1. Your thyroid problem and breast cancer risks
by Mitamins Team
The links between thyroid problems and cancer have been known about for some time. As a gland linked to the immune system, the thyroid is often affected when other parts of the body are under attack. The most recent research explores the specific links between thyroid problems and breast cancer in a systematic way, bringing out ways in which the two diseases could be connected. F ...more...
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2. Senior Health
by Senior Fitness.com
Are you looking for a great resource for anyone who wants to learn how maintain their senior health throughout advanced age? Apart from our great diet information, we have exercise plans on our website to help you lose weight, get fit, improve your circulation and cardio function, or to build muscle! That’s right, we can even help you have the great body you want whether you are fifty or ...more...
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3. De-mystifying a Mysterious Disease Called Lupus
by Mitamins Team
Though many people have not even heard of Lupus, it is common - more common than some well-known diseases such as multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and leukemia. But because not much is known about the disease, treatment of lupus is made more difficult. What is lupus, exactly?
Diagnosis and treatment of lupu ...more...
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4. Neuropathy Treatment
by Kevin Stith
Addressing the root cause of neuropathy, such as diabetes or alcoholism, is the focus of neuropathy treatment. Physical exercises and training is also helpful to provide stability and power to muscles. Aids such as wheelchairs and splints can be used for mobility in the case of a paralyzed leg or arm.Patients must be careful not to damage parts of the body numbed by their neuropathy. ...more...
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5. The Root of the Problem: Dealing with Causes of High Blood Press...
by Mitamins Team
Are you someone who has been diagnosed with high blood pressure? If so, you undoubtedly want to lower your high blood pressure through high blood pressure treatments. But there are many situations which will naturally push your “buttons,” potentially leading to an increase in high blood pressure symptoms. At those times, you need to be able to choose an immediate treatment of hig ...more...
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6. Psoriasis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
by Juliet Cohen
Psoriasis is believed to be an immune-mediated disease. Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin condition. Between 10% and 30% of people who develop psoriasis get a related form of arthritis called “psoriatic arthritis,” which causes inflammation of the joints. Females develop plaque psoriasis earlier than males. Psoriasis usually occurs in adults. It is affected around 2% of the population in the UK. ...more...
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7. Hemorrhoids - Symptoms, Causes and Treatment Options
by Aquila_grande@yahoo.no
By hemorrhoids the veins in or around the anus, or in the lower rectum are swollen and often also inflamed. Hemorrhoids inside the rectum are called internal hemorrhoids, and those in the anal area external ones. Studies have shown that 1 out of 3 persons below the age of 50 will suffer from hemorrhoids. 1 out of 2 persons over the age of 50 is affected by this condition.
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8. How to Cure Constipation and Hemorrhoids
by Knut Holt
By constipation hard stool assembles in the lower colon or rectum without coming out in due time. This causes the stomach region to engorge, causes diffuse discomfort and sometimes sharp pain. When the hard stool eventually pass out it can overstretch the tissue in the anal region and tear up the mucosa and skin in this area.
Hemorrhoids are dilated veins in the anal area. They of ...more...
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9. Top 5 Diabetes Diet Tips for Creating Healthy Meal Plan
by Nishanth Reddy
Diet plays a key role in controlling your blood sugar. A healthy-eating plan tailored to your needs will do that and more. Majority of people affected with diabetes are overweight or obese. In fact, your risk of getting diabetes increases the more weight you put on.
So controlling your diet can be the key to reducing the risk of diabetes as well as improving your symptoms if you are a ...more...
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10. Help! Is There a Cure for My Heart Disease?
by Jim Lee
Q: I just found out I am suffering from high cholesterol symptoms. The doctor said I’m at high risk from heart attack if I don’t do something to lower cholesterol. He said I might need a stent or bypass surgery. I’m scheduled for an angiogram tomorrow. I feel like I’m in shock. I have a history of heart disease in my family, but I’m too young for this to be happening. Of co ...more...
