Heavy drinking and smoking make you look visibly older, sooner, according to new findings of a Danish study that has followed more than 11,500 people over 40 years.

A team of scientists from Imperial College London pulled together all the world’s available population studies that document fruit and vegetable intake. The ninety-five studies included two million people. Their findings, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, suggest that disease has an inverse relationship with nutrition.

People who eat very quickly do not give their bodies time to realize it is full – meaning they tend to eat more, according to cardiologists based at Hiroshima University in Japan.

Psychiatric drug use is on the rise in America, with 1 out of every 6 Americans now taking some type of medication of this type. It’s highly concerning given the scary side effects and poor effectiveness of many of these drugs, but one particularly disturbing aspect of this trend that seems to get glossed over, […]

In an era when surgeons in the UK are performing a record number of diabetic ulcer-related amputations, the growth in sales of organic foods is outstripping the sales growth of all conventional foods, a good trend.

Water pollution is a growing problem, and nonorganic farming activities, both on land and in water, are significant contributors. In addition to farming chemicals such as nitrates, there’s the issue of drug-resistant bacteria. As reported by the Center for Public Integrity,1 water testing in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, has revealed coliform bacteria “at levels too dangerous […]