When you're in pain, you can feel overwhelmed. Nothing else seems to matter except finding a remedy to make the pain even a little less severe. The problem is, pharmaceutical companies have used the media and medical doctors to push pain-relief medications onto patients as the sole solution, to the tune of 259 million prescriptions annually, according to...
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The statistics regarding migraines are sobering: more than 39 million adults and children in the U.S. alone suffer; the worldwide impact is a shocking 1 billion. In fact, according to the Migraine Research Foundation, migraine is the third most common illness globally. The symptoms experienced by migraine sufferers are no less concerning: intense,...
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Liver cancer is barely in the top 10 in terms of frequency in the United States; it's the 10th most common cancer among men and the 8th most common among women. But don't let your guard down– since 1980, cases of liver cancer have tripled, and in 2018, more than 42,000 American adults were diagnosed with the disease and over 30,000 died from it.
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If you haven't realized how important sleep is to your overall health, you haven't been reading To Your Health for very long, much less witnessing how you feel – for better or worse – depending on how much / how little sleep you get. The latest research is for women specifically, suggesting that those who get even a little less sleep have an elevated...
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The key to getting – and staying – fit isn't necessarily the specific exercises you do or the precise foods you eat (or avoid); it's all about sticking with whatever plan you design for the long haul. And that means you need to make sure you don't sabotage your own fitness goals by getting injured or otherwise making it impossible to work out. After all,...
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Expectant mothers everywhere, think a little marijuana during your pregnancy won't harm your baby, especially since marijuana has been decriminalized in a number of states over the past few years? Think again. Here's why you should consider it as dangerous as alcohol to the health of your soon-to-be-born child.
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