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Here in the west conventional medicine still seems to be the order of the day when it comes to receiving medical and health advice when visiting one’s personal physician with an ailment. However, that could be set to change in the coming years as Chinese remedies begin to enjoy a period of unrivalled expansion and [...]
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Not all mothers to be succumb to morning sickness but those that do can find it at best an annoyance and in extreme cases downright debilitating. So, what can you do to set about controlling morning sickness and, hopefully, reducing its impact on your daily life.
Anticipating morning sickness.
Before going on to consider if any vitamin [...]
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Did you know that there are three vitamin shortages in particular that your body could be suffering from? The three vitamins are the vitamin B complex, vitamin C and vitamin K - none of which can be stored in your body; giving rise to a potential shortage of them. As these three vitamins cannot be [...]
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Would you believe it, but in possibly as little as two years time anti-ageing drugs could be available, capable of providing a healthy lifestyle for all beyond the age of 100. Arising from research into age related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s, cancers, diabetes and heart disease; Professor Barzali, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine [...]
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As if the politicians don’t want to control our lives enough already comes the astonishing news that the erstwhile Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, from California of all places, has unbelievably managed to get an anti-vitamin amendment into the wall Street Reform bill currently passing through the House of Representatives. So, whether you take vitamins and [...]
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As frequently blamed on the modern and busy lives we lead as much as anything physiological, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects and disrupts the lives of millions of people in the west. Although IBS arises from a gastrointestinal infection it can, and will, be exacerbated by a stressful lifestyle, depression and failing to following a [...]
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We all like to think that we have steadily beating and rhythmic hearts, when the reality is that at some time or other our hearts will literally skip a beat. For other people having an irregular heart beat is something that they are quite used to, with their hearts beating abnormally quickly or slowly for [...]
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An interesting study from Austria has made a direct link between the benefits of sun bathing and the male libido. Perhaps unsurprisingly it involves raising the levels of vitamin D in males, but that in itself is interesting as it is generally true that most of us feel somewhat friskier if the suns been out. [...]
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By and large people who read information and articles about vitamins and health supplements do so because they are looking for something to use personally. That usually means the person concerned realizes they are in need of some form of supplement that they are not acquiring through their normal diet. Which brings us to the [...]
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Christmas comes but once a year, as the children’s saying goes, but the levels of excitement that they can whip themselves up into seems to be enough to last the whole year. As if that’s not enough in itself to make some kids ill, the long distance drives to visit family and friends for that [...]
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