Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Jordan Pennells
Life pits the order and intricacy of biology against the ceaseless chaos of physics. The second law of thermodynamics, or the thermodynamic arrow of time, states that any natural system will always tend towards increasing disorder.
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- Written by: Mayo Clinic
On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, Dr. Mitchell Humphreys, a Mayo Clinic urologist, discusses the painful problem of kidney stones.
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- Written by: Sandra-Ilona Sunram-Lea
Dementia is a cruel disease that robs people of their memory, their judgement and their identity. Unfortunately, there is no cure, and in the past few years a number of clinical trials for new dementia drugs have failed
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- Written by: Paul Pearsall, Ph.D.
Medical tests confirmed that I had been rescued against all odds from a virulent Stage IV cancer that had eaten away my bones and left me dying in agony. I tried to tell my doctors to spread the news that miracles are real. I wanted them to embrace the words of David Ben-Gurion that "in order to be realist you must believe in miracles".
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- Written by: John Bellettiere, et al
Adults are sitting more than ever, and few pay attention to how they sit throughout the day. Take a moment to think about all the reasons we sit. First off, you’re probably sitting while reading this
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- Written by: Tamara Bhandari
Probiotics can evolve inside the body and have the potential to become less effective and sometimes even harmful, new research finds.
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- Written by: Lauren Ford and Pamela Judith Walsh
Demand for food is increasing rapidly – the global population is expected to reach 11.2 billion by 2100. To keep up with the additional mouths to feed, intensive farming practices have maximised production, but often at the expense of the environment and human health.
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- Written by: Clean & Delicious
Egg salad is an easy, healthy recipe that can be with or without mayonnaise, depending on your preference. Learn how to make a classic egg salad (with mayo) and an avocado egg salad without mayonnaise.
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- Written by: Lisa Wood
We all understand that eating too much of the wrong foods – those that are high in energy and low in nutrients, such as fast foods, processed foods and takeaways – causes weight gain and can lead to obesity.
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- Written by: Melissa Kang
The good thing about Kegel exercises is that you can do them pretty much anywhere
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- Written by: Clean & Delicious
Braised red cabbage is sweet, sour, tender and buttery. It's an easy healthy side dish to serve alongside side roasted chicken or fish. I first tasted braised red cabbage at Houston's restaurant and have
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- Written by: Clean & Delicious
Baked chicken breasts that are super juicy and flavorful. Learn my simple tips to avoid making baked chicken breasts that are dried out and overcooked so that you and your family can enjoy baked chicken
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- Written by: Felice Jacka
As well as our physical health, the quality of our diet matters for our mental and brain health.
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- Written by: Julia Evangelou
A combination of two topical creams already shown to clear precancerous lesions from sun-damaged skin also lowers the risk that patients will later develop squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Roy Holman
Your body wants nothing more than to be loved. Like trying to drive an old broken down car or bicycle, it can be frustratingly difficult for a soul to work through a body that is unhealthy or uncared for. Of course, much of our...
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- Written by: Gerry Everding
New research links participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in kids and less depression in boys ages 9 to 11.
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- Written by: Sheena Rice
Eating breakfast as a family can help promote a positive body image for children and adolescents, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Marla Paul
Adults who eat more dietary cholesterol—such as that in eggs—have a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular disease and of death from any cause, a new study reports.
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- Written by: Robert Sanders
Scientists inserted a gene for a green-light receptor into the eyes of blind mice and, a month later, the mice were navigating around obstacles as easily as those with no vision problems.
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- Written by: Alison Rahn
Most people prefer to die at home but few adequately plan for it. Consequently, just one in seven Australians dies at home.
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- Written by: National University of Singapore
Seniors who consume more than two standard portions of mushrooms weekly may have 50 percent reduced odds of having mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a new study.
