I do my best to eat healthy, not because I’m obsessed with my weight but I have concerns about heart disease. I really thought I was doing everything right until I found out it was actually something I was NOT doing that could be leading me down the path to heart disease.

If you don’t live in Michigan, you may have never given a second thought to the town of Flint before the reports of dangerously high lead levels in drinking water. But what if you live in one of the 3,810 towns with lead levels as much as four times higher than what they found in Flint?

You can slather on the antibiotic ointment, but if your immune system’s not operating at its best, the healing process is going to be slow and painful. You need to promote wound healing from the inside out. How do you do that? Well, the U.S. Army Institute of Environmental Medicine found this works…

If you seldom put your hips and knees through their full range of motion, never bending them past 90 degrees, your body gets the wrong message: make less synovial fluid. Consequently, your joints become less lubricated … stiff… arthritic. Here are two ways to fix that…

80% of people who successfully lose at least 10% of their body weight gradually regain it to end up as large or larger than before they went on a diet. Why is regaining the weight you lose so easy? Let me explain, because once you understand, it makes the secret to keeping it off easier!

Doctors are professionals operating with a patient’s best interest at heart. But, even armed with a toolbox of knowledge and tests at their beck and call, they are still human. Diagnostic errors are much more common than often reported — many life-threatening. Here’s how to avoid the danger…

Before you decide to take drastic measures and get prescription weight loss pills that can cause side effects like headaches, dry mouth, constipation, gas and more, you should know there’s a little-known natural steroid you might be missing that could be behind your weight gain.

Various components offered by food can affect the structure and integrity of your skin. So if you want to avoid the visible signs of aging, it’s recommended you avoid junk foods and sugar, and focus on eating the healthiest diet you can, starting with these 9 foods…

If you do yoga, you may have noticed that yoga changes your thoughts, mood and emotions for the better. So it’s got to be doing something inside that noggin of yours, right? Well, it absolutely is. It’s actually altering the physical structure of your brain…

Need a little incentive to keep getting those twice-yearly teeth cleanings? Well how about this… if you get too lax on your oral hygiene, your mouth could become a breeding ground for dangerous bacteria that can quickly ruin your health…

The smell of pie in the oven can trigger strong feelings from another time and place… proof of the mind’s ability to associate and affect a reaction from a cue. Now, imagine a cue that stops your arthritis pain, a migraine attack or self-defeating thoughts. Here’s how to do it…

Winter can be rough… it’s cold and damp, people are regularly coming down with viruses, and we often don’t feel like we’re at our best. That’s why a little extra effort to boost your immune system and your mood could go a long way in helping you survive it. Here are a few tips from Dr. Eliaz…