Category: Health issues

Gut Health and Weight Loss

Do you have trouble losing extra weight even though you’re exercising regularly and eating healthy foods?

Starving yourself to lose weight isn’t good for your body, and a super hard-core exercise program may not be the answer, either. These are both extremes, most people’s needs fall somewhere in between.

So let’s take a closer look at something that’s becoming a near epidemic in Western culture, because it very well may apply to your situation.
Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a bacterial community to keep YOU healthy.

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5 Ways To Improve Mobility With Arthritis

For many people, especially the elderly, arthritis is a debilitating illness. Arthritis causes increased inflammation around the joint that can lead to immobility and pain.

While there are conventional medical treatments that are available for people with arthritis, many wonder what can be done along with medication to help improve mobility with their arthritis. In fact, there are many natural methods to help manage pain and improve mobility.

This article will show you five different alternative therapies and treatments that can help you manage your daily arthritis symptoms and mobility issues.

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Life Stressors : Anxiety and Depression

 Anxiety and Depression are life stressors.

 It’s perfectly normal to feel anxious or depressed from time to time in response to life’s stressors.
However when these feelings become prolonged, disproportionate or apparent for no significant reason and are affecting normal daily functioning, they need to be addressed.

Thankfully diagnosis and treatment methods have come a long way, with many public mindfullness campaigns working towards bringing mental dis-eases  ‘out of the shadows’.

 The co-occurrence of anxiety and depression is a noted feature of these disorders, while behavioral and emotional symptoms may differ within the two, the fact remains they are both an unnatural and unwelcome state of mental health.
Characterized by a constant overwhelming state of fear or worry, anxiety can be debilitating too in its physical manifestations.
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