When it comes to living a healthier lifestyle, listen to and watch your co-workers. Their positive habits could eventually help you. That’s the main message from researchers in the Netherlands,...

If you are a senior adult or if you have one in your life, a common health ailment to watch for is anemia. One in six adults over 65 has...

Many of the New Year’s resolutions we make focus on health. Losing weight. Exercising more. Quitting cigarettes. Most of us, however, need to add another to our list of aspirations...

Everyone who’s ever dedicated themselves to exercise for any period of time has probably found themselves either mildly annoyed by a coach’s insistence on a proper warmup or tempted to...

If you’re a devoted vegetarian, thank your ancestors. They may have made it easier for you. Recent findings by Northwestern University researchers have shown that a person’s genetic makeup plays...

For more than 30 years, the world has accepted that there are five basic types of taste detectable by the tongue — sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami [oo-mommy]. But...

Broccoli spouts shot to popularity in the 1990s when scientists discovered they brimmed with cancer-fighting compounds. The greens became an official superfood. Broccoli sprouts are simply three- to five-day-old broccoli...

You may not need to wash your mouth out with soap, but the rest of your body still needs a good scrub. That  includes nooks and crannies like those behind...

If weather trends continue as they have since scientists have tracked climate change, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be...

The fall season has come and gone, and winter holiday music and festive decor are all around us. In most parts of the country, temperatures have plummeted. Some places have...