How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health Affiliate

How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health

When you’re constantly plowing through mile-long to-do lists and putting out family fires (e.g.., the kids are fighting … again;…

The pros and cons of juicing for health Affiliate

The pros and cons of juicing for health

Juicing is often associated with “detoxing” or “cleansing,” whether for weight loss or wellness. According to the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines…

Simple ways to turn your health around Affiliate

Simple ways to turn your health around

Think you can put off taking care of yourself? Think again. When it comes to our health, “It’s easier to…

Picking the healthiest fruits Affiliate

Picking the healthiest fruits

Anyone who thinks healthy food can’t taste good clearly doesn’t understand the power of fruit. Sweet, juicy and delicious, grab-and-go…

Is pasta healthy? Affiliate

Is pasta healthy?

Think of Italy and you probably think of pasta. But it’s not just Italians who are passionate about this comfort…

Going abroad? Check your health coverage Affiliate

Going abroad? Check your health coverage

With the world as their oyster, many retirees take the opportunity to travel far and wide. But before you go,…

Eating for kidney health Affiliate

Eating for kidney health

Environmental Nutrition Newsletter Nearly one in seven American adults has chronic kidney disease (CKD), and millions more are at risk.…

Health benefits of tea match those of coffee Affiliate

Health benefits of tea match those of coffee

The Medicine Cabinet: Ask the Harvard Experts  Q: I keep hearing about the health benefits of drinking coffee. I am…

The health advantages of marriage Affiliate

The health advantages of marriage

  “My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.” That’s just one of many Rodney Dangerfield…

Pickle your produce for taste, your health Affiliate

Pickle your produce for taste, your health

Pickling is more popular than ever, and for good reason. This traditional food preservation method is a fun way to…

The Happy Heart: Being Optimistic Can Help Your Heart Health Cardiology

The Happy Heart: Being Optimistic Can Help Your Heart Health

“It’s well recorded that depression, anxiety and stress associated with poor health,” says Rosalba Hernandez, PhD, MSc, lead author of…

Environmental Nutrition: Shout-out to Brussels sprouts Affiliate

Environmental Nutrition: Shout-out to Brussels sprouts

Brussels sprouts can get a bad rap, especially from kids. But there’s more to these little veggies than meets the…

The high cost of a healthy life Affiliate

The high cost of a healthy life

In retirement, good health is a very costly condition. That’s the conclusion of a new study comparing total health care…

Environmental Nutrition: Calcium controversy Affiliate

Environmental Nutrition: Calcium controversy

Americans are encouraged to get more calcium to build and maintain strong healthy bones. But recent headlines suggest that too…

Plan ahead to cover retiree health care costs Current Articles

Plan ahead to cover retiree health care costs

By Susan B. Garland, Kiplinger’s Retirement Report When you draw up a retirement-spending budget, you’re likely to account for utilities,…

How being male or female can affect your health Affiliate

How being male or female can affect your health

Source: NIH News in Health Are you male or female? The answer to this seemingly simple question can have a…

Environmental Nutrition: B vitamins on the brain Affiliate

Environmental Nutrition: B vitamins on the brain

By Marsha McCulloch, M.S., R.D., Environmental Nutrition Newsletter Cognitive function — including memory, mental speed and problem solving ability —…

Environmental Nutrition: Nourish your bones Affiliate

Environmental Nutrition: Nourish your bones

Unlike the static human skeletons that commonly hang in biology classrooms, your bones are continually being broken down and rebuilt.…

Environmental Nutrition: Some ovarian problems treatable by diet Women's Health

Environmental Nutrition: Some ovarian problems treatable by diet

By Judy Thalheimer, R.D., L.D.N., Environmental Nutrition Newsletter Up to one in five women of reproductive age suffers from polycystic…

Colonic hydrotherapy health benefits remain unproven Affiliate

Colonic hydrotherapy health benefits remain unproven

The Medicine Cabinet By Howard LeWine, M.D. Q: A friend is trying to convince me to get colonic irrigation. After…

Environmental Nutrition: Whole grains, soyfoods and the plant-based diet Affiliate

Environmental Nutrition: Whole grains, soyfoods and the plant-based diet

Environmental Nutrition Newsletter Whole grains linked to longer life Eating at least three servings of whole grains, such as bran,…

Swim to your health Affiliate

Swim to your health

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whatdoctorsknow.com Swimming is the fourth most popular sports activity in the United States…

Scientists uncover health concerns related to caffeine overdrive Affiliate

Scientists uncover health concerns related to caffeine overdrive

By Matthew Kadey, M.S., R.D., Environmental Nutrition Newsletter Whether it’s on a long car drive or a marathon session at…

How water and health are connected Affiliate

How water and health are connected

By Rachel Moeller Gorman, EatingWell.com Water accounts for 60 percent of our body — or about 11 gallons or 92…

