Forget ghosts and ghouls – Halloween can get really scary if you have to make an emergency trip to the dentist’s office. Past research has reported an 80% increase in emergency dental visits on Halloween versus other days in October. “This increase is often due to people indulging in sweets that can damage teeth or […]
Weight Loss Coach Reveals 3 Foods She’d Never Buy
It’s on the moon pie. Jenna Rizzo, a women’s weight loss coach from Georgia, is sharing the three types of foods banned from her home—individually wrapped pastries, sodas and fruit juices, and packaged vegan foods. “If you like these foods, go ahead and eat them,” Rizzo advised her 83,000 TikTok followers in a video this […]
Americans consume about 80 pounds of sugar a year: survey
According to a recent study, the average American consumes over 36,000 grams of sugar per year. The survey of 2,000 Americans found that the average person ingests 99 grams of sugar a day, which is more sugar than there is in two 12-ounce cans of soda. Over the course of a year, that adds up […]
Rising rates of colorectal cancer in young adults: New concerns ID’d
Young people who develop colon cancer tend to be diagnosed at later stages of the devastating disease — and have more aggressive types of tumors, a new study finds. Young people who develop colon cancer tend to be diagnosed at later stages of the devastating disease — and have more aggressive types of tumors, a […]