A Matter of Fat
Saddlebags, spare tires, muffin tops we've dreamed up as many names for body fat as Starbucks has for coffee. Even as otherwise sensible, well-adjusted adults, many of us spend a huge amount of time d ...
Hirschsprung's Disease
Hirschsprungs Disease (congenital aganglionic megacolon) is a birth defect in which nerve cells in the wall of the large intestine do not develop. These nerve cells, called ganglion cells, control the ...
When Antioxidants Matter
Are you having a slug day? That's when you faithfully set out to perform your best on your workout routine, but everything seems to take much longer than usual. Or, you may just be finding motivation ...
Egg Whites
I was wondering recently what the big deal was about eating egg whites as opposed to eating the regular, whole egg. I stopped liking the taste of the yolk ages ago, but I was wondering whether or not ...
Panic Attacks May Reveal Previously Unsuspected...
Journal of Psychiatric Practice November, 2000 VIRGINIA T. SHERR, MD The author describes the histories of three patients with panic-like episodes that turned out to be related to underlying, pre ...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Information
Inflammatory bowel disease or IBD includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, which causes inflammation in the digestive tract. The causes of IBD are unknown. Inflammatory bowel disease symptoms ...
White Tea and its Health Benefits
Certainly, you know everything there is to know about the health benefits of green tea, but perhaps you aren't aware that white tea (which has a lighter, more delicate flavor than its "pigmented" co ...
Weight Watchers Points for Egg Whites
Egg whites seem to be back in a big way. Maybe because it's January... Three whites is ONE Weight Watchers point! Yay! This means you can scramble up six of them with some veggies for a substantia ...
Diet Peach White Iced Tea!
For those of you on the East Coast, you must try Turkey Hill’s diet Peach White iced tea! Well, that’s if you can find it. My in-laws live near the Maryland-Pennsylvania line and Turkey Hill is in Lan ...
White Rice is worse than sugar
It's true. White rice will raise your blood sugar faster than eating sugar straight from the bag. That doesn't mean you have to forsake rice altoghether.Eat basmati rice. It has a longer straighter ...
