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Tourette’s Syndrome: What Is It?

Tourette’s syndrome is a condition that causes a person to make involuntary sounds and movements called tics. Tics can start from early childhood, but states have been known to improve for several years and, in some cases, are known to stop completely. People with Tourette’s syndrome may also have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity ...

Katrina Hicks

'Tourette syndrome' text composed with multicolored stones over black sand.

How Can This Lucky Iron Fish Make You Stronger?

The Lucky Iron Fish is a simple, reusable, and effective cooking tool that adds extra iron to foods or drinks. It is an affordable solution, especially for those with anemia.  Anemia, which is an iron deficiency, is a very common health problem around the world, particularly in developing countries where they don’t have sufficient food or nutritional supplements. Canadian ...

Wilma Oakes

Lucky iron fish.

Rainbow Eating and the 5 Healthiest Foods to Assist in Good Health

Rainbow eating includes the many different kinds of rainbow foods on the market that have different colors and contain varied nutrition. Generally speaking, yellow vegetables contain carotene, which can protect the eyes; red vegetables are rich in lycopene, which can increase vitality; green vegetables are rich in carotene and flavonoids, which can protect the heart ...

Helen London

Rainbow-colored fruits and vegetables including purple cabbage and eggplant, red peppers and strawberries, orange carrots and citrus fruits, green onions and broccoli, and yellow peppers and squash.

Do You Know Why Your Eyes Go Red After a Swim? It’s Not the Chlorine

This is a story that may just stop you from going for a swim in your local pool. Do you know why your eyes go red and get irritated after swimming in a pool? Well, it turns out you can stop blaming the chlorine. The Water Quality and Health Council and the National Swimming Pool Foundation have teamed ...

Troy Oakes

Three children playing in a swimming pool.

Toxins Are Hidden Everywhere in Life: The Herb Licorice Can Help Clean the Body

There are many toxins in our modern daily lives, such as contaminated water, food containers with lead compounds, food with various additives, polluted air, and deep-sea fish contaminated with heavy metals, to name just a few. After these toxins enter the human body, they will gradually accumulate. Getting rid of these toxins is very difficult, ...

Helen London

A traditional Chinese dessert — Mung Bean Sweet Soup.

Red Dates: 6 Wonderful Health Benefits

Red dates, also known as jujubes, support healthy spleen functioning. As the saying goes: “Three jujubes a day and even a centenarian looks young.” They have been used in many Chinese medicine formulations for centuries. The fruit is sweet to the taste and warm in nature. As well as nourishing the skin and having anti-aging ...

Kathy McWilliams

Red dates sitting on a table with flowers and plants in the background.

Bumping the Back Stimulates Acupuncture Points

There are major energy pathways, or meridians, located along the back that can be stimulated by bumping the back. There are also extensive nerve systems and acupuncture points located along and on either side of the spine that are connected to all four limbs and many internal organs. The Du Meridian, located in the middle of the back, is ...

Kathy McWilliams

Partial close-up of a male acupuncture doll.

What Are the 4 Highly Medicinal Values of the Humble Corn Plant?

During the middle of the 16th century, the corn plant was introduced to China. Corn, rice, and wheat are the three major crops grown worldwide and are often recognized as the “golden crops.” Corn’s nutritional content is second only to soybeans. 100 grams of corn contains: ● Protein (8.5 gm) ● Fat (4.3 gm) ● ...

Emma Lu

Closeup of an ear of corn in a corn field.

Here Are 3 Home Remedies to Alleviate Coughing

Nowadays, people go to see a doctor and take medicine whenever they feel discomfort in their body. Due to stress from a busy lifestyle, people want something that can cure their illnesses fast. Consequently, people get sick more frequently, and are thus more likely to rely on medicine to alleviate coughing. Actually, the human body has ...

Emma Lu

A woman coughing.

Do You Know That Children With Asthma May Also Have a Peanut Allergy?

A study that was presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference in Denver has found that children with asthma may have a peanut allergy and not know about it. Parents may also be unaware their child has a peanut allergy, as symptoms are similar to an asthma attack, such as shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing. ...

Wilma Oakes

Peanuts in the shell.