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7 Easy Switches to Healthier Eating

It can be hard to change the eating habits of a lifetime. But it becomes easier when we take an unhealthy or low-nutrition food and substitute for it something that's similar - but very healthy. It's amazing how just a relatively few dietary substitutions like this can make a huge difference in our health. Here are seven good such substitutions:

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Sports Medicine Doctor New York City

Dr. Steven Shoshany

Dr. Steven Shoshany

New York Integrative Medical and Rehab

632 Broadway, Ste 303 (btw. Bleecker & Houston)
NYC, NY 10012

Call: (888) 435-7155

Have you been sidelined or benched due to an injury? Can you no longer play your sport as well as you used to? Dr. Steven Shoshany can help you get back in the game. Dr. Shoshany is located at New York Integrative Medical and Rehab in New York City and has years of experience in sports medicine.

Salt - The Next Food Villain

Saturated fat, sugar, tobacco... and now salt. The medical field has now put sodium chloride, our most popular condiment, in its sights.

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Spinal Decompression Treatment Chesterfield, Virginia

Dr. Michael Mulvaney, DC

Dr. Michael Mulvaney, DC

Spinal Correction Center of Richmond

8536 Patterson Ave.
Richmond, Virginia 23229

Call: 888-804-5326

When you hear words like spinal decompression therapy, all sorts of distorted images can come to mind. It may have been perpetuated by the myth that those who undergo spinal manipulation are at a high risk of injury. In general, proper chiropractic treatment of your body's lumbar, or lower back region involves very little risk with significant rewards. Dr. Michael Mulvaney, DC is a licensed chiropractor serving the Chesterfield, Virginia clientele at his office at the Spinal Correction Center of Richmond.

Discovery Links Pre-Eclampsia to Diet

Women with the condition pre-eclampsia have been found with red blood cells containing unusually high levels of a compound found in unpasteurized food, according to research published in the journal Reproductive Sciences. The findings are important because they hint at the possibility of this compound, known as "ergothioneine", being an indicator of pre-eclampsia. Further down the line, researchers hope the compound will help them understand the currently unknown cause of the condition.


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Bulging Disc Brunswick County, NC

 Pamela Owens

Pamela Owens

At The Beach Chiropractic

6934 Beach Drive SW Suite 2
Ocean Isle Beach, NC 28469

Call: 910-575-2225

With the onset of bulging disc, your life can really become more complicated than necessary. While surgery is available to treat your particular condition, it can lead to a number of complications, making the cure just as bad as your condition. However, At The Beach Chiropractic Health Center in Brunswick County, NC, you can treat your condition in a way that is unconventional and, perhaps, even more effective than surgery. There, Dr. Pamela Owens and the rest of her team believe that their clients should get maximum benefits from treatment, making their wellbeing their top priority.

7 Factors That Make Us Eat More Food

The amount we eat every day is a factor not only of our genetics, the strength of our willpower or our metabolic rate. A lot more is at work, such as:


Time of day. Each of us gets into routines that psychologically "tell" our bodies we need food at the same time each day. "Part of the reason you're hungry at noon is because that's the time you've eaten for the last 100 days," said Randy Seeley, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati.



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Spinal Decompression Manhattan

Dr. Steven Shoshany

Dr. Steven Shoshany

New York Integrative Medical and Rehab

632 Broadway, Ste 303 (btw. Bleecker & Houston)
New York City, NY 10012

Call: (888) 435-7155

Has back pain taken over your life and left you inactive and unable to work or play? So often, problems in the spinal discs can lead to severe pain and traditional treatments like surgery or pain medication do little to actually help the source of pain. Located in Manhattan, Dr. Steven Shoshany of the New York Integrative Medical and Rehab has extensive experience in performing Spinal Decompression.

Organic Found to Have No Nutritional Edge Over Standard Food

From a nutritional standpoint, organically produced foods are no better than conventionally produced ones, according to research appearing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Though previous reviews have concluded that organic food is superior in nutritional content compared to conventionally produced food, no one has done a systematic review of the literature.


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Manhattan Metabolic Weight Loss

 Columbia University Medical Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery

Columbia University Medical Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery

Columbia University Medical Center | Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery

The Herbert Irving Pavilion,161 Fort Washington Avenue, 6th Floor, Room 620
NYC, NY 10032

Call: 888-857-1803

Are you tired of being obese? Have you tried exercise and diets, but nothing seems to work? Don't feel bad, many people today suffer from obesity. Often times, losing weight is impossible using traditional methods (diet and exercise). The reason is many people are genetically predisposed to obesity. Get the help you need from Dr. Marc Bessler, MD and the Columbia University Center of Obesity Surgery. Dr. Bessler has been the director of Columbia University Center of Obesity Surgery for over 10 years and specializes in many weight loss surgeries.

Obese Women's Newborns Have More Birth Defects

The fetuses of obese women have an increased risk of birth defects such as spina bifida and other neural tube defects, a recent analysis of previous studies showed.


