There’s one snack you may have been avoiding that can cut your risk of dying from cancer, heart disease and respiratory illnesses by an average of 20 percent. That’s a snack even your doctor would give you the all-clear to eat, right?

Hip tightness and pain often prevents people from being as active as they’d like. Even simple things like walking and biking and hiking become problematic when the hips are tight and painful. But these yoga moves will loosen you up in no time…

Exercise is the great brain medicine. But, if you really want to boost your odds of maintaining a healthy brain into old age, there’s one vegetable you should be drinking to ramp up your brain benefits and stack the cognitive health cards in your favor…

It’s not about what you do but how you do it. We feel this sense of urgency about improving our physical fitness and health not getting any easier to effect as we get older. If you’re feeling there is no time like the present, there’s an arsenal of secret weapons to help you get better results.

A word of caution for exercise fanatics: too much may push your sex drive in the wrong direction. How? By over-stressing your autonomic nervous system. When it’s stuck on the “stressed-out and harried” setting, it’s virtually impossible to get busy in the bedroom when you’re too busy out of it.

Quite amazingly, your body is working 24/7 to continually fuel, hydrate and replenish your skin’s cells. That’s because your skin is considered an organ. In fact, it’s the largest organ your body has!

Looking for an accurate way to gauge your cancer risk right now without going to your doctor’s office and getting pricked and prodded? Well, all you have to do is stand in front of a mirror and look for the places on your body where…

You know you have a lymphatic system, but have you really ever thought about what it does and how important it is to your overall health? Well, it does an awful lot — so let’s start there…

Remember the guy you knew who went barefoot everywhere, even in winter? He may have seemed a little eccentric but perhaps you admired his tenacity. As it turns out, he was on to something. This quirky habit has real wellness benefits for you…

If you’re looking to lose weight, get in shape and blast away the excess body fat, you should be drinking protein shakes. In fact, replacing one to two meals per day with a high-quality protein drink is one of the easiest ways to drop pounds fast…

Around 40 percent of Americans are afflicted with metabolic syndrome. If you find yourself in this situation, frequently the dietary advice is to decrease your fat intake. But it turns out, you could pay an awful price by doing so…

You probably already know that sunscreens are chock-full of concerning ingredients. But a recent analysis of popular sunscreens uncovered some alarming facts about the sunscreens you’re slathering on your summertime skin, including this doozy…