3 Colon Health Issues Doctors Worry About
Let’s talk about bums.
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When Prose Meets Medicine: The Science Behind the Broken, the Incomplete and the Hardened Heart
You Aorta Know: Facts About Coronary Artery Disease
Ever wondered what it felt like to have a heart attack? The answer is most likely, “Um, not really.” But, there are about 735,000 heart attack survivors each year that could tell you first hand.
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Zika Virus: What You Need to Know
Until recently, Zika was an obscure virus, confined to equatorial Africa and Asia, and only known to specialists in tropical medicine.
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What is Congestive Heart Failure?
The American Heart Association reports that one in five Americans over the age of 40 will develop congestive heart failure, and an estimated 5.8 million Americans are living with and managing the disease. Owing to a rapidly aging population and improved heart attack survival rates, we can expect to add as many as 660,000 new cases to that number each year.
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Fad Diets: The Good, the Bad and the Hungry
Every day it seems a new diet is ready to make weight loss faster and easier than ever before. These diets may promise results, but many are hard to follow, have arbitrary rules and a few could put your health in danger.
A “fad diet” is a diet that makes promises of weight loss without backing by solid science. Some of the more popular fad diets include: low-carb diets like Atkins or the South Beach diet, the paleo diet and “juicing” or juice fasting.
Why do people diet?
The main reason people try fad diets is because they’re fat.
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The Highs and Lows of Thyroid Disease
Ask the average American what they know about their thyroid and I’d bet that the response you’d get is that they’re pretty sure they have one. It’s only when the thyroid stops working properly that people become aware of its value.
4 Tips for New Year’s Resolutions that Stick
Every New Year brings its own personal goals and challenges, but there are few as ubiquitous (or is it pervasive?) or that carry as much weight (pun absolutely intended!) as getting in shape. According to Neilsen.com, “stay fit and healthy” and “lose weight” top the list of most popular New Year’s resolutions in 2015, appearing on 37% and 32%, respectively, of respondents lists.
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Holiday Health Hazards
The holidays can be holly and jolly – but also potentially hazardous to your health.
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The 12 Days of Holiday Health
“On the first day of Christma-Hanu-Kwanza-vus my true love gave to me…”
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