Obesity is at epidemic proportions in the United States and in increasing numbers of countries around the world. Complications from the condition threaten to overwhelm the health-care system. For example, some evidence suggests that pregnant obese women are more prone to give birth to babies with abnormalities, known as congenital anomalies. Such abnormalities contribute significantly to stillbirth, infant death, preterm birth and childhood illnesses.



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Carpal Tunnel Brunswick County, NC

 Pamela Owens

Pamela Owens

At The Beach Chiropractic

6934 Beach Drive SW Suite 2
Ocean Isle Beach, NC 28469

Call: 910-575-2225

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a growing phenomenon that can be very painful as well as limiting. If you live in Brunswick County, NC, the professional more and more satisfied patients are turning to for quality care is Dr. Pamela Owens. Dr. Owens operates out of the state of the art At the Beach Chiropractic Health Center and can help ease your pain with quality chiropractic care.

Moderate Drinking Seems to Improve Bone Density

Drinking a glass or two of wine or beer a day appears to build bone density even better than calcium does, a recent study demonstrated – though drinking more, and consuming spirits instead of low-alcohol drinks, has the opposite effect.


The research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was done by Katherine Tucker of Tufts University in Boston and her colleagues.



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Spinal Decompression Uptown Manhattan, New York City

Dr. Steven S. Moalemi, M.D.

Dr. Steven S. Moalemi, M.D.

Empire Physical Medicine & Pain Management

551 5th Avenue Ste. 525
Manhattan, NY 10176

Call: (888) 898-7795

Back pain and neck pain are some of the most common conditions that affect the lives of Americans each year. However, fears of back surgery, injections for pain relief or long term use of medications like pain killers are normal and often dissuade sufferers from these risky options. Fortunately, there are effective options for the treatment of back pain that don't involve surgery. In Uptown Manhattan, Dr. Steven Moalemi, M.D. of Empire Physical Medicine & Pan Management serving all of New York City makes use of this technology, spinal decompression to get results and has been helping people get over pain for more than 15 years.

Expert Commentary: Dr. Micozzi, M.D. May 4, 2009

Water, water, everywhere… oceans, river, lakes, rain, snow… but in general, there is simply not enough in our bodies. Overall, the population is dehydrated.We are told that we should be drinking 8 to 10 glasses of H20 a day. But realistically who does that? So part of my agenda is to create a popular groundswell for drinking more water. It’s a simple, inexpensive way (you don’t have to buy premium bottled water) to support good health, prevent disease and fill fit throughout our lives.



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Anti Aging Henderson Nevada

Dr. Daniel Royal

Dr. Daniel Royal

New Hope Medical

9065 S Pecos Road, Suite 240
Henderson, Nevada 89074

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Over the last ten years, a much greater understanding of holistic health and its impact on Anti Aging treatments has revolutionized the practice at the New Hope Medical Center of Henderson, Nevada. Dr. Daniel Royal has years of experience of effectively building treatment plans that are best suited to the individual's physiological system.

More Exercise Induces Women to Eat Treats

Overweight women who engaged in exercise for one to two hours a week lost several pounds over six months without dieting. But paradoxically, those who exercised even more – three hours a week – failed to lose as much as expected.


The researchers, who published their findings in PLoSONE, a Public Library of Science online journal, speculated that the reason for this phenomenon was that the women who exercised the most rewarded themselves with food treats for their “sacrifice.”



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Sciatica Levittown, New York

 Turnpike Medical

Turnpike Medical

Turnpike Medical

3601 Hempstead Tpke.
Levittown, NY 11756

Call: 888-500-9360

If spasming, penetrating pain has taken away the joy of sitting down to relax on those rare days off of work there is a place that can help make your breaks meaningful again. The practitioners at Turnpike Medical Center in Levittown, New York will help you get better so you can finally relax.

Multivitamins Found Useless Against Top Killers

In a large, well-regarded study on women, daily multivitamin use was found to provide no protection at all against breast cancer, colon cancer, heart attack, stroke, blood clots or premature death.
   
Previous research has shown that eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables leads to lower rates of cancer, heart disease and other deadly disorders. But it’s been a question mark whether taking vitamin supplements does the same.



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Heavy-Metal Detox Bay Area Houston, Texas

 Richard W. Walker Jr., MD

Richard W. Walker Jr., MD

Healthe and Well PC

201 Enterprise Ave. Suite 800
League City, Texas 77573

Call: 888-450-2599

Are you or a loved one concerned about heavy-metal exposure? Most people don't realize how many toxic substances we're exposed to each day. They're in our food, water and even in our air. Little bit of exposure here and there doesn't do much but over time those heavy metals can do tremendous damage to our nervous and circulatory systems. At Healthe and Well, PC Richard W. Walker Jr., MD offers heavy-metal detox treatment to make sure you stay as healthy as possible. If you're searching for a way to keep your health, contact Healthe and Well, PC in Bay Area Houston, Texas today.