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Recognizing Depression as a Senior Health Issue
For some ageing gracefully can be a breeze. For many others however, it can also be a challenging aspect of life. Growing old does not only mean having to face so many social changes in life. It also means having to address one senior health issue to another. Biologically speaking, ageing organs and bodily functions is part of growing old. Aside from physical ailments that can trouble seniors, one senior health issue that deserves a lot of attention is mental health.
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Getting Acquainted with Health Plus Colon Cleanse
With so many modern diseases and illnesses these days, people are becoming aware of the importance of keeping the body’s internal organs in top shape. Although all organs have important functions in our bodies, one crucial organ deserves special attention— the colon. “Why is that?” you ask. This is because the colon is supposed to be the body’s number one way of eliminating waste and toxins.
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Eating Emotionally Equals Obesity
Anyone can be an emotional eater. After a failed marriage, one woman found she had gained 60 pounds. Yes, some could be linked to the medicine she was on, but a great deal was associated with emotional eating. Experts have started paying more attention to emotional eating in both sexes. They even go so far as to suggest in Women Today that most gains in weight are linked to emotional eating because 75% of overindulging is connected to stuffing the emotions.
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Staying Healthy Through Physical Conditioning
Our bodies are naturally designed for work. At one time our survival depended both on an ability to escape from danger and a capacity for hard work. Physical conditioning was the natural result of such a life. But modern conveniences have dramatically changed the way we use our bodies. Instead of working in the fields or chasing down dinner, many of us spend all day at a desk and our evenings in front of a television set.
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Protect Your Ears From Hearing Loss
Even though age-related hearing loss generally begins in a person's fifties, it may happen sooner if hearing loss runs in your family or you've been exposed to excessively loud noises. Noisy places are some of the most likely settings for age-related hearing loss. High-pitched conversation noise and rattling dishes will steal the words of your companions, and distractions may make it difficult for you to rely on a defense mechanism you may not even realize that you've been using: lipreading.
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Massage: A 5,000 Year-Old Healing Art
Massage has been around for at least 5,000 years. Just about every other culture practiced some form of body manipulation to ease pain and prevent or cure illness. Long before aspirin and heating pads were available, people have treated their sore bodies with a massage. When a caveman twisted one of his knees, he rubbed it. When an Egyptian princess had pain in her temples, she rubbed them. Massage is probably the most natural of natural remedies, and it can also be a powerful healer.
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Lead Poisoning: A Health Threat That Could Be Hurting You & Your Loved Ones
While adults can generally tolerate the low levels of lead that may be present in our homes, top officials in our federal government are now calling lead poisoning the nation's primary environmental threat to children. According to the EPA, one out of nine children under age six has enough lead in his blood for it to be a health problem.
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How Indoor Air Pollution May Be A Health-Risk For You & Your Family
Indoor air pollutants are not easy to deal with, but we can begin our rundown of household toxics with them, because they pose the greatest hazards to health. If your home contains one of these pollutants, changing anything else won't make much difference, because these override everything both in their degree of harm and their quantity of exposure.
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Fasting For Health: Could This Practice Actually Be Dangerous?
Fasting involves restricting your dietary intake to a liquid. The liquid may be water, tea, or fruit juice. Proponents of fasting recommend occasional regular short fasts, lasting two to five days, as part of a general health-maintenance regimen. Advocates recommend that longer fasts for health maintenance or the healing of illness, lasting a month or more, be conducted under medical supervision.
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Did You Know That Most Shampoos Are Bad For Your Health?
We use shampoo just about everyday. You would think that this product would be tested for safety according to regulations. Unfortunately, it is not. Dandruff shampoos are the most dangerous of all hair-care products because they contain highly toxic medications to prevent the scalp from peeling.
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Are Your Walls Making You Sick? Read This Lesson On Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde is a common chemical found in numerous household products, including adhesives, cosmetics, deodorants, detergents, fertilizers, paints, plastics, and textiles. It has been found to cause cancer in laboratory animals and also suspected to be human carcinogen.
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2 Questions You May Want To Ask Yourself For Better Health: You'll Be Shocked!
1. Do modern concrete structures present a hazard to our health? Some people notice traces of rheumatism and neuralgia after only a few weeks, or an increase in stiffness of the limbs or in the neck. Even depression may set in, although unknown before. If shortly after moving into a concrete structure, you notice these or other disturbances, you should experiment by spending a holiday with friends or relatives who live in a wooden or brick building. If your symptoms disappear while you are staying there, it would be reasonable in the interests of health to exchange the concrete structure, despite its modern conveniences, for a healthier dwelling place.
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Body fluid level is an important component of keeping it in top condition for best performance. As a person exercises, the internal body temperature rises. That triggers the body to release internal fluid to the outside through millions of sweat glands and via heightened respiration. As the high temperature sweat evaporates off the skin, it takes heat with it, cooling the body down again.
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Exercise throughout the entire nine months is healthy for most women - provided they exercise (pun intended) the proper caution. Mild exercise, of types appropriate to the various stages, will help keep the circulatory system healthy, increase pelvic muscle tone and strength, and help to smooth out mood swings. Done right, you can lessen the severity of backaches, keep joints flexible and firm, and improve sleep.
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Many factors contribute to the onset of diabetes, including genetic predisposition and diet. But exercise can help reduce the odds of getting and the severity of this disease. Diabetes comes in two types, Type I and Type II. In either case, the body has difficulty regulating the level of blood glucose. Glucose is the primary source of energy for the body's activities.
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Proper weight management is about much more than simply focusing on a single number, your weight. There are other, very important, objective measurements to add to your intellectual toolkit - BMI, waist circumference, body fat percentage, muscle-to-fat ratio and others - in order to achieve a physical result.
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The Impact of High Legal Costs on Healthcare
Spending money on legal fees is a part of our society, especially in the healthcare industry. There is a time and place for the legal system in healthcare, but more and more we unfortunately see instances where legal fees are unnecessary or high, resulting in a significant impact on doctors and nurses and the services provided to patients.
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How to Cut the Cost of Your Healthcare
With the cost of health care rising four times over the rate of inflation and more and more employers placing the burden for health care on their employees and retires, American's are finding it harder to maintain coverage. By investing a little of your time you can cut the cost of your healthcare.
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Tips For Healthcare Savings - What Every Person Should Know
Are you interested in saving on your health care needs? Do you occasionally need a prescription drug, only to have to do without because you can't afford it? How many times, just this year alone, have you looked at your smile wishing you could go to the dentist?
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How to Find Kids Affordable Health Insurance
Unless we are eligible for an excellent employer-sponsored group health insurance package, health insurance can sometimes be anything but affordable. When this is the case, many of us opt not to purchase health insurance for ourselves. We rationalize not purchasing health insurance by telling ourselves there are mouths to feed, bodies to clothe, and other bills to be paid.
