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Feverfew for Migraine Relief

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Many Americans suffer from nagging headaches. For most people the pain is minor, an annoyance that comes and then goes away after a few hours. Others experience a more intense and severe pain know as a migraine headache. It is estimated that migraine headaches affect over 28 million people in the United States. Headache is […]

Stress and Headaches

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Do you seem to get headaches frequently? Stop looking for another pill to pop and try to identify the source of these headaches, which may be brought on by stress. Chronic headaches may come from one of three sources: 1. Stress and Tension – Stress has a way of accumulating like the clutter in your […]

Plant Foods Help Prevent Cancer

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Scientists are having to de­velop new paradigms regarding human nutrition and health. In the past, it was believed that dietary needs were achieved by ingesting adequate amounts of both macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats and proteins) and the micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). Discoveries in the last decades have highlighted the importance of other minor dietary constituents, hitherto […]

Quenching the Fires of Heart Disease

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Summer was the busiest and best season for Ken, the owner of a small-engine repair shop. But Ken’s long hours and hectic schedule were interrupted—permanently. At age 46, overweight and a smoker, Ken’s first symptom of heart trouble was his last—he fell victim to a sudden, fatal heart attack. Ken had been sure he was […]

Reversing Diabetes

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Jimmy was a big baby—10 pounds at birth. By age ten, he tipped the scales at 150 pounds. Just baby fat, his mother reasoned. He will grow out of it. Jimmy did grow out of it and into something worse: diabetes. By age thirteen he was twenty pounds heavier, tired all the time, and constantly […]

Autoimmune Disease – Why Does the Body Attack Itself?

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Autoimmune Disease: Why Is My Immune System Attacking Itself? With this title, Dr. Ana Maria Orbai published an article on autoimmune diseases on the Johns Hopkins Medicine website. Let’s now analyze why, in these diseases, the body starts to attack itself. According to Dr. Orbai, a rheumatologist at the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, autoimmune diseases […]