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Healthy Heart

Eat as many of these heart healthy foods as you can! & make sure you’re getting enough of these essential nutrients – Here are some of the top heart healthy foods – That’s a diet that’s easy to live with, isn’t it? Lots of good stuff! Alcohol – 1 drink a day for women, and…

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Headaches

Did you know that something as simple as being dehyrated can cause headaches? Try drinking water first. Other things that can cause headaches are – a lack of fiber, B Vitamins, Vitamin E, Magnesium, or calcium, eye strain, and high blood pressure. When I was much younger, I had monthly headaches. A kindly pharmacist told…

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Gum Disease

Double your vitamin C intake. Take your vitamin C supplements alone before meals. I take 500 mg. before breakfast and again before dinner. I tried the special toothpastes, the rinses,the cranberry juice, apple cider vinegar… nothing worked, until I got a cold. Getting a cold is rare for me, but I doubled my vitamin C….

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Gout

Eat foods low in purine. (Purine increases uric acid levels.) Low purine foods – Nuts, eggs cheese, pasta, chocolate, ice cream, citrus fruits, coffee, low fat dairy, yogurt, wine Avoid – beer, hard liquor, iron rich foods, Purine rich foods – Meat, especially pork, seafood, poultry, cauliflower, kidney beans, lentils lima beans, mushrooms, oats, bran,…

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Gas

Gas is an embarrassing problem that many associate with a healthy diet. It’s not true. I used to have that problem, really bad (ask my daughter) â€“ and now I hardly ever have gas. Slow down and chew your food to make sure no large pieces are making it into your digestive tract. Seriously. This one…

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Gallbladder

With gallbladder problems, simpy avoiding fats like the plague – most importantly, bad fat – especially trans fats, will bring you a lot of comfort. Also avoid foods with high glycemic load like pasta, red meat, processed flour. Do eat things like bran, flax, leafy greens, citrus fruits, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, coffee, tea, Olive…

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Flu

Nothing seems to strike fear more than the annual flu season. To really make sure you have a fighting chance, you want to eat a healthy diet. But if you do happen to catch it, here are some foods to Make flu feel better faster – (or use these foods as extra prevention) Garlic Echinacea Cayenne…

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Fibromyalgia – is Chiropractic care effective?

Is Chiropractic care effective for Fibromyalgia? To help answer that question, twenty-one rheumatology patients aged 25-70 suffering from fibromyalgia (muscular pain characterized by muscular tautness/stiffness, well defined tender/trigger points, numbness, tingling and pain) were studied to demonstrate chiropractic’s effect on this condition. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the effectiveness of chiropractic management…

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Fever

Oh, you know that feeling… you’ve got a fever. But who has time to be sick? Here’s what you can do to break a fever – Eat spicy foods with Cayenne pepper or chili peppers. Drink fresh lemon juice. Sqeeze some into a glass of water. Drink lots of fluids (water, juice, green tea, chicken broth)…

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