Too much salt in your diet? Blame dinner rolls and bread slices for high salt intake. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nine out of ten American adults consume too much salt and the usual suspects (potato chips and fries) aren’t to blame. Ten types of food make up 44% of […]

The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show or CES introduced some of the gadgets we will be enjoying in the near future.  The show, which covered 35 football fields of exhibits didn’t just have new products for the techies, it also showcased a plethora of health gadgets and platforms. Here are some of the interesting tech gadgets […]

Patients used to visit their doctor’s office with symptoms, questions, and concerns. Now, we are seeing an increasing number of people arriving with their diagnoses of illnesses they don’t even experience. This condition is known as cyberchondria, baseless anxiety about one’s wellness caused by visiting health and medical websites from an online self-diagnosis. This phenomenon […]

Drinking green tea may keep elderly adults more active and independent compared to their peers over time, a Japanese study covering thousands of adults suggests. Antioxidant chemicals present in green tea may help fight off cell damage that can cause various diseases. There are numerous studies involving green tea’s effect on everything from hypertension to […]

Sugar is hazardous to health and the government should regulate the product the same way it does alcohol and tobacco. This is according to scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Their arguments for branding sugar as “toxic” can be read in an article published in Nature this week. “Calories, carbohydrates, amino acids, […]

Health insurance coverage is a challenge most new business owners need to face. It’s a very important issue that has grabbed the headlines recently and the discussion on how to design a fair and affordable healthcare system for Americans needs to go on even after the laws are in effect. Small businesses have limited income […]

Anyone who has a family member or a close friend suffering from liver cancer understands all that the individual must tolerate to find answers. Along with the traditional medical treatments is a new treatment called genomic. This is a new method for identifying the cancer-causing agents that are causing liver cancer to grow and spread. […]

Many employers of large corporations have utilized the last two months of each year to offer open enrollment period insurance to their full-time employees and some to their part-time employees. The stress levels and anger, on the part of the employees are heard loud and clear because of the confusion of what an affordable health […]

Verifying employment status for the freelance and self-employed entrepreneurs can be very difficult. This is a topic that is seldom discussed out in the open but becomes a major issue when the freelance and self-employed entrepreneur wants to apply for a business loan and for self-employed health insurance. If it feels like you are jumping […]

Anorexia health treatment is dependent upon how much coverage an individual possesses with their low-cost health insurance policy. Anorexia is another issue with the insurance providers, which is considered to be a self-inflicted pre-existing health condition. The insurance providers have difficulties with coverage for anorexia because this can reoccur at any point in time when […]