Prevention

Basic, preventive health care is an essential part of an effective overall health care plan. Many diseases can be prevented, so providing patients with the information and skills to reduce health risks — like reducing substance use, practicing safe sex, maintaining good emotional/mental health, eating healthy foods and engaging in physical activity — can dramatically reduce the occurrence of chronic conditions.

In this section, you’ll find the latest news and articles that discuss topics related to the following categories: Emotional Health, Fitness, Men's Health, Nutrition, Positive Aging, Women's Health and Trip Tips.

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10/14/2009 - Articles

Vitamin D supplements prevent falls, fractures

Vitamin D is essential for bone health and its deficiency may contribute to falls and fractures among the elderly.  For the skin of older people has a four-fold reduced ability to produce vitamin D and the elderly may also avoid sun exposure (essential for vitamin D production), particularly if they are institutionalised. Read more

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09/22/2009 - News

Elderly Benefit from Vitamin D and Oral Nutrition Supplements

Last week, Nestle Nutrition Institute issued a news release about the ‘Nutrition and Functionality’ symposium held at the 19th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics in Paris, France. At the symposium, leading experts discussed the important link between nutrition and functionality in the elderly. Read more

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10/26/2009 - Articles

Prevent kidney stones: Preventing kidney stones through a healthy diet

Kidney Stones, how to prevent kidney stones through a health diet? Kidney stones are from through accumulation of salts in the urinary system. Having a kidney stone can be extremely painful but new research now suggests that a healthy diet can help avoid developing one. Read more

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07/13/2009 - Articles

Vegetarian diet protects from cancer

A new study of the health of vegetarians shows that they are less likely to develop cancer. Read more

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09/02/2009 - Articles

Low carb vegetarian diet is a good choice for health

A low carb diet is the opposite to a low fat diet. A low-carb diet does not require you to follow a rigid diet format, but advise limiting the consumption of foods with fats and carbohydrates. Low carb diets help reduce blood sugar and insulin production, which enables the body to utilize stored fat for energy more easily, as well as providing other health benefits and better control over eating. Read more

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07/15/2009 - Articles

How to Lose weight the simple way - your choice!

How to lose weight? Calorie reduction in a diet seems to be more effective than the actual content. That's the conclusion from a comparison of four diets differing in fat, protein and carbohydrate content. Participants lost a modest amount of weight on all four and kept at least some of it off long-term. Read more

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06/30/2009 - News

Do You Know Your Lung Age?

According to the World Health Organization, smoking kills about 4 million people every year. The physical and psychological addiction associated with tobacco makes quitting a challenge for many smokers, despite the availability of nicotine patches, gums, and other cessation aids or services. Read more

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01/21/2008 - News

Strength Training for a Pain in the Neck?

Chronic neck pain is often seen in people (more often women) who have jobs involving monotonous work in a fairly fixed position, e.g. work at a computer. Physical therapy is usually recommended, but it's not been clear what sort of exercises are best. Danish researchers have compared the effects of two types of exercise, and reported their findings in Arthritis Care & Research. Read more

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07/10/2007 - News

Treat a Twitching Eye

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05/31/2007 - Articles

Age-Defying Fitness: Aerobic, or Endurance Exercise

This is the 5th excerpt from Marilyn Moffat and Carole B Lewis' book "Age-Defying Fitness" that we have posted. It's concerned with endurance or aerobic exercise, which is necessary for cardiovascular and respiratory fitness as we get older. Read more

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