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Healthy Eating Diets For Weight Loss
Healthy eating diets are one of the best ways to approach a successful weight loss attempt.
Sure, exercise is important as a way to boost your metabolism and burn calories, but the calories you take in on a daily basis can really be the difference between shedding extra pounds, staying even or even gaining weight.
Unfortunately, there [...]
Weight Loss Tips For The Holidays – Diet And Exercise Needed
It’s that time of the year when again when the average person wants to let loose and really celebrate. Often, that means over-indulging in both food and drink. Thanksgiving and Christmas are two of the most popular holidays, and are known for the delicious food and festive times. But, if ever there’s a time where [...]
Daily aspirin therapy not for everyone
Key point: A multitude of data has shown that patients with moderate cardiovascular risk factors, peripheral arterial disease, or diabetes who were given a daily aspirin for primary prevention had minimal to no reductions in cardiovascular morbidity or mortality and were at an increased risk for bleeding.
Finer points: An editorial published by Mori Krantz, MD, [...]
Adding Common Genetic Variants to Breast Cancer Risk Models Offers Only Small Benefit
Scientists report that breast cancer risk assessment models, which predict a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer, do not perform better when they include common inherited genetic variants recently linked to the disease. Therefore, recommendations for breast cancer screening or treatments will remain unchanged for most women. The study, led by investigators from the National [...]
Know About Some Of The Necessary Vitamin Supplements
These days, a lot of people are realizing the significance of taking vitamin supplements. They’re considered to be most important for us since if we are not going to take adequate vitamins necessary for our bodies, these vitamin supplements can play an alternative role and fulfil the shortage of the quantity of vitamins in our [...]
24 Good Reasons Why You May Need Vitamin Supplements
by David Exon
Many people believe that eating a well balanced diet provides all the vitamins and minerals necessary for good health. In ideal circumstances, this is the case, but in reality there are many reasons why you may need vitamin supplements to cope with living in the twentieth century environment. Taking vitamins when required is [...]
What’s gone wrong with America’s food supply? From Harvard Men’s Health Watch
Many factors contribute to the renewed concern about food safety. Agriculture and food processing have grown enormously in scale, and foods are shipped great distances. Contamination in one place can produce distant illnesses, making it difficult to recognize an outbreak quickly and track down its source.
In the United States each year, there are 76 million [...]
Who Pays for Health Care?
All the recent talk about health care reform has me thinking about an article I read last year about who pays for health care. So let’s begin with a question; namely, who do you think pays for health care? Is it employers? The government? Insurance companies? Individuals? If you’re like most Americans, you probably believe [...]
Cannabis Science Moves Its FDA Clinical Trial Process Forward
Cannabis Science Inc. (NASD OTCBB: CBIS), a pharmaceutical cannabis company, is pleased to report to their shareholders that the choice of our initial cannabis-based pharmaceutical for FDA clinical trials has been made. The Company has reported several possible drugs for FDA clinical trials. Based on extensive studies, the Company has decided to contract with a [...]
Allergies, Sneezing, Runny Nose, Watery Itchy Eyes, Natural Ayurvedic Treatments
Ayurveda recognizes 2 types of allergies -– one that are caused by genetic predisposition (which means an individual is born with it). It can be a sensitivity to allergens in the enviornment or it can be an allergy to a specific food. For anyone suffering from allergies from birth, the best approach would be to [...]
