Caralluma Fimbriata is becoming one of the most talked about natural weight loss tools in the battle against obesity. Edible succulents grow wild all over India and are often part of the native’s daily diets cooked as a vegetable with spices and salt or eaten raw. Caralluma has been used for centuries by this population [...]

Breast tenderness, or any kind of breast pain, tends to frighten women because we immediately think the big “C” word.  But doctors report that more often than not, it’s not cancer, but some other cause such as water retention or benign lumps that enlarge during menses and shrink afterward Some women don’t mind this symptom [...]

Dr. Eswararamanan VR Middle aged women between the ages of thirty five and fifty years of age, in other words, women who are nearing menopause seem to develop cysts around their breasts. To put it simply, a cyst is nothing but a sac, or a little lump, embedded within the breast tissue. When the lobule [...]

The story broke in the international press on October 4th, 2004. Scientists in Japan announced that laboratory rats lost large amounts of organ fat, and increased muscle strength, when a portion of their diet was replaced by a new fruit extract. Could this new discovery be “Exercise in a Pill?” These unexpected results left the [...]

The medical community is quickly evolving its understanding of menopause. Following the abrupt, early halt to the HRT portion of the Women’s Health Initiative last July, due to findings that Hormone Replacement Therapy’s risks outweighed its benefits, headlines now read “Menopause is not a disease, but a normal part of life.” Hormone “replacement” therapy (HRT) [...]