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JJ Virgin
Overcoming The Weight-Loss Saboteurs In Your Life
by JJ Virgin
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You've likely encountered them in spades along your journey: friends, family, and coworkers who covertly or overtly attempt to sabotage your fat loss efforts.One thing’s for certain: they inevitably will appear, usually during your weakest, most vulnerable moments. Save for a few psychologically, um, challenged folks, I don’t think most people are evil. Regardless, for whatever deluded or other misguided... 5/18/2015 7:00:00 AM
Erin Williams MSN CN LMP
How To Get the Most Nourishment Out of Every Meal
by Erin Williams MSN CN LMP
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Food is what fuels our bodies; it is nourishment, and to nourish is to feed or sustain with substances necessary for life and growth. Unfortunately, with our present-day lifestyles, most of us do not make the effort to holistically nourish ourselves. We strive for increased health and want to prevent disease so turn to diet, supplements, or exercise, but we often overlook the importance of an interesting... 5/17/2015 9:00:00 PM
Brian Quinn
4 Things You Need to Know About Obamacare 2015
by Brian Quinn
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It's that time of year again: Obamacare's health insurance enrollment for 2015 coverage is now underway. During this period, consumers will be able to enroll in new health insurance plans without worrying about being turned down by insurance companies. While the focus is mostly on uninsured consumers in the US, those who enrolled last year should also know that there are additional steps they should... 5/13/2015 7:00:00 AM
Laurel Christensen
What Are They Doing With Your Fitness Tracker Data?
by Laurel Christensen
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Telehealth, or online mediated patient care, could very well be the future of healthcare. I don't think most people can yet envision not going to see a doctor when medical issues arise, especially when it comes to young children, but more and more people are giving it a try these days. It's hard not to with so many services and apps popping up that make it just so easy to try.However, telehealth hasn’t... 5/12/2015 9:00:00 PM
NaturallySavvy
Label Lessons for Healthy School Lunches
by NaturallySavvy
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Packing healthy lunches for the kids can be downright stressful. How can you be sure that you are packing your kid's lunch box with foods that are both delicious AND nutritious? These days, food companies can be deliberately deceitful with misleading and seductive marketing. How do you know you're not just feeding your kids sugar, GMOs and chemicals dressed up in "natural" packaging? Avoid the Scary... 5/12/2015 7:00:00 AM
Dr. Alexandra Emmons
Too Much Mental Noise? Simple Trick Actually Works
by Dr. Alexandra Emmons
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Our culture is abuzz with the benefits of mindfulness meditation and the idea of “meditation for at least 20 minutes a day” as a bare minimum upon which to start your practice. For busy people with busy lives, calming, and ideally quieting your mind for even 10, let alone 20 minutes sounds like a far cry from reality. Don’t get me wrong, I wholeheartedly support meditating for 20 minutes.But, what... 5/12/2015 7:00:00 AM
Fred Fletcher
Public Health--15 Irrefutable Certainties (Part 1 of 3)
by Fred Fletcher
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In spite of the fact that we collectively know more about health issues than at any other time in history, it can also be said that most people today are more confused about what constitutes definitive/conclusive health knowledge than at other times in history. To put it more bluntly, the huge number of discoveries, epiphanies and accomplishments of modern times, far from necessarily making people... 5/12/2015 7:00:00 AM
Dr Andreas Movement Therapy and Muscle Rehab
Headache Sufferers Beware: Your Remedy May Increase Risk
by Dr Andreas Movement Therapy and Muscle Rehab
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If you are one of the 12 percent of Americans that get migraine headaches, you may want to think twice before reaching for that medication that seems to work only part of the time. I know, it’s crazy to think that in the midst of one of these episodes that you could even stop and think, but there is good reason to try to respond to these incidents naturally and go for the long-term relief rather than... 5/12/2015 4:00:00 AM
Fred Fletcher
Gluten in McDonald's Fries--The Final Verdict
by Fred Fletcher
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It's a wonder some people don't get whiplash by trying to keep up with the latest findings regarding the many controversial or unsettled health issues in the news. Sometimes the uncertainty arises from changing circumstances, new findings through health studies/surveys, public appeals or demonstrations (most often carried out these days through social media and Internet discussion forums), laws or... 5/5/2015 7:00:00 AM
Laurel Christensen
A Revolution in Health Care
by Laurel Christensen
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Two words describe the march of telehealth: steady and forward. On nearly a weekly basis, states all over the country are voting the legal architecture into place that will pave the way for telehealth to become an important fixture in modern healthcare service. Legislators from Idaho to Florida and executives from diverse healthcare companies agree; telehealth is the future of healthcare. We must ask:... 5/5/2015 7:00:00 AM
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