Archive for March, 2008

Book club blog: “Notes from a Minor Key”

This book is a memoir of a talented and driven woman; a musician, a wife, a mother, a person living with multiple sclerosis, but, first, foremost, and throughout the book, a woman! This book will be a little more difficult to divide …
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Calcium Supplementation During Menopause

Lastly, individuals with colon problems such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome have problems with calcium absorption as well as imbalances between calcium and phosphorous. …
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I Bleed and Bruise Easily, Will This Affect The Outcome Of A Hair

If you bleed or bruise easily then you may potentially have more temporary bruising following the hair transplant, but it will not affect the ultimate outcome of the hair transplant. If you scar badly or keloid this ultimately could …
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Miracles

Over at Children with Diabetes (now a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, more on that later), there was a thread that really got the emotions going. It was one of those threads that you can just tell by the title it’s going to get nasty …
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Communication key to a healthy heart

Participants of both groups had significant reductions in blood pressure, lipids and cardiovascular disease risk scores, and were able to walk farther distances. While researchers expected an improvement among the telemedicine group, …
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A low cholesterol diet.

A low cholesterol diet example is the ideal tool for helping people to create a healthy eating plan. Related Entries. Diet For Lowering Cholesterol; Diet To Lower Cholesterol; Cholesterol Diet; What Is Cholesterol; Low Cholesterol Diet.
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Nutrition Label–Monounsaturated/Polyunsaturated Fats?

In looking at nutrition labels on food items, you see the amount of total fat in grams, plus you see the amount of saturated fat in grams. However, you don’t see mono- or polyunsaturated fat. If there are 5 grams of total fat and 1 gram …
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Stress Relieving Sports

With crowded streets and sidewalks, back-to-back meetings and no waves to let loose on (no offense to Long Island), it’s no wonder we New Yorkers are generally more stressed than our West Coast…
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New Treatment Test For Alzheimer’s Disease From Lilly - Alzheimer

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) has announced today the start of a Phase III clinical trial studying LY450139, an investigational gamma secretase inhibitor for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. …
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Sunlight may reduce the risk of Multiple Sclerosis

Recent studies show that sunlight exposure may actually reduce the risk of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). MS is a nervous system disease that affects the brain and the spinal cord. It damages the myelin sheath, the material that surrounds and …
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