© John W Travis M.D., M.P.H.
The process of becoming healthier can be presented as such serious business that you lose much of the humor and joy of living that characterize wellbeing. Many books about health are filled with predictions of dire consequences for failure to follow particular methods, horror stories of what certain foods [...]

Robert De Niro has called on his contemporaries to accept the aging process, and commends Meryl Streep for shunning cosmetic surgery.
The legendary Taxi Driver actor is famous for his rugged features, and insists he would never contemplate going under the knife to rid his face of wrinkles.
And he is urging older stars to follow Streep’s [...]

A report sponsored by the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University puts the health-related price tag at $152 billion a year. That’s more than four times an earlier USDA estimate.

By Andrew Zajac and P.J. Huffstutter
It turns out that tainted food can not only make people sick, but it can also cost them a bundle in [...]

Monty, Age 2 doing his facial exercises.

A few weeks ago Cynthia read that Milk of Magnesia could stop underarm odor and wetness.   She was skeptical but decided that hey, why not give it a try…so off to Rite-Aid she went, bought the smallest blue bottle and began using this preparation with only three [...]

I highly recommend the product OraMd!  This is an all natural product that works to enhance your gum and mouth health.  I have used it for years and my dental hygienist is extremely pleased with my dental health.  In the last few years there has been no mention of gum disease nor any scraping or [...]

by Lennard Davis, New York Times Journalist and author
For the past five years, and in my recent book OBSESSION: A HISTORY, I have been questioning the effectiveness of Prozac-like drugs known as SSRIs. I’ve pointed out that when the drugs first came out in the early 1990’s there was a wildly enthusiastic uptake in the [...]

Jackie Silver and I just finished interviewing Dr. Andrew Ordon, from the hit tv show, The Doctors, and I want you to know that he is someone very special.  Yes, he is a plastic surgeon with a big heart who has just returned from Haiti where he has been helping the injured. His foundation, www.surgicalfriendsfoundation.org [...]

How much sleep we need is largely a mystery, and sleep seems tougher to come by as we age.   Many studies — often funded by the pharmaceutical industry — have suggested that we’re all sleep-deprived zombies, risking our health for lack of shut-eye.
But new research in the U.K. confirms previous indications that older people need [...]

Originally developed to help address development disorders, a drug called somatropin (also sold as the branded drug, Genotropin) is being touted as the ultimate weapon against ageing and the elixir of youth.
Devotees claim it can do everything from reducing body fat and increasing muscle mass to reversing the signs of ageing.
But critics say that in [...]