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• Weight gain from common medications

  Obesity in the United States has grown by 48% in the past 15 years.  Although not often considered in the list of risk factors for obesity, the medications taken by many people may be contributing to the population's increasing girth.  Commonly used drugs that may affect your sense of hunger a

• Olive Oil May Protect Against Stroke

  More support for the health benefits of the Mediterranean Diet is coming from researchers in France who are studying over 7500 people 65+  years of age.  Compared with participants who did not use olive oil, those with intensive use had a 41% lower risk for stroke. No other dietary variable was si

• Feverfew+Ginger for Headaches

  This recent research underscores what natural medicine experts have known for ages:  Feverfew and ginger are safe and effective in treating mild headaches, including migraine.  Its not very often that studies like these are ever performed due to lack of funding, so we are happy to see this

• Eating omega-3-rich fish may keep vision loss at bay

  Eating more seafood rich in omega-3 fatty acids  appears to slow advanced macular degeneration, a common cause of age-related blindness, according to new research published in the December 2010 journal Ophthalmology. It is important to remember the benefit here came from food, not supplements. 

• Can you trust your vitamin supplement?

  February 8, 2010 — A dietary supplement containing toxic levels of selenium 200 times greater than the concentration listed on the label caused a widespread outbreak of acute selenium poisoning, affecting 201 people from 10 states, investigators report today in the February 8 issue of the Archives