Archive for September, 2010


Organic Foods Usually Twice the Price?

Going organic has become a huge sensation these days.  But along with the obvious health benefits of eating only organically grown produce, without any pesticides or other tissue toxins that invade our tissues and can stay there for years upon years, there comes – of course- a higher cost.  That higher cost of organic produce [...]

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Antidepressant Patch and Smoking Cessation

Smoking is one of the hardest habits anyone would ever have to kick. And it certainly is one of the most pervasive in our society, aside from alcohol abuse, that is detrimental for your health no matter which way you look at it. Quitting smoking was one of the hardest things my now-husband had to [...]

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Medicare Offers Smoking Cessation Benefits

Those seniors who are enrolled in the Medicare program that have been smoking for years may have a new reason to try to quit smoking for good. Medicare is now offering a smoking cessation benefit that allows seniors to have counseling and various other medical avenues to quitting smoking available to them, and more importantly, [...]

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Red Wine Bad for Gout?

We recently had some friends over and I was told that one of my friends was really bothered by red wine. His girlfriend told me that his gout actually flared up when he drank red wine. I thought that was so strange because when you think of red wine, you tend to think it’s healthy [...]

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Egg Recall Has People Cooking Eggs Thoroughly

The recent egg recall where millions of eggs have been recalled from circulation because of salmonella tainting, has a lot of people worried about whether their eggs in their house (if you buy eggs) are tainted with this sickening bacteria or not.  There is one major manufacturer that has been linked to the outbreak, but [...]

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