Health and Wellness

Holistic nutritionist Joy McCarthy, in partnership with the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA), today released her top five healthy living trends and tips for spring 2012.  Her findings are based on observations in her own practice and interviews with natural health and organic leaders at the recen

After she was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer when she was three weeks pregnant, Lynette Bisconti, president of The Gateway for Cancer Research demandcurestoday.org, was determined she would beat the deadly disease, partly by eating foods that may fight cancer.

Ninety percent of the more than 352,000 hip fractures in the US each year are the result of a fall. Just this week, Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka fell as she was getting onto an elevator at a Springfield hotel and fractured her left hip. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) knows that a fall can be both life threatening and debilitating.

A major change in broadcast advertising occurred this month 42 years ago—as President Nixon signed a bill into law prohibiting cigarette advertising on the nation's airwaves.  The ban went into effect on January 1, 1971 and was the first major step in the ongoing debate over the public health risk of smoking.