by Dr. Ron on May 4, 2009
in Cleansing For Weight Loss, Intelligent Nutrition
Here are ten of my favorite healthy snack recipes.
When you know which categories of foods are healthy you can start getting creative with your healthy snack ideas. Contrary to popular belief, snacking is very beneficial. It helps to refuel your body, maintain blood [...]
Constipation, the most common digestive complaint in the U.S. population, can make life miserable. Not only does constipation make you feel bloated, headachy, and irritable, but relieving constipation – especially long – term or chronic chronic constipation – is time consuming and expensive. Each year in the U.S., chronic constipation leads to around 2.5 million [...]
Everybody knew that a complete overhaul of the nation’s health care system was going to be an expensive undertaking. But just how expensive started to become a little more clear this week when the Congressional Budget Office slapped a preliminary price tag of $1 trillion over 10 years on an incomplete version of one Senate [...]
Master this toe-curling, step process and she’ ll be yours forever.
1. Make her a Thai footbath. Slice up half a lime and put in a bowl of warm water. Rest her feet in the water while you rub the bottoms of them with the other half of the lime, using it as a scrubber. The acid [...]
In Washington, some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix. It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That’s the theory from surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School, published online in a scientific journal this week.
For generations, [...]
Crohn’s Disease is a chronic illness of children and adults in which the intestines (bowel) become inflamed. The disease affects the full thickness of the intestinal wall and this inflammation can lead to serious complications that may require surgery. The condition typically affects the lower part of the small intestine (ileum), although it can occur [...]
Smiles may take a while, but a horrified expression is a sure-fire attention getter US researchers said recently, based on a study of how fast people process facial expressions. They believe fearful facial expressions make a beeline to the alarm center of the brain known as the amygdale, cuing humans to potential threats. We think [...]
Survival is no better or no worse among breast cancer patients who have used the birth control pill, according to a report in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. The findings are broadly reassuring, Dr. Herbert R Peterson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said. There just does not appear to be any [...]
Overweight children seen in the ER for an asthma flare-up are more likely to be admitted to the hospital than their non-overweight peers, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics. Moreover, this finding holds true regardless of illness severity. “This is the first study in children to examine the relationship between over-weight and hospital [...]
If you pass it on to your partner, Chlamydia can cause inflammation that may block your partner’s tubes or harm her reproductive organs. But if researchers are to be believed, the sexually transmitted infection can also make you infertile by damaging the quality of your sperm.