NODE SMITH, ND People with abdominal obesity and excess fat around the body’s mid-section and organs have an increased risk of heart disease even if their body mass index (BMI) measurement [...]

Node Smith, ND New research presented at this year’s Euroanaesthesia congress in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June) shows that mortality in patients who had undergone heart bypass surgery was over [...]

Node Smith, ND Obesity and emotional problems, such as feelings of low mood and anxiety, tend to develop hand-in-hand from as young as 7 years, according to new research presented at this [...]

Node Smith, ND Many naturopathic and functional medicine practitioners question the function and use of statin medications. A recent study may help support these non-conventional views of the [...]

Vis Medicatrix Naturae Robin DiPasquale, ND, RH (AHG) It is estimated that 15% of the US population – about 20 million people – have some degree of gallbladder disease (GBD). The prevalence of [...]

A global study published last month reveals that approximately 75% of pregnant women are experiencing unhealthy weight gain.1 The study, which combines data from Asia, the United States, and [...]

J.D. McCoy, NMD Aesthetic medicine is no longer “for women only.” Male and female patients want to look and feel good. Naturopathic aesthetic medicine uses non-invasive or minimally invasive [...]

Gurdev Parmar, ND, FABNO and Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO Each year the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) holds a meeting that few NDs attend. Article co-author Gurdev Parmar, ND, FABNO went [...]

Afsoun Khalili, ND Obesity Statistics As stated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006, globally there are more than 1 billion overweight adults, at least 300 million of them obese. The [...]

Shaida Sina, ND Metabolic syndrome is relatively new to the conventional world of medicine; many doctors are still unfamiliar with it. Conventional criteria for diagnosing metabolic syndrome [...]