With a dizzying array of vitamins to choose from, how do you know what to take? Robert Alan Bonakdar, MD, director of Pain Management at Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine and editor of the H.E.R.B.A.L. Guide: Evidence-based Dietary Supplement Resources for the Clinician offers tips to target your choices: Think D-fense. Unless you bask in the midday sup up to a half hour several days a week or gulp 10...

Combating heart disease is easy according to Professor Elio Riboli, if you watch what you eat and adopt an anti-heart disease diet. Foods and chemicals can cause inflammation in the lining of the blood vessels, promoting the formation of plaque (atherosclerosis) that can lead to heart attack. Recent studies show that food can play a big role as ant-heart disease weapons. It is not just about exercise, as every...

Pineapple is a tropical fruit, it contains a proteolytic enzyme bromelain, which helps in the digestion of protein. Pineapple can prevent blood clot formation because of its bromelain content. Other health benefits of pineapple: It is regulates the gland and found to be helpful in cases of goiter(enlargement of the thyroid gland). Dyspepsia (chronic digestive disturbance). Bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchial...

Are you looking for a healthy food, then why not try whole wheat bread. Whole wheat bread provides your system with fiber and other important nutrients like Vitamin E, selenium, iron, magnesium, zinc and B vitamins. Magnesium is an important mineral that regulates more than 300 enzymes, most importantly those related to the body’s consumption of glucose and secretion of insulin. Whole wheat bread is also low...

Although we all need to take precautions against skin cancer, those who are particularly high risk for melanoma-the most deadly form of the disease-need to be especially vigilant. What puts you in that category? After looking at 43 different characteristics, in 300 melanoma patients and 300 healthy controls, researchers at NY Langone Medical Center have reached a consensus on the six factors that count most:...