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11. New Insight-Transformation of Migraines Causes Fibromyalgia
by J. Wes Tanner, MD
Migraines are thought of as normal neurological functions interspersed with episodes of headaches. At least 20% of migraineurs meeting the International Headache Society criteria have changed the pattern from episodes of migraine into patterns of chronic headache. Chronic headache often does not return to normal neurological function. This evolving process from episodic headache to ch ...more...
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12. Attacking High Cholesterol without Medication
by Jim Lee
Are you suffering from high cholesterol? Do you long for a way to lower cholesterol without medication? Are you certain that there must be a natural remedy for high cholesterol that doesn’t involve a trip to your local pharmacist? Many people who have high cholesterol (blood cholesterol over ...more...
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13. Lupus Disease A Devastating Diagnosis, and Many Choices
by Mitamins Team
Being told your skin rashes are lupus disease is one of the most devastating diagnosis a person can receive, as there is no known cure. But there are many treatments that give relief from lupus symptoms and research is promising a better future…
Lupus Disease: Real Disease, Real Consequences
The reality is that lupus disease is sometimes fata ...more...
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14. Anemia Treatment Keep it Simple and Safe
by Mitamins Team
Anemia comes from Greek, literally meaning “without blood.” This is a pretty good description. Although people suffering from anemia have the same volume of liquid pumping around their bodies as non-anemic people, the thing that makes blood what it is is lacking: hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein contained in red-blood cells that gives blood its color and, more importantly, h ...more...
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15. Essential Acne Control: Tips on Causes and Treatment
by Mitamins Team
The skin is the largest organ of the human body, but it is often the first ignored when it comes to health. When your skin is mistreated, it may very well mistreat you through acne breakouts. However not everyone who suffers breakouts is to blame, as acne can strike anyone, and most often appears on the face, neck and back. When trying to find an acne control, it’s best to know w ...more...
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16. Celiac Disease: Gluten-Free Dining Out
by Barbara L. Norris
Dining out, for a person with celiac disease (CD), can be a bit like navigating through a minefield. Seemingly harmless substances, commonly found in food, cause an autoimmune reaction in persons with CD. The result is damage to the small intestine. The culprit is gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. In order to enjoy a satisfying meal that does no harm, a person with CD must have a ...more...
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17. Diabetes, The Fact, The Fiction
by Jeffrey Solochek
We grow up hearing so many wives tales that sometimes we have no idea what to believe is true and what is false. Like I had always heard that if you give yourself an injection and there is air in the syringe that you could kill yourself because you would be causing a jump in your heartbeat. Is this Fact or has this been stretched a wee bit beyond to the point of fiction?
I was first diagno ...more...
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18. New Help for Menstrual Migraines
by J. Wes Tanner, MD
Women are three times more likely to have migraines than men. This differential does not begin until the females reach puberty. Sixty per cent of women have migraines related to the menstrual cycle. About fourteen per cent have migraines purely coordinated with menses. Could menstrually related migraines be solely linked to estrogen? That would be like saying migraines are only head ...more...
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19. Red Yeast Rice: Nature’s Weapon Against High Cholesterol
by Jim Lee
There’s a miracle product that grows on rice grains and, when combined with a healthy diet and exercise program, is especially potent against high cholesterol symptoms.
What’s this superhero’s name? It’s called “red yeast rice”, and if you have been diagnosed with high cholesterol (or even jus ...more...
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20. Treatment for Ringworm
by Cathy Foster
The pets particularly dogs are frequently infected by the common disease called ringworm. ‘Ringworm’ may sound like a sort of worm but it is a fungus indeed known as Dermatophyte, which grows well on the surface of dead skin tissues and spreads the infection by taking up a circular course.
Our pets get infected with ringworm from the near by kennels, rodent burrows or from other infe ...more...
