What does skin cancer look like?
Maintaining your health requires more than living a healthy lifestyle and keeping up with regular health care like screenings and check-ups. It also takes knowing your body and seeing a doctor when something seems amiss, such as changes in or on your skin.
Skin cancer often appears as a new or changing mark on your skin, and if you spot something early, your chances of successful treatment are greater.
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What does breast cancer look like?
In many cases, women spot signs of breast cancer outside of regular breast cancer screenings. In fact, paying attention to changes in your...
Natural versus refined sugar: What’s the difference?
If you’re trying to eat healthy, you probably don’t go a day without thinking about sugar. Avoiding sugar is hard because it’s in most foods...
10 tricks to manage your Halloween candy consumption
For some people, especially parents, the scariest thing about Halloween is the enormous piles of candy that start popping up everywhere.
It’s not just the night itself when kids fill their buckets with treats from the neighbors. Offices and stores often have baskets of sweets that tempt for weeks afterward as well.
If you’re trying to watch your sugar intake, Halloween can be the nightmare before the holiday season begins...
What is the best time of day to exercise?
When it comes to exercise, the most important thing is that you do it. But if you like high-intensity exercise, research suggests that doing...
Why muscle toning is a myth
When it comes to strength training, the idea of becoming bulky is off-putting for some people.
If you don’t want big muscles, a class...
How to use acupressure points to relieve headache, nausea and anxiety
Acupressure is an ancient practice from traditional Chinese medicine. It can seem mysterious because the theory is based on pressure points...
How to cut empty calories
If our weight loss expert had to give you one tip to help you achieve your healthy eating goals, it would be this: Avoid empty calories.
Are moles cancerous?
Almost everyone has at least one mole, and you may already regularly check your moles for signs of change.
That’s a good idea since...
Phytonutrients: How to eat all the colors of the rainbow
When it comes to vegetables, whole grains, legumes and fruit, many dietitians will tell you to make sure you eat the full rainbow of colors...
How to get the best from bug spray
For many of us, summer brings bug bites. And that may mean itchy, red bumps that can lead to skin discoloration that lasts for months....
Have you been eating processed meat without realizing it?
When it comes to a healthy diet, you don’t need to quit carbs or fat or even sugar.
But your dietitian will suggest you limit processed...
5 things to know about sunscreen, benzene and other chemicals
If you’ve seen reports about the carcinogen benzene being found in sunscreen, you may be wondering what it means for your sun-safety routine...
Should you use very high SPF sunscreen?
Before you buy sunscreen, it’s important to understand what sun protection factor, or SPF, means. That’s the number you see on the bottle...
6 things to know about chlorophyll
We all know that eating your greens is good for you, but what if you could extract the green and take it as a supplement?
A recent...
Can mushrooms help during cancer treatment?
In some parts of the world, mushroom extracts are often used by patients for their medicinal benefits. They’re packed with vitamin D, which...
Plant-based burgers: Are they healthy?
Research shows it’s best to limit red meat because it can increase your risk for colorectal cancer.
With that in mind, plant-based...
Tea and cancer prevention 101
Tea is thought to have many health benefits, from keeping you hydrated to supporting weight-loss and reducing dental cavities.
Tea...
How to get genetic testing for cancer
Between 5% and 10% of cancers are hereditary. This means that the cancer is caused by a change in your genes called a genetic mutation.
8 foods that impact stress
There’s no doubt about it, food and stress are linked. And it’s not just that when you’re stressed you might eat too much, or too little,...
9 weight loss strategies that work
Weight loss usually requires more than willpower. That’s because adjusting what you eat and how much you exercise are big lifestyle changes...
Do at-home genetic tests work?
At-home genetic tests can reveal a wide range of information that can impact your life in different ways. You might find out you’re sensitive...
Mediterranean diet may slow prostate cancer progression
The Mediterranean diet can help reduce your risk for many diseases. It helps prevent heart disease and strokes, and has been linked to a lower...