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Posts by linda-mundorff
According to the World Health Organization, there are more than one billion overweight people in the world, with at least 300 million of them struggling with obesity. In the United States alone, it is estimated that 50% of Americans are overweight with approximately 13% struggling with obesity. Most individuals would agree that diets work at taking off weight initially - the real problem lies in maintaining...
1/26/2011 10:17:06 PM
The news is out: Vitamin D is a hormone (not a vitamin) that targets more than 2,000 genes in the body that's 10 percent of the total number of genes in the human body. And that is not all. Deficiencies have been implicated in at least 17 different cancer types, cardiovascular disease, ankylosing spondylitis, birth defects, and more. Research in the health benefits of vitamin D started in England's...
6/4/2010 1:07:47 PM
Decades ago, little was known about the causal relationship between mold and its effects on the body. Mold (also known as fungus) thrives in moist environments; therefore, you can still develop a mold problem even if you live in arid climates such as Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, or Colorado. Exposure to mold will eventually develop into cold or allergy-like symptoms. Left untreated, mold exposure can...
4/16/2010 12:57:15 PM