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21. Diabetes Mellitus and Carbohydrate Effects on Metabolism
by Steve Madigan
Diabetes Mellitus is a serious and potentially life threatening disease that will affect thousands of Americans. The quality of life of many people are threatened by the side affects of this disease, some are blindness, circulatory disorders, nerve damage, and ulcerations of the skin. Understanding Carbohydrate Metabolism is a Step in Controlling Diabetes Mellitus Carbohydrates are ...more...
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22. Helpful Quit Smoking Tips
by Micah Wells
LIKE learning to play an instrument or ride a bicycle, giving up tobacco is rarely accomplished the first time you try. So if you are determined to quit, you should be prepared to make repeated attempts until you are successful.
Helpful quit smoking tips
Do not view a relapse as a defeat. Think of it as a learning experience, a small setback in what can be a succe ...more...
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23. Alzheimers - The Facts
by David McFarlane
Someone in your family has Alzheimers disease, and you’ve been gathering info on Alzheimers disease to try to help you make decisions about what to do next, but everything you find is so scientific and complicated. What can you tell your kids to make them understand why their grandfather or uncle doesn’t recognize them anymore? The info on Alzheimers disease below is aimed at children ...more...
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24. Atherosclerosis – Symptoms, Causes, prevention and Treatment
by Knut Holt
By atherosclerosis the inside of the arteries are thickened, hardened and stiffened, causing the space for blood flow to be narrowed or closed. This will decrease the oxygen supply to local or distant tissues. The primary symptom of this is pain, poor organ function and bad general condition. The further consequences are tissue damage, sometimes acute damage by stop of blood flo ...more...
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25. Right background information about the the HDL cholesterol (the ...
by Patrick Beaufay
Cholesterol is insoluble in the vasculary system, but is removed in the circulatory system is subordinated to one of the types of lipoprotein, spherical particles which have an exterior formed mainly of water-soluble proteins.
Cholesterol
Cholesterol is also found in the blood circulation of humans. CholesterolDr Trisha MacnairCholesterol is vital for our bodies to work, so why ar ...more...
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26. Hypoparathyroidism - Definition, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
by Juliet Cohen
Hypoparthyroidism is a deficiency of parathyroid hormone that causes abnormal metabolism of calcium and phosphorus. Underactive parathyroid glands produce too little parathyroid hormones, which in turn causes low levels of calcium in the blood stream. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) works in conjunction with vitamin D to regulate total body calcium. The body secretes PTH in response to hypocalcemia or h ...more...
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27. Alternative Pain Management Therapy
by Bobby Walker
Chronic pain can have both psychological and physical effects on a person. Research has shown that anxiety and depression are not responses, but consequences to long term pain. Millions of people live with this disorder on a daily basis.
With all the side effects of prescription drugs, many Americans are seeking natural alternatives for their pain management, particularly joint pain. Rec ...more...
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28. Struggling to Lose Weight? Could PCOS be to Blame?
by Amanda McNeill
Excessive weight around the waist and stubborn pounds that won’t budge with diet and exercise may be caused by an undiagnosed medical condition, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome or PCOS.
PCOS is the most common endocrine disorder among females, affecting anywhere from 5-10 percent of pre-menopausal women. PCOS wreaks havoc on hormones: excessive amounts of insulin stimulate the ovaries to prod ...more...
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29. Pain in fibromyalgia is linked to changes in brain molecule
by Katie Vloet
University of Michigan Health System - Discovery could be useful to researchers looking for new drugs that treat fibromyalgia
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a key linkage between pain and a specific brain molecule, a discovery that lends new insight into fibromyalgia, an often-baffling chronic pain condition.
In patient ...more...
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30. How to Recognize a Sign of Prostate Cancer
by Arturo Ronzon
Many men don't realize how important prostate health is until it is too late. Most men don?t even want to admit they have a prostate, let alone have a regular prostate exam. This is so important because prostate cancer is a risk that you don't want to take and when you see your doctor regularly for prostate exams, you are ensuring that if you should contract prostate cancer you will be treated a ...more...
