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Natural acne remedies with homemade facial mask recipes

(NaturalNews) You don’t have to spend another dime buying chemicals to put on your face. Everything you need to create a healthy, beneficial, facial mask can be found in your kitchen.Honey is an antibacterial that has been used throughout the ages to dress wounds. It is an excellent…

The Sneaky Cause of Your Sugar Cravings

With everyone from from HBO comedian John Oliver to Yahoo’s Global New Anchor Katie Couric bashing sugar’s vice-like grip on the modern diet, more and more people are deciding to ditch it. Enter JJ Virgin, New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet and of JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet, out today. Protein also balances blood sugar, which decreases the risk of a low-blood-sugar-induced binge. If you’re vegetarian or vegan,

Shift work link to brain power decline: study

The effects on brain function can be reversed, the team wrote in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, but this may take at least five years. Yet, little has been known about its potential impact on brain function. Researchers tested more than 3,000 current or retired workers in a variety of sectors in southern France in 1996, 2001 and 2006 for long- and short-term memory, processing speed and overall cognitive

No increased risk of cancer death with celiac disease

By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – By 10 years after a diagnosis of celiac disease, people with the condition are no more likely to die from cancer or cardiovascular disease than the general population, according to a new study. People with celiac disease were, in fact, slightly less likely to die of cardiovascular disease than others in the new study. When people with celiac disease, a hereditary condition, eat gluten

Air pollution in smokers’ homes can reach outdoor levels in worst cities

By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Living with a smoker can be like breathing the air in the world’s most polluted cities, according to a new study from Scotland. “The message is pretty simple really – smoking in your home leads to really poor air quality and results in concentrations of fine particles, that you can’t see, that would cause real concern to us if they were found outside,” said

4 Weird Ways the Time Change Affects Your Health

Soak up the extra morning light to stave off the winter blues.  When the phrase “turning back the clock” is applied to the anti-aging benefits of a new skincare routine, there is very little downside. “The autumn change is usually the more benign one,” said Michael Grandner, a instructor in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology. So adding time

Former Adobe exec's start-up seeks to improve the mammogram experience

(This version of the Oct 30 story, corrects title in first paragraph to chief marketing, not medical, officer) SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)-Former Adobe Chief Marketing Officer Melissa Dyrdahl hopes to bring a spa-like feel to the experience of breast cancer screenings. Her start-up, Ella Health, has opened seven mammogram centers across the United States, in places ranging from Toms River, New Jersey to San Francisco. Ella’s pitch: to improve the often