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High Blood Pressure as one of the Leading Causes of Dementia

By Admin on Friday, May 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Some among us, the lucky ones, actually feel it when our blood pressure rises into hypertension territory. The body flutters, the heart pounds almost audibly, and we can’t wait to take the right medication to feel normal again. And then there are those who do have a high blood pressure health situation, but never actually [...]

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Take Care Of Yourself After Birth

By Admin on Sunday, May 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Having a baby is hard on the body no matter how in or out of shape you feel you are. Some women can bounce back rather quickly, but you should always give your body what it needs after birth so that you are fit and ready to go when you need to be. Your new [...]

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The End of Affordable Individual Health Insurance, as we Know It

By Admin on Sunday, May 16th, 2010 | No Comments

The changes are harly trivial. Health insurance policyholders in a handful of states across the country have been receiving notifications from their insurance companies that they can expect to pay perhaps 15% more on their policies, for the same service. One health insurance company in Maine, Anthem Blue Cross is jacking up its rates nearly [...]

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The Perils of Youth Substance Abuse

By Admin on Thursday, May 13th, 2010 | No Comments

The launch of the educational program D.A.R.E., or Drug Abuse Resistance Education, was the structured acknowledgement of a growing youth substance abuse problem in America. As the days of free love and experimentation faded into the background, the reality of drug abuse in the United States hit our communities head on, as the Woodstock generation [...]

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Will Buying Insurance from other Companies Help us get More Affordable Health Insurance

By Admin on Thursday, May 13th, 2010 | No Comments

So the Republicans have successfully put the kibosh on the health care plan. Not that they don’t have any ideas of their own; whatever health care plan comes to pass, it is sure to have a lot of Republican inputs to it. One of their important suggestions in the whole debacle, is the idea that [...]

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If someone sticking pins in your body isn’t your idea of a cure, try Shiatsu

By Admin on Monday, May 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Acupuncture is an ancient form of physical treatment and therapy with an impressive record of success. It’s origin is in the orient, based on the theory that the body is organized by an energetic system which, having no observable pathways available to empirical study, yet manifests itself in countless examples of cures of diverse diseases [...]

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Why Study Abnormal Psychology?

By Admin on Thursday, April 29th, 2010 | No Comments

I majored in psychology when I was in college and took a number of courses in the subject, but the one that always stands out to me the most, and the one that has best served me over the years, was Abnormal Psychology. It was a class devoted specifically to the study of psychological disorders [...]

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Zinc Nutrition for an Ear Infection – Fact or Fiction?

By Admin on Monday, April 26th, 2010 | No Comments

An ear infection can be very painful; it affects the middle year, the space between the ear drum and the inner ear in children, and it can be very common. You just need to type in “ear infection” into Google, to be inundated with information about dozens of home remedies and unlikely-sounding supplements and examples [...]

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If You Are Experiencing Abdominal Pain…

By Admin on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

If you’re experiencing abdominal pain, there’s a good chance that you need to see a doctor in order to get yourself straightened out. Abdominal pain can be an indicator of any number of maladies, from the benign (overeating) to the malignant (stomach cancer). The key in determining what is causing your abdominal pain is to [...]

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Craving Sweets But You’re On A Diet!

By Admin on Monday, April 19th, 2010 | No Comments

If you’re craving sweets, it’s nothing to be worried about. It’s simply your body acting in a way it’s evolved to do over the millennia. Your body knows what it needs to survive – calories – and it knows that sweet foods tend to pack in the calories. So craving sweets is just a function [...]

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