background preloader

Health

Facebook Twitter

Lots Of Fat And Sugar Can Take A Toll On Memory. Katherine Streeter for NPR Being overweight can raise your blood pressure, cholesterol and risk for developing diabetes.

Lots Of Fat And Sugar Can Take A Toll On Memory

It could be bad for your brain, too. A diet high in saturated fats and sugars, the so-called Western diet, actually affects the parts of the brain that are important to memory and make people more likely to crave the unhealthful food, says psychologist Terry Davidson, director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at American University in Washington, D.C. Scientists find Australian berry to cure cancer in 48 hours! – Anonymous. 5Shares Share Tweet Email.

Scientists find Australian berry to cure cancer in 48 hours! – Anonymous

The Top 27 Alkaline Foods on the Planet (Eat more to prevent cancer, obesity and heart disease) Let’s face it, the Standard American Diet is just plain SAD.

The Top 27 Alkaline Foods on the Planet (Eat more to prevent cancer, obesity and heart disease)

With processed “quick and easy” foods, fast foods, and genetically modified foods, out bodies go through a lot in just one day. And it’s not just about the horrible ingredients that go into everything; it’s also about what this food is doing to our body’s pH levels. The human body is meant to be an alkaline organism, and if you’re putting too much junk food in, chances are you’re also eating too many acidic foods. When we eat acidic foods, our blood pH can change from a normal alkaline level to a harmful acidic level. CFS Discovery - Home. Medications. Corrective Exercises for Knee Clicking. The healing benefits of physical therapy. Physical therapy is an essential part of joint treatment and therefore an integral part of our practice.

The healing benefits of physical therapy

Meniscus transplant / replacement. Fibromyalgia Symptoms - What Fibromyalgia Feels Like. What Fibromyalgia Feels Like Fibromyalgia means widespread pain in the muscles, but this syndrome causes many other symptoms.1 Lab tests seldom validate your condition and the results often make you feel like a hypochondriac.

Fibromyalgia Symptoms - What Fibromyalgia Feels Like

Pressing on tender points can diagnose fibromyalgia, but the exam still does not explain all of your symptoms.2 People with fibromyalgia often describe their symptoms as a flu-like infection that doesn’t go away. It leaves you exhausted and unable to think or find the right words (symptoms of fibro fog).3 With fibromyalgia, you have trouble sleeping and wake up stiff and achy.4 Your symptoms can be debilitating and you probably feel as though you have to push yourself to get anything done.5,6 Top Ten Fibromyalgia Symptoms.

Pain hypersensitivity. Pain hypersensitivity Clifford J Woolf Pain systems need to be sensitive enough to detect potentially harmful stimuli.

Pain hypersensitivity

But often they become too sensitive, causing us pain that provides no benefit. This hypersensitivity arises because our pain pathways actually increase in sensitivity when they relay pain messages, and the mechanisms of this sensitization are beginning to be revealed. Normally, pain is produced only by intense stimuli that are potentially or actually damaging to tissue (technically known as noxious stimuli, although commonly referred to as pain stimuli).

Nociceptive pain is an essential early warning device that helps protect us from the dangerous environment we find ourselves in. Clinical pain, by contrast, occurs in response to tissue injury and inflammation (inflammatory pain), damage to the nervous system (neuropathic pain) and alterations in the normal function of the nervous system (functional pain). Top 10 Adult Tonsillectomy Recovery Tips & Top 5 Suprises (with Advice) Christians and Body Building.

Bodybuilding

How To Cure Gout At Home. Gout is a type of arthritis that can affect different body parts like the ears, small joints on the hands, wrists, ankles or knees.

How To Cure Gout At Home

Symptoms frequently include acute pain, swelling, intense tenderness and inflammation in the joints. The exact cause is unknown, but a high amount of uric acid in the body is one of the reasons. Some other possible causes are genetics, excessive consumption of alcohol, lack of physical exercise, excessive protein intake and too much stress. Gout is linked to other types of health problems, such as hypertension, diabetes, and uric acid kidney stones, so it is important to get proper medical treatment. In addition, some easy-to-follow home treatments can promote healing and provide symptom relief. Here are the top 10 home remedies for gout.

Apple cider vinegar, which is used to treat headaches and acid stomach, also helps treat gout and arthritis. Mix one teaspoon of raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar in a glass of water.Drink it two to three times daily. Psychiatric Medications.pdf.

Grief & Bereavement

Juice Fasting / Health bits. Food gardening. Good Fats vs. Bad Fats – The Facts. Dietary fat is a hot topic full of conflicting information and controversy.

Good Fats vs. Bad Fats – The Facts

What kinds of fat should I eat? How much fat? Will I get enough fat during my reboot? Gallstones: What? Why? and Ways to Reduce Incidence. By: Claire Georgiou, Reboot Naturopath, B.HSc ND The gallbladder is a small pear-shaped organ that stores and concentrates the bile that is produced by the liver, which increases its (bile’s) potency and intensifies its effect on fat digestion.

Gallstones: What? Why? and Ways to Reduce Incidence

When food containing fat enters the digestive tract, it stimulates the secretion of cholecystokinin (CCK) which then stimulates the gallbladder to release bile into the duodenum (the first section of the small intestine). The bile emulsifies the fats in the partially digested food.

Mental Health

Aspergers Syndrome. Don’t Live with a Fatty Liver. A fatty liver contains an excessive amount of fat and the healthy liver cells are partly replaced with areas of unhealthy fats.

Don’t Live with a Fatty Liver

The liver cells and the spaces in the liver are filled with fat so the liver becomes slightly enlarged and can have a yellow greasy appearance. The liver is your detoxifying warehouse and keeps your blood clean and it controls your fat metabolism and weight control. Here is more on the liver and its important functions in the body. Due to the liver having a long list of functions; when healthy liver cells are replaced with fat then the liver partly becomes ineffective, a fatty liver is working at a reduced capacity and is overloaded, fatty and sluggish. What can cause a fatty liver?