When your heart flutters it can be a scary experience. If any other organ has a glitch, we don’t worry near as much as when it is the heart. While not all heart flutters are serious, it’s important to know if it is the serious kind or not. First, we need to define the types […]
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Part I Symptoms can be simply annoying, downright life-changing, or anything in between. But symptoms aren’t there for no reason. As with most things in life, there is a reason and a purpose for symptoms. We typically ignore the annoying ones if they have been persistent for a while, or not altering our lifestyle –
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What is wrong with our mental health today? I find it distressing to see how many people are on psychotropic drugs, and how easily they are placed on them. We need to ask why this is so. If a person is not coping, why? If they have anxiety, why? If they are obsessive/compulsive or bi-polar,
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As in our homes, everyone is happy if the “plumbing” works right. Urinary difficulties can make life more than just annoying. It can be painful. Whether it is an issue of inconvenient leakage at just the wrong moments, kidney or bladder infections or the more painful clearance issue – gout, there is much that can
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Some of the factors that can increase your snoring are: Sleeping on your back Increasing body weight Alcohol consumption Tobacco consumption Eating heavy meals late in the evening Sleeping tablets or mood-altering drugs Before you launch into some of the more drastic snoring cures, your doctor will usually recommend “conservative” therapy; i.e. change your lifestyle.
If you are suffering from heartburn or Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease (“GERD” or “reflux”), or know of someone else who does, take heart – there are many things you can do to alleviate it. Some people say, “Well, I no longer suffer from it because I take medication. I don’t have any problems with it”. Well,
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Some people struggle their whole lives, trying to find a passion that they can do every working day of their life and call it their job. Few find it. Most go job to job, either just doing the job that needs to be done, or even enjoying it, but not finding passion in it. I
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Sugar harms your health in many ways. Most people know this, yet few control the intake of it. Worse yet, they are given to children in greater and greater quantities. An example is soda pop: more than a quarter of all drinks consumed in the United States are soda. More than 15 billion gallons were
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It is widely known and accepted that sugar contributes significantly to weight gain. There are quite a few other reasons why we get that belly that is so despised by over-weight individuals. Understanding some of the mechanisms behind sugar causing weight gain can help us in our control over it. The first and foremost is
There is a very strong correlation between stress and weight gain. Since we all have stress in our lives, how can we ever lose weight then? Understanding the mechanisms of how stress contributes to weight gain help us use some tools to help lessen the adverse effects of stress on our waistline. Stress is interpreted
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