GERD is short for gastroesophageal reflux disease, which is also abbreviated to GORD in the UK and places where it is spelled gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.

It’s easy to take a bodily function like your bowel movements for granted… that is, until a problem arises.

Just as diet can have a positive or negative impact on heart, brain and bone health, your colon’s overall health can be affected by what you eat.

The average lifetime risk for colon cancer is 1 in 18. That is one in every eighteen members of your high school class will develop colon cancer.