Did you know that the single most important thing you can do to improve your health is to quit smoking? No wonder it’s always top of the New Year resolutions list! Smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and mortality in the world. Every year, over 400,000 American lives are lost to smoking-related diseases, both directly and indirectly. Quitting smoking significantly decreases your risk of suffering a heart attack, lung cancer, heart disease…the [...]

Are expensive skin care products really worth the money? According to skin care specialist Leslie Baumann, M.D., the answer is no. In a nutshell, beauty behemoths … have deep pockets, so they have more resources to research, develop and test their products. When large personal care companies like the ones mentioned earlier start the product development process, it can take years (and millions of dollars) for the actual product to hit store shelves. They undergo [...]