Drinking one or more cans of sugary soft drinks a day is linked to an increased risk of diabetes in later life, a study suggests. A can a day raises the relative risk of diabetes by about a fifth, compared with one can a month or under, say European scientists. The report in the journal [...]

Are you fed up with your current blender’s inability to blend more than just soft fruits and cooked vegetables? Are high end blenders worth the price tag or is it just hype? I wrote this review to help answer such questions, so you can decide for yourself if the Blendtec Total Blender is right for [...]

It’s been a confusing couple of weeks for lovers of red wine and longevity. On March 8, Science published a paper demonstrating the mechanism by which certain molecules activate a family of proteins called sirtuins, which are thought to be responsible for some of the benefits of caloric restriction. (Those would include improved metabolism, resistance [...]

Diets with high-sugar, high-salt intake have been labelled ‘a ticking time bomb of health problems’, according to a new study. The fat-and sugar-rich Western diet leads to a lifetime of health problems, dramatically increasing the risk of stroke or death at a younger age. “I think we’ll soon start to see people in their 30s [...]

The main purpose of fasting is to remove toxemia. If we use water fasting to remove toxemia, (1) we also lose a substantial amount of lean body mass, (2) we experience more discomfort than is needed, and (3) we need to take just as much time to recuperate from the fast as it took to [...]

There are certain antioxidant-packed “power foods” that boost, protect, and prime us for a longer, healthier life, both externally and internally.Here are the top 8 foods with powerful anti-aging properties that are built to better our health and appearance while also encouraging longevity. They should be added to your arsenal of daily health-promoting tools in order to keep [...]

Sugar is a poison and its sale should be as tightly regulated as cigarettes and alcohol, scientists say. They warn that sugary foods and drinks are responsible for illnesses including obesity, heart disease, cancer and liver problems. And they claim it contributes to 35million deaths a year worldwide and is so dangerous it should be [...]

By Dr. Mercola In the video above, part two of the excellent series “The Skinny on Obesity,” Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Elissa Epel with the Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment at the University of California, continue the discussion about the impact of sugar on disease [...]

Both alcohol and soft drinks affect your liver. Alcohol’s most pointed-out negative effect is it’s link to liver disease. Also, beer is linked to reckless behaviour when consumed in large amounts. However, is alcohol consumption worse than drinking soda? Soft drinks are, as you will see further in this article, proven to cause far more [...]

According to a new research study, refined sugar is far more addictive than cocaine — one of the most addictive and harmful substances currently known. An astonishing 94 percent of rats who were allowed to choose mutually-exclusively between sugar water and cocaine, chose sugar. Even rats who were addicted to cocaine quickly switched their preference [...]