(Natural News) Researchers from Israel and the U.S. identified a common ingredient in food preservatives that can induce insulin resistance — a hallmark symptom of diabetes. Their findings, which they published in Science Translational Medicine, used both murine models and clinical trials to investigate the adverse effects of propionate, an additive used in many foods. A failure […]

(Natural News) Are you having a hard time reaching your weight loss goals, even as you follow a strict diet and exercise? You may want to get your growth hormone levels checked. A recent study carried out by researchers at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil revealed that growth hormone levels can influence your weight. The researchers […]

(Natural News) Members of the fair sex will get more health benefits from a diet with low levels of salt, stated a recently published report. This is because females have greater concentrations of a natural hormone that can raise blood pressure levels. The discovery implies that females will enjoy bigger improvements from treatments aimed at blocking aldosterone, a hormone that causes blood vessels to constrict. […]

(Natural News) A pregnancy test from the 1960s and the 1970s could have caused serious birth defects to the children of the pregnant women who used it, new research suggests. The pregnancy test, which is called Primodos, could possibly have been prescribed to 1.5 million women in the U.K. According to earlier studies, it increased the danger of […]