Our butts. It’s a topic we’re told never to discuss in polite company. But the truth is, our butts can be the source of common and preventable infections. If you want to avoid problems, read on.
Hygiene is the number one issue when it comes to keeping yourself healthy. Find out Why Toilet Paper Doesn’t Work.
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We all have somebody we love more than ourselves. But our beloved sometimes becomes our victim when we cannot control ourselves. And we know that they will most likely forgive us. Therefore, we may become abusive, emotionally or physically. It is not good not only for us but for them as well. But how does it happen that we can hurt somebody we love so much? Is it us or is it something else? Continue reading “Why People Fight With Their Loved Ones” »
I recently saw a patient who came to me in tears. No, she hadn’t been diagnosed with a deadly disease. She wasn’t crying about the painful divorce she had been through, or about her business that had failed. She was crying because of exhaustion. She simply was not sleeping well. (More later about how we helped her.)
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No other vitamin has sparked so furious a fight in a medical community as Vitamin D. The debate concerning whether or not it prevents cancer is ongoing. Naturally, the stakes in this fight are extremely high because cancer is the second highest cause of death in this country after cardiovascular disease. Continue reading “The Intriguing Vitamin D” »
Following pressure to offer healthier foods for kids – McDonald’s announced changes to its Happy Meal boxes, adding apple slices, reducing the serving of french fries, and offering reduced fat or reduced fat chocolate milk. However, are these changes really all that ‘health-conscious’?
Are you embarrassed because your Stinky feet? Have you tried over-the-counter remedies only to find they didn’t work? Are you afraid that your foot odor will be noticed by your spouse or friends?
We expect that when something new about modern medicine is discovered, we will find the best course of action and treatment, and as a society, will move towards that, but it is proven time and time again how that theory can be completely wrong.
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Nearly 10 percent of Americans now deal with asthma on a daily basis. Some attribute it to an awfully brutal allergy season, hard winter, cold, heat, dirt, whatever. But the truth is that nearly 24 million of us can’t breathe the way that we should. It’s easy for a doctor to prescribe an inhaler. We can all walk around with one in our pockets for the rest of our lives without ever finding out what’s really the cause of our bad breathing.
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We are no longer that surprised to learn that FDA-approved drugs may have lethal side effects and are being withdrawn from the market. But, are you surprised to find out that FDA-approved drugs with yearly sales of about $4.2 billion are causing the problem that they are supposed to protect us from are still on the market?
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Treating Diabetes type 2 is not easy, but we have to be aggressive because the complications are devastating: from heart disease to renal failure. First, we have to examine where diabetes comes from. Is it from our bad genes, or maybe pollution? Or maybe it’s something we are supposed to live with. People think of diabetes as an unwelcome family member. Something they never wanted, but they can’t get rid of and have to learn to live with.
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While it may be ok to work up a sweat during exercise or physical activity, night sweats are something completely different, and diagnosing it as just a symptom of menopause can do more harm than good.
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What does it mean when the FDA only approves 21 drugs in one year? Does it mean that the drugs being put before them are so terrible that they refuse to approve them? Maybe it means that they are so riddled with side effects that the FDA can’t possibly say yes. No!
A new study has shown that human brains tend to shrink over time; but that the brains of monkeys do not. Shrinkage of the brain means that there are a loss of cells, but why is it that monkeys do not experience this – yet humans do? It is suggested that this shrinkage may be the price we must pay for our extended lifespans, but could it be something else?
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A young couple, just married, wants to have children to grow their family and have someone carry on their genes and traits and looks. That is how it should be. But often a young couple faces an unusual problem that they should never encounter: infertility.
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Yet another medication, approved for years by the FDA, is now being questioned. The Food and Drug Administration is now warning that diabetes medication Actos may actually increase the risk of bladder cancer when used for over a year.
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Would you ever use your finger to clean out your throat? Of course not. It’s not natural. Well, neither is cleaning the inside of your ear with Q-tips or any other device that goes inside the ear.
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal summarized something that isn’t recent news, but brings an important point to the forefront: cancer could be contagious. In the article, the author talks about two specific types of cancers, both transmitted between animals, but which opens a whole new possible way of thinking.
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RoundUp, the nation’s most popular weedkiller is once again being called out for knowing that the active ingredient, glyphosate, can cause birth defects, but continuing to use it in their products. The ingredient has been used since 1976 and the news isn’t that it was discovered to cause defects, but rather that the companies that use it in their product knew of the risks of developmental malformations, but continued to use it.
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Back and forth goes the FDA when it comes to a decision regarding Avastin, the breast cancer treatment drug. The drug itself has an interesting history and relationship with the FDA. Back in 2004, Avastin received approval by the FDA. In 2007, the FDA suddenly pulled the approval, by a 5-4 vote. But only several months later re-granted the drug accelerated approval. Over the next couple of years it became a staple for women fighting breast cancer.
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Believe it or not, there is a right way and a wrong way to move your bowel. The biggest problem, and the one most of us will face at some point in our lifetime is hemorrhoids. Why?
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The FDA has just issued new regulations to sun-screen labels, in hopes that it will further protect us from developing skin cancer. (1). What it will do is to reduce your UV light exposure. But, reducing your UV light exposure also means is less Vitamin D. But does it mean that you will be protected from skin cancer?
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