Ooey-gooey pizza, greasy and cheesy French fries, and decadent hot-fudge chocolate brownie sundaes are delicious but empty calories. Junk food is hard to resist for most of us. When your craving for junk foods takes over, it will affect both your mood and your weight loss goals. So it is [...]

In the Northern Hemisphere, the recent calendar page turn from April to May marks the official start of the spring-summer season, the return of shorts and of sand-filled Saturdays. It is also skin cancer awareness month. The thinning ozone and rising temperatures mean it’s more important than ever this year [...]

I can’t even begin to count how many times someone has suggested to me that I incorporate yoga into my fitness routine. For some reason, I just couldn’t get my mind around it. All people do in yoga is learn how to contort themselves into weird pretzel shapes and practice [...]

Scientists have found that Chicago’s air is infested with chemicals courtesy of airborne compounds that are traveling as far as the Arctic. The chemicals, called cyclic siloxanes, are toxic to aquatic life. Where do they come from? From chemicals in deodorants, lotions and conditioners. “These chemicals are just everywhere,” said Keri Hornbuckle, [...]

Do you remember the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010? It was all over the news for months and months… and then seemed to simply disappear from the media once BP announced they’d stopped up the gushing oil well. Whistleblowers are claiming that’s no mistake — and in a recent report [...]

Scientists and doctors have been researching the effect traffic pollution has on the human body for years. Damning evidence against high pollution areas has already been collected, claiming that people who live by busy roads and in inner cities have poor health and a low life expectancy. A new study [...]