When to Take Your Vitamins...Now you've got all those little bottles of vitamins. What do you do with them? Take with meals, between meals? Alone, with others? You may have heard conflicting advice. And no, you shouldn't cop out by choosing a product just because you only have to take one pill. Read on, for some light cast on this common dilemma.

“What about taking Supplements?”...Many different supplements are available, and there will always be another product introduced for yet another purpose. Granted, many of these products are

Folic Acid...If you are a woman who is planning to have a baby, or who may ever have a baby, you should be taking folic acid supplements. Every year, about 2500 babies in the U.S. are born with neural tube defects.

Smoking & Sports...Smoking is a health hazard. Just about everyone agrees to that. But, because it appears to take years or even decades to catch up to them, sometimes young people feel they can go ahead and smoke now and not worry about it. However, they don't consider the short-term effects of smoking which can hinder sports

Its That Simple...Improving your diet and eating fewer unhealthy foods isn't really that difficult. There is no need to consult a nutritionist or read the latest health food book either. Besides all of the free information all over the Internet, which could make anybody a virtual expert, your grocery store along with

Health Assurance is Insurance...Health care is expensive, overburdened and less available as now an estimated 45 million Americans are without health insurance. Costs of health care will continue to increase as no cost prevention mechanisms are in place or even proposed. This is a business, and businesses require profits to survive. In addition, many companies that are the major influences in the

The Bird Flu and You...There is more news about the Avian Bird Flu (H5N1), and some of it may be frightful sounding. Even President Bush finally addressed the issue in a recent speech. He mentioned that the US Military might be called in to help enforce a possible quarantine of those afflicted, since there is