Folic acid supplement prior to pregnancy can help ensure a healthy baby Affiliate

Folic acid supplement prior to pregnancy can help ensure a healthy baby

By Howard LeWine, M.D. Q: I’m hoping to get pregnant later this year. I consider my diet to be well…

Yoga offers a wide range of health benefits Fitness

Yoga offers a wide range of health benefits

Harvard Health Letters Yoga is an ancient practice that combines physical activity, breathing, and focused mental attention. A growing body…

Above & Beyond: Heartland Alliance Provides Housing, Healthcare Options to Help End Poverty Charities

Above & Beyond: Heartland Alliance Provides Housing, Healthcare Options to Help End Poverty

By Megy Karydes The cycle is familiar to many living in poverty. Charles was trying to land on his feet…

Experts share the latest diet strategies for heart health Cardiology

Experts share the latest diet strategies for heart health

After three-and-a-half days of presentations on nutrition research at the recent American Heart Association (AHA) conference, here’s EN’s take-away on…

Pescetarian diet swimming in health benefits Nutrition

Pescetarian diet swimming in health benefits

By Judith C. Thalheimer, R.D. L.D.N., Environmental Nutrition Newsletter Think something’s fishy about a pescetarian diet? Think again! More people…

Health Apps and Wearables: The Next Stage Current Articles

Health Apps and Wearables: The Next Stage

By Tom Mullaney We live in a time of technology disruption. Airbnb has revolutionized the rental markets model. Uber and…

Institute of Women Today Maintains 40-Year Focus on Social Health Charities

Institute of Women Today Maintains 40-Year Focus on Social Health

Photo courtesy of the Institute of Women Today By Megy Karydes When the Institute of Women Today (IWT) started in…

The Environmental Link to Autism and Intellectual Disability Autism

The Environmental Link to Autism and Intellectual Disability

By Tom Mullaney In the largest environmental study of its kind, scientists from the University of Chicago have found a…

A Hazy Shade of Healthcare

What does tort reform mean for local doctors, insurance companies and you? By Morgan Lord Many of us have a…

Health Mastery

Tenaciously Stubborn: How the good kind of stubbornness can actually save our lives By Kathleen Aharoni She kept returning to…

The Anatomy of Health: An Integrative Approach to Wellness Alternative Medicine

The Anatomy of Health: An Integrative Approach to Wellness

When I was in my very active 20s—dancing, biking, hiking—I had severe back and hip pain. I was studying for…

Think Pink: Innovations and Advancements in Breast Health Cancer

Think Pink: Innovations and Advancements in Breast Health

Breast cancer and fear go hand in hand. Both the disease and its treatment can be frightening and overwhelming. But…

Obesity Interventions In The Know

Obesity Interventions

How new guidelines are helping kids and teens lose weight   Fact checked by Shannon Sparks   When Juan Diego Fuentes…

Male Friendship In The Know

Male Friendship

Men often avoid developing deep friendships, but the benefits are clear   Fact checked by Derick Wilder   When Milan Bagel…

Awe May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered Columns

Awe May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered

Fact checked by Derick Wilder   Awe is awesome and can be inspired by both good and bad. Good: the Cubs…

Weighted Fitness Fitness

Weighted Fitness

Military trainees have practiced rucking — walking with a loaded backpack — for centuries. And now, this intensive technique has…

Our Top 10 Stories of 2023 Features

Our Top 10 Stories of 2023

We’re celebrating the new year by taking a look back at our 10 most-read stories of 2023. These stories covered…

Nuisance Noise Audiology

Nuisance Noise

Noise pollution takes a toll on heart health. Learn how to keep your ears — and your heart — safe.…

We Asked… Community Question

We Asked…

We asked readers to share on social media and in our weekly newsletter: In what ways have environmental changes in…

Reaping Rewards Above & Beyond

Reaping Rewards

How environmental volunteer opportunities take people outside of themselves Eriko Kojima readily admits that she used to be a couch potato.…

Natural High Fitness

Natural High

Why getting outside does wonders for your health Do you find yourself stuck inside, reluctant to emerge from your cocoon?…

Here’s the Beef Uncategorized

Here’s the Beef

Cutting back on red meat has an outsized impact on the environment Katherine Tellock was in no rush to give…

Oh, Naturale! Features

Oh, Naturale!

Chicago explores the role of trees in human health and heat mitigation This is not a joke. Ready? What mitigates…

Healing Highland Park Features

Healing Highland Park

18 months after a mass shooting at a 4th of July parade, a community continues to mend More than a…

Rising Concerns Features

Rising Concerns

Where flooding and sewage treatment meet — and how both impact people’s health Flush your toilet or rinse your kitchen sink, and…