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When the nation’s top health official stands before a crowd and announces that a popular diet can “cure” one of the most serious psychiatric conditions known to medicine, it demands scrutiny. Not partisan scrutiny – scientific scrutiny. The claim travels fast, lands hard in vulnerable communities, and carries the institutional weight of a cabinet-level office....
Dr. Cedrek McFadden, a board-certified colorectal and general surgeon with over 20 years of clinical experience at Prisma Health in Greenville, South Carolina, recently shared five questions he believes every patient should ask their doctor about lab results. McFadden – who serves as a clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of South Carolina...
Most people know Damon Wayans Sr. as the man who made generations laugh – from In Living Color to My Wife and Kids, his career has been built on the ability to find comedy in everyday life. But there’s a chapter of his story that isn’t funny at all, and for a while, it looked...
Most people don’t think of their daily meals as a factor in global mortality statistics. Yet the way billions of people eat, every single day, is quietly driving one of the largest preventable health crises the world has ever seen. We’re not talking about exotic toxins or rare diseases. We’re talking about common patterns, eating...
Most people picture dementia as something that creeps up in old age, something that belongs to a distant future most of us would rather not think about too carefully. But the science is shifting that picture in an uncomfortable direction. A wave of large-scale research is identifying the dementia risk factors that accumulate long before...
Nutritional researchers have long assumed that fresh always beats frozen when it comes to the quality of our food. For blueberries, at least, the evidence says otherwise. Multiple lines of research – including work by Lohachoompol, Srzednicki, and Craske published in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology and a separate study out of South Dakota State University...
Certified trainer Chris Freytag has spent more than 35 years in the fitness industry, coaching women through the physical changes that come with midlife. She started as a journalist by degree before becoming a certified health coach, personal trainer, and group fitness instructor, and has spent 35 years helping hundreds of thousands of women move...
Every morning, millions of people squeeze half a lemon into a glass of warm water before doing anything else. It’s one of those wellness habits that has outlasted countless fads – showing up in health magazines, social media feeds, and the kitchens of people who take their routines seriously. The question most of them quietly...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes wage data for hundreds of occupations every year through its Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, and tucked inside that data is something worth paying attention to: a collection of careers that pay $120 an hour or more without being the kind of work that makes headlines. These...
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory HS skin disease that most people have never heard of – yet it affects roughly 1% of the global population and is far more damaging to long-term health than its name suggests. A landmark 2025 review published in The Lancet02475-9/fulltext) confirmed that hidradenitis suppurativa complications extend well beyond painful...
In the fast-paced world of modern wellness, where superfood trends cycle through our social media feeds like clockwork, it is rare to find a health recommendation that is as ancient as it is scientifically grounded. Recently, Dr. Amir Khan, a well-known NHS physician and regular health contributor on platforms like This Morning and Lorraine, revealed...