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31. IS THERE AN ALTERNATIVE TO LIVER BIOPSY? A FOLLOW-UP ON OUR LAS...
by Jack Bloom
Alternative to Liver Biopsy? 1
Dear Readers of www.hepatitisc-remedy.com and more...
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32. Acupuncture Arthritis Knee Ankle Pain Can Heal
by Dean Iggo
There are many different treatments for arthritis. If you are interested in trying some alternative forms of therapy, try acupuncture arthritis knee ankle pain. Acupuncture can be a very effective method of treatment for all forms of arthritis pain, including rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. It has been shown by scientific studies to be particularly effective when it comes to knee and ...more...
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33. Bladder Infections
by Susun Weed
“If you let that fiery wise blood just sit there in your belly, great granddaughter,” admonishes Grandmother Growth, “you'll get the urge to quench that heat. You'll get a tickle, a twinge, an urgent call. But you won't have the moisture you need. It's boiled away. It's gone up in steam.
“So I'll say it once more: circulate your wise blood, granddaughter. Spiral it around and up to y ...more...
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34. Migraines Play Havoc with Emotions-or Is It the Other Way Around...
by J. Wes Tanner, MD
Migraines play havoc with emotions. Migraines are disabling in many ways, but none is worse than feeling like you are an emotional cripple. If migraines are mild, the impairment is mild. Upon reaching the state of transformed migraine (a condition of more unrelenting migraines) a migraineur, one who has migraines, feels as if someone used dynamite on his emotions. If this has happene ...more...
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35. Pieces coming together in Parkinson's, cholesterol puzzle
by Patric Lane
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -
CHAPEL HILL - In 2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers published a study that found people with low levels of LDL cholesterol are more likely to have Parkinson's disease than people with high LDL levels.
But that study could not answer the question of whether low LDL (low-density lipoprotein) levels were p ...more...
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36. Hypertension - causes, prevention and treatment
by Knut Holt
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a persistent blood pressure above 90 mm Hg between the heart beats (diastolic) or over 140 mm Hg at the beats (systolic). The blood pressure varies naturally in response to stress and physical work load. Therefore the blood pressure shall be measured in a relaxed situation and several times before this diagnosis is certain.
Hypertension do ...more...
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37. Open Back Surgery vs. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
by Robert Langard
How is an open discectomy performed? An open discectomy is performed under general anesthesia. The procedure takes about an hour or so, depending on the extent of the disc herniation, the size of the patient, and other factors. A discectomy is done with the patient lying face down, and the back pointing upwards. In order to remove the fragment of herniated disc, your surgeon will make ...more...
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38. The Secret "Mineral Weapon" in Natural Asthma Treatment
by Mitamins Team
As cases of asthma have been on the rise, so too have searches for new asthma treatments. Some experts say that rather than by medicating, it is best to control asthma through diet and exercise. Is medication necessary? Perhaps a natural asthma treatment, along with lifestyle changes, is the answer.
3-Step Asthma Treatment
Asthma attacks happen when ...more...
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39. 12 Reasons to Add Supplements to a Healthy Diabetic Diet
by Robert Tracy
12 Reasons to Add Supplements to a Healthy Diabetic Diet
Prevent the “Top 12 failures” that keep you from getting 100% out of your diabetic diet – failures that aren’t your fault.
In this article you’ll find out how diabetics can win the “defeat diabetes” game through supplements. You’ll see how Supermarket foods (both processed and fresh) are failing the nutrition test and how to ...more...
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40. What You Can Do When Your Feet Catch Fire, Part II
by John Young
Copyright 2006 John Young
In Part I of this series, Pete had discovered he had Peripheral Neuropathy, nerve damage in his feet, over a year ago. His doctor prescribed Neurontin?, and for awhile it worked. But the condition was progressive, and the pain increased. It seemed the drug was having an increasingly difficult time handling it.
