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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - The importance of lymphedema medical alert bracelets -
- Lymphedema is an accumulation of lymphatic fluid in the interstitial tissue that causes swelling, mostly in the arms and legs. It develops when lymphatic vessels are missing or impaired (primary), or when lymph vessels are damaged or lymph nodes removed (secondary). When the lympathic fluid exceeds the lymphatic transport capacity, an abnormal amount of protein-rich fluid collects in the tissues o...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - The importance of clean water
- Consider the importance of water. Did you know that water accounts for over 70% of your body? We are comprised mostly of water. And further more, our blood mineral content is strikingly similar to salt water.
A healthy water intake can help us in many ways.
- You can think better. A fully hydrated brain actually works better.
- Strength increases. Did y...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - The crucial role of the salt in our health
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Salt is vital for our health. Right now, you have around 250 gr. of salt - about a cupful - working for keeping you alive. Without enough of it, muscles won't contract, blood won't circulate, food won't digest, and the heart won't beat.
Salt, the sodium chloride, is an essential part of the diet of humans and animals and is a part of our fluids, such as blood, sweat,...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - The cost of liposuction procedures -
- The price of liposuction will vary from state to state and from physician to physician. Although cost is surely a crucial factor in determining whether or not to have the surgery performed, several steps should be taken prior to obtaining a price quote from a surgeon. As a general estimate, last year, liposuction costs ranged from $1,000 - $10,000. Prices can vary largely depending on how much fat...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - The cause of aids
- AIDS is acquired immuno deficiency syndrome. It is a
fatal disease caused by a rapidly mutate retrovirus
which attacks the immune system and leaves the
patient susceptible to infections, malignancies, and
neurological disorders. It was first recognized as a
disease in 1981. The virus was isolated in 1983 and
was ultimately named the human immunodeficiency...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - The bird flu and you
- There is more news about the Avian Bird Flu (H5N1), and some of it may be frightful sounding. Even President Bush finally addressed the issue in a recent speech. He mentioned that the US Military might be called in to help enforce a possible quarantine of those afflicted, since there is no vaccine for it.
This obviously is a worse case scenario, but it does bring to light how much i...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - The best way to avoid the dangers of bird flu (avian)
- Look After Your Health.
The threat of a Bird Flu Pandemic.
The threat to the world from Bird Flu is more serious now,
than it was when I wrote my first article on the subject in
May, 2005. entitled "Will Avian Flu Become Pandemic"
since then it has spread to numerous other countries,
but thankfully at this stage it has not, as yet, mutated to a
stra...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - The advantages of hormone therapy to menopause women
- Menopause is a change that any woman would undergo whether she likes it or not. A woman can be considered menopause when her period ceases. There are changes that occur in the woman's body during menopause, like lesser production of hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Women are considered menopause when their menstruation stops for a period of 12 months in a row, the usual age for women to me...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Take care of your kidneys
- Although we tend to take our kidneys for granted, these important organs deserve a little consideration now and then. Often, we don't pay much attention to them until there is a problem. When a kidney malfunctions, you will definitely know it. We've all heard tales of excruciating kidney stones or a painful kidney infection, which, if left untreated, can turn into sepsis that pervades the body and...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Surviving flu pandemics - questions to ask - answers to know
- The urgency and reality of a flu pandemic has certainly been explained to us through media, government and our own medical establishment. Is the Avian Flu threat a ?real? threat? No one really knows. Many say that it is just hype and maybe so. But it's always wise to have a plan and to be prepared, no matter what. And it may not be very wise to take a gamble with health by throwing caution to the ...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Stuttering info
- Stuttering is a problem that affects approximately one in every hundred people. It is mainly men who stutter, seven out of ten people who stutter are male.
There are many types of stutter. Family and friends may not even be aware that a person they know has a stutter. That is because the person is able to hide the stutter, by using word avoidance or word substitution.
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Stuttering in toddlers
- Some parents have the shock of hearing their young child start to stutter as a toddler. I am somebody who runs a speech centre in Birmingham, England, I now help people to achieve fluency.
I met a lady who was thirty and her little boy aged four had been stuttering for quite a while. She had taken him to speech therapy and was extremely anxious as to why he was stuttering. It had po...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Stutter help
- Stutter or stuttering can have a dramatic effect on somebodys confidence.
Fluent people really can not comprehend how hard it is to live your life with a speech impediment or stutter.
I run one to one speech courses in Birmingham and one of my clients once told me about a situation he was involved in. He and his friends went to a bar one Saturday afternoon to have a f...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Stammering treatments
- The five day speech course for stuttering/stammering.
The first two days of the course are used to learn all of the rules of fluent speech.
The first day is the most important day. This is the ?clients? easy day as I do most of the talking, explaining in detail around half of the speech rules. I ask the client to talk about their history, including information about h...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Sinus infection caused by dental problem
- Everyone has a sinus on each side of their nose called the maxillary sinus. Wherein, the roots of the upper back teeth go into the right and left maxillary sinuses. This can cause a problem during sinus season. If a sinus has an infection, it can fill up with fluid and cause the entire sinus lining to become inflamed. If encountered by patients they will feel pain in their upper back teeth along w...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Side effects of hyaluronic acid products -
- Currently, there are no known side effects for most hyaluronic acid products including pills, serums, creams and liquids. However, there are some side effects associated with knee and facial injections.
