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Mom was right — we do need to eat our fruits and veggies! After all, research shows eating fruits and vegetables lowers the risk of heart disease and stroke. The Harvard-based Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study followed ...

Like a scene from a Hollywood summer blockbuster, the roads of Yellowstone National Park are melting from the ancient supervolcano that lies beneath the park. The geothermal heat from the molten lava caused thick oil to rise to the surface, ...

My parents never forced me to eat my vegetables or clean my plate growing up; however, my aunt did. In fact, my sister and I were not allowed to leave the table until we ate an entire plate of liver ...

Think insecticides are the only way to get rid of bugs from your garden? Think again! A better way to rid your garden of pests is to use bats. Yes, that’s right, bats! They consume up to half their body ...

We all cringed when we heard the news spread about hamburgers made out of so-called pink slime. Then when we learned about how filthy conventional apples were, many of us started buying organic apples. A few of us even stopped ...

Do you sit in front of the TV at night and eat even though you’re not even hungry?  Or worse, do you diet during the day and consume a half-gallon of your favorite ice cream at night? If so, you’re ...

Let’s be honest: planting a nut tree takes patience. After all, a black walnut tree can take up to 20 or 30 years before it produces walnuts. And a pecan tree can take up to 15 years. But planting nut ...

Do you talk on your cell phone more than 15 hours a month? If so, you might want to kick your cell phone habit to the curb. A new study published in the journal of British Occupational and Environmental Medicine ...

Since 90 percent of the corn grown in the U.S. is GMO, most of the popcorn is also GMO, right?  Wrong! Jeffrey Smith, the director of The Institute for Responsible Technology, said in an interview in 2011, that all popcorn ...

Have you heard the buzz lately about oil pulling?  If not, you probably will soon. Oil pulling is the latest health trend that seemingly everyone — from celebrities to Good Morning America — is talking about. Many have recently started ...