Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Faith For Your Health

In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives we often overlook or completely negate the power of the human spirit. But well within your reach are healing powers and better health. And it’s not in your medicine cabinet. It is not even in a bottle. It’s actually believing in something larger than yourself. It [...]

Soy Desserts: Tofu Lemon Squares

Get more soy into your diet with this tasty, old-fashioned recipe with a modern tofu twist…
Soy foods such as tofu contains isoflavones. Soy isoflavones may help prevent bad cholesterol from sticking to artery walls, as well as lower cholesterol.

Lower Your Heart Attack Risk

Heart attacks are the number one cause of death in the United States. Find out what causes them, and what you can do to lower your risk.
John is 52 years old, and well educated. He has had slightly high blood pressure that is controlled with medication, and knew that his weight had crept up over [...]

A Psychotic State: Famous Only in the Mind

This is a fiction piece describing a psychotic state of fantasy.
Famous Only in the Mind
I am a indeed a very famous and adored creature. There are so many times have played Spanish guitar or done pop concerts in packed out auditoriums in all the top cities. The number of books I’ve written is phenomenal and [...]

Captain Commute - Eating On The Go

InĀ  Gotham City - Here I come! we took a whirlwind tour around New York’s best eating-on-the-go food stands. You’ve always heard eating on the run is bad for you, right? It’s not really that bad compared to some other food eating habits we have.
Having lots of snack choices is important. Contrary to intuition, having [...]

Quick Health Fixes

Whoever said there are no quick fixes was wrong. Forget about the bean diet or the obsessive calorie counting. The fact is, you don’t have to radically change your life to improve your health. To prove it, we got some tips from nutritionists and doctors that are actually fun and yummy. Here are manageable ways [...]

A Small First Aid Kit

Because everyone occasionally incurs small injuries, it’s a good idea to put together a First Aid Kit in a can, which is simple to do, a quick task and convenient. Treating a minor wound quickly instead of waiting, will allow it to begin to heal sooner. A small investment of time and money will allow [...]

Food Supplements: Be an Informed Consumer. 2

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Drugs and the FDA
First the drugs. Once a prescription drug is FDA approved, it can only be prescribed by a licensed physician and only dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. You then have a three level check system to ensure safety: the FDA, the medical doctor or physician, and the pharmacist.
Supplements
On the other hand, we have [...]

Food Supplements: Be an Informed Consumer. 1

Thirty years ago most people didn’t take vitamins, or what we now call -’Food Supplements.’ During this time, those that did take food supplements were considered somewhat ‘off’ or belonging to the longhaired, tie-dye wearing, V.W. van-driving persuasion.

Pain Relief and Anti-Inflammatory Medications

All of us know about painkillers, physicians distribute them when we’re sick and we use them when our back hurts from working. The issue becomes, that painkillers do not frequently work as well as we hope they would and they just cover up the hurt for a short time and don’t fix the problem for [...]