Lori Alton

Heart disease remains the leading killer in the United States, claiming over 655,000 lives a year. In addition, ...

Many foods are touted as “superfoods,” but hemp seeds have the credentials to back up that claim. In ...

Health Viewpoints According to the Centers for Disease Control, a shocking 73 percent of American adults are currently ...

According to the most current data about gallstones—deposits of crystallized cholesterol in the gallbladder or bile ducts, about 15 percent ...

Type 2 diabetes, which affects well over 350 million people worldwide, has reached epidemic proportions. Conservatively speaking, 1 in ...

For many people, eating cranberries is a sort of “one-off.”  A traditional, time-honored companion to turkey and stuffing, ...

Vitamin C is well known as a powerful antioxidant and valuable weapon against cancer and other diseases. But ...

Who would have thought that the zany cartoons we grew up with could contain accurate nutritional information?  Viewers ...

Rates of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)–excessive deposits of liver fat in those with no history of alcohol ...

According to a recent report published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Journal, Alzheimer’s disease – the sixth leading cause of ...

For the 6.2 million Americans currently affected by Alzheimer’s disease, the condition can be truly debilitating – interfering ...

Osteoporosis, characterized by porous, brittle bones, and low bone mass currently affects 54 million Americans – with potentially ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that fully one third of the American population is ...

For many, working from home is now the “new normal.”  And, for millions of Americans, this means long ...

According to the most current data about gallstones –  deposits of crystallized cholesterol in the gallbladder or bile ducts, about ...

Acute renal failure – a sudden loss of kidney function due to kidney damage – occurs when the ...

According to a recently-published study in the World Journal of Hepatology, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease – or NAFLD – ...

Research confirms what natural health experts have insisted for years:  that the gut microbiome – the community of ...

Over the past few decades, resveratrol, a polyphenol found in grapes and berries, has generated a lot of ...

Since none of us are immortal, the impulse to estimate how many years we might have left is ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, over 23 million Americans currently live with some type of autoimmune ...

Obesity is widespread in the United States, with the CDC estimating its prevalence at a stunning 42.4 percent ...

According to recent estimates, over 5.8 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease.  As the population ages, ...

Osteoporosis, characterized by low bone mineral density, causes brittle bones susceptible to breakage.  Odds of developing osteoporosis skyrocket ...

When it comes to regularity, almost everybody needs a little help “moving things along” at one time or ...

The average American now spends over six hours each day staring (or squinting) at the screen of a ...

Over the course of an average lifetime, the human heart beats an astounding 3 billion times, pumping blood ...