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3 new places to get fit this fall in NYC

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3 new places to get fit this fall in NYC

Looking to shake up your fitness routine? Here's a look at new studios and gyms opening in New York City this fall, from a dance cardio workout to …
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Armed and ready for exercises

AS part of a spring overhaul we have discussed cardio, core and conditioning the legs and this week the focus is getting the arms into shape.
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8 Secrets to Surviving a Detox from a Juice Cleanse Founder

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8 Secrets to Surviving a Detox from a Juice Cleanse Founder

Use this fasting period as a time to take better care of yourself and allow your body to focus on the task of detoxification. Sleeping more helps manage …
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Supporting Element to Deal with these Poisonous Wastes

This has helped many people shed pounds and detoxify body. It has powerful antioxidants that cleanse your body.Eternity Naturals Cleanse product …
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Restricting calories may improve sleep apnea, blood pressure in obese people

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Restricting calories may improve sleep apnea, blood pressure in obese people

Restricting calories may improve sleep apnea and reduce blood pressure in obese adults. Those who restricted their calories had higher levels of oxygen in their blood and a greater reduction in body weight, a study has demonstrated.
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Smokers who consume too much sodium at greater risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis

The interaction between high sodium intake and smoking is associated with a more than doubled risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), research shows. “These findings will provide new insights into the aetiopathogenic process leading to the development of RA among smokers. The finding of sodium being a risk factor for the development of RA amoSee Original Article

Magnetic resonance helps detect, quantify fat in liver

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Magnetic resonance helps detect, quantify fat in liver

Excess weight causes important alterations in an organism, one of which affects liver function. Fat accumulates in the liver producing hepatic steatosis which can cause inflammation, fibrosis and cirrhosis. To date, the most reliable method for determining hepatic fat has been hepatic biopsy. Imaging techniques such as abdominal ecography detect, bSee Original Article

One third of patients enter hospital malnourished

About one in three patients enters the hospital with malnutrition, according to registered dietitians at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital of Loyola University Health System. This can lead to poor patient outcomes and longer hospital stays.
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How gardening helped cure my depression

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How gardening helped cure my depression

For Rachel Kelly, planting and pruning is more than just good gardening – it is a way out of depression
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Importance of Thyroid Hormone

Either too much or too little thyroid hormone can result in high blood pressure and/or heart failure. Hypothyroidism also causes cholesterol to go up, …
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Pasteurized, unpasteurized juices — what's the difference?

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Pasteurized, unpasteurized juices — what's the difference?

Children, the elderly, and people who have significant health problems, or those whose immune systems are weakened, risk serious illness or even …
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Meet a Game Changer Award finalist that's taking aim at HIV

What vaccines essentially do is stimulate the immune system and then disappear. If someone is infected later on, it's like they've been infected for a …
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Technique to model infections shows why live vaccines may be most effective

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Technique to model infections shows why live vaccines may be most effective

This allows the researchers to track how each bacterial population replicates and spreads between organs or is killed by the immune system.
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Spontaneous cancer remission rare, but worth study

Or did the patients do something special to harness the awesome power of the immune system? Studying these exceptional people, however, …
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Good news in advances of immunotheraphy

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Good news in advances of immunotheraphy

In some diseases — cancer, for example — the immune system appears ineffective in eliminating the “foreign” cancer cells. Immunotherapy is an …
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Resetting the immune system back 500 million years

The thymus is an organ of paramount importance to the adaptive immune system, but in this particular instance, the thymus produced not only T cells, …
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Beware, belly fat can increase your risk of high blood pressure

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Beware, belly fat can increase your risk of high blood pressure

belly-fat Here's another reason for you to worry about your belly fat. A study that appeared in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology …
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How much salt is too much?

If you have, or are at risk for, high blood pressure (hypertension), it is important not to overdo your sodium intake. The American Heart Association …
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