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The YOU Docs physician-authors Mike Roizen and Mehmet Oz?answer questions, give tips, talk over hot medical topics, and do it all with a sense of humor
Should You Still Get Mammograms?
Nicole from New Jersey wrote to us about an issue that's on many women's minds this week. Her question: "I am a 44-year-old woman and am scheduled for my first mammogram in 2 weeks. Do the new recommendations mean I shouldn't get it or that my i
Stop Sneezing: No Drugs, No Drowsiness
If the first cold snap nixed what made you sneeze all fall, then why are you still sniffling? When it comes to allergies, what’s indoors can be just as bad, if not worse. The dust mites that love to live in your bed, your pillow, and other soft
Light Cigarettes May Be Worse Than the Real Thing
Cigarette smoke dumps more than 4,000 chemicals into your body, including arsenic and cyanide (yes, rat poison). So it's tempting to assume that until you quit smoking, it's better to smoke “light” rather than regular cigarettes. The truth:
The Breakfast Drink That Makes You Slim
If a great breakfast still leaves you hungrier than a teenage football star after practice, look at what's in your glass. The difference between fruit juice and skim milk with your morning meal could mean the difference between buttoning your pants a
Is Your Desk Chair Shortening Your Life?
Your desk chair might be a mortal enemy. Same with your driver's seat or your La-Z-Boy. It's not so much the size or shape of your perch -- it's all about how long you sit on it.
Women: Is Your Health Being Treated Right?
The latest dispatch from the frontiers of science is that when it comes to treating your body right, sex really matters. We're talking about X and Y chromosomes, not something X-rated. See, thanks to hormones and a slew of other factors, biological d
Can Fruit Make You Fat?
Recently, one of my coworkers said that eating too much fruit can make you gain weight because of its high sugar content. Is this true?
Got the New Xanax in Your Garden?
Take two dozen roses, inhale, and then call us in the morning. It might take your stress level from"on the brink of losing it" to"cooler than an ice hotel."
Be Smarter About Your Meds
What's getting in the way of great health? One thing could be those bottles of prescription meds you have rattling around in your drawer, with the final two or three pills that you never took (not good!).
Feel More Satisfied Without Eating More
Swear your workouts make you want to eat more than a linebacker or three at an all-you-can-eat brunch? Well, there is evidence that they might leave you a little on the peckish side. But when overweight men and women worked out for 12 weeks, they als
Potent Antiagers, Now Near You
This week, your grocery store got a shipment of the most powerful antiagers ever. Not in a bottle. Not in a pill. But in the produce section.
The Antiager That Won a Nobel Prize
The real secret to keeping your body young may be the tips of your shoelaces. Or, really, tiny parts of your body that act like them. Just as those plastic nibs keep your shoelaces from fraying, tiny cellular tips called telomeres protect your DNA fr
Baby Bottle Dangers: How Bad Are They, Really?
My children are grown now, but back in the late ’70s I would mix their baby formula with boiled water and put it into the disposable plastic liners of baby bottles, which I now know contain bisphenol A (BPA). My children haven’t had any pr
Pain: How to Treat It Right
Certain things are meant to be mixed. Strawberries and dark chocolate. Gin and tonic. But for pain relievers, paring down is better than pairing up, because it's easy to get far too much of a good thing. For instance, if you take a pill for sinus con
3 Steps for Extra Energy
Your body can be its own renewable energy source if you know how to keep it humming. Here's how:
Your Anticancer Menu
Call it eating for a cause. You can plan your menu in a way that helps knock out the third leading cancer for both men and women: colorectal cancer. Here's how to tune up your meals:
Food Additives: The "Natural" Fake-Out
Your busy schedule has about as much give as an overbooked flight at Thanksgiving. So you rely on processed foods every now and then (maybe even airplane snacks). We know that. But if you are thinking the way to keep your diet more wholesome than Mis
Are You Smarter Than a 13-Year-Old?
Aside from being able to set up an entire social networking system and play four rounds of Vampire Wars within the first 5 minutes of your bringing a new computer home, the average 13-year-old knows a few things that you don't.
The Prescription You Shouldn't Fill
Want to shock your doc out of his socks? Next time you get a sore throat -- or your kid's nose is at flood stage -- don't demand antibiotics. Half of the 125 million antibiotic prescriptions written for upper respiratory infections each year in the U
Make Your Favorite Foods (Even Chocolate!) Good for You
What's the healthiest dark chocolate in terms of percentage of cocoa?
The Surprising New Health Risk for Fiftysomethings
A surprising number of fifty- and sixtysomethings have more in common with the college kids next door than just complete adoration for their iPhones and a crush on Megan Fox or Daniel Craig.
To Fight Fat, Drink This
Haunted by that research suggesting that your friends make you fat (and not because of their killer cheesecake)? If you missed it, here's the recap: The research showed that you're more likely to become obese if your friends do.
3 Foods for Super Health
The best foods for you might be ones you've never heard of (and remember, until about 2 years ago, you'd never heard of the Baconator, either). Some of these are ancient, but thanks to new food trends, they're now at your fingertips. Here's your new
Surprising Habits That Make You Old
Are you accidentally making yourself older? Check out what these choices are doing to your body:
To Make Your Next Workout Easier, Drink This
You don't need a fancy sports drink to recover quickly from a short workout and be ready for your next session. Instead, consider the potent recovery drink that's probably already in your fridge: skim milk. It rehydrates exercisers as well as water d
Mercury in the Flu Vaccine? What to be Nervous About (or Not)
Like cell phones and Starbucks, mercury is everywhere. It's the silvery liquid in old thermometers, it's in rocks and soil, in dental fillings, and in the air. And, lately, it's in the news: Mercury in swine flu vaccines! Mercury in fish!
