Who doesn’t love cake? However, we all know the importance of eating healthily and with the high sugar and saturated fat content in most cake recipes; they are a far cry from being good for our bodies. So if you are looking for something a little healthier, you are in the right place. Perhaps you…
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Big Toe Joint Pain: Causes and Solutions
Some people accept that aches and pains are just part of growing older. In fact, persistent pain is not something you should ignore. It does not happen without reason. Rather, it is your body warning you that something has gone wrong. [1] Pain in your feet can be particularly problematic and debilitating because you…
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Scientists Believe Genetic Imperfection Could be Associated with Discomfort in The Lower Back Area
These days, back pain is a very common disorder alongside back of knee pain, afflicting a large proportion of society, both young and old alike. The Global Burden of Disease Study of 2010 (1) estimated that back pain is in the top 10 diseases and injuries worldwide. Increasing in occurrence predominantly in the Western countries,…
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Dealing with Arthritis in Back: Natural Ways to Fight Pain
Back pain can make life miserable. It is something you are constantly aware of, and it affects all aspects of your life and movement. Whether you are sitting still, lying down or moving, back pain is a constant source of discomfort. If the cause of your back pain is a type of arthritis, it is…
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Rib Pain: How to Deal With it?
Our rib cage plays a hugely important role in protecting our cardiovascular system. Most people have 12 rib bones on either side of the rib cage in the thoracic cavity and often people can feel pain or discomfort of various levels under the rib cage. There are many potential reasons for rib pain, and it…
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Prediabetes Symptoms
Prediabetes is also commonly referred to as ‘borderline’ diabetes and is a metabolic condition and growing global problem that is closely linked to obesity. If undiagnosed or untreated, prediabetes can develop into type 2 diabetes; which, whilst treatable, is currently not fully reversible. The main problem is that prediabetes is usually not diagnosed as there…
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10 Foods to Lower Blood Sugar
For most of us, balancing our blood sugar level is something we take for granted, or at least don’t think about too much on a daily basis, but then again, most of us don’t know what our blood sugar level is either. However, for many people, dealing with blood sugar levels is part of a…
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How to Improve Your Long Term Memory
Our brains are incredibly complex organs, still partly undiscovered, and we hear lots about improving our short-term memory and trying to avoid dementia, but how about our long term memory? After all, it’s where all our knowledge is stored, so shouldn’t we be looking after it, nurturing it, giving it the five-star treatment? Our thoughts…
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Buttock Pain: How to Deal With it?
We’ve probably all used, or at least thought of a phrase, which describes the type of pain and the exact location we’re describing here, but buttock pain really can be a pain in the butt and it’s not funny as it can make walking, sitting or even sleeping painful and difficult, so we’ve identified three…
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Arthritis in the Neck: How to Avoid This Problem
Many terms are used interchangeably to refer to arthritis in the neck and these include cervical osteoarthritis, cervical spondylosis, or degenerative joint disease. Generally it is referred to as cervical osteoarthritis. Just as in your lumbar spine, the facet joints in the cervical spine can degenerate and lead to arthritis in the neck. What causes…
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