Category: Medical
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Choosing a Multi-Vitamin
Our bodies need their fill of over 40 nutrients each and every day to perform at their best. Are you hitting all those quotas? Most of us don’t manage to get our fill on all of them on our own. Where our day-to-day diets fall short, a multivitamin can help pick up the slack. The…
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The Physical Effects of the Winter Blues
Many people struggle in the winter months with feelings of sadness or depression. For some, this is a simple case of the winter blue. But for three percent of the population, it’s a serious clinical condition called seasonable affective disorder (SAD). Even others already diagnosed with clinical depression experience more severe symptoms at this time…
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10 Ways to Avoid Getting Colds and Flus this Winter
In the winter, the risk for catching a cold or flu skyrockets. With temperatures dropping, stress levels rising and all that extra time hunkered up together indoors, it’s no surprise that we’re all a little more vulnerable. But with the holidays, celebrations, and all the fun to be had in the snow, winter is no…
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4 Ways To Lower Your Breast Cancer RIsk
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer for women after skin cancer, according to data from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. In the United States alone, an estimated 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected in women in 2015, and another 62,570 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. Among those patients,…
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The Top Five Christmas Health Risks
The holidays are a season for celebration with loved ones. But if the proper safety precautions aren’t taken, you may find yourself spending your time in the emergency room, rather than around the tree. Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do to reduce the risk of holiday injuries for yourself and your loved ones. Start…
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How to Have a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season
The holidays are a season for family, friends, and fun. But it doesn’t take much for all that packed-in merriment to become overwhelming. Between all the parties, the travel, the treats, and just plain disruption to your routine, self-care can quickly fall to the wayside—leaving you feeling tired, stressed, and maybe even guilty. But even…
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Keeping Out Of The Emergency Room This Christmas
Unfortunately, emergency rooms get very busy at the holiday season. No matter where you live, the chances of you or someone in your family having to go to the hospital increase around Christmas time, specifically because of seasonal and environmental changes. Keep these few tips in mind to prevent any unwanted illness or injury at…
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Hand Washing vs. Hand Sanitiser
Hand sanitizer has become very popular in the past decade or so, and it pops up on the shelves of pharmacies and specialty shops more often than not. But how can you know if hand sanitizer is really the best way to keep your hands clean? Read on to learn all about hand sanitizer and…
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Cold Prevention and Hand Washing
Nobody likes to get a cold. Unfortunately, cold seasons spring up almost unexpectedly, and the more you happen to be around other people, the better your chances are of contracting the dreaded common cold. Although this age-old illness cannot be cured, it can easily be prevented if you take a few precautionary steps to be…
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Personal Hygiene: A Common-Sense Guide
Personal hygiene is an important area of everyone’s lives, but sometimes it is overlooked. There are several reasons why it is so important, and a few things you can do to improve your own personal hygiene and make your life better in the process. Health The importance of personal hygiene cannot be…