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What Is Your Stool Telling You?

What Is Your Stool Telling You about your health? Nobody likes to talk about bowel movements. As a Clinical Nutritionist in practice for over 15 years I was taught many years ago that your stool can be an invaluable source of information about what may be going on in the body. It’s a standard question in my [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Inguinal Hernia: Myths