by Dr. Mercola Nearly everyone knows that white flour is not healthy for you, but most people don’t know that when white flour is bleached, it can actually be FAR worse for you. It’s generally understood that refining food destroys nutrients. With the most nutritious part of the grain removed, w...

You can’t get along with everyone. But throughout your life, you’ll be in situations where you simply have to communicate with some of those people you just can’t stand. This may be an annoying boss, an ingratiating fan, a spineless co-worker, a difficult client, an abrasive in-law, and any nu...

Sci-Fi author Philip K. Dick wrote of a world in which people could select their moods every day on a “Penfield mood organ.� We're a long way from building that device, but there are already machines that can alter your brain. One example is a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) machine. Whe...

Even if you’re gainfully employed right now, you’re probably keeping an eye on job listings. It’s just good sense these days. But you need to be looking at the right job listings, reading relevant industry news and keeping your career-building skills honed. The right job listings can be hard t...

Here are some unusual medical conditions that have received recent media attention. You may be hard-pressed to find in the medical literature, but they exist: When You Can't Open Your Eyes for Three Days Natalie Adler, 21, of Caulfield South, Melbourne, Australia, says she can sense the onset of her...

The Bill Moyers Journal interview linked below takes a close look at President Obama’s reliance on the very economic “experts� who got us into the present catastrophe in the first place. According to Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, there is a technocra...

The insurance company WellPoint has teamed with Zagat to survey the attitudes of its subscribers toward the doctors they have used. The patients rate their doctors in four broad categories, and can add comments if they wish. The end result will be a composite score for individual physicians indicati...

There are always new websites dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, to the point that it can be hard to keep track of them. These sites are a great starting point: Blogs Startup Nation: Startup Nation offers entrepreneurial advice from a whole slew of people who have been there, and have the business ...

Putting in some extra effort at work can pay off. You can get a promotion or a raise, or wind up on a choice project. The same goes with your personal finances -- going the extra mile can help you pay off a debt early or save up for a purchase. You can push through to success in just about anything....

If you want to find out just how strange people really are, go to Google.com, enter an innocuous phrase, and look at dropdowns listing previous common searches from other people.  Here’s what you might find (if you enter the bolded text): 5,310,000 pages from people asking or answering: How t...