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The Heart Healthy Benefits of Hawthorn Berry
There are all sorts of "new" berries circulating the health community, many of which Americans have not heard of. You have goji berries, acai berries and now hawthorn berries. All of these fruits are high in nutrition and antioxidants, making them great for combating many types of illnesses. Better yet, they can assist with the …
Sauk County issues vaping health advisory as retailer says products are safe alternatives to cigarettes | Regional news
The Sauk County Health Department is urging people to stop using vape and e-cigarette products. The health advisory, issued in partnership with similar agencies in Adams, Juneau and Richland counties, comes after the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 35 cases of people hospitalized with severe lung or respiratory illnesses. All patients had reported recent …
Best Diets (Ranked)
The best diets are ranked by doctors, nutritionalists and dietitians for US News and World Report (1) annually. There are many factors that go into the ranking like its heart and diabetes ratings, weight loss potential, ease of following and best plant based diets. These different ratings are combined to afford its overall rating. One …
Walmart offers free Wellness Day health screening
OKLAHOMA CITY – Walmart is offering free health care screenings at Oklahoma Walmarts with pharmacies this Saturday. “The retailer is now inviting customers to Walmart Wellness Day, where they can get free health services and resources, including information on better heart health,” a Walmart news release states. Wellness Day will be held from 10 a.m. …
Aerobic Exercise: Benefits, Examples and How to Tell If You're REALLY Exercising Aerobically
“Aerobics” is a term first coined by Dr. Kenneth Cooper, an exercise physiologist for the San Antonio Air Force Hospital. He developed the formula of subtracting your age from 220 and exercising with the heart rate at 60-80% of that number. Though he originally formulated "aerobics" to help astronauts, he soon realized that this type …
Disaster preparedness for pets –
September 18, 2019 Posted: September 18, 2019 Updated: 10:35 AM KUSI Newsroom SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – September is National Preparedness month which reminds us that we need to think about disasters before they have a chance to impact our families. Dr. Patricia Carter with Helen Woodward Animal Center stopped by Good Morning San Diego to …
Amazing Health Benefits of Cashew Nuts – Are You Eating Them?
The cashew plant is native to Brazil and was introduced to India in the latter half of the 16th century as a crop to check soil erosion. Today it is a valued cash crop, grown on the slopes of the hilly regions of the east and west coasts of India. All those pictures with the …
Does Botox reduce the frequency of chronic migraine? – Harvard Health Blog
Doesn’t it seem like Botox is showing up everywhere as a medical treatment? Botox is a brand of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), a protein substance originally derived from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. In its original form it was the toxin responsible for botulism, the paralyzing illness often caused by eating contaminated food. BoNT is now used …
Portable Heart Rate Monitors in Fitness
An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a medical diagnostic device which graphically records the electrical activity of the muscles of the heart. It is used to identify normal and abnormal heartbeats. First invented in the early 1900s, the ECG or EKG (derived from the German electrokardiogramma) has become an important tool for diagnosis of abnormal …
Population Health Versus Personalized Medicine – Lost in Translation?
Evidence-based medicine, it seems commonsensical; who could argue about using the best evidence available to make treatment decisions? The difficulty, of course, is that the evidence comes from studies of large populations, often expressed in terms of average responses; and as a clinician, you want to tailor the care to the one member of the …
