After spending many years living in refugee camps, gardening can provide a safe space to establish identity, rebuild lives and attain happiness.

New research may be among the first to examine how low levels of vitamin D affect physical performance over the long term.

Over the years, I’ve seen and felt consistent messages flow from the animals I’ve loved and the thousands of animals I’ve been honored to work with that, when embraced by their humans as truth, have made a positive, life-changing difference in both of their lives. If your animal could write you a love letter, I think it would look something like this...

Given the state our bodies are in after exercise, and what alcohol does to our system, drinking after sport is a bad idea.

The health risk presented by air pollution depends on how much dirty air we breathe over time. But people’s exposure to pollution can vary greatly between people living on the same street, or even the same house.

Many people have an appearance of dark circles on the lower eyelids, and they have many different causes.

We know excess weight is linked to many adverse health consequences, but there is now growing understanding that it also affects fertility.

There is broad, scientific consensus that antibiotic use in animal agriculture is increasing the risk of the development of resistant bacteria. It’s less clear what, if any, role this plays in human health.

We’d all dearly like to see a cure for the common cold, but it never quite seems to arrive. So what’s the hold up

A visit to the supermarket these days can feel more like walking through a pharmacy, with an ever-expanding range of milks, yogurts, pills, powders and specialty foods promoting their “probiotic” prowess.

Studies have found consumption of chillies is inversely related to the risk of being overweight or obese.

Adopting a Mediterranean-style eating pattern improves heart health, with or without reducing red meat intake, as long as the meat is lean and unprocessed, according to a new study.

Everyone knows we should exercise more, drink less, and stop scoffing junk food. Even committed smokers know that smoking is bad for them – but change isn’t easy.

Your hair can say a lot about you. It doesn’t just give people clues about your personality or your taste in music.

Restaurants are playing an increasingly important role in the food culture of North Americans.

If you watch kids at a local playground, sooner or later one of them will run around and fall face-first to the ground. For a moment, there’s likely to be silence. Then the child will look around, catch a glimpse of their parent, and finally burst into a deafening wail.

Fighting to protect salmon habitat, however, is more than just upholding tribal rights.

They are one of the most unwelcome signs of summer. Buzzing through beer gardens, attacking innocent picnics, wasps arrive ominously with a sting in their tails.

Stress affects most of us to one degree or another, and that even includes animals. Pigs, whose GI tracts are extremely similar to those of humans, may be one of the clearest windows we have into researching stress, disease, and new therapies and preventatives – both in livestock and people.

MRI brain scans might soon provide the answer Psychologists and philosopher