Eating healthy is hard, especially when you’re dealing with constant cravings for chips, cookies, cheeseburgers or whatever your particular vice is. Luckily, there’s an easy hack that can help you handle incessant hunger and unhealthy food cravings with willpower and grace…

If you have celiac disease, it’s a given that you have to eat a gluten-free diet. Or, it may be that you’ve flicked the gluten-free switch with the goal of increasing weight loss or improving your health. Regardless, it’s a common assumption that a gluten-free diet is healthy, but…

By now, you know that your diet influences your cancer risk. In fact, scientists believe that 30 percent of all cancers could be prevented through proper nutrition. The question is, what naughty nutritional habits are putting you in peril?

Do you have pain and stiffness in your shoulder joint that makes it hard or impossible to exercise, keeps you awake at night and stops you from enjoying your normal day-to-day activities? If so, you could be one of the many Americans who suffer from frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis.

Painful chronic conditions that become more common with age, such as arthritis, cancers and neurological diseases to name a few, are among the top reasons your doctor may prescribe a certain medication that just might carry the worst of side effects…

You may have read that evidence is stacking up against that supposedly “healthy” glass of wine with dinner. But that’s not the final word when it comes to drinking to your health. There’s been another twist in the alcohol-health debate…

Stretching can give you flexible joints and help your body move more efficiently. And it should increase your range of motion, so you’re less likely to exceed it and injure yourself. But only if you do it the right way…

Aging can be difficult enough, especially if you’re facing thinning bones. But if you want to make it harder on yourself, there’s one surefire way… And that’s carrying around too much extra weight. But losing the weight is not so easy — or safe — for obese seniors, and here’s why…

Losing your hearing doesn’t just make you feel old before your time, it can take away your independence and risk your safety. If you’re starting to notice your hearing diminishing and your saying, “What?” more often, making your friends and family repeat themselves, try these…

It’s common practice these days to take medications for our ailments. And while medications may be designed to assist your body in some way, they also have to take a trip to the kidneys for filtering. And if you think your kidneys are “safe” from the effects of those drugs, think again…

Did your mother always tell you to eat your vegetables while you were growing up? While green leafy vegetables can help you stay physically fit, recent data shows they can keep you cognitively fit by feeding and protecting your brain.

If you’re a woman, there’s a certain carcinogen you need to be extra careful about… the heavy metal cadmium. Cadmium mimics estrogen. And, it’s been tied to hormone-related cancers. Breast cancer is one of them. And now, it seems, it may fuel endometrial cancer too…