Wellness Archives

Stroke Survivors Can Improve Balance with Tai Chi

A new study finds that stroke survivors can improve their balance by practicing the Chinese martial art of tai chi, lessening the risk of a serious fall. Tai chi consists of constant coordinated movement of the head, torso and limbs requiring concentration and balance control. The study looked at 136…
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Ten Foods Most Prone to Food-Borne Illness

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CPSI) has published a list of the 10 riskiest foods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Topping the list: leafy greens, eggs, and tuna. These and seven other foods account for nearly 40% of all food-borne outbreaks linked to FDA-regulated…
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New Recommendations for Daily Sugar Consumption

How much sugar can you safely eat in a day? The answer is probably less than you think. Although Americans are used to eating more than 22.2 teaspoons (or 355 calories) of added sugar a day, the recommended limit is 10 teaspoons, or 100 calories a day. A new study…
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Showerheads a breeding ground for bacteria

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences warns of bacterial buildup in showerheads and the effect that may have on people with compromised immune systems. The opportunistic microbes, which thrive in the most, dark and wet environment of a showerhead, might cause problems if…
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New Harvard Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance

Researchers in a new Harvard estimated that nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year, nearly one every 12 minute due to lack of health care insurance. American adults age 64 and younger who lack health insurance have a 40 percent higher risk of death than those who…
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Does Your Back-to-School Checklist Include a Vision Screening?

Your child’s academic success depends on good vision. The National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, estimates that only one in three preschoolers receives vision screening. NEI also estimates that: 300,000 to 750,000 children aged 3 to 5 have amblyopia (lazy eye) 450,000 to 600,000 have…
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Pesticide Use Linked to Retinal Degeneration

Scientists have found an association between fungicide use and retinal degeneration in the wives of farmers who are pesticide applicators. Researchers had already found an association with retinal degeneration among the farmers themselves in the Agricultural Health Study, a large study of farm families from Iowa and North Carolina. Researchers…
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Are the fruits and vegetables you eat contaminated with pesticides?

Individuals can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 80% by avoiding the top twelve most contaminated fruits and vegetables and eating the least contaminated instead. Consumption of the 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables will expose a person to about 10 pesticides per day, on average, compared with less than…
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Statin Drugs May Cause Eye Disorders in Some

Eye disorders related to statins are rare, occurring in about 0.1 percent of patients (0.5 to 2.5 percent when gemfibrozil, another type of cholesterol-lowering drug, is taken simultaneously) but had not been systematically reported prior to the study led by F.W. Fraunfelder, MD, of the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon…
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Juicing Tips – What combinations of fruits & vegetables would be best to juice?

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Juicing Tips

We consider daily juicing of primarily organic vegetables and fruits to be an essential part of any long term healing program. Juicing provides a highly effective and efficient way for the body to be able to absorb essential nutrients into the blood and cells, taking a little as a few minutes for the body to start utilizing these nutrients.
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