Maintaining Physical Fitness
Fitness August 28, 2013
Lack of Exercise
Fitness August 12, 2013
“Honest” Coke Ad Blasts Company’s Products
The Truth February 25, 2013
The video goes on to list a variety of diseases and health problems associated with drinking Coke’s “low and no-calorie” products – kidney damage, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and rotting teeth. Then it blasts its regular products as containing “extremely high and unhealthy amounts of calories.”
Read moreMy First Client’s First Healing Touch
HealthNick Lakoff November 6, 2012
Years ago when I was still a massage student, I had an evening job as a security guard that allowed me, between performing my duties, to read and study. I worked in an office building whose major tenant was a local child protection services office. One of the areas …
Read moreThe Complete Cost of Obesity
Kimberly Allen R.N. September 27, 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is currently the fifth leading cause of death worldwide with approximately 3 million adults die every year due to over weight and obesity. The WHO also estimates …
Read moreBeing Overweight Ticking You Off?
Diet July 23, 2012
Osteoarthritis
Medical June 15, 2012
Of the more than 100 different types of arthritis osteoarthritis (OA) is the most commonly diagnosed form and unlike other forms of arthritis that are systemic OA is a disease that affects only the joints. Osteoarthritis occurs when the cartilage that cushions our joints becomes damaged or “worn out”. ..
Read moreAs a volunteer working with the very poor I frequently encounter other volunteers and missionaries that have come to offer their help. One day a missionary asked me, as a nurse, why the women were so heavy. He said that it’s difficult to find sponsors to help families when they see pictures of adorable small children with their over weight mothers standing behind them…
Read moreMagic pills, the FDA and curing the common obesity
The Truth February 23, 2012
Wednesday’s FDA advisory panel decision to recommend the weight loss drug Qnexa for approval sounds like good news to many Americans who battle obesity, an epidemic that has now taken 35 percent of us and adds billions of dollars to our overburdened health care system. Weight loss drugs have been one of the Holy Grails of the pharmaceutical industry for years – the idea that if a perfect drug can be made to magically loose weight, profits would be heavenly…
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