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Achieving Youthful Healthy Skin with Vitamins A, C and EWe all want healthy skin. While the main reasons for pursuing healthy skin tend to be purely shallow and cosmetic in nature, healthy skin is beautiful and keeps us looking younger than our years and there are actually some practical health benefits to maintaining the good health for our skin. The purpose of the skin is to act as a barrier. It serves to prevent bacteria, viruses and other contaminants from entering the body and causing infection, illness and disease. There are many vitamins and ...
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Toxic Water, Toxic Water EverywhereI am Dr Patrick Flanagan, and this is the latest edition of my Dr Health Secrets newsletter. Just in time for hot summer days and ice-cold thirst quenching water, I wrote this newsletter about toxic water and its effects on your body. Wash Away All Your Health I suppose you can say that water is my, well, thing. As an advocate for the nutritional benefits of water, as well as the health implications associated from there-lack-of, I feel obligated to highlight the darker side of the substance ...
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Insomnia and the use of Bright Light TherapyThe use of light as a therapeutic tool has a long history, with reports of sunlight being used to treat depression and lethargy over 2000 years ago in ancient Greece and Rome. The use of light in therapy today however stems largely from research carried out in the 1980s that looked at the cycle of depression, and other problems, associated with changes in the seasons of the year. Many of the body's functions are regulated by an internal clock which operates on a pattern that repeats roughly ...
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Checking for Asbestos in Your HomeIf you are concerned about asbestos exposure you are not alone. Many individuals wonder if they have been exposed, and if so, what they can do to help protect their health. If you think that you have been exposed to asbestos or are looking for ways to prevent an exposure, look no further. We will go over some of the health problems that arise from asbestos exposure, and what can be done to prevent them. Asbestos is a mineral fiber that has been used for a variety of different applications. Many ...
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Vitamins and Their Role in Our Lives Vitamins, like minerals, are an essential part of the function and health of the body system. While many vitamins serve individual purposes, the more common way for vitamins to function properly is as cofactors to or in partnership with other vitamins, minerals, nutrients and other substances in the body such as enzymes. Some of the most important processes in the body are the result of Vitamins partnering with each other to achieve certain affects, processes or functions. Two of the most ...
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Zyprexa - The Drug, The Threats, and your Legal Rights!WHAT IS ZYPREXA? Over and over again Pharmaceutical companies have tried to provide remedies for the myriad diseases troubling mankind. Much has been done in the area of physiological diseases but the greater progression would in the area of mental illnesses. Eli Lilly and Company's Zyprexa is one drug that has achieved a lot of publicity and usage in recent times due to its potent. This brand name drug is used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar and other mild psychiatric illnesses. Zyprexa is ...
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Chemical SuicideDid You Know? 'More than 7 million accidental poisonings occur each year, with more than 75% involving children under age 6! (Source: The Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons) 'The federal Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) has found that airborne chemical levels in homes were as much as seventy (70) times higher inside than outside. Scare-mongering this is not. When I first heard these facts I was simply appalled and bewildered that we allow ourselves to live like this. ...
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A Home Water Filter - Is it necessary to filter our drinkingDo we really need a home water filter? Can't we just assume the water that flows from our kitchen and bathroom tap is sufficiently treated for contaminants by our municipal water facility? In order to answer these questions, we need to obtain a little more background information. Next to air, water is the most important element for our survival. Water is an integral part of our life and we use it for many household tasks throughout the day, such as: drinking and brushing our teeth, steaming ...
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You Don't Have to be Wealthy to Eat Well . . . The Truth aboutMany people complain that organic foods are more costly than conventional. In many cases, organic foods are priced higher. However, people aren't weighing the costs of eating healthy against the costs of eating poorly. Americans spend millions of dollars each week on 'coffee house foods''fatty lattés and sugary frappucinos, not to mention the white-floured, trans fatty pastries that go along with them. If you were to keep a strict accounting of all the money you spent on soda, pizza, potato ...
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Adaptogens for Life - The Science behind the Discovery of Modern civilization has produced an unusually stressful environment to humans and animals, with extreme high demands on our physical and mental abilities. The last one hundred years have brought unique new challenges for all. It doesn't take much reflection upon the obvious and not so obvious sources of stressors today to realize the average person endures a lifetime of extraordinary physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual stress. Unfortunately the continual assault of these daily ...
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