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Prescription Prices Climb So Drug Companies Can Make More Commercials
If you want to know a good reason why prescription drug prices keep going up, turn on the TV. See those commercials for pharmaceuticals? Hope you enjoy the pleasant music and sweet-voiced narrators. You’re paying for them every time you pay the ever-increasing price of a pharmaceutical.
Probiotics Ease Diarrhea From Antibiotics
Probiotics are beneficial microorganisms that live in the intestinal tract and help improve health. Unfortunately, if you take antibiotics for an infection, you kill these good bacteria as well as the infectious pathogens.
Television Poisoning
If you think youngsters’ minds are being tainted by the pap on television, you have another worry coming: Their digestive tracts are being as warped as their brain tissue.
Overcrowded Hospitals To Surgical Patients: Get Lost
If you’re waiting for service in a busy restaurant, you might expect the chefs and servers to botch some orders. That can make for an unsatisfactory dinner and send you home unsatisfied. Unfortunately, the same dynamics are often at work in a hospital. But it isn’t your appetite that’s at risk, it’s your health.
High-Fat Diet May Be Good For Diabetes
For decades, doctors have been telling people with type 2 diabetes to eat a low-fat diet. Oops! That may be the reverse of what some people need to do.
Eat Slower To Slow Your Chances Of Diabetes
Many years ago, Fletcherizing your food was a widespread health fad. A food philosopher named Horace Fletcher said that if you chewed each morsel of food at least 100 times before swallowing, your health would improve. Many scoffed. But research now shows Fletcher had a point: If you chew more thoughtfully and eat more slowly, in fact, your chances of diabetes may decrease.
Serious Snoring In Bed Signals Serious Chance Of Stroke
If you snore heavily because of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disorder that closes off your upper airway during sleep, you have an increased risk of stroke and death. The sleep problem, which afflicts 20 percent of all adults, can start to seriously impair your health within a month.
Living Close To A Highway Can Kill You
A host of health problems have been connected to living near busy roads. It increases your risk of asthma, stunts children’s lung development and threatens your heart.
Our Weight Gain Is Sinking The Medical System
Severe obesity, the state of being disastrously overweight, was a rare condition before the 1970s. Today, more than a third of us are obese. As a result, we spend almost $150 billion per year on healthcare costs linked to obesity. And the costs are growing.
Breakfast Prevents Diabetes
Diabetes runs rampant in the U.S., currently affecting more than 25 million Americans. A simple way to lower your risk of this health menace: Eat breakfast.
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