Sean Curran of Doylestown, Pennsylvania shovels snow and ice outside his home after a winter storm on October 30, 2011. (William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting chillier and before you know it, leaves will blanket the ground. Can snow be far behind? The changing of seasons brings with it a call to manual labor, in the form of shoveling and raking. After Mother Nature has left her mark, getting yards and driveways back...

Pregnant women often hear advice on what they should and shouldn’t be putting into their bodies. However, rarely do they consider that what they’re putting on their bodies may also pose a risk. It is estimated that women use, on average, twelve different beauty and body products a day, and many of these products contain chemicals that may harm a fetus. While certainly a woman shouldn’t have to eschew her beauty routine just because she’s pregnant, there are some products...

(YouBeauty) We dive into the debate. Sick of hearing about vitamin D? This much-talked-about topic was heralded by the New York Times as the “supplement of the decade.” But for all the good D can do for your body (like build strong bones, ward off depression, heart disease and possibly even cancer) the mere fact that people are ditching their sunscreens and risking skin cancer to soak up vitamin D-strong solar rays is particularly worrisome. And despite all the hoopla...