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Cancer Treatment
According to the American Cancer Society, nearly 1.4 million people were diagnosed with cancer in 2005. The victims are fairly evenly divided, with males having a slight lead at 51 percent. The causes are seemingly too complicated to unravel. The...
Challenge or opportunity
Gratitude as Motivator for change, a love letter
Ok, so you got a lousy diagnosis (I did)*. Darn it! Damn it!
This was not part of the plan. OK, deal with it. Do what you
have to do. Ask questions. Have tests. Have consultations....
Health Benefits of Olive Oil
Why should you use olive oil? Well there are several reasons.
Substituting olive oil, a monounsaturated fat, for saturated
fats or polyunsaturated fats can:
* Reduce blood pressure
* Inhibit the growth of some cancers
* Benefit...
Poisons Under Your Sink: Hidden Dangers of Cleaning Products
The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) has recorded many exposures to household cleaning substances that were serious enough to require treatment in a health care facility. Incredibly, according to the AAPCC the largest...
The facts about cosmetic surgery.
Cosmetic surgery is big business now, the advances of science and technology meaning it has become more affordable and much more accessible for anyone to consider it. Far from breast enhancements being the only option anymore, there are operations...
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Facts - You never knew - have a look
3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria.
A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurone disease.
A popular superstition is that if you put a piece of bread in a baby's crib, it will keep away diseases.
Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excesseive use of alcohol.
Deliberately infecting people with malaria has been used to cure different viral infections. The high fever will strengthen the immune system and fight the virus. In recent times this has been considered as a treatment to HIV.
Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.
Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes.
Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer.
Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer.
Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight.
On average, 90% of the
people that have the disease Lupus are female.
Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.
Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
People that use mobile phones are 2.5 time more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain that are adjacent to the ear they use to talk on the mobile phone.
Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia a person may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks.
Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer.
The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people.
The incidents of immune system diseases has increased over 200% in the last five years.
The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats.
The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy.
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