We all know that making wise decisions regarding diet and exercise are integral to staying healthy and preventing serious conditions like heart disease and diabetes. However, a recent article in the Bradenten Herald serves as an important reminder that lifestyle choices also have a profound effect on our risk of developing colon cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, colorectal [...]
What if we were to tell you that taking a daily aspirin could reduce the chance of dying from a particular disease by almost a third? According to research published recently that is the case with colorectal cancer. Earlier this year, a British study found that aspirin not only prevents a range of cancers from [...]
For a long time it was believed that the causes of gastric ulcers were diet and stress. This was recently disproven with the discovery that 70-90% of stomach ulcers were in fact caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Usually the high acid content of the stomach does not allow bacteria to survive. [...]
