Archive for February, 2010


So Much for the Swine Flu “Epidemic”

Of course, we were bombarded by the media saying that the swine flu, or the H1N1 virus as it was dubbed to avoid paranoia and pandemonium, was going to be a flu of epidemic proportions, perhaps wipe out a percentage of our population, and was going to be like the black plague. However, none of [...]

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Detox for the New Year?

I have a few New Year’ s Resolutions. Of course, I’ve already broken a few of them, but one of them was to detoxify my system from eating all the crap I stuffed down my gullet over the holidays, and revitalizing my sense of health and well being by getting the fats and chemicals out [...]

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Lowering Resting Heart Rate Important

It has become increasingly obvious that lowering your heart rate while at rest, or your resting heart rate, is important if you want to avoid heart disease or heart attack likelihood.  This means your heart rate while you are note exerting yourself, or even while you are sleeping. If your heart rate is above a [...]

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Wearing Nicotine Patch for Months May Increase Odds of Quitting Smoking for Good

When it comes to the war on smoking, there are no people who can tell you better how hard it is to quit than smokers themselves. Especially the smokers that have tried over and over again to quit smoking, only to find that once that initial willpower and excitement wears off, and they are perhaps [...]

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Quitting Smoking with Lung Cancer Does Increase Survival Odds

Until recently, it was thought that if a person was already diagnosed with lung cancer, which happens to have a low survival rate unfortunately, even if it is caught in earlier stages (although of course they are slightly better when caught early), quit smoking after diagnosis, that they still would have the same odds of [...]

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