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Emotional trauma occurs to everyone however not everyone reacts to trauma the same way. A trauma is something that can occur as an injury such as a sporting injury like a concussion, or an emotional trauma, such as the loss of a loved one, separation or divorce.

Many people react differently and will try to combat it in different ways. The one thing that remains the same is the feeling from the emotion that it precipitates. Everyone will feel pain if they hurt their foot, however, people will have a different threshold to pain and will experience different intensities.

An emotional trauma [ Read more ... ]

The Zone diet is a weight loss program that pays close attention to food intake and physical activity to achieve weight loss. It is a lifestyle-changing plan to help people lose pounds and get in better physical condition. The key part of this diet plan is the food plan developed by the scientist, Dr. Barry Sears.

The scientific theory of the diet looks at the impact of carbohydrates on the body’s insulin levels. Eating too many carbohydrates causes the body’s blood sugar levels to rise sharply, which causes the body to secrete insulin, a hormone that lowers blood sugar levels [ Read more ... ]

Congestive heart failure, or CHF, is one of the most common chronic health conditions in America. Nearly five million people suffer from this disease, and half a million more develop CHF every year. This condition can be mild, or it can become quite severe and impair daily living.

People with CHF have numerous deviations from their previous daily activities. They must take medications to relieve water buildup and to lessen the work performed by their heart muscle. Many of these cause anxiety and exhaustion. These drugs can also impair physical relationships with a life partner.

Another struggle that people [ Read more ... ]

Sleep is required for the body to work properly, mature, and heal after being injured. Most studies recommend that adults need between six and eight hours of sleep nightly. A number of people, however, are unable to do this. Up to 20 million Americans alone have serious struggles sleeping every night.

Several elements that create sleep disorders are responsible for this startling fact. For instance, a large number of people snore. Deep snoring sometimes can cause sleeping persons to wake, in a start, by this noise. Additionally, people with a spouse that is a loud snorer often have trouble sleeping with [ Read more ... ]

One can never get scurvy if they have an orange every day, or pellagra if they have some B vitamins (like B6, B12, etc.) every day.

How did the doctors figure this one out?

Long ago in 1497, the British sailors on long voyages across the sea got sick. They never reached their destinations. Some of the sailors knew they would get this dreaded disease, but they didn’t know how to avoid it. Some had painful deaths.

Finally, more than 130,000 died from scurvy, a young English doctor, named James Lind, noticed something. But before I get into that story, you must understand [ Read more ... ]

The purpose of the immune system to identify attacks on the body that cause disease. One of the jobs of the immune system is to kill pathogens and tumor cells and includes but is not limited to viruses and parasitic worms.

There are a variety of mechanisms that have evolved within the immune system that are beyond the scope of this article that keep the body healthy. Whenever any disease, and cancer is a disease, is able to make itself apparent in an individual, it is because that individuals immune system has become weak.

To overcome any disease, including cancer, long [ Read more ... ]

Did you know that prostate research virtually stopped with the discovery of the herb Saw Palmetto? Well it has and even thought Saw Palmetto is a fantastic herb that keeps the prostate in check - there is something missing in the Saw Palmetto protocol.

Did you know that once a male hits 50 years of age he has a 50% chance of some kind of prostate cancer. At 80 years of age it goes to 80-90%?

No matter how active your sex life is, if you play some brand of sports every day of the week and sleep 10 hours a sight [ Read more ... ]

When you find yourself in pain around the anal region as well as inside the anus, you may be dealing with a very painful and irritating ailment that will change the course of your life until you can cure it. Knowing how to treat hemroids could be one of the best things you do for yourself BEFORE you ever get them.

When you think about it, this ailment is something that nobody is immune from getting, simply because it is not something you catch, its something that happens when your body is not doing what it should be. It can happen [ Read more ... ]