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How Much OsteoPhase Should Wife Take For Osteopenia?

July 21, 2009 Articles

My wife has mild osteopenia and wants to know much OsteoPhase she should take. On your website it says to take [...]

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Celiac Disease Four Times More Prevalent Now Than in 1950s

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Celiac disease is an immune system reaction to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley or rye. In patients with celiac disease, ingesting gluten leads to an immune response that attacks the villi – the tiny, fingerlike projections lining the small intestine that enable the absorption of nutrients from food. Common symptoms of Celiac disease [...]

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Could Vinegar be a Natural Fat Fighter?

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Ordinary vinegar – acetic acid – may prevent the build up of fat, and therefore weight gain, according to results of a study with mice from Japan. Animals fed a high-fat diet and supplemented with acetic acid developed about 10 percent less body fat than mice just eating the diet, according to findings published in [...]

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Lack Of Sleep More Dangerous For Women Than Men

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Women who get less than eight hours sleep a night are at higher risk of heart disease and heart-related problems than men with the same sleeping patterns. Research by the University of Warwick and University College London has found that levels of inflammatory markers vary significantly with sleep duration in women, but not men.
The study, [...]

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Tamiflu Resistance Emerges in European Flu Pandemic

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The National Health Board of Denmark has announced the first known case of pandemic H1N1 flu resistant to the antiviral drug Tamiflu, stressing that “there is no evidence” that the resistant virus has spread.
While the case is likely to be isolated, it raises concern over the European policy of giving low doses of Tamiflu to [...]

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Few Survive Cardiac Arrest, Even With Hospital CPR

July 6, 2009 Articles

As the recent death of Michael Jackson has shown, few patients in cardiac arrest survive, even when given CPR by a trained health professional. Now, a large analysis shows that survival rates for seniors in cardiac arrest have not improved much in the last decade.
The study, published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, looked [...]

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Traditional Chinese Herbs For Arthritis

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Arthritis is a generic term for more than 100 different disorders, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout and fibromyalgia. Osteoarthritis, or wear-and-tear arthritis, is the most prevalent and disabling of all chronic conditions, affecting approximately 80 percent of all U.S. adults over 65.

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Asthma Symptoms Linked to Elevated Allergen Levels in Home

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Results from a new national survey demonstrate that elevated allergen levels in the home are associated with asthma symptoms in allergic individuals. The study suggests that asthmatics that have allergies may alleviate symptoms by reducing allergen exposures inside their homes. The work was carried out by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [...]

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Natural Anti-Viral Support For Coughs And Congestion

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Coughing is one of the most obvious and indisputable signs of human illness. In addition to being the main cause for patient visits to doctors, over a billion dollars are spent each year on over-the-counter (OTC) cough remedies in the US.

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Calming Stomach And Gastric Upset

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The gastrointestinal tract has two primary nutritional functions. The stomach, or gastric region, starts the process of digestion, preparing food for assimilation in the small intestines. The intestines sort through the digested components so they can be absorbed into the bloodstream, or passed through the alimentary canal to be excreted.

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Football Dangerous To Your Well-Being?

June 18, 2009 Articles

We all surmise that playing a violent sport like football can be a hazardous occupation. For that matter, we can assume any game where it is considered perfectly acceptable to allow a 300 lb man to run as fast as he can and then ram himself into another with his shoulders lowered, often banging ones [...]

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What is human physiology?

June 17, 2009 Articles

When we speak of human physiology, we speak of the science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of human bodies, their organs, and the cells of which they are composed, with a primary focus at the level of organs and systems. This is closely related to the field of study of Anatomy; indeed anatomy, [...]

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