diet and medicine

The Sumerians were the first culture to abandon hunting and gathering for food and begin farming. Like many other inventions that the Sumerian culture brought to the world, they also contributed to agriculture and food. The Sumerian diet…

According to the CDC, heart disease was the #1 cause of death for Americans in 2010. Even though the numbers have shifted slightly, the fact is that heart disease is still one of the leading causes of death around the world.There's no…

Diabetes is a very serious chronic disease suffered by millions of people worldwide.If you are diabetic and fail to control your blood glucose levels you are likely to end up with one or more serious medical conditions, such as heart…

As summer nights lengthen into fall, the forests of upstate New York's Catskill Mountains fill with magical, mystical medicinal mushrooms. "Toadstool" is a curious name for the many mushrooms that sprout between rains, while "mushrooms" is…

1. Fast food has a very high energy density. About 65 percent higher than a typical diet and double that of a recommended healthy diet, leading us to eat more than we would otherwise. Energy density indicates how many calories a food…

Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a decrease in total body mass due to a moderate loss of fluid, body fat, or adipose tissue. This can be due to voluntary causes, such as diet and exercise, or…

In this article Mike Anderson talks about cancer, nutrition and global warming. Mike Anderson is a medical researcher, author of The Rave Diet, and filmmaker/producer of Eating and Healing Cancer from the Inside Out. Kevin: So…

When you eat a "nutritionally" and "energetically" balanced diet, your digestion works well, you breathe and sleep more deeply, get sick less often, and most of the time enjoy that subtle feeling of lightness that is health.It's also…