Preventing Disease contains 8 articles
Exercise Regularly to Reduce the Damage of Smoking
Categories: Preventing Disease

Most smokers understand that picking up a cigarette and smoking is not doing their body any favors. That doesn’t stop them from smoking on a regular basis, but that doesn’t mean they can’t help their body in other ways. If you are a smoker, and you are interested in reducing the impact cigarettes have on your [...]

New Routine? Waking Up an Hour Early to Stretch
Categories: Preventing Disease

Most people think of stretching as something you do at the gym before and after working out. However, for a healthy body, stretching should be a part of your daily routine whether you exercise or not. Stretching elongates your muscles and improves flexibility. It has many health benefits including helping with posture and alleviating back [...]

Basking in the Light – The Far-Reaching Effects of Vitamin D
Categories: Preventing Disease, Wellness

Who hasn’t appreciated the feeling of basking in the sun for a few minutes, especially after a stretch of cloudy and cold weather? Amazingly, science now shows us that sunshine has the power to lift our moods, strengthen our bones, and even keep our hearts healthy. I’ve been talking for years about the importance of [...]

Nutrition – The Key to Healthy Weight Loss
Categories: Preventing Disease, Wellness

Health and nutrition go hand in hand. From the time that we realize the importance of taking good care of our bodies, inside and out, we start paying special attention to what we eat. When we are kids our mothers are the ones that make sure we drink our milk every day and eat plenty [...]

Natural Ways to Heal Common Health Issues
Categories: Preventing Disease, Wellness

High blood pressure, high cholesterol, migraine headaches and arthritis are some of the most common health issues. There are numerous medications available to treat these conditions. However, it is important to note that most medications come with unwanted side effects. Fortunately, there are many effective natural remedies for treating high blood pressure, high cholesterol, migraine [...]

Improving Hypertension: Lowering Your Risk Of Heart Disease & More
Categories: Preventing Disease, Wellness

Our guest author today has experience in dealing with hypertension. Folks, this stuff kills! If you even suspect you have a problem take action immediately. The American Heart Association estimates that approximately 7.4 million Americans, and 1 in 3 adults have hypertension, or high blood pressure. There are also certain trends among ethnic groups when [...]

How To Be Immune To The Swine Flu
Categories: Preventing Disease

The world, and particularly the US, is awash these days with fear over the Swine Flu, with people wandering the streets and stores wearing masks to protect themselves from this coming ‘pandemic’ (which simply means disease spread over a large geographic area). The Swine Influenza paid us a visit in the 1970s but this is [...]

Functional Medicine: The Best Approach in Dealing With Common Chronic Diseases
Categories: Preventing Disease

Today we have an article from a guest writer, Dr. Douglas Husbands. His interesting subject concerns chronic disease treatment. I wanted to be certain that I understood exactly what was meant by "functional medicine" and here is the dictionary definition: Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes, instead of [...]