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7 Healthy Heart Tips for 2.5 Billion Beats
Since February is known as Heart Awareness Month, I thought we could review the key lifestyle habits for a healthy heart. After all, most experts say that the heart can beat between 1 and 2.5 billion beats per lifetime. So,...
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The Hypothyroidism Diet: Do Small Changes Help?
Yes, it is true--there are specific foods that can affect how well your thyroid functions if you have hypothyroidism. Those who have hypothyroidism may fight a constant battle with weight because the metabolism is not running as fast. Luckily, there...
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Prevent Cold and Flu with a Healthy Diet
As many of us approach the cold months of the year, flu season begins to peak. I fair pretty well most years and seem to avoid a lot of sick days. It got me wondering if diet has anything to...
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Reducing Cholesterol by Eating the Right Foods
Those who are both overweight and a normal healthy weight may suffer from high cholesterol. Sometimes high cholesterol is purely genetic and is hard to modify by changing diet and exercise. Others may find that a change in diet and...
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Health Risks for Skinny People?
We have been told over and over that being overweight is unhealthy. But, we never hear about the unhealthy aspects of being thin. Are there risks of being too thin?...
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6 Easy Ways to Reduce Colon Cancer Risk
Colorectal cancer kills 950 Americans, 320 Brits, 73 Australians, 175 Canadians and 24 Kiwis on average each week. An ongoing project that has analyzed and compiled the data from 749 scientific papers to date, has established 6 ways people can...
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Restrictive Diet May Significantly Help ADHD
A study published in The Lancet has shown a restrictive diet may be helpful in reducing symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in young children....
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Obese People Don't See Themselves as Fat
Many obese people don't see themselves as fat and in fact, they think they're healthy - or so says a new study. Talk about being a "glass is half full" type of person. I wish I was like that!...
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How Soft Drinks Can Impact Your Health
If you can't quite imagine your day without a soda or two, it's definitely time to think again. Unless, that is, you don't care much about your body, and the long-term effects soft drinks can have on your well-being....
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How You Can Use Exercise to Reduce Acid Reflux
If you've suffered from chronic heartburn, you probably already know that exercise can be a trigger. But, avoiding exercise to prevent heartburn symptoms isn't in anyone's best interest. Exercise isn't just important to cardiovascular health, it can also help...
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What Does Your Poo Say About You?
Yes, you read the title correctly. This post is about what everyone does and what few people like to talk about. In case you didn't know, the color of feces can tell a lot about the health of the...
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Brittle Bones: Is Extreme Dieting to Blame?
It's been a couple of years now since I felt the need to vent about the stupidity of Gwyneth Paltrow's fad diets. Well, it looks like her dieting practices may have caught up to her as she was recently...
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10 Foods That Make You Fart
The Miami New Times recently published a list of the top 10 foods that produce the most gas. While many try to hide it, farting is a fact of life and we've all been busted one time or another...
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Diet Advice From The World's Oldest Man
At 113 years of age, Walter Breuning has seen a lot (and I mean A LOT) of fad diets come and go. So what's the dietary secret to his longevity? Eating less... yup, that's pretty much it! Breuning was...
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IBS: Soluble Fiber May Be Best Treatment
Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) should be eating a diet rich in soluble fiber, a new study suggests. A small Dutch study of 275 patients, aged 18-65, and published in the British Medical Journal, has highlighted questions about...
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Diet For Healthy Skin
Bob Moawad once said, "Quality begins on the inside, and then works its way out." I think this is very profound, and not only true of how you are as a person, but can also be said of your...
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Does Your Toddler Have an Eating Disorder?
I was completely shocked and horrified when I came across an article recently in BBC News, stating some parents are attributing their children's dietary foibles to an eating disorder, rather than simply bad behavior. In the interview, Dr Su...
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NutriSystem D: Significant Weight Loss For Diabetics
NutriSystem have announced results of a small study carried out by the Temple University that suggests people with diabetes could lose up to 16 times more weight if they follow the NutriSystem D....
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4 Simple Changes To Help Prevent Cancer
Cancer experts have found that healthier living could cut out a third of instances of the most common cancers in the developed world, and a quarter in the developing world....
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Arthritis Treatments: What Works, what Doesn't
The cause of arthritis remains a mystery and a cure is equally elusive, but the impact on its sufferers is ever-present. A systematic review of alternative arthritis treatments was conducted through the Arthritis Research Campaign to determine the effectiveness...
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