About 80 percent of premature myocardial infarctions or heart attacks can be prevented. This is good news for us all. However, if you want to avoid cardiovascular disease, you have to work for it.

It begins with a healthy lifestyle. Doctors recommend avoiding alcoholic beverages and tobacco products. If you are keen on living a long and healthy life, you will engage in regular physical activity and be mindful of what you eat as well.

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Sleep is one of the integral parts of our life as we spend around 33% of our lives sleeping. So what we rest on can significantly affect the nature of our rest. 

Our surroundings directly affect the quality of our sleep. It is obvious that our sleep gets influenced by our surroundings. What we have in our rooms may have a serious effect on our rest. So everyone understands it well that no article should be there what is physically nearer to us when we think of having rest than our bedding and bed. So it is the bedding that has a great impact on our life as a comforter at sleeping time. In modern times many beddings numerous beddings items are available in the market. Preferences of bedding characteristics are also very personal.  

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Chronic pain is one of the intolerable symptoms of many illnesses in the health sector, and there are billions of people across the globe live in pain. Pain medications are out there including the synthetic painkillers and things like morphine, but all these have significant side effects, which will further make the use of these very unsafe over time. In such a scenario, the proven alternative pain medications like hemp oil are helping a lot of people with arthritis, injury-related, and various other types of chronic pain symptoms.

One major advantage of using natural pain medications like CBD is that it won’t cause any dependency on people as like the general pharmaceutical pain killers. People suffering from chronic pain are always on the lookout for less harmful alternative pain medicines to get a long-term impact. Plant-based treatments like frankincense or turmeric have already been used as natural pain therapies. The use of cannabidiol in treatments has centuries-long tradition. However, it is only recently that the formal medical sector acknowledged to its impact in treating pain and researches have been conducted to testify its efficacy. 

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What we heard at our childhood as nursery rhymes too were motivational in some sense or other. Such songs are good for the mind and soul of the kids of all age. Simple motivational songs can teach many valuable lessons of life and help boost the morale of the little ones. Researches have proved that such songs will help to conjure up some strong memories in them to be revered for the rest of the lifetime.

A song for kids can be considered motivational if there is a positive message or a life principle embedded in it. To make it a favorite to kids, the lyrics should be simple and words presented in rhythmic perfection to make it enjoyable to recite.

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Even after training righteously and following the perfect lifestyle and diet, one may fail to achieve the fitness goals as desired for. But this should not break anyone down or lose half the hope over it. Instead of going back to the otherwise unhealthy lifestyle one should think and sort out what went wrong during the regime. Was the achieving target unrealistic or just because the whole episode was weary you lacked the enthusiasm and motivation to go on? 

Sometimes working out alone can get the worst side of an individual. The disturbing thoughts keep invading the mind and soon demotivate the pursuer. The reason most resolutions of achieving a good and healthy body fails is because people lose the motivation.

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We all know the importance of leading a healthy life. Your physical, mental, and social well-being reflects in the way you take care of your health. If you haven’t been in good shape recently, don’t worry. You can make use of these easy tips to slowly get started. Here are 6 changes you can introduce in your lifestyle to manage your overall well-being.

1. Ensure Your Body Is Getting Good Nutrition

Haven’t you heard the phrase ‘You are what you eat’? It doesn’t mean you need to eat sugar-coated donuts to be sweet! The phrase simply means what you eat reflects on your body. Good nutrition is highly essential to promote a healthy lifestyle. 

Including fruits, vegetables, lean meat, and fiber-rich food will ensure that your body is getting enough vitamins, minerals, protein, healthy fats, and carbohydrates to function properly. If you have problems managing your weight, small diet changes will definitely show results. 

Try to replace confectionary items, sugary food, canned food, processed meats, and foods made from refined flour with healthy alternatives. If you are a smoker, try to quit the butt. Drinking less alcohol or stopping it altogether will be a bonus. 

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By Don Colbert, MD

For those who care about maintaining their health as they age, food and fitness alone aren’t enough to push back the aging process. If you really want to close the door on numerous diseases and get back to looking and feeling as great as you did when you were younger, the solution is in optimizing your hormones. 

Optimizing your hormones is different than balancing your hormones. Optimizing means that you get your hormone levels to the upper end or upper third of the normal range using bioidentical hormones. Note that natural and safe bioidentical hormones should not to be confused with synthetic hormones, which are less effective and known to have negative side effects.

Suboptimal hormone levels play a large role in many of the diseases and ailments associated with aging — obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, hypertension and more. Optimizing all your key hormones, including sex hormones, thyroid hormones, and adrenal hormones, is the key to disease prevention. 

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Do you want to shed some pounds, but have no idea how to do it? you might consider going to a gym and spending at least three to four hours of your day on those machines – but for many, gym memberships are expensive and the time to do it is not there.

The good news is, you are not alone in your struggle. A recent report coming from the CDCP (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), almost half of the adult population in America was trying to lose weight, though having a poor rate of success.

Even though it looks easier to exercise more and eat less in theory, the reality is much different. You are a busy adult, juggling several jobs, you get exhausted when you get home, and you are eating anything that is convenient enough to save time or get quick boosts in energy. The decision to change your lifestyle habits is one you cannot take lightly – it is one that requires commitment.

However, if you are a busy person with no time to join the gym, you do not need to despair. You can make small changes in your lifestyle that can lead to greater benefits. Read on for some of those tips. [Read more…]

Are you sad that you tend to forget about very simple things you shouldn’t be forgetting about? Does it bother you can’t remember the name of a colleague whom you got introduced to just a couple of days? Well, if you are experiencing such memory lapses, you should be concerned because they could be pointers to deep underlying mental issues, including the onset of conditions such as Alzheimer’s. But you should also be aware that you could be doing certain things that are total injustice to your memory. It is imperative that you identify such and keep away from them so that you can have a clean memory, always ready to retrieve information on a moment’s notice. Presented below are some of the things you may be doing that could be hurting your memory. [Read more…]