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Iron is an important element in good health. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, iron deficiency can increase the risk that pregnant women will bear small or early-term babies. It can also cause developmental delays in infants. In adults it can cause fatigue. And in teens it can affect memory and [...]
Obesity is a major risk factor for a great many ailments, some of which are extremely grave. Yet losing weight can, to say the least, be difficult, particularly with all of the charlatan diets out there. Working hard at your program of diet and exercise, only to see little or no progress can be disheartening. [...]
Do you hate the common cold as much as I do? It leaves you feeling headachy, sniffly, stuffy and generally lousy, but it’s not severe enough for anyone other than your loved ones to commiserate seriously with you for your plight—and your loved ones are probably only feigning sincere compassion to humor you. And doctors [...]
In the hectic, hurly-burly whirlwind that is life for many of us, it is hard to find time for a salubrious exercise program. This isn’t a problem for me because I have an empty shell of an existence. To me, a busy day is when I have to make two trips to the garbage chute [...]
My previous post presented health and fitness tips. I also suggested that if that post was successful I might turn this into a blog devoted exclusively to health and fitness. At the time of writing, five people other than me had already left positive—or at least not entirely negative—comments on that post. That count is [...]
I don’t know about you, but I find food labels to be useless when it comes to making healthy choices. It’s never straightforward, is it? What if one product contains a lot of the stuff you want—fiber, proteins, and vitamins, for example—but also has a lot of the things you want to avoid such as [...]
Have you ever had one of those really bad colds where a steady and profuse stream of liquid flows out of both of your nostrils continuously for a couple of days (if you’ll excuse the rather disgusting imagery)? What I want to know is, how is it feasible to, in a single day, expel twice [...]
I greatly prefer the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a way of gauging what is a healthy weight as opposed to, say, considering solely waist size or percentage body fat. A measure that uses my height to weight ratio for that purpose simply makes intuitive sense to me. Although, I must admit that my choice [...]