Obesity is because of eating too many calories and not getting enough physical activities to burn those calories. Excess calories are deposited in the body as fat. Obesity increases the risk of several health problems like high blood pressure, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, gout, gallstones, colon cancer, sleep apnea and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. ...

As more people begin to experience joint pain due to gout and arthritis, many are searching for natural remedies to fight joint and muscle pain. With all of the options and conflicting information available on television, radio and the Internet, what is the best way to sift through all of the information? Although it can be a challenge, finding natural remedies that really work are worth the...

People always have the mentality that as long as one does not eat junk food, one can be considered to have a healthy diet. Actually a diet that is considered healthy to one might be unhealthy to another person, it can be quite subjective in this context. Gout patients are usually advice to go on a special diet, which will help to alleviate the pain cause by gout attacks. This diet will require...

What does pH stand for? Is it personal hygiene? Or proper health? Or possibly hydrated? Well no. It actually stands for the power of hydrogen. But without going deeper into biochemistry, gout sufferers just need to know that raising body pH levels makes the body more alkaline, and lowering them, more acidic. Raising your body's pH levels is part of natural gout treatment. The theory is,...

Since thousands of years ago, the natives of south and southeastern Africa have known a little something about medicinally treating inflammation. Named for the appearance of the fruit of its root, Devil's Claw (also referred to as Cat's Claw) is recognized by its hook-like protrusions on pods of the plant. Extract of Devil's Claw root made its way...