Many Americans don’t get as much sleep as they should. Although doctors recommend that people get between seven and eight hours of sleep a night, most people get less than that—often far less. There are a number of reasons that play a role in this. Larger cultural factors such as the demands of the modern workforce and the encroachment of technology into every facet of life certainly have an impact on the amount of sleep people get each night. People also may have trouble sleeping because…

It’s easy to think of your oral health and overall health as completely separate matters. After all, you wouldn’t see your family doctor for a cavity, and you wouldn’t see your dentist for the flu. Despite this common misconception, our bodies and all their components are interconnected and dependent on one another. Medical research indicates that as many as 90 percent of systemic diseases produce symptoms that affect the mouth. This means health issues involving…

Low back pain is a very common on distressing condition no one would like to have. Imagine waking up in the morning and unable to get out of bed because of a sharp pain from the lower back. It keeps you in constant touch with pain and affects your quality of life…

For those who have become more attentive of what goes into their food, the good news is that a growing amount of food manufacturers are offering organic selections, making organic food one of the quickest growing divisions of food production in the United States. The bad news is that all of those selections can be unclear, especially when accounting for food made without genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Some people could be trying to eat an all-organic program, and others may simply…