Adding a daily serving of green leafy vegetables to your diet may be a simple way to help promote brain health,” says nutritional epidemiologist Martha Clare Morris, ScD, who led a study group at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Morris and her team asked 960 older people, none of whom had dementia, to fill...
Women are more prone to iron deficiency than men for a variety of reasons. According to the federal Office on Women’s Health, up to 5% of women in their childbearing years develop anemia due to heavy menstrual periods; those who are pregnant can become low in iron because of the growing child’s needs. And while...
Everyone has days when they can’t stop yawning. However, ongoing fatigue is more than just feeling tired now and again. Fatigue is the kind of weariness that leads to lapses in concentration, a tendency to withdraw socially and an overall inability to keep up. This often leads people to look for help; researchers say that...