Some of the less common side effects for knee injections of hyaluronic acid include: blue color or flushing or redness of skin, cough, difficulty in swallowing, dizziness or feeling ...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Ph balance and digestive disorders: breaking the vicious circle
- If you suffer from acid indigestion or acid reflux, chances are your body is unable to rid itself of toxic substances. A high acid level in your upper digestive tract is an
indication that acid levels are high elsewhere in your body too. In a vicious circle, acid waste creates more acid
waste.
It's important to take immediate measures to reduce your acid level througho...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Otitis media (ear infection)
- In simple terms, otitis media is an ear infection. It is inflammation of the inner ear, often caused by moisture which gets collected in the ear or by minor injury to the ear canal. The moisture often collects after swimming or bathing. Often allergies cause liquid to build up in the ear. Injuries often occur with hard impact with water or careless or intense use of cotton swabs. Discomfort, bacte...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - New dog flu
- A new respiratory virus which is very contagious has been recently detected in dogs around the country. Previously it had only been found in the greyhound racing industry. It has been detected at kennels in New York, Florida, and Massachussetts according to the CDC.
Canine flu was discovered last year when an unusual illness was affecting dogs at greyhound tracks in Florida. Virolog...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Natural approach to menopause
- Menopause may cause women to feel some hormonal changes in their body since their estrogen levels decline. The sudden change in hormones may result in any of the following symptoms: hot flushes, depression, irritability, mood swings, irregular menses, disturbed sleep patterns, night sweats, decreased sexual desire, vaginal dryness and nausea. Many women are reluctant when it comes to the notion of...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Natural alternative flu home remedy
- When Chase-Manhattan lender David Givens began to feel some of the early symptoms of the flu - fatigue, muscle aches and pains (not from exercise), and a slight fever - he had no reason to expect he'd be, as he put it, "amazingly better within 2 days" because of a flu home remedy.
Fortunately for him, one of his basketball-playing friends, the author of this article, is a Chinese me...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Multivitamins for your child
- The belief of most parents is that children are eating a fairly healthy diet and if not they give up and throw their hand up in the air. Parents then provide multivitamins. Now that they come in gumballs, gummi candies, cute animals, and cartoon character shapes, children think they are candy and giving vitamins is not a bad thing.
If they are within a child's reach it is a serious ...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Mesothelioma: symptoms of mesothelioma cancer
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There are various symptoms of Mesothelioma cancer, but sometimes they don't appear until 30 to 50 years after exposure to asbestos, hence the importance of following the series of recommendations for prevention of asbestos-related diseases among asbestos workers.
The most common Mesothelioma symptoms are shortness of breath and pain in the chest. These symptoms occur due to ...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Liposuction dangers 101
- One Reality TV show, The Swan, thrives on makeovers. Often viewed as tantamount to having a new life, a lot of people get giddy with the thought of undergoing a makeover. Imagine being surrounded by aesthetics professionals brainstorming on how to make a deity out of an ugly duckling. Simply incredible, isn't it?
High on the mirage of the promise of exquisiteness lingers on mind. It...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Learn how to cope with narcolepsy without seeing doctors!
- Narcolepsy is a malfunction of the sleep/wake regulating
system in the brain which until recently was of unknown
origin. Its most common manifestation is Excessive Daytime
Sleepiness and sleep attacks.
Symptoms of Narcolepsy includes:
a. Temporary paralysis on falling asleep or awakening (sleep
paralysis).
b. Hallucinations -...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Laxatives you find in the drugstore
- A laxative is defined as,
A substance that is used to promote a bowel movement when you are constipated.
Laxatives work by starting and stimulating peristaltic action. Peristaltic action is a wave like movement that occurs throughout your gastrointestinal tract ? esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon ? that helps move your food into your stomach, through your int...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Knowing tooth decay and its modern treatments
- "Tooth decay, also known as dental cavities, or dental caries, is a disease that is five times more common than asthma and seven times more common than hay fever." -- Michael C. Alfano, Dean of the New York University College of Dentistry.
As warned by the World Health Organization, tooth decay is one of the world's most prevalent health problems in industrialized and especially in ...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Kidney cleansing for good health
- Why is kidney cleansing important? Every day, your kidneys process the blood and helps to sift out waste products (like mercury, copper, arsenic-bound chemicals and other toxins) and extra water. The waste and extra water become urine. The urine then flows to your bladder through the ureters. Your bladder stores urine until you go to the bathroom. When your kidneys become overloaded with toxins, d...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Kick that flu out!
- Everyone already experienced having influenza and the common denominator among them is the nasty strains feeling of it. Flu will put down your usual activities and let you experienced the battlefield of beating the headache plus the muscle and joint pains. Whew!
The influenza virus is spread just by mere droplets sent airborne by an infected person's sneezes and coughs. Usually the ...
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- 2007-03-29 21:22:48 - Influenza-its symptoms and causes
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Know more about Influenza
Influenza better known as the "flu" is an infection of the respiratory tract that can affect millions of people. The influenza virus can be spread from person to person through coughing and sneezing of an infected individual.
Statistics show about 20,000 Americans die from influenza or influenza related pneumonia each year. Pneumonia ...
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