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How Food Affects Sleep: Can Cheese Give You Nightmares?

You’ve probably heard the old wives' tale that late-night cheese causes nightmares. For decades, people have joked about cheese-induced nightmares or late-night pizza leading to restless sleep. Turns out, there's more to it than folklore. A ...

What Plays a Bigger Role in Obesity: Diet or Exercise? Study Reveals Answer

We’ve all heard it: You can’t outrun a bad diet. Now a groundbreaking new study really lays the evidence on the table, and it confirms what wellness enthusiasts already suspect. Published this summer in Proceedings of ...

Sleep Meditation Benefits + How to Do It

Because stress is such a common impediment to getting good sleep, you can see why sleep meditation can be helpful for so many people, considering that surveys have found that stress affects roughly 77 percent ...

How Often Should You Poop? What You Need to Know

How often should you poop? How many times should you poop a day? These are fairly common questions that aren't so easy to answer. What we do know is that maintaining regular bowel movements is a key ...

How to Improve Cellular Health and Why It’s Important

Cellular health is the foundation of overall wellness. Every function in the body, from energy production to immune response, depends on the health of our cells. When our cells function optimally, we experience vitality, mental clarity ...

Sunburn Relief: 5+ Natural Treatments (Plus Symptoms & Risk Factors)

Ah summertime: trips to the beach, family cookouts, warm nights and … sunburn? Unfortunately, even if you’ve slathered on sunblock religiously, those UV rays can sneak through and leave you with a painful, itchy red ...

Heat Exhaustion: Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention & How It Differs from Heat Stroke

As temperatures rise each year, heat-related illnesses like heat exhaustion are becoming more common, especially during summer workouts, outdoor jobs or even long days at the beach. While not as serious as heat stroke, heat ...

7+ Ways to Stay Cool & Prevent Heat Stroke Symptoms

Heat stroke is a medical emergency that occurs when the body can no longer cool itself. The body suffers from dehydration because it can't release internal heat into the environment, resulting in core temperatures of over 104 ...

How to Lower Grilling Carcinogens by Up to 99%!

The topic of grilling carcinogens is probably the last thing you want to focus on while heading up for a summer cookout. The truth is when you're playing softball, enjoying a family picnic or watching fireworks, ...

Vacation Health Benefits: How Taking Time Off Changes Your Brain

We can probably all agree that leaving the cubicle and heading out on a holiday or taking a midday break to meditate and de-clutter our minds feels good. But did you know that these disruptions ...