Archive for Healthy Living
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Tendonitis – Cause and Relief
When you suddenly feel sharp pain after straining or stretching it may be tendonitis. Tendons are what connect muscle to bone and are a vital part of the body’s skeletal structure. Muscles are responsible for each movement when ever we jump, walk, run, lift something, twist, and move in most any s...
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Diagnosing and treating Gout (gouty arthritis)
Historically gout has been called the disease of rich men or disease of kings because they ate a diet far higher in red meat, sugars, seafood, and alcohol. It is now known that gout can affect any one and is most often related to arthritis and uric acid. Found particularly involving the big toe, gou...
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Cold Sore or Angular Cheilitis?
Most of us have had a cold sore or two in our lifetimes and usually just try to cover them up or ignore them because they will soon heal. But what if the problem is something more severe and the lips and mouth even become infected? It would help to know the difference between a minor flaw in our fac...
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Strange coating on tongue – Are you sure it’s not oral thrush?
Ever noticed that strange coating on your tongue? Many a times it is a harmless care of low hygiene standards, but sometimes it may be more serious than that. If the coating on the tongue is thick and inflamed, it may be a cause for concern. Usually such strange coating on the tongue presents the ca...
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Deodorants and Cancer, Is there a link?
If you believe what you hear on the news programs it can be a truly scary world we live in! As long as there is plenty of research to back up the allegations presented by those who gather the statics there may be some validity to the warnings. When it comes to an item as up close and personal as o...
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Diagnose and Treat Tinnitus – the ringing in your ears
Everybody experiences occasional, ephemeral ringing in his or her ears, usually the result of exceptionally loud sounds in the environment, but sometimes the result of relentless “white noise.” The ringing, roaring, hissing, tinkling, jingling, or buzzing usually passes within fifteen minutes ...
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Wisely manage and aggressively treat HIV
Testing positive for HIV no longer carries a death sentence, because medical and pharmaceutical research have developed ways for HIV-patients to control their infections and maintain their health. If you have tested positive for HIV, however, you must seize the initiative for managing your health ...
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Have Sleep Apnea? What Can You Do About it?
The term sleep apnea (ap-ne-ah) comes from a Greek word, apnea, that translates to “without breath”. Among the more common varieties of sleep disorders, sleep apnea is divided into three types: central, mixed, and obstructive. They all include the sometimes severe symptoms which result in a stop...
