Archive for the 'Disease Prevention' Category
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Nutrition and Diet for Pain Relief
Pain hurts! Pain can stop you in your tracks, even double you over. Pain can be debilitating, it can make living very hard.
Dealing with chronic or recurring pain can be difficult. Painkillers may lessen the pain, but only temporarily and usually not very much.
Part of the problem includes the muscles near sites of pain. As [...]
Published by on June 27th, 2008 tagged Disease Prevention | Comment now »
Nutrition and Cancer Risk: Diets to Prevent Cancer
Cancer is a very complex topic because it’s features depend on which of the thousands of cell types in the body have mutated. The number of mutations (normally three or four to produce a cancer), and the actual location of the mutations, may also affect the characteristics of the cancer.
Studies have shown that at least [...]
Published by on June 25th, 2008 tagged Disease Prevention | Comment now »
Nutrition and Diet Affects High Blood Pressure: Hypertension
Hypertension or high blood pressure is damaging to the heart, blood vessels, and organs. Ideally, blood pressure should be 120/80 or lower. If you consistently practice the following suggestions, as well as the steps to reduce stress, you have a very good chance of not developing hypertension or of reducing it naturally (without the need [...]
Published by on June 21st, 2008 tagged Disease Prevention | Comment now »
Ginger for Nausea and Motion Sickness
The spice known as ginger has had a very long tradition of being used as a medicine. In China, the long history has led to a multitude of uses. Less commonly known as a medicine in western countries, it is widely used as a spice in cooking.
Almost everyone has heard about the benefits of chicken [...]
Published by on June 16th, 2008 tagged Disease Prevention, Healthy Foods and Diet | Comment now »
Cholesterol: The Good and the Bad
The fat we call cholesterol is widely misunderstood. We believe all cholesterol is bad, or that eggs raise our cholesterol, or that everything raises our cholesterol, and so we should ignore it because we can’t do anything about it anyway.
Well, we do need to pay attention to our cholesterol. We need to do what it [...]