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Asthma Treatments - With Relievers and Preventers?
There are two types of treatments to reduce the symptoms and
effects of an asthma attack using drugs that resemble two of our
natural hormones.
These are adrenaline (epinephrine in the USA) and the steroid
hydrocortisone and they form the...
CONSEGRITY - Beyond Medical Management
Dr. Mary Lynch was a traditionally-trained orthopedist specializing in sports medicine for 15 years. After her partner was killed in a plane crash 15 years ago, she resolved to follow heart and immerse herself in the reasons why what she had been...
Long Live Viagra!
Sex had always been a hush-hush matter with in the four walls of the bedroom of a couple; but now the social taboo is fast seen reversing. Thanks to the anti-impotency oral pills like Viagra. Men have never been so open about their sexual actions...
Prostate Cancer with Low PSA
One of the problems with screening tests for cancer is that there is an assumption that if you have a negative test, you don't have cancer. Many people just don't realise that you can have cancer with a negative screening test. For prostate cancer...
Travelers Diarrhea Help With Herbal Medicine
Travelers visiting many tropical, sub-tropical and developing countries run an increased risk of suffering a gastrointestinal illness. These are usually caused by bacteria, parasites and viruses. The microscopic bugs at the top of these rather gut...
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Vitamins: To Be or Not to Be?
Nutrition as it applies to our daily lives means that we take in
what we need to maintain our body's healthy state. Nutrition has
become an important word thanks to the involvement of the USDA
in our daily food requirements, and the FDA's involvement in
determining what is and is not dangerous for us to consume.
But what is our responsibility in the nutrition game? Do we
understand what our nutritional requirements are, how to fulfill
those requirements, and how to look for real nutritional value
in our foods? I'm not sure that nutrition has been successfully
addressed in its own right. We hear nutrition in relation to our
vitamin intake, our fortified cereals and milk, and in the
context that we need "nutritional value" from our food choices.
But we don't often stop to think, what do we really need in
nutritional supplements?
Vitamins and minerals are more readily available to us than
ever before, and we're still no better equipped to actually
determine what we need to take, than we were forty years ago.
Just because we see the latest advertisement about a particular
vitamin and decide the symptoms of deficiency apply to us, does
not mean we need to rush out and purchase the product. The
symptoms of deficiency for lots of vitamins and minerals are the
same or overlapping. What we need is a way to detect, on an
individual basis, what our body's lack, and then plan a
suggested nutritional solution.
The complete lack of unity between our medical field and the
herbal field, (this is the field that vitamins and minerals
belong to) is a disgrace in a country so forward thinking as the
United States.
But it is also where we fall short in providing
our citizenry with the tools they need to make better, informed
decisions. The medical field has long resented any contact that
patients might make with herbalists, vitamins and minerals, or
any other proposed health aid, that wasn't directly related to
medicine.
Thanks to this prevalent attitude among most all doctors, we
have missed great opportunities to advance a generation's
health. If you were to take a cross section of the population,
and check for adequate levels of the most used and fortified
vitamins and minerals, you would probably find the as high as
80% or the population is lacking in a least one of the vitamins
and minerals. Now, that doesn't sound too bad, until you stop to
think, what if it's calcium? A calcium deficiency brings on
osteoporosis, a deteriorating of the bone. This disease alone
costs millions in medical expense to the population.
Can you see how a little more cooperation and open-minded
participation on the part of our medical field could result in
far fewer health problems? It would also have provided the
general population with a viable way to discern their vitamin
and mineral needs, accurately. Blood tests, urine tests, and
other simple office procedures would provide the vast majority
of the information needed for us to arm ourselves, and head off
to the health store. Preventive medicine comes in all shapes,
forms, and tablets!
About the author:
Tony Robinson is a CEO and Webmaster. He has a young family and
a keen interest in health and fitness. Visit his site at
http://www.be-well-and-fit.com
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