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Ten ways to lower your cancer risk

Most people assume that cancer is genetic and cannot be avoided. That's not necessarily true. Healthy behaviors could prevent fully half of all cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. There are 10 specific lifestyle changes...

Six Hazards of Drinking With Co-Workers

One in five employees regularly attends after-work happy hours with their co-workers, which offer a fun chance to bond with one another and catch up on the latest gossip...unless something awful happens. Harris Interactive on behalf of...

What You 'Drink' Affects How You Look

How often you drink alcohol, as well as what you drink and how much you drink, can influence your risk of heart disease by impacting the accumulation of abdominal fat, HealthCentral reports of new research from epidemiologists...

The Drink With Worst Hangover

More than any other alcoholic beverage, drinking too much brandy will give you the worst hangover the next morning. Of course, too much alcohol of any kind can make you feel sick when you wake up the next day...

Drinking Alcohol? Don't Drink This Too

Go ahead and enjoy a bottle of beer, glass of wine or a martini, but never mix your booze with an energy drink. Mixing caffeinated energy drinks like Red Bull and V with alcohol puts unnecessary stress on the body, dehydrating...

Why a Fat Belly Makes You Fatter

It's a vicious cycle. The fat you carry around your middle could make you fatter--even if you don't overindulge on cookies and chips. How? Hormones. Abdominal fat tissue produces a hormone called Neuropeptide Y or NPY that encourages the development...

Eat This. Watch the Pounds Drop Off

It's almost magic! Before lunch, eat an apple. Wait 15 minutes. Then eat lunch--but eat only until you feel full.When 59 healthy men and women of normal weight did this for five weeks as part of a Pennsylvania State University study...

The Worst Time to Wake Up Is ...

That mantra of "early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" is all wrong--at least in terms of health. To the delight of night owls everywhere, researchers from several universities and hospitals in the western Japanese city...

The Best Time of Day to Exercise Is the Late Afternoon

That's the word from Dr. Phyllis Zee, a neurologist at Northwestern University, who offers these common-sense reasons for exercising after lunch instead of before breakfast

Music Plus Exercise: An Odd Side Effect

Exercise not only helps you lose weight while strengthening your muscles, but also gives you an energy boost and improves your mood. That's not all it does! It may make you smarter, too.

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