(Natural News) Obesity has been a growing health problem over the years, especially in the United States. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), more than one in three adults are considered obese. This excess weight can bring negative effects to a person’s wellbeing and even inhibit their day-to-day […]

(Natural News) During the last half of December 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) began spreading throughout China. To date, researchers around the globe are scrambling to find a cure for COVID-19, which has already infected hundreds of thousands of people, and claimed thousands of lives. But what if the key to staying healthy during a pandemic is […]

(Natural News) In June of 2019, miners employed by Enchanted Designs Limited were busy at work in Alberta, Canada looking for ammolite, a rainbow-colored gemstone used in luxury jewelry, when they instead found something arguably much more valuable. They found the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster that lived about 70 million years ago during the […]

(Natural News) The new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that originated in Wuhan, China has now infected more than 70,000 people worldwide. While the earliest reports suggested that the virus’ mode of transmission was from animals to humans, human-to-human transmission has now been confirmed by official reports. According to the World Health Organization, previous outbreaks due to other […]

(Natural News) Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the name given to a common disorder in which the livers of people who drink little to no alcohol accumulate excess fat. While largely harmless in its early stages, NAFLD can become a serious health problem if it worsens. Therefore, the prevention and treatment of NAFLD is […]

(Natural News) In a pair of caves known as the Grotta del Fossellone and the Grotta di Sant’Agostino in Italy’s western Lazio region, archaeologists discovered some of the earliest known examples of the use of adhesives. In this study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, archaeologists found evidence that Neanderthals that lived around 55 to 40 thousand years ago […]

(Natural News) Locked deep beneath our oceans, according to scientists, are deposits of frozen methane. Dubbed “fire ice,” these deposits, once released, can trigger large-scale natural catastrophes such as tsunamis and landslides – and scientists and experts currently have no idea how much of these fire ice deposits exist. According to Ann Cook, an associate […]

(Natural News) When future astronauts finally land on Mars, they may find that they’re not the only living things on the planet. A new study from researchers from Wichita State University in Kansas, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the Space Science Institute in Colorado show that bacteria could possibly lie dormant under the surface of the Red Planet. […]

(Natural News) The genus Corchorus consists of about 40 to 100 different species of plants that belong to the Malvaceae or hibiscus family. The most well-known Corchorus plants, namely, C. olitorius and C. capsularis, are the main sources of the fiber, jute. Jute is obtained from the inner bast tissue of a Corchorus plant’s stem and is used […]

(Natural News) Every person has a circadian clock, an invisible internal mechanism synchronized with solar time. This “clock,” according to the National Sleep Foundation, drives a person’s circadian rhythm, which regulates daily sleep-wake cycles. As it turns out, even plants have one, too. First discovered in 1729 by French geophysicist and chronobiologist Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de […]