Posted by noreply@blogger.com (Health Maven) on 21 January, 2013
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'Metabolism is the process the body uses to break down food in order to produce energy. As we age, we lose muscle and gain more fat. The more fat you are carrying vs. muscle, the more your metabolism slows down. Your basal metabolic rate accounts for about 60 to 75 percent of the calories you burn every day. So increasing your metabolism is something that helps you lose weight. (Not to mention you get to eat more food, which is always a bonus.) Low metabolism causes all sorts of health problems including low energy and fatigue, cold hands and feet (and low body temperature — the kind of person who is always shivering in a sweater), hair loss, low sex drive, infertility, mood swings, anxiety and irritability, hypothyroidism, insomnia, etc.
Posted by noreply@blogger.com (Health Maven) on 21 January, 2013
'Forget the flu shot. A soup based on more than 50 cloves of garlic, onions, thyme and lemon will destroy almost any virus that enters its path including colds, flu and even norovirus. As we sneeze and cough our way through these dark months of contagious nasties, garlic is being hailed for its powers to halt viruses in their tracks. It has gained its reputation as a virus buster thanks to one of its chemical constituents, allicin.
Posted by noreply@blogger.com (Health Maven) on 21 January, 2013
'Medical ignorance is epidemic and nowhere is this more evident than in how contemporary medicine views and treats thyroid cancer. Over treatment of thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine is rampant even though there is substantial uncertainty about the indications for radioactive iodine for thyroid cancer. Radioactive iodine absorbed by the thyroid can injure the gland. There was a large increase in the proportion of thyroid cancer patients receiving radioactive iodine between 1990 and 2008 even though radioactive iodine is a cause of thyroid cancer. Between 1990 and 2008, the percentage of patients treated with radioactive iodine climbed from 40 to 56 percent, and hospitals varied widely in their use of iodine. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, there are more than 40,000 new cases of thyroid cancer every year in the U.S.—a number that’s been climbing steadily.'
Posted by noreply@blogger.com (Health Maven) on 21 January, 2013
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'New research links loneliness to a number of dysfunctional immune responses, suggesting that being lonely has the potential to harm overall health.
Researchers found that people who were more lonely showed signs of elevated latent herpes virus reactivation and produced more inflammation-related proteins in response to acute stress than did people who felt more socially connected.'
