure Naturally
High blood pressure is serious business. Uncontrolled, it can cause heart attacks, kidney disease, crippling strokes—even death.
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Gestational Diabetes
You couldn’t be happier. A baby’s on the way. You’re more than halfway along and all seems fine until the doctor throws you a curveball: You have gestational diabetes.
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Health Features

Baby Weight Be Gone
For nine months your weight slowly creeped up and up, but you didn’t mind because you were carrying a precious little bundle of joy.
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Point of View: Oranges of Death: The Making of the Myth That Sodium Kills
The connection between sodium chloride and disease is perhaps the most glaring example of a mistaken belief repeated so often...
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Something to Smile About
An acidic environment in the mouth is one of the top contributors to the erosion of dental enamel.
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Statin Substitutes
Can you ditch your prescription statins and lower your cholesterol with dietary supplements? Maybe.
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Metabolic Syndrome
An estimated 76 million Americans have metabolic syndrome, which is nearly 35% of the U.S. population older than the age of 20. What is metabolic syndrome, and is there a chance you have it?
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10 Reasons to Eat an Apple a Day
Apples are a quintessential food for health that are low in fat and calories and are an enzyme-rich energy food that helps break down and digest other foods.
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Food Safety: Staying Ahead of the Headlines
“Each year, approximately 76 million cases of food-borne illness occur in the U.S., more than 325,000 people are hospitalized, and about 5,000 deaths occur...
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Single Moms: Make Your Health a Priority
A recent study shows a not-so-surprising trend: Single moms, who often work long hours while negotiating the arduous tasks of keeping house and raising kids, may put on the pounds.
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Morning Sickness
It's what you don't want to expect when you're expecting, but there is help.
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Excuse Me, Your Stress Is Showing
Everyone experiences stress, but if your hair is falling out in clumps, isn’t that really serious?
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The Best Foods for Strong Bones
Annemarie Colbin, PhD, author of The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones: A Holistic Approach, offers up the best foods for strong bones....
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Normal-Weight Obesity
Even if your weight is considered normal, excessive body fat isn’t healthy, say experts.
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Secret Sources of Salt
Sodium can be stealthy, hiding in seemingly innocent foods. But a few simple sleuthing skills will help you root out the culprit.
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Tiny Pills, Big Promises
Today’s dietary aids make silver bullet promises. But do they actually deliver, and are they really safe? At last, the straight-up answers you’ve been looking for.
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Big Bad Buzz on Vitamins
You work hard to maximize your health. Are supplements working against you?
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22 Foods That Help Fight PMS
If you’re bloated, cranky, and crampy each month, you’ve got company. About 40% of women of childbearing age experience physical and emotional symptoms of premenstrual syndrome...
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Decode Your DNA
The slight variations in our genetic code are so individual that scientists can furnish more than 550,000 pieces of data about observable traits—or phenotypes—that make each person unique.
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Natural Health Boosters
A trio of natural "therapies" for heart health, cancer, and more...
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Color Your Health Green: How Your Personality Could Bring You Good Health—or Future Problems
When Carol Ritberger, PhD, sees people, she doesn’t see faces or figures. She sees bright colors and hidden health...
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Prebiotics and Probiotics: The Bacterial Good Guys
Meet the bacteria that keep your digestive system humming.
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Tips for Healthy Cooking
Healthy cooking doesn't mean you have to become a gourmet chef or invest in special cookware. Simply use standard cooking methods to prepare foods in healthy ways.
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Foods That Boost Immunity
Some West Coast restaurants are now serving “immunity-boosting” dishes...
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Deaf Jam
Hearing loss caused by loud noise—known by some as “iPod Ear” —is on the rise...
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Waging War on Wrinkles
It’s an inescapable fact of life: wrinkles happen. Aging does not discriminate; it inevitably strikes us all, and our faces show it.
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On an Emotional Roller Coaster
If we eat when we’re sad, under stress, angry, or lonely, then emotions most likely are driving our behavior, rather than hunger...
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Insulin’s Effects on Health
You’re feeling more tired and fatigued than usual, and find yourself craving sugar and anything sweet. The cause?
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Is a Restaurant a Diet Trap?
The pitfalls of eating out. It’s hard to follow your healthful eating plan when you eat away from home...
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Nutrition and Strength
Exercising muscles to increase strength is important, but what about eating to develop strength? If you think this type of eating is just for bodybuilders or powerlifters, you’re wrong... (read more)

Soy Protein: Daily Needs
It seems that with each new study that’s released, soy is “in” one day and “out” the next. Should you include this potentially beneficial food in your diet?
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