Health & Fitness
Looking for information on medical issues like asthma, arthritis, heart disease, infectious diseases, or STDs? All that and more – from vision to dentistry – can all be found in the Health & Fitness channel.
Are you an alcoholic?
I have been sober since March 1979 (just over 30 years) eventually achieving a lasting recovery from alcoholism, the "hell of all diseases", through joining Alcoholics Anonymous The question I want to address here is one that I am asked constantly by people who think they may have a problem with alcohol who are tentatively taking their first steps towards sobriety and a new life.
"DO YOU THINK I AM
Write nowvote now: Yes or No - (view results)
Yes
by laimh
As a medical researcher involved in cancer immunotherapy research, I have seen the continual change taking
No
by Renee Dawson
Since asthma is not a virus or a bacteria, I am sure that immunotherapy will not help. While asthma
Anxiety & Panic Disorders
- Choosing the proper anti-anxiety medication
- The problem of anxiety disorders and their challenges
- Overcoming anxiety/depression with mental and physical exercise
- Misdiagnosing narcissism: Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Ways to combat anxiety attacks
- Recommended reading to help understanding and treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Panic attacks: Symptoms and treatment
Healthy Cooking & Meal Planning
- Are foods with monounsaturated fat low in calories?
- How to make healthy snacks the easy way
- Guide to conscientious food shopping
- What is the best way to serve sea palm?
- Quick energy boost foods
- How make-ahead meals cut the stress out of dinnertime
- Taking the stress out of dinnertime with meals made ahead of time
Healthy Living & Wellness
- Healthy eating: Common errors
- Ways to balance your life day by day
- Ways to improve your mood when you're feeling down
- How meditation and massage can promote well being
- How to relieve stress
- Ergonomics: How to do a task analysis
- Tips for a restful night of sleep
Nicotine Dependence
October 1st was Vegetarian day and kicks off Vegetarian Month. The event is a chance to highlight the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle.
by Jennie Hanba
Anorexia Nervosa is a disease that can be defined as self-starvation resulting in a loss of body fat 15% below normal. Anorexia is
Migraine headaches are caused by changes within the blood vessels in the brain, and are currently the most common ailment seen in emergency
by Marie Gerber
Yes, there are those rare annoying women who actually enjoy running a 5K. But for most of us, exercise is a chore and we will come
Writing Assignments
- Vision
- How to treat night vision caused by dysphotopsia
- How to cope with dysphotopsia night vision while driving
- Causes of sudden loss of color vision during pregnancy
- The best eye lubricants for blurred vision
- The significance of Hermann von Helmholtz's contributions to ophthalmology
- An overview on retinex theory
- The design implications of color blindness
- Possible explanations for the inadequate signal capacity of optic nerves
- The history of optic aids
- The beginnings of geometrical optics
- The optical revolution in the Islamic world
- The significance of the Book of Optics
- Optics in medieval Europe
- The history of visual therapy
- Controversies regarding visual therapy
- Eye diseases that commonly affect women
- Eye protection and preventive measures against glaucoma
- How to improve eye sight of the elderly
- First Aid
- Sports therapy and the induction process with a patient
- Pediatrics
- Educational resources at the American Academy of Pediatrics
- The history of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- The public policy of the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Types of research done by the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Allergies
- Does acid reflux worsen asthma?
- Gym & Health Club
- Gym reviews: Work Out World in Norwood, Massachusetts
- Gym reviews: Work Out World in Randolph, Massachusetts
- Gym reviews: Work Out World in Waltham, Massachusetts
- Gym reviews: Work Out World in Waltham, Massachusetts
- The best Dallas area Bally's fitness centers
- The best fitness centers in Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Surgery
- Gastric bypass surgery: Is it safe?
- Should smokers and the obese be denied coronary artery bypass surgery?
- Autism
- Is birth control for autistic teens appropriate?
- Are the MMR vaccine links to autism unfounded?
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar disorder: Illness or excuse?
- Can eating organic foods help with bipolar disorder?
