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The Seven Deadly Diet Sins for Pain Patients
Everyone experiences pain at some point in their lives, but for a select few pain is their life. Fibromyalgia is a condition where patients are constantly experiencing pain. These patients experience pain so badly they don’t even have words to desc...
10 Eye Myths
From eating carrots will improve your vision to sitting to close to your TV will hurt your eyes, the world is awash with eye myths and urban legends. New York City Optometrist, Dr. Harvey Moscot of Moscot Eyewear and Eyecare, sheds some light (no pun...
Treating Fibromyalgia Naturally
Aches and pains experienced for at least three months time may be an indicator of a more serious condition. Fibromyalgia is a condition facing many Americans and is defined as long term, body wide pain radiating from tender points in tissues, muscles...
Hangover Cures for Thanksgiving
With Black Wednesday, one of the biggest party nights of the year approaching, this Thanksgiving many will be suffering that post-party phase otherwise known as a hangover. ChicagoHealers.com Practitioner Dr. Tom Bayne, DC, suggests more natural ways...
Staying Healthy While Holiday Traveling
ChicagoHealers.com Practitioner Dr. Tom Bayne offers these preventative measures for staying health while traveling: Stay hydrated: Drink plenty of water especially while flying to keep your immune system strong. Water helps keep mucous ...
Watch Out for H1N1 Vaccination
First I want to start this post out by saying that I think that it is really important for everyone to get an H1N1 shot. The vaccination advantages easily outweight the risks of getting the flu itself. But we ran into some scary trouble yesterday. My...
Folic Acid Will Reduce Asthma Risk
I remember when my wife was pregnant both times we were told by the doctor that she should increase her intake, actually supplement, with Folic Acid. Well there is a study from Australia that seem to show the link between Folic Acid and a reduction i...
Weight Training Impact on Breast Cancer Survivors
Surviving breast cancer is a very difficult in the first place for any woman but the self esteem issues of a masectomy are something that many women find hard to overcome. A study was just released that seems to shed some light on the idea that by ta...
Mercury in Vaccines
I keep hearing about the mercury in vaccines and how this may be a health issue or not. At one point people with autistic kids were blaming the mercury in the vaccines for causing autism as well as other health issues but now I believe that this same...
Kids, Asthma, and H1N1
My daughter got diagnosed with Asthma last week and it got me thinking about all of the times that she has had colds and been sick over the years. Of course the asthma was an even bigger deal right now with H1N1 hitting the headlines and 5 hour plus ...
Cytokine Storm
This is a new term for me today but apparently I missed the memo that had to do with a cytokine storm and the flu. Actually the cytokine storm has more to do with health and seemingly healthy people dying of illnesses that their immune system should ...
Fast Food Calories Do Not Affect Choices
Remember how requiring fast-food chain restaurants to post calorie counts for food items on their menu boards was supposed to help people make better food choices? If the results of the first study to measure the impact of that initiative are any ind...
10 Canadian Thanksgiving Eating Tips
Thanksgiving and Christmas are my favorite eating days of the year. Thanksgiving dinner is now only a couple of days away in Canada and the Turkeys and Hams have already been bought and are waiting to be eaten. This thanksgiving maybe you can be more...
You can’t cure the flu
You know how awful it feels to have the flu. The shivers, the aches, the runny nose You can minimize the symptoms and drown yourself in drugs, but you can’t really cure the flu. With all its potency and technology, modern medicine and holist...
Who should take the H1N1 vaccine?
The swine flu is about to strike. At the same time, countless people line up for a chance to take the H1N1 vaccine. But do they really need to? What is the problem with the swine flu and who should take the vaccine? H1N1 is a new strain of virus agai...
How to prevent catching the flu?
The flu is an airborne disease. But this does not mean that viruses are floating around in the air and there is nothing you can do to stop them. In fact, the influenza virus is very fragile and does not survive in the air for long it needs to land...
When to seek emergency medical care if you have the flu
The flu is a very common disease. And the swine flu threatens to become common as well. It is important that you recognize when you need emergency medical care and when you don’t, or you will be clogging the system. And if people are clogging t...
The swine flu and pregnant women
If you are pregnant, the flu is especially dangerous. Not only is it linked to increased risk of abortion, premature birth and death of the mother, but even in survivors it has been linked to congenital diseases and mental problems later in the life ...
What is so special about swine flu?
Swine flu is nothing more than flu. There is essentially no difference between the different seasonal flu viruses and the swine flu virus. They are all influenza and they all vary in the same components. So what is all the fuss about swine flu? The f...
How is the flu transmitted?
The flu is an airborne virus. This means you can catch the flu just by breathing infected air. However, there is no reason to be alarmed, because the virus does not survive for long in the air. Instead, it needs to rest on surfaces such as your hand...
Is the H1N1 vaccine safe?
Vaccines are often heralded has a panacea, a promise of healing before disease even strikes. However, this is not true for flu vaccines, especially for the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine, which was met with a wealthy (not healthy) dose of criticism. The...
Help stop H1N1
The swine flu, H1N1, is getting ready to strike full force. As more and more people grow careless, the virus spreads its evil tentacles and prepares to launch a frightening pandemic that threatens to cause severe social, health and economic consequen...
How does the flu lead to pneumonia?
The flu is in the news. Not because anyone really cares about people with body aches or fever. What makes this swine flu news-worthy is that it kills. Or better put, it leads to pneumonia which kills. But how, you ask? The influenza virus, responsibl...
Dental hygiene and the flu
I received this great article that illustrates the importance of dental hygiene to prevent the flu and the spread of disease. We all know that brushing your teeth is important for your teeth but in fact good dental hygiene is important to your health...
H1N1 Tips for Real Life
There is a lot of information out there about H1N1 flu but quite often we are getting info that is either out of date or inaccurate. Here is some info that WalMart pharmacies have been giving out. Hope this helps you to understand the fact from the f...
Marijuana and Psychosis
Back many years ago I drank too much and I smoked marijuana. Those days are far behind me now but I was always intrigued with and remain intrigued by the health affects as well as the drawbacks of marijuana use and mental health. As anyone that has u...
Causes of Hip Pain
As we all get older we fight with aches and pains but for many people the biggest problem is hip pain. As you may be aware hip replacements are one of the top surgeries for people in their 30s and 40s even though we associate people that are much old...
Recent Exercise Lowers Breast Cancer Risk
A recent study from the journal called BMC Cancer shows that in age-adjusted and BMI adjusted models, anything more than 7 hours per week of moderate-to-vigorous activity during the past 10 years was associated with 16% reduced risk of postmenopa...
Getting Flu Shots this Fall?
I have been getting flu shots for years now and I would have to guess that I do not get the flu becasue I am getting the shot but this year I am not so sure. Crazy paranoid maybe but we will see ovr the next few weeks what happens. First of all the a...
Improving the Health of New Mothers
I know that when my wife gave birth to each of our kids that it was not too obvious as to what she should be doing next to get into shape. Sure if you read around you can find some info easily enough but I just ran across a program that a lasy has st...