Pete wasn?t satisfied that his condition had no ...more...
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41. Herbal Hemorrhoids Medication
by Todd Springer
Hemorrhoids or piles come in two very distinct forms; internal and external. Most people who suffer from hemorrhoids will experience a combination of both forms. In both cases it is easiest to think of a hemorrhoid as a varicose vein of the anal region. Internal hemorrhoids lie inside the anus, whilst external have tend to protrude outside of the anus.
When considering an herbal ...more...
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42. What To Do If You Have The Metabolic Syndrome?
by Ng Peng Hock
Though it is still not very clear what causes the metabolic syndrome, it seems that overweight does play a very important role. The syndrome is clearly more commonly found in those people who are overweight than in those who are not. Even if one has the metabolic syndrome, he or she should not worry too much. Why?
The reason is fairly simple: not everyone with the syndrome will certainly d ...more...
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43. Know The First Sign Of Lung Cancer?
by todd lloyd
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Lung cancer is the leading cancer that kills both men and women with more
than 173,000 new cases each year and more t ...more...
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44. A SUPER-FOOD THAT JUST COULD BE A 'CURE-ALL' - POMEGRANATES
by Darlene Siddons
Current studies have shown that pomegranates can help protect the heart and fight hardening of the arteries. One glass of pomegranate juice can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. It is known to have the highest antioxidant capacity compared to other juices like blueberry, cranberry, orange, red wine and green tea, which protects the body from free radicals. This leads us to its use in sl ...more...
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45. Diabetes Discussion - 7 Diabetic Foot Care Tips
by Carol Ann Bentley
If you have diabetes, information about how to manage your condition is vital to your well being. If you don't look after your feet you run the risk of developing sores or infections that could, in the worst case scenario, lead to amputations. As happened to my father-in-law. Reduce your risk of infection or amputation by incorporating these 7 foot care tips... 1) Check y ...more...
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46. Detailed Information on Lung Cancer
by Juliet Cohen
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. It is responsible for 1.3 million deaths worldwide annually. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, among both men and women. An estimated 173,700 new cases of lung cancer and an estimated 160,440 deaths from lung cancer will occur in the United States. It claims more lives each year than colon, prostate, ...more...
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47. Diabetic Neuropathy - Taking Care of This Pain in Your Foot
by aron wallad
When I went to have my diabetes neuropathy taken care of by an acupuncturist the diagnosis I received changed my thinking about my condition. The path I have chosen seems to be working in my favor. Thank goodness I have found a better way to relieve my pain. More about that a little later.
Do you have diabetes neuropathy?
If you have diabetes there is a good chance you will develo ...more...
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48. Therapy For Graves Disease
by Juliet Cohen
Graves disease is an autoimmune disorder that involves overactivity of the thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism). It occurs when your immune system mistakenly attacks your thyroid gland and causes it to overproduce the hormone thyroxine. he other causes of thyroid hormone excess are described in other sections of this book. Excess thyroid hormone causes a widespread disturbance in metabolism, since thyr ...more...
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49. Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Fibromyalgia Treatment
by Leela Fraser
Over 10 Million Women Affected with Fibromyalgia in the USA Is this a Fact or is it “All in the Head?” With over 10 million women affected with Fibromyalgia Syndrome in the prime of their life many suffer and struggle from FMS for years before being correctly diagnosed. This debilitating disease affects women and men in an approximate ratio of 20:1. The problem begins between 20 – ...more...
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50. Homeopathic Remedies For Asthma
by Ricky Lim
Today there are a large number of homeopathic remedies for asthma available but should only be used with the guidance of a person who has the experience and knowledge regarding homeopathic medicine and treatments.
Certainly when the right kinds of treatments are chosen a person will find that they can help to relieve the stress that they are feeling when an asthma attack occurs. However if ...more...
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