The Power of Food & Beyond

The human gut is a crowded neighbourhood - if you're a micro-organism, that is. There are 500 species of bacteria resident in the adult …

Earlier this year, scientists at Barts and the London School of Medicine found that beetroot juice can have as great an effect on blood …

The FDA announced that starting from August 2008, spinach and lettuce sold across the United States may now be secretly irradiated before it reaches …

When it comes to identifying the most common poison that we willingly use against ourselves, an amazing feat resulting in millions of deaths worldwide …

Breast cancer rates increased significantly in four Norwegian counties after women there began getting mammograms every two years. In fact, according to background information …

On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, a headline on the San Diego Union-Tribune's front page read: ""Drug-resistant TB spread gaining, WHO says"", adding, ""Infection rate …

If I were asked to choose the most valuable two pages of any medical book ever written, I would not hesitate to nominate pages …

Here is my version of a well-worn modern parable. A surgeon is out jogging by a swiftly flowing river, when he hears the cry …

Almost everyone knows that amalgam fillings are potentially harmful. That’s why it’s sad that articles like this still have to be written. But as …

Vitamin D prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer and even effects diabetes and obesity. Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient …