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It is safe to say that many people, both young and old, could do well by developing their overall strength. Many people, however, are unable to lift their own bodyweight. Plus, strengthening exercises are especially beneficial for improving bone density in women. We should all want to improve our quality of life, and much of this hinges on being able to carry out normal or more vigorous activities. These include…
Drug interactions can be deadly. Thorough doctors have to be careful to make sure the different medicines they prescribe don’t cause adverse reactions when taken together, but when the patient has a common pain ailment, they don’t always communicate to the doctor that they’re using over-the-counter (OTC) products as well. After all, if you can get a medicine without a prescription, it’s got to be perfectly safe, right? Not always.…
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Because our busy and technologically-dense modern lives have shortened our average night’s sleep by about two hours over the past 50 years, we are all at an increased risk of hypertension and cardiovascular problems linked to lifestyles with too little slumber. Mid-afternoon napping is my frequent go-to strategy for getting my mental powers back when they start to get fuzzy. When my hours at my computer keyboard threaten to frazzle…
Depression is not at all uncommon. Most of us, at some point in our lives, have experienced it. The National Institutes of Mental Health reports that in 2014 an estimated 15.7 million Americans aged 18 or older had at least one major depressive episode in the past year. The doctors will tell you the cause is a chemical imbalance in your brain and suggest you get started on a daily…
Men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer should take a serious look at their vitamin D levels. New research indicates there is a link between low levels of vitamin D and aggressive prostate cancer, so the faster you deal with vitamin D deficiency perhaps the better your chances of tackling the disease. The team at Northwestern University had uncovered an association between low levels of vitamin D and aggressive…
This sound may actually help you cut down on the amount of food you eat. If you guessed rap music, you’d be wrong. It’s even more intolerable than that. And if you suffer from misophonia — it would probably work even better on you… The sound is chewing — or masticating. That sounds really grates on a lot of people’s nerves. For some people it’s downright intolerable, maybe even repulsive…
You’re blitzed with numbers and facts in everything you read. It can be tough to make sense of any of it, but here’s a number that’s easy to understand. The environment now causes 1 out of every 4 deaths, according to the World Health Organization and the number one culprit is a stroke. That means the leading cause of death from the environment isn’t cancer, heart disease, injury, infections or…
The quest to stay young — or young looking — is what most of us think about when we read the term anti-aging. But a major part of aging is disease. Even the healthiest of people, adhering to the healthiest of lifestyles, can succumb to the diseases that come with old age. Cancer seems to be the most prominent. Cancer incidences increase exponentially with advancing age with 60 percent of…
You see artificial sweeteners in many commercially produced foods. They are what give “diet” sodas that sweet zero-calorie taste. These chemical compounds are 30 to 7,000 times sweeter than sugar and in reality do little to help you lose weight. Instead they come with plenty of adverse side effects including an increased risk for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Now, one sweetener in particular, has been linked to leukemia. The…
Bullying is dirty business. The cycles of what happens to create a bully, of what happens to make one susceptible to being bullied, and how these interactions lead to substance abuse and suicide later in life, are related to how children are treated and treat others, and how parents raise their children. There’s just no excuse for the bully phenomenon in a humane world. When kids complain of feeling ill,…