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Back pain, neck pain, aching knees, hips, shoulders and headaches that just don’t seem to ever go away. It’s estimated that these types of chronic pain affect anywhere from 11 to a whopping 40 percent of Americans each and every year. So with those numbers, is it any wonder that one in four people turn to Tylenol each week just to try to find a little relief in their day?…
It’s been drilled into our heads for decades: fat is bad. As of 2017-18, about 42 percent of American adults were classified as obese. And with obesity comes a higher risk of all kinds of disorders, including heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancers. Further study has revealed layers to the belief that all fat is bad. Carrying fat around the waist, for example, is known…
Even though the common cold is far from dangerous, it still makes you miserable… In fact, I had a doozy of a cold last year where every cold symptom known to man walloped me all at once — a cough, a headache, congestion, a low-grade fever and that general icky, fatigued feeling you get when you’re sick. I was so grateful when it was over, and I felt like myself…
If you were alive between the 1940s and the early 1970s, you were almost certainly exposed to the infamously poisonous agricultural pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, better known as DDT. The problem with pesticides like DDT, known as organochlorine compounds, is that they don’t just go away. Depending upon when you were exposed, there’s a decent chance that DDT is still in your body. The United States banned the use of DDT in…
When we take medicine, we might expect the occasional annoying side effect. But would you expect to take a medication for one health problem only to end up with another? You could be taking a drug right now that, while it’s taking care of one problem, is setting you up for memory loss, cognitive impairment and quite possibly, Alzheimer’s disease. This class of drug is prescribed for a wide variety…
It’s no secret that as you age your muscles can start to become weaker and less flexible and your endurance can go way down. After all, you only have to set foot in a gym to know that the things you could do at 20 just aren’t quite so easy at 40, 50, 60 and beyond. In fact, research shows that for every decade past 30 years old, your muscle…
If you don’t have asthma, I’m willing to bet you know someone who does. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 1 in 13 people have this inflammatory lung condition. Personally, I have two close friends who have it, and I’ve seen how it can impact them… When their asthma is flaring up, even a casual walk in the park is a struggle. They have a hard…
I’ve dealt with chronic anxiety for much of my life. And while I’ve found natural treatments that have helped me immensely, like yoga and meditation, it’s still an ongoing struggle. Some days I’m able to relieve that horrible anxious feeling with pranayama (yogic breathing exercises) and a few restorative yoga postures. Other days I can’t get the feeling under control, and I just have to accept it. A lot of…
For over a decade, experts have gone back and forth on whether or not omega-3s essential fatty acids can help you stay heart healthy. Some would swear that these nutrients found in oily fish had zero effect on heart disease and mortality while others pointed to positives like reduced triglyceride levels, less risk of irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias and the ability to slow down the buildup of plaque in the…
There are numerous factors that can raise your risk of ending up with Alzheimer’s disease down the road, from uncontrolled blood sugar and obesity to lack of exercise, high cholesterol and elevated blood pressure. Yet, while the risk factors for the disease are well-known, predicting who will actually get it — much less when it will strike — has so far been out of reach for the most part. In…