From helping care for an abused woman’s animals to switching jackets so she can slip past her husband in the parking lot, advocates in poor, rural areas are thinking outside the box.
When my family's dog passed away, I was faced with the question of how to talk to my children about sadness and death.
Keeping a tidy home isn’t just nicer to look at it – it’s better for our health. However, no one likes to spend their weekends cleaning up. It’s better to keep your home clean as you go. Here are some habits of people who have all-around clean homes.
Small changes in our diet can help reduce risks of common lifestyle diseases. In the west, we are unaccustomed to include a lot of spices in our food, but here's why it is advisable that we start doing that.
A study published last year suggested that hydraulic fracturing and proximity to active well drilling are associated with congenital heart disease and low birth weight newborns.
Most people do not associate common health issues with inflammation. From an energetic perspective, inflammation is an indication of excessive heat in the body which can lead to serious illness and disease such as diabetes and some cancers. The heat is on, so put out the fire.
Any sustained movement, like walking, bicycling, swimming, or cross-country skiing, will reduce the risk of several life-threatening diseases, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, and possibly cancer.
The American Psychological Association's in-depth role in U.S. torture of detainees was revealed in a landmark report released earlier this year.
How the Medicine Wheel can guide us to transform communities that have suffered from racial injustice...
The question is not what Apple Cider Vinegar can do, but what can't it do. As a folk remedy, it has been credited with curing everything from the flu to warts or sunburn to dandruff...
In a land where men are more valued than women, this unique village celebrates its daughters while creating a greener, healthier world.
From background radiation to chemicals in the food chain, environmental changes are contributing to a rapid global rise in neurological disease.
Canada and the United States are among the few industrialized nations in the world to allow unlimited access to acetaminophen.
Movies and TV shows have always portrayed a drowning victim as somebody who will splash, yell, and wave for help. However, people who swallow water and enter the phases of drowning are unable physiologically speak...
As a mother of 5-year old triplets I’m starting to see exactly how children learn healthy habits. It doesn’t always come from talking at them or trying to explain by reading child friendly stories...
The planet Earth, with mankind's help, is leap-frogging into sweltering new territory.
Young farmers are, in increasing numbers, planting market gardens in cities, and “local” produce now fills grocery shelves across the US, from Walmart to Whole Foods, and is promoted in more than 150 nations around the world.
Palm oil — which appears in a dizzying amount of food and cosmetic products, and is a feedstock for biofuel — poses many environmental problems.
Obama has protected more than 260 million acres of public lands and waters; more than any other president.
We know that animals certainly feel physical pain, but what is less clear is whether this emotional suffering that we feel can be said to be true of animals. And if it is, how we go about measuring it.
Several studies over the past few years have concluded that mammograms do not save lives, and may actually harm more women than they help, courtesy of false positives, overtreatment, and radiation-induced cancers.
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