The Heart Disease: A Killer Lurking in our Body


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If heart disease is an assassin he would be the highest paid in terms of the number of people it has killed. Crowned as the number one killer in America, the heart disease can also be easily averted if a body is well taken care of. A healthy heart can give its owner no worries. Some restrictions can easily avert a heart disease from happening.
Staying away from fast food and junk food as well as greasy, high cholesterol laden foods can greatly decrease the risk of having a heart disease. Not only that, they can also prevent other diseases from happening. Fast foods are processed foods that have various harmful chemicals that contribute greatly to the development of a heart disease.
Then there is smoking. Not only does smoking contribute highly to a good number of diseases, Continue Reading

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Rheumatoid arthritis: Symptoms and treatment – Part 3

There are millions of people who suffer from Arthritis. About 7% of these people are diagnosed with RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA). Where Osteoarthritis is due to a deterioration of a joint, RA is an autoimmune diseases, related to Lupus and MS. Autoimmune diseases are disorders in which the body’s healthy cells are attacked by the immune system. Early diagnosis is of paramount importance. Joint damage is permanent.

Rheumatoid Arthritis can be identified through three phases:

<> Early Phase: mild or moderate pain, heat and swelling in affected joint area, attacks of joint pain are for short duration, a few hours to a few days.

<>Middle Phase: thickening in joint causes moderate to severe pain, redness, swelling and stiffness in joint causes difficulty Continue Reading

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The benefits of sea salt for relieving arthritis pain – Part 2

Who doesn’t know the taste of tears? Aren’t they salty? That’s because they are made up from something called lymph fluid. Lymph fluid has many minerals and mainly sodium. It is the same fluid that lubricates our joints too. When this fluid decreases it results in friction when the joints move causing pain and swelling.

There can be many reasons for the lymph fluid to decrease, but one of the main reasons is lack of “organic salt” in our diet which is found in nature, it is not processed like our regular sodium chloride or our table salt. Table salt is not very efficiently absorbed in our body, as it is chemically treated and processed to make it pure white and help it stay in powder form. It makes the lymph fluid thicker or causes it to dry up. Continue Reading

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Treating severe asthma: New technologies and treatments – Part 1

If you have severe asthma and your only treatment is a puffer when you get breathless and some pills, sack your doctor! Many doctors are still treating their patients the way they did twenty years ago. You may be missing out on treatments that could transform your life, simply because your doctor is poorly informed about the latest asthma treatments.

My severe asthma caused me to miss half my schooling and has put me in hospital more than once – yet I haven’t had an asthma attack (touch wood!) in ten years. My life was transformed by the use of the new preventative asthma puffers.s Now, the only time I wheeze is if I catch a bad cold or flu, Continue Reading

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Why and how hair loss happens – Part 1

HAIR LOSS DEVELOPMENT

There are many causes of hair loss. Some are due to high fever, serious infections, major surgery, and in some cases emotional and physical stress causes hair loss. Other causes of hair loss include thyroid disease, lack of protein in dirt, low iron, and prescriptive drugs given for blood thymes, acne arthritis, and heart disease. Hair loss can also occur in women who take contraceptives; as well as, after giving birth. Possible causes of hair loss comes from family genes and hormonal patterns. The developing of bald patches on the beard or on the scalp also causes hair loss. Men and women who often visit barber shops and beauty salons can contact ring worms, which also causes hair loss. In some cases adolescence experience hair loss from an illness or not Continue Reading

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