What Happens to Your Body When You Pig Out Over the Holidays
When you overindulge during the holidays, you not only gain weight, you can also overtax your digestive system as well as lose sleep and...
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Dec 22, 2022
Is Chronic Loneliness Real?
“Nobody wants to be lonely,” may be a line from a pop song, but it’s also a fairly universal truth. Chronic loneliness is a term to...
Dec 15, 2022
What is Cholesterol?
Cholesterol 101: An introduction If you’re reading this, you probably care about your health and the role cholesterol can play. That’s an...
Dec 8, 2022
Best Pilates Chair Exercises for Seniors: Co-ordinate Your Body, Mind and Spirit
Despite its long history, Pilates is a new concept to many people. The lack of Pilates knowledge and know-how prevents a lot of seniors...
Dec 1, 2022
Asthma and Exercise
Is It Safe to Exercise if I Have Asthma? One of the goals of asthma treatment is to help you maintain a normal and healthy lifestyle,...
Nov 24, 2022
Home Remedies for Heartburn: 10 Ways to Get Rid of Acid Reflux
Despite what its name implies, heartburn has nothing to do with your heart. Rather, it's a burning sensation in your chest that occurs...
Nov 17, 2022
Canker sore (Singaw)
Overview Canker sores, also called aphthous ulcers, are small, shallow lesions that develop on the soft tissues in your mouth or at the...
Nov 10, 2022
What to Know About Joint Pain
Overview Joints are the parts of your body where your bones meet. Joints allow the bones of your skeleton to move. Joints include:...
Nov 3, 2022
Does High Blood Pressure Cause Neck Pain?
High blood pressure is one of the most common conditions around the world, but does high blood pressure cause neck pain as well? Half the...
Oct 27, 2022
What Is Cardiovascular Endurance?
Cardiovascular endurance is a measure of how well you can do exercises that involve your whole body at moderate to high intensity for an...
Oct 20, 2022
Do I Need a Pneumonia Vaccine?
Although the pneumonia vaccine can’t prevent all cases, it can lower your chances of catching the disease. And if you’ve had the shot and...
Oct 13, 2022
Septicemia: Diagnosis, Causes and Treatment
Septicemia, commonly referred to as blood poisoning, is an infection that is mainly caused when large amounts of bacteria enter your...
Oct 6, 2022
Walking your way to better health? Remember the acronym FIT
So you put on extra pounds during the pandemic. And your cholesterol's too high. And maybe you need to do a better job managing blood...
Sep 29, 2022
How to Properly Rehydrate After Diarrhea
Oftentimes, diarrhea is caused by our body’s natural immune response to an unwanted microorganism in the gut. During an episode of...
Sep 22, 2022
Denture Care: 6 Dos and Don’ts of Denture Cleaning
Dentures may not be natural teeth, but that doesn’t make them any easier to care for. In fact, they require some extra maintenance...
Sep 15, 2022
The No-Equipment Workout for Seafarers
Finding the time and space to exercise is sometimes difficult. For seafarers, strength-training resources may be limited, and while not...
Sep 8, 2022
Six simple tricks to improve your eating habits in 2022 and beyond
After a month of overindulgence, to go cold turkey on sugar, carbs or alcohol, or to set yourself a big weight loss challenge. It’s a...
Sep 1, 2022
10 Ways to Manage Low Back Pain at Home
Back pain is one of the most common physical ailments. Studies show that eight in 10 Americans have back pain at some point in their...
Aug 25, 2022
5 ways to get better sleep
If you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, you're not alone. Many people struggle with sleep — and that's a problem since...
Aug 18, 2022
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Overview Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by pressure on the median nerve. The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway surrounded by bones...
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