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Five Intelligent Questions to Ask Your Doctor at Your Next Check-Up
If you’re relatively healthy, you probably only see your doctor on rare occasions when you go in for a check up. If you don’t see your doctor often, it is good to bring them up to speed on your diet, general health, lifestyle, and anything that is bothering you. A doctor will ask you […]
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4 Reasons Why Your Day Job is Killing You (Literally)
For some, work is a necessary evil of life—we work to pay the bills. For those of you who work full time, or perhaps more than 40 hours a week, you might have noticed a decline in your health since you started working. If you work a lot, you have less time to exercise, prepare […]
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Know the Signs: Five Signs of a Degenerative Eye Disease
Our vision is probably the most important sense we have because it allows us to see our surroundings. Losing the vision in our eyes is devastating, and it can truly affect a person’s quality of life. Degenerative eye disease is a common ailment that affects a person’s vision. Nonetheless, complete blindness isn’t the end result […]
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Beat the Odds – The Psychology of Addiction and 4 Ways to Overcome It
Years ago, people with addictions were seen as weak or morally corrupt. Today, we know that addiction has a biological and psychological basis. When certain areas of the brain are activated by the substance, a chemical called dopamine is produced. This creates a feeling of pleasure. This can prompt an impulse to seek out that […]
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Chronic Ailments? 5 Signs it is Time to See a Doctor
Many people may tend ignore aches, pains and other symptoms or may try to treat them at home without rushing off to the doctor. The fact is that many health issues will indeed clear up on their own over time. For example, you generally do not need to go to the doctor for treatment for […]