Should Kids Stay Away from Soy?
I have recently heard concerns about boys eating soy. As the mom of one vegetarian boy and with another boy on the way, I'm worried about their development and long-term health. What's the truth surrounding these warnings?
What You Didn't Know About These Health Foods
When it comes to how good for you they are, vegetables can be as variable as spouses. But with veggies (well, and maybe spouses, come to think of it), it's all about how you choose them and how you treat them. Do it right with these tips:
How Slacking Off Makes You Smarter
Gabbing at the water cooler, taking a break, and getting a massage might sound like the special job skills Bart Simpson would list on his resume. But they may, in fact, be the right thing to do.
How Healthy Will You Be? It Depends on This
What's in your shopping cart? If you put all of the good stuff on one side -- produce, grains, nuts and legumes, lean protein -- and everything else on the other, which way would your cart tip? If it's toward “everything else,” well . . . i
Which Gives You More Salt: Bread or Potato Chips?
Okay, that's a bit of a trick question. When it comes to which food contributes the most salt to the diet (not foods that show the most sodium according to the label), bread is on the top-three list. The other foods that dump the most salt into your
A Lot to Lose? 6 Steps That Leave Pounds in the Past
Saying you're too heavy to walk is like saying you're too skinny to eat. Your body needs physical activity just as it needs food. Nourish it with walking, one of the best-kept secrets of weight loss. Just follow these six steps:
Should Your Medical Records Go Digital?
When the pain drug Vioxx was pulled from the market in September of 2004 because of concerns about heart and stroke risks, every Cleveland Clinic patient taking the drug got an e-mail within an hour of the recall. So did their doctors. At a Memphis,
What to Eat to Fight Breast Cancer
I recently had a cancerous tumor removed from my breast, and I've been wondering if there are certain foods to avoid as part of my recovery. Can you help?
Can This Oil Control Your Appetite?
Can't stop munching? Tear off a piece of chewy whole-grain bread. Now, dip it (we didn't say drench it) in the best olive oil you can find. Savor every flavor you can find in the mixture. And consider your snackfest done.
How to Let Your Workout Slide, Healthfully
When your schedule is heavier than all of the The Biggest Loser contestants combined, there's one thing you shouldn't drop: your workout.
The Drink Your Body Loves
Many women see comfort in a cup of chamomile tea, thanks to its slightly sedating effect and its ability to ease anxiety, menstrual cramps, and skin problems. Your bloodstream finds it comforting, too. Because there’s something in chamomile that
The Body Part That Wants You to Go Green
Your knees love it when you go green. We don't mean environmentally green, although they appreciate it when you take the stairs and when you take your bike for a spin instead of the car (strong leg muscles keep your joints healthy). We mean eating gr
How to Get What You Really Want
What's on your healthy to-do list? If it's the same thing that was there last week, and the week before, and the week before that . . . well, you might not need a personal chef, personal shopper, or personal trainer. And you might not need to delve i
The 6 Paths to Happiness
Positive emotions not only feel good; they play a crucial role in your health, too. Negative emotions change your brain function in ways that increase stress, which raises the risk of problems such as cancer and heart disease. And because positive em
A New Type of Weight Loss Surgery
In your book YOU: On a Diet, you mentioned how surgeons realized cutting the vagus nerve curbed a person's appetite. Why isn't vagotomy surgery an option for weight loss?
Get All-Day Energy with These Secrets
Sure, everyone feels tired now and then. But are your energy stores secretly zapped? To run on sustainable energy, ask yourself this:
Look Better in the Morning
Sleep can make you look better -- it stimulates growth hormone, which eventually allows for the production of collagen and elastin to keep your skin taut. But don't let ZZZs do all the work when it comes to helping you look great. Stack the deck with
Nature's Best Painkiller
If back pain or creaky knees isn't bad enough, the pain pills designed to blunt the hurt can carry nasty side effects and require monthly trips to the pharmacy. So try this no-cost way to decrease the pain: Take a deep breath and say "om."
Make Your Body 10 Years Younger
There's no doubt that the right jeans, the latest hairstyle, and the newest digital accessories can make you look 10 years younger (and that's without the plastic surgeon). But there's something else that can make you a decade younger on the inside:
Eat the Whole Thing and Watch Cancer Risk Drop
Juicier than the latest celeb gossip and more crisp than HDTV, apples may do a lot more than be the perfect fruit. The type of fiber in apples, called pectin, lowers your colon cancer risk by bumping up colon-protective compounds and clamping down on
Is It Okay to Bypass Your Doctor?
Wish you could get your sore throat looked at as fast as you can get served a double macchiato? Retail health clinics feel your pain, which is why about 1,000 of them have sprung up in drugstores, shopping malls, and big discount stores. The idea is
Lowering Cholesterol Without a Prescription
Nobody eats red yeast rice to lower cholesterol. They take red yeast rice supplements, which have a lot in common with the popular cholesterol-lowering statin drug Mevacor. Both are monacolins that prevent your liver from making LDL cholesterol. And
The Most Fattening Days of the Week
Can't wait for the weekend? You know, those long brunches with friends, the dinners out, the extra glass of wine. Yep, put it that way and it's no wonder you can't find anything comfortable to wear on Monday morning.
Will Your Marriage Last? Check Your Facebook Photos
Your Facebook photos (and your spouse's!) may say more about your future than you think. Recent research suggests that the more intensely you're smiling in photos (and there is a scientific way to measure smile intensity), the less likely you are to
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