Category: Wellness (Page 60 of 116)

Protect Your Skin from the Winter Elements with Your Diet

January 3, 2012 / Staff

Winter skin deserves a special diet.

We normally have a natural layer of oil that helps keep our skin soft and protect it from the environment, but harsh winter weather can suck the moisture right out of it. When your skin gets dry, it’s generally a sign that you’re doing something that’s stripping its natural oils. The good news is that you can keep your skin glowing all winter with a few changes to your diet.
Drink more water. The body loses more fluid with each breath when it’s cold and dry, so it’s fairly easy to get dehydrated in the winter. Try to drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water every day.

Check out more tips and find the foods that fight off the cold.

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Uninsured Getting Creative to Pay for Healthcare

January 3, 2012 / Staff

Some uninsured clients are turning to coupons to pay for healthcare.

Physicians are getting creative to lure in patients and the uninsured are looking for deals to pay for costly care.

It looks like a trend that might catch on for a win-win in a tough economy.

The deals are popping up across the nation. In New York, a full medical checkup with blood, stool and urinalysis testing sold for $69 in December on Groupon — below the regular price of $200. In Seattle, a flu shot was offered on AmazonLocal for $17, down from $35. In Chicago, LivingSocial sold a dental exam, cleaning, X-rays and teeth whitening trays for $99, a savings of $142.

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Mental Depression Rises During Economic Recession

January 2, 2012 / Staff

This iconic photo speaks volumes and still resonates today.

Rates of depression on the rise during the current financial recession.

More Americans commit suicide each year than die in motor vehicle accidents. Every year, more than 500,000 people attempt to take their own lives in the US and 30,000 of those attempts are successful. Of course correlation and causation aren’t the same thing, but there seems to be strong evidence that those who are being most hurt in the current economic crisis are killing themselves in ever greater numbers.

There is free help and counseling for those struggling with depression.

Resources, Wellness

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Persevere to Lose Weight and Keep it Off

January 1, 2012 / Staff

Tenacity is the best way to keep off the weight.

With all the resolutions to lose weight being made this year it is easy to forget that reaching your goal involves a lot of changes.

And in making those changes there are bound to be a few slips along the way.

Well, it is not in the mistake but rather in the recovery where success is borne.

Behavior change is the cornerstone of healthy, successful weight loss and it takes about three months to establish a new behavior.
Only 20 percent of Americans who’ve tried to lose weight will keep the weight off after one year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bartfield offered the following tips to help reverse this trend and help people achieve and maintain their weight-loss goals.

Don’t forget to to give yourself some slack.

A few mistakes here and there is no reason to give up.

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Big Medical Advances To Come in the New Year

December 31, 2011 / Staff

Medical advances in the new year could have a huge impact on world health.

Vaccines, new regulations and cheaper drugs are just some of the medical advances to come.

Like other vaccines, cancer vaccines use a chemical marker of a disease (in one case, a virus; in another, a malignant tumor) to train a person’s immune system to fight the disease.
But unlike vaccines for the flu or chicken pox, which are preventive, “we almost uniformly vaccinate after cancer is there,” Kwak said.
Some cancer vaccines in development could be administered to many people, while others – including Kwak’s vaccine for follicular lymphoma – would have to be tailored to each patient’s tumors.

There is a lot to look forward to and more choices will be one of the biggest drivers of change and improvement.

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