Health Archive

The number of people living with diabetes worldwide is rapidly increasing. The burden of diabetes on optimal health and the economy is huge and will continue to grow if management such as dietary augmentation is not implemented. Diabetes is a major cause …

To most of us, the idea that someone could fear all animals comes across as almost absurd. Animals are in our daily lives, even if we aren’t able to have a pet of our own. We see pigeons and sparrows on the …

A healthy diet plays an important role in the management of your kidney function. Even in the absence of kidney disease, what you consume is an essential portion of how you care for your kidneys. Reducing the workload on your kidneys is …

While many phobias can arise in early childhood – perhaps after hearing a frightening story or seeing a scary film – and others can pop up once one an adult, certain phobias are so deeply ingrained in the human psyche that they …

Massage therapy probably isn’t one of the first things most people think about when they consider treatment options for what ails them. In the west, we’re pretty well conditioned to believe that a pill or perhaps even surgery is the answer to …

Everyone is afraid of something. The more common phobias are claustrophobia (the fear of confined spaces), arachnophobia (the fear of spiders) and acrophobia (the fear of heights). There are some really strange phobias out there that are so rare they’re never talked …