It’s always fun to explore cooking alternatives – if not for health reasons than even just for those times when you’re missing one ingredient and need to get creative. When you run out of sugar, you can swap in one of these alternatives and still satisfy that demanding sweet tooth.

LaTocha Scott shared recently that she decided to go vegan and start focusing on her health after she got tired of being known as "the big girl" of Xscape.

If your urine consistently smells bad, or it smells sweet, call your doctor. Foul-smelling pee can be a sign of kidney disease, which causes compounds in the urine to become concentrated and create a smell similar to ammonia.

Because he hates going to the doctor so much, my partner will sometimes hide symptoms from me. He had a terrible cough—something from the 1800s, before we had vaccinations kind of cough—and he would get out of bed, walk outside and down the stairs to cough so I wouldn’t hear him. And his plan was…what? He just hoped it would “work itself out.” That’s what he said.

When your running shoes wear down, they don’t give you the support you need and you can start to put your joints at risk. But, running shoes (good ones at least) aren’t cheap, and knowing just which ones actually offer all of the support they say they do can be tough. So if you’re like many joggers out there, once you find a pair you like, you hold on as long as you can aka longer than you should.

You may still be discovering your identity and that involves playing with your look, but see if you can do so without all the hair dye. Your locks will only be so forgiving, and one day, they’ll just become permanently frail and damaged from all the coloring.

When it comes to your diet, your body will tell you everything you need to know.

Of course, he comes back from the doctor and hasn’t asked her half the questions I told her to ask him. So the next time he goes to the doctor, I insist on going with him. He doesn’t have a choice in the matter.

If you are a diet-obsessed woman, maybe your friend’s pleas that you loosen up for your own health and happiness aren’t enough to get you to change. But what about your partner’s happiness? If you knew that your militant diet routine was making him feel sad and frustrated, could that get you to change your […]

Most people who get hemorrhoids are shocked to have them. Since they’re a rather sensitive subject, people don’t usually share with their friends and family when they have them, so you typically only hear about them in medical articles or from your doctor, making them almost feel like myths. But hemorrhoids are, indeed, quite common, […]

Since you probably already have dozens of excuses ready to go as for why you shouldn’t exercise — and because sitting on your butt just feels so good —you need to prepare mantras, ahead of time, to repeat at those moments when you don’t feel like moving at all and eating a tub of ice […]