Tag: healthy living
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Preventing Diabetes with a Healthy Lifestyle
We’ve made great strides in a lot of diseases. Over the years death rates from heart disease continue to go down. Survival from cancers is going up. But one disease still keeps climbing and that’s diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is between 7% and 9% in adults. And it increases with age such that 1…
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Why I Started a Health Blog
It’s been three years, 135 posts (136 now with this one) and over 100 000 views since I started developing my health blog. I had just begun my sabbatical and one of my goals was getting the blog off the ground. I had no idea how to do it, but I figured since I enjoyed…
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How to Recognize Health Misinformation
From foods to skin creams to ice baths. We’re inundated with health misinformation. Products that say they’ll improve our health, cure disease and make us live longer. For some, the claims may be true, but for many, it can be hard to tell fact from fiction. While a lot of these products don’t live up…
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Got the winter blues? You’re not alone.
If you’re feeling the winter blues or getting down about the long dark nights, you’re not alone. The third Monday of January has been labelled as Blue Monday as one of the most depressing days of the year. It’s around this time post-holiday boredom sets in and people find their New Year’s resolutions faltering. And…