A fantastic program that teaches young children with cancer how to control their mind and practice karate has helped many kids to fight against this disease. The “Kids Kicking Cancer” program originally started from Detroit is now gained popularity all around the world. Watch this amazing video to learn more: [Image: AalonBreads.net]
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We had a request here at PositiveMed to inform about this particular diet, so here it is: The Blood Type Diet is a nutritional diet advocated by Peter D’Adamo, the premise of this diet being that your blood type determines the food and exercise you need to be healthy. Food is divided into 3 categories
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Although the best way to detect breast cancer is mammograms, self-exam is also beneficial for early detection. Self-exams have to be performed once a month in a certain day of the menstruation cycle. According to the Johns Hopkins Medical Center: “Forty percent of diagnosed breast cancers are detected by women who feel a lump, so
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This drink was featured on The Biggest Loser along with other weight loss tips. You should drink at least three 8 oz glasses per day, they say the longer it sits, the better it tastes. You can eat them as well but they are intended as flavoring and still work, so that is a personal
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A study by Rush University Medical Center and Illinois Institute of Technology presented their findings at the 98th Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago that shows a positive correlation between brain health and simple mental activities like reading, writing, playing games, and doing puzzles. This study was headed by Associate Professor in the
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This is not so much a blog post as it is a vent session. Today I hurt so much even my hair hurts. I am jealous of every disease free person on the planet. I am unable to bend enough even to take my clothes out of the dryer, I am unable to fix myself
What is the main reason to drink diet soda? If you’re like most people, it’s to lose weight, or reduce calories and sugar. Studies keep showing a corresponding weight gain in those using artificial sweeteners compared to those using sugar. Non-nutritive sweeteners, or NNS, are 200 times sweeter than sugar, so you can use much
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This useful infographic is titled “The Obesity Crisis: How the Expanding Waistline is the American Front(ier)” and provides interesting facts about the obesity epidemic in America and impact it is having on the economy, military, and healthcare. Image courtesy of Cascade Healthcare Solutions
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Hunter Doherty “Patch” Adams was born in the spring of 1945, in 1971 he founded the Gesundheit Institute (Gesundheit means “good health”) and changed the face of medicine forever, literally. He encourages the use of clown noses, humor, empathy, and compassion for starters. The Institute is free and open to those who need services, he
Going through a divorce is tough, really tough. Going through a divorce during the holidays is excruciating. Everything you have known about the holidays changes, and if you have children it is complicated exponentially. There are few situations that inspire more anxiety than figuring holiday schedules for children and planning how you will fill the
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Five Warning Signs That Your Child is Using Drugs Raising a teenager can be trying, but living with one suffering from addiction creates a host of new challenge that need to be handled delicately, says Johnny Patout, CEO of New Beginnings Recovery Center, the leading teen residential treatment program in the Southwest and one recognized
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Previously we did an article about what sleeping positions mean emotionally, now we are looking at how they affect us physically. For those of you who sleep on your back, you make doctors the happiest. This position puts the least stress on the shoulders, neck, and spine, ideally without a pillow. This is also more
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Vaseline is a lot like baking soda; it’s cheap, plentiful, and has a variety of uses! Here are just a handful of the beauty benefits Vaseline can provide. · Helps remove eyelash glue, make-up, and hair-removal wax from skin – use a Q-tip for spot-removal · Lubricates the skin to help make plucking and
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3 amazing photos of people who beat cancer. These photos are circulating in the internet, so we don’t know their source and the inspirational people behind these photos. Enjoy! Today, I am officially 10 years cancer free! Here is a before and after photo to show how far I’ve come. Kicking cancer’s ass 10 years
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David Smith, once making headlines for his extreme weight loss, gained 250 pounds in the past two years. Now he vows once again to go back to gym and lose the weight. Three year ago David was around 650 pounds, but with the help of TLC, he lost more than 400 pounds, found the love
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A new study published in The Journal of Pediatrics shows that your child’s birth date might influence his/her performance in school. The children who are younger in a class perform worse on tests than their older classmates.In addition, younger students are significantly more diagnosed as Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) children and are often prescribed
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I’m not getting fit so some guy will love me I’m not getting fit so people can stare at me in a bikini I’m not getting fit for the compliments I’m getting fit so I can be healthy So I can feel good about myself So I can be proud and say, “My hard
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Sneezing is one of the important functions of the body. It helps the immune system to fight against germs by clearing the nose of bacteria and viruses. Interestingly, sneeze happens because of some nerves that are triggered by a stimulus and this happens only when we’re awake. So during sleep we don’t sneeze. Sneeze is so
