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The Importance of Sleep for Health and Wellbeing

Healthy Sleep is essential for our health and wellbeing. It allows our body to rejuvenate and restore itself. It helps the body to create new cells. Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest causes of premature aging. Tiredness can significantly affect your mood and how you feel. Besides the usual brain fog and irritability that [...]

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Food Poisoning: The Invisible Threat

Food poisoning or food-borne illness can be defined as any illness due to consumption of contaminated food.  This type of poisoning can be mild, but it can also be deadly.  It is important that if you display symptoms of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal cramping within 48 hours of consuming food, you should consult your [...]

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Anorexia

In our world today where everyone wants to be a celebrity, an athlete or a model, it is always a requirement to look good in public.  Unfortunately, most people equate looking good to being thin.  This has brought a major impact in the mindset of people with all the media hype of skinny females as [...]

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Patient Beware Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs)

Hospital or healthcare acquired infections (HAI) are happening more frequently throughout the United States. Virtually unheard of years ago, infections have increased in hospital settings in recent years. If a patient acquires a new infection 48 hours or more after being admitted or within 30 days after leaving the hospital, these infections are labeled HAI. [...]

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Eating Your Way to Better Health

Whoever said that you can’t have your cake and eat it too? Having a proper diet doesn’t mean starving yourself, but instead, it means eating the right types of food. The body needs its daily supply of nutrients, and going without proper nourishment can only make matters worse. A healthy lifestyle does not only consist [...]

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Can Stool Testing Help Chronic Digestive Issues?

 Can Stool Testing Help Chronic Digestive Issues?
Juli Keene, B.S.c, CN Licensed Clinical Nutritionist
Diseases of the human digestive system are a painful reality to many people every day. Over 50 million people currently suffer from debilitating digestive system diseases such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn’s Disease and Colitis. Other people with various digestive symptoms such as [...]

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Obesity – One of Life’s Heaviest Problems

 Numbers never lie, almost two-thirds of the American population is overweight and half of them have graduated into full-blown obesity. This is a continuing problem, and just looking at the different TV ads and exercise videos available in the market today is a testament to this problem. What’s so sad about this problem is that [...]

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Smoking and Your Digestive System

We know that smoking is a leading cause of many dangerous diseases such as lung cancer, but do you know that smoking also has negative effects on the digestive system?  Smoking has always been associated with lung cancer because it is a general misconception that air from smoking only enters the lungs. Like the air [...]

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Burping, Belching and that Bloated Feeling

You are quietly sitting at the dinner table after a big meal, sipping your favorite soda when all of a sudden you feel this sudden rush of air flowing into your mouth. You pass out the air through your mouth and everyone hears that familiar sound, you just “burped.”
Burping or belching is a natural reaction [...]

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CHOCOLATE The Good, the Bad and the Fudgely

Is there anyone who doesn’t like chocolate? Creamy fudge? Most of us adore this wonderful sweet candy, and some of us even feel we are true chocoholics, unable to carry on daily living without it. The sensation of biting into chocolate and tasting its unique flavor floods our sensory system with pleasure. Chocolate is like [...]

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I got a gut feeling about this

Have you ever experienced a gut feeling that made you do something different than you were going to? Well it’s not a coincidence. Modern research has started to uncover a mysterious but physical connection between the nervous system and the digestive system. Read on as H.I.C author and contributor Dr. Seth Pearl explores this topic in detail.

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Metabolic Disorders: An Overview

Ever wonder why some people just can’t seem to keep their weight down or why some people keep on eating and never get fat? Some of us go to great lengths just to keep our weight down. Society has placed so much value in keeping a slim figure that being healthy means keeping a slim figure. Read this new article by H.I.C. staff and contributor Ronlad Uy to find out more!

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Dyspepsia: Indigestion and Upset Stomach

Social gatherings and holidays are a great way of spending and keeping in touch with friends and family. An occasional barbeque on the 4th of July or turkey during Thanksgiving is how most of us pass the time during gatherings. Later, some of us find ourselves with feelings of discomfort after eating a heavy meal. [...]

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Relieving Hemorrhoids in Pregnancy

Hemorrhoids while Pregnant
Relieving hemorrhoids in pregnancy does not have to be a complicated process if you make some simple lifestyle changes. It is common to develop hemorrhoids in pregnancy as there are many changes taking place in the expectant mother’s body. It can be a troublesome and painful condition at a time that should be filled [...]

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Gastroenteritis: Overview of the Stomach Flu

Stomach flu is a common medical condition which affects many people. Almost everyone has had an experience with the flu at one point in their life or another. Children are more prone to suffer from stomach flu than adults because of their developing immune systems and lifestyles. Incidences of the condition are also greater in [...]

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The Digestive – Immune System Connection

It has long been noted that to have a strong immune system, there first must be a healthy digestive system. These two systems used to be thought of as separate entities.  Now, through research, an intimate connection between the two has been discovered. 
 
When we think of the digestive system, we think of it as a [...]

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Appendicitis

Appendicitis: signs, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments

Appendicitis is a common medical condition which affects around eight percent of the American population. Signs and symptoms associated with the disease are often misunderstood as simple bouts of stomach aches. Appendicitis is easily treated by surgical removal of the appendix. Appendectomy is the only cure for this medical condition and no amount of medications [...]

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Constipation

Constipation, at one time or another everyone gets it. Constipation might be a symptom of a more serious medical disease. It is very important to understand that Constipation is not a disease but a symptom.  Suffering from constipation is not a cause for serious alarm as it is often caused by a poor diet or [...]

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What causes bleeding in the digestive tract?

Bleeding in the digestive tract is always a serious matter and can be the result of various conditions. Some causes can be life-threatening, but most conditions can be cured or controlled, such as hemorrhoids and ulcers. If bleeding occurs in the digestive tract, it is critical to find the source of the bleeding. Bleeding can [...]

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Gastritis

Stomach: Overview
The stomach is a J-shaped organ which plays an important part in the human digestive system. Food passed from the mouth is stored in the stomach for digestion. The stomach basically serves as a melting bowl where food is broken down into its components by enzymes and stomach acids. These are then passed to [...]

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