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Vitamins and Minerals: How to Get What You Need
Getting enough vitamins and minerals is essential to keeping your body healthy. It’s best to get these through your diet… lot of food choices rich in vitamin D. In fact, some primary food sources of vitamin D come from foods that have added vitamin D…
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Talking to Your Doctor About Your Mental Health
About 1 in 5 people will experience mental illness in their lifetime. Talking with your doctor about your mental health… you aren’t feeling better, your doctor may have other ideas on ways to treat you. This could include changing your medicine, adding another medicine, or…
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The Exercise Habit
Daily exercise is a good habit and important for a healthy mind and body… less likely to cause injuries than running or jogging. Walking doesn’t require training or special equipment, except for appropriate shoes. In addition, walking is an aerobic and weight-bearing exercise, so it…
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Surgery for Obesity
Weight loss surgery can be called bariatric surgery. It involves surgically reducing the size of your stomach so your body… are some simple measures you can apply every day to make a significant difference over time. Increase your current physical activity by adding 10 minutes…
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Caring for Your Premature Baby
A baby’s birth can be a happy time. However, it can be stressful if your baby is born premature. Premature… requires dividing your time between the hospital and caring for your children at home. One or both parents may need to take additional time away…
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Common Sports Injuries
Common sports injuries sideline many people each year, especially young athletes as they begin to compete at younger ages… you can manipulate it cover the injury. Compression. Keeping pressure on the injury will also help with swelling. It will also provide additional support. An elastic…
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Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of heart disease. It is caused by blocked blood vessels. Learn… lung bypass machine to pump for your heart. Another type is cardiac rehabilitation. Your doctor can prescribe this instead of or in addition to surgery…
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Prediabetes
Prediabetes is when your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be called diabetes… Remember the big picture. The day-to-day decisions you need to make can be hard. But in the long run, they add up to make you a…
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Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol abuse is a pattern of drinking too much alcohol too often. This can harm your work, school, and… What is alcohol abuse? Alcohol abuse, also called alcohol misuse is a serious problem. It is a pattern of drinking too much alcohol too often…
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“Why do I smoke?" Quiz
People smoke for different reasons. Knowing why you smoke can be the first step on the road to quitting… Why do I smoke? If you learn the answer to this question, it will be easier to stop smoking. Knowing why you smoke will help you…
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"Do I Want to Quit?" Quiz
Learn how you feel about smoking and how you can use this information to help you quit… How do you feel about quitting smoking? Put a check mark next to the statement below that best describes how you feel about quitting smoking: ____ I like…
