Energy drinks aren’t automatically dangerous for healthy adults, but they’re far from harmless. Harvard Health and doctors at Northwestern Medicine say one can once in a while is the ceiling, never a daily habit. Anyone with high blood pressure or heart disease, pregnant or breastfeeding women and kids should skip them completely.
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The EGOT winner says a rare repeat bout with shingles forced her to rethink what strength really looks like
Viola Davis has built a career playing women who refuse to break. Offscreen, the EGOT winner recently found herself in a fight she never saw coming, and one that she says nearly knocked her flat.
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That bottle promising brighter, whiter eyes may be covering up something your optometrist needs to see
For a body part that does so much heavy lifting, the eyes get remarkably little attention. Roughly 4 in 10 Americans are considered at high risk for vision loss, and 40% of that group skipped an eye exam in…
Constant fatigue is more than feeling tired after a long week. It is exhaustion that lingers for weeks, does not improve with rest and makes ordinary tasks feel heavy. The most common causes include poor sleep, sleep apnea, anemia, thyroid problems, diabetes, vitamin deficiencies, depression, heart disease, kidney disease and autoimmune conditions.
Most of these…
Breast cancer does not always announce itself with a lump. Early signs can include dimpling or puckered skin, a nipple that suddenly turns inward, swelling without a lump, unusual discharge, a change in breast size or shape, or skin that takes on an orange peel texture. Any of these, if new or unusual for you,…
No proven method can reliably delay menopause. In the United States, menopause arrives at an average age of 51, and genetics sets most of that timeline. A mother's age at menopause is one of the strongest clues to when her daughter will reach it.
Some habits can shift the timing by a year or two…
Detox teas and turmeric shots are flooding your feed, but a registered dietitian says the real reset looks nothing like what influencers are selling.
Summer is winding down, and with it goes a season of stadium hot dogs, backyard picnics and one too many drinks at outdoor concerts. As fall routines creep back onto the…
New research headed to a major diabetes meeting in Milan finds that steadier blood sugar lifts next-day mood, but a little wobble may not be the enemy.
Glucose readings are a constant companion for millions of people living with diabetes, a running tally of spikes, dips and targets. A new study suggests those numbers may…
Kim Kardashian revealed a new health diagnosis in the season 8 trailer for The Kardashians, and it hits closer to home than her past health scares. The 45-year-old told her family she has esophagitis, an inflammation of the esophagus, and the reveal immediately drew comparisons to her father Robert's death from esophageal cancer in 2003.…
Doctors say one small daily habit could quietly reshape your health — from your heart to your gut.
A tablespoon of olive oil doesn't look like much sitting on a kitchen counter, but a growing body of research suggests a daily dose could ripple through nearly every system in the body. From cardiologists to gastroenterologists,…

