Exercise Little-Used Treatment to Fight Arthritis

by ShellyManning | Feb 22, 2012 | 18 comments

A study out of Northwestern University has found that one of the most effective treatments for Rheumatoid arthritis, physical activity, is seldom used. The researchers of this study discovered that this lack of exercise increased their risk of experiencing pain and...

Review Paper Finds Vegan Diets Chock Full of Health Benefits

by ShellyManning | Feb 10, 2012 | 14 comments

Those on the fence about the health benefits of the vegan diet need only to look at the results of a review paper recently conducted by Winston J Craig, PhD, a scientist at Andrews University. This researcher investigated more than 110 published research articles that...

Bariatric Surgery Not Effective for Diabetes Reversal

by Jodi Knapp | Feb 5, 2012 | 6 comments

In the early part of the 21st century, bariatric surgery physicians were convinced that they had found a single treatment that cured both obesity and diabetes: bariatric surgery. A decade later, research is beginning to mount against the diabetes benefits of this...

Too Much Exercise May Boost Arthritis Risk

by ShellyManning | Jan 26, 2012 | 18 comments

Elite athletes may be doing their joints a disservice with their intense bouts of practice and competition, according to a report conducted by Swedish scientists at Lund University. In their research they found that athletes in hard-hitting sports such as football and...

Health Hazards of Vitamin D Deprivation

by Jodi Knapp | Jan 14, 2012 | 18 comments

If you’ve been following your doctor’s advice to the ‘T,’ you’ve probably been really careful when it comes to sun exposure. Using sunscreen and covering yourself up when needed. – – After all, isn’t the sun causing major cancers? Well, too much sun...

Arthritis, Erectile Dysfunction Linked in New Study

by Christian Goodman | Jan 12, 2012 | 0 comments

Men with stiff joints are much less likely to be stiff in another important part of their body, according to research published in Rheumatic Diseases. In this study, scientists polled a group of Taiwanese adults with an auto-immune form of arthritis, known as...