Jeannie Collins Beaudin

Your diet affects your physical and mental health. You are what you eat! But what's best? Many experts recommend the Mediterranean diet...

When we eat may be more important than what we eat, scientists are saying...

I love my morning coffee, so I “perk up” whenever I see a study that suggests this habit is a good thing! Are you a coffee lover too?...

The University of Waterloo has done some interesting research about how we can help ourselves remember better. Of course, they did this...

Me... (the "before" photo) I’ve been wanting to stop dying my hair. I couldn’t think of a good reason why I was doing it, except,...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought that muffins are a healthier food than doughnuts or cupcakes. But maybe that because I...

Diet studies are difficult to do properly. It is simply too difficult to control the many factors that influence our health while...

Researchers have learned that 18 commonly used classes of drugs can extensively affect the organisms that live in your gut. The most...

I’m late getting to my blog this week… a busy week making 18 bottles of salsa and 18 jars of grape jam. I even tried out a recipe for...

There are microbes everywhere in our homes and most are OK or even good for us… but some organisms can make us sick. Where are we most...

Shifting to healthier habits is often hard to do. In fact, many of us don’t even think about our health… until something bad happens to...

We love to laugh, but have you noticed how much better you feel after a good belly laugh? Studies tell us that it actually improves our...

There is no question that sun exposure ages the skin and increases risk of skin cancer… but research suggests that we may live longer if...

Treatment with psychedelic drugs has been found to have positive effects on depression, anxiety, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), pall

How are you? Sometimes the polite answer to “How are you?” isn’t the one you should give – if it’s your doctor or a concerned family...

Do you know the signs of a heart attack? It’s not always the same for everyone, and can be different in men and women… The classic signs...

There’s almost always a discussion about your blood pressure when you visit your doctor for a check-up, but how much do you really know...

Do you remember being a kid, and having nothing to do for hours? Whole summer afternoons that seemed to last forever, just lazing around,...

It drives me nuts that diet researchers keep changing their minds about what foods are good and which are bad for us. Butter and eggs are...

Many humans lose the ability to digest milk after childhood. And essentially all non-human mammals lose this ability after weaning. This...