If you buy a food supplement that contains an enzyme (such as super-oxide-dismutase, SOD) designed to work in your blood or in your cells, you are wasting money. Your digestive enzymes will split up this enzyme and reduce it to amino acids. The body will use these amino acids according to its own priorities, not [...]

Animal foods contain cholesterol as a naturally occurring substance; you will find some cholesterol in everything from beef, pork, lamb, veal, chicken, and fish to dairy products and eggs. A prudent diet contains no more than 300 milligrams of cholesterol a day.
Cholesterol is a lipit, or insoluble fatty substance, that your body manufactures to build [...]

Previous guidelines called for exercising three to five times a week at a level intense enough to raise the heart rate to 60-90 percent of its maximum and keep it there for 15 to 60 minutes.
However, recent studies point to the value of moderate and even low levels of physical activity in reducing the risk [...]

A colonoscopy is an examination of the large intestine using a flexible tube which can be inserted the whole length of you large intestine. This examination will reveal danger signs of cancer and other things you would like to know about your health.
Polyps are abnormal growths in the mucosal lining of the large intestine. There [...]