Health Articles

As our bodies age, there's no doubt that we need different things than we used to. The human body is a complicated assembly of bones, muscles, and joints that can all function well into our golden years - as long as we know how to take care of them. But what works when you are young may not work as well as you become older.

"I was lonely. I was just going to have one drink. I know that I can never just have one, and I didn't. I barely remember what happened. I'm lucky that I wasn't hurt too badly and that I didn't kill someone else. My new $35,000 Saab is gone and I had to spend the night in jail. I'm so ashamed. This is the last time. I‘m done with drinking. You know the worst part? I want a drink right now! I wish I took your advice, and started the Prometa treatments."

"I wish I'd researched the alternatives first, Dawson!" moaned my peppy red-haired friend Bill, holding his head despairingly in his hands. "But we just plunged right into surgery and radiation when Janice was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She became feeble. Her immune system is weak. The treatment almost killed her. It's been almost two years since she's been able to eat solid food."

You feel nervous about a talk you have to give this evening. But, you try a new technique you have heard about. Your fear dissolves in ten minutes and you deliver a great talk.

While the term schizophrenia comes from the Greek term 'split mind', that is not the entire story of this mental disorder. Often confused with multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that plagues many people in society today. But what's more striking about this disease is the lack of proper diagnosis in many patients and the improper management of the disease.

Exercise does wonders for the mental and emotional, as well as the physical. The way cardio and aerobic sets can sculpt the muscles into optimal condition, so goes the effect on the brain and nervous system. Endorphins, euphoria inducing natural chemicals, as well as other exercise-produced chemicals have positive effects on the aging brain in the areas of improved memory and staving off dementia. Other advantages of exercise are as follows:

A misconception about depression is that if a person feels intense sadness for a small period of time in reaction to some event, then that is depression. Not to imply that depression cannot be in reaction to an event, but crying after the loss of a life in the family is not depression- that is called the grieving process. That process is necessary and healthy, capable of lasting days.

In order to manage cholesterol, you, first have to know what it is and what it does. Only then, is it possible to understand it and find a way to control unhealthy levels. This may mean changing the way you live and adopting a healthy or healthier lifestyle. It may mean a change in eating habits or a resolve to lose weight. It all depends upon the levels of cholesterol in your blood and what your doctor determines is right for you.

History credits Napoleon with saying: "An army marches on its stomach." He could well have stated, "A healthy army marches on a healthy digestive system." In fact, a hale and hearty digestive system is responsible for overall general health. To maintain and keep it sound involves three things: what you eat, when you eat it and proper exercise.

The Omega fatty acids are an integral part of any healthy diet. Known, simply as essential fatty acids (EFA), Omegas are nutritional elements our bodies cannot produce. The two fatty acids known as Omega -3 and Omega-6 are essential for a healthy body. Omega -9 is another fatty acid considered a part of the Omega equation of 3-6-9. Most available information, however, relates to why Omega-3 and Omega-6 are essential to your health.