Graves’ Disease Symptoms: Do You Have Them?

Graves’ Disease Symptoms: Do You Have Them?

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder and a common cause of hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid gland. A person suffering from Graves’ disease has a thyroid that produces too many hormones. These hormones affect different bodily functions and parts of the body, so Graves’ disease symptoms are diverse.  Graves’ disease…

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10 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight

10 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

Hitting a weight-loss plateau can be one of the biggest setbacks of any diet or weight loss program, but there are several ways to overcome this obstacle and sustain healthy weight loss for the long-term. However, there are several ways you can adjust your lifestyle and make small changes to…

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What a Sight! Should I Get Bifocals?

What a Sight! Should I Get Bifocals?

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

The idea of someone wearing bifocals may conjure the image of a hunched-over elderly person, but that is an antiquated, stereotypical view of the type of person who needs bifocals. Older adults may be more inclined to ask the optometrist, “Should I get bifocals?”  But age is just a number…

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Beneficial Foods for High Blood Pressure

Beneficial Foods for High Blood Pressure

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

It appears that the medical profession the world over are all too quick to prescribe drugs rather than to suggest natural methods of lowering high blood pressure (hypertension). Most of these medicines can have undesirable side effects, so it is a good idea to look for natural methods. It has…

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Natural Allergy Remedies

Natural Allergy Remedies

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

Every time the seasons change 35 million Americans start sneezing, rubbing their watery eyes, blowing their stuffy noses, and itching like mad. They are the ranks of seasonal allergy sufferers, joined by another 50 million kindred souls who endure an even wider variety of allergic reactions to trees, grass, flowers,…

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How to Treat Severe Lactose Intolerance

How to Treat Severe Lactose Intolerance

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

Severe lactose intolerance can be an uncomfortable condition that involves gas, bloating and stomach pain after consuming milk products. The condition occurs when the body doesn’t produce enough of the enzyme lactase, which breaks down the sugar found in milk. Without the right amount of this enzyme, milk products are…

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Vitamins for Vegetarians

Vitamins for Vegetarians

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

There are a lot of vegetarians among us, some by circumstance and some by choice. Those who are vegetarians by choice can be divided into two general groups — those who do not eat meat, poultry or fish, but do consume dairy products as – in theory – the animals…

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Smoking Cessation Products: The Hidden Dangers

Smoking Cessation Products: The Hidden Dangers

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

Nicotine Gum…The Patch…Electric Cigarettes… Anyone who has ever tried to kick the habit is probably well aware of the many smoking cessation products on the market.  And with good reason. According to the American Cancer Society, only about 4 to 7 percent of Americans are able to quit smoking without…

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