Health & Wellness

What is a puncture wound? An injury that creates a small hole or wound in the skin can cause significant pain to the unlucky injured party.

Bring this list of foods with potassium with you the next time you go grocery shopping.

Now that trans fat has made all the health news channels, there are plenty of food places that are coming out with their new "0 trans fat" meals. What is trans fat and what can you do to limit your intake of them?

The best ways to manage stress begin with good self care practices.  While that sounds like common sense, habits like eating right and exercising are often the first things to go when we're experiencing stress.

If you want to know how to lose belly fat, you are not alone. Almost everyone wants a svelte middle these days.

The Zone diet plan is not so much a revolutionary diet plan as a highly tuned plan that focuses on food's effect on your body and insulin levels.

Cherries, like many other fruits, are packed with antioxidants that fight free radicals in the body and may help prevent cancer and heart disease as well as slow the aging process.

If you want to know how many calories to cut to lose weight, you can calculate the total quite accurately.

Before you start popping probiotic supplements, you should know about some potential side effects of probiotics.

Since migraines occur at any time of the month, and since men suffer from migraine headaches as well, these headaches can be boiled down to changes in the environment and changes in the body.

Therapeutic massage therapy comes in many forms and involves the manual manipulation muscles and other tissues in the body to reduce stress, relieve pain, increase mobility, promote relaxation, eliminate toxins from the body and balance energy.

Cholesterol levels can be lowered by reducing or eliminating your intake of foods that contain it, but also by consuming a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and proteins that naturally help the body to lower bad cholesterol and raise the good.

No longer limited to the four food groups, MyPyramid takes physical activity and the importance of good fats into account when making recommendations. Use MyPyramid to help you define, shop for, prepare and eat the number of servings you need from each food group each day.

Night sweats in men might leave you panicked when you wake up each morning, but they are more common than you might think.

Why is getting a healthy BMI a better way to gauge your weight and fitness? There are countless charts out there to help women determine what their ideal weight should be, but they tend to be inaccurate and don't take muscle mass and bone structure into consideration.

Keeping an eye out for the symptoms of too much calcium in your system can prevent complications later in life. While milk does do a body good, there can be too much of a good thing.

You've heard of group therapy activities such as Weight Watchers groups and Alcoholics Anonymous, but perhaps you've wondered what really goes on at these meetings.

While pap smears are conducted as preventative measures to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer, there are many reasons for abnormal pap smear results that don't automatically mean you have cervical cancer.