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The Healthland team is off having healthy dialogues with our families, eating a moderate amount, and hitting the gym to burn off that sliver of pie. Just kidding. We’re most likely falling into all the unhealthy holiday traps that you are. But we’re trying our best and we’re talking about it — we hope you [...]
What’s not to love about a holiday that revolves around food, wine, family and football? For one thing, all those factors can trigger heart problems.
Thanksgiving may be a day to celebrate the things we’re grateful for, but for many, sitting around a table with 15 relatives may inspire anything but gratitude. Don’t worry, there are ways to cope.
Taking just a little bit too much acetaminophen (Tylenol) over the course of days or weeks is more likely to be fatal than taking a single, massive overdose, according to a new study. In part, that’s because when people take such a “staggered overdose,” physicians aren’t always able to identify the problem in time to [...]
What happens to kids between first and third grades? They discover chapter books. They tackle multidigit subtraction. And they gain more weight than at any other point in elementary or middle school.
In this week’s TIME cover story, available to subscribers here, we ask the question, Is anxiety really all that bad for you?
We may not know all the ways in which the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) affects our health, but we can be sure that we’re exposed to it frequently — BPA is used in plastic products and lines nearly all food and beverage cans.
Cutting back on salt is a key recommendation in the government’s latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and has been a part of good health advice for decades. But, increasingly, the evidence suggests that that guidance may be too simplistic, and that there is a limit to the benefits of salt reduction on the heart.
Letting loose with a satisfying string of expletives can significantly reduce physical pain, research has shown. But according to a new study, it doesn’t work as well if you make a habit of cursing frequently.
Java junkies have another reason to love their morning cup: researchers say that drinking coffee is associated with a lower risk of endometrial cancer among women.
