I realize that I'm living dangerously, but I'm not convinced that most of us need to use hand sanitizer on a daily basis. Are you sold on the stuff?

Cold weather means that more people head back into the gym — which is an incubator for germs and viruses.

It may be 60 degrees and sunny in NYC, but winter is undoubtedly on its way. Oh, yes, it's coming and the holistic health community has a lot to say about staying healthy when it gets here.

Natural Health's Winter Wellness Guide is a surprisingly informative — and even innovative — list of 20 DIY preventative or curative treatments for a collection of mental, emotional, and physical issues.

Sure, echinacea's good name may have been tarnished in a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, but there is more than one way to naturally boost your immune system and stave off winter illness.

To give readers the skinny on the best flu fighting supplements available today, Health Magazine looked to Jim Duke, author of The Green Pharmacy and Mark Blumenthal, founder of the American Botanical Council.

A study published in the Canadian Medical Journal touts ginseng as an effective supplement for fighting or preventing symptoms of the common cold.

An editorial in the same issue questions the researcher’s findings and challenges the overall efficacy of “natural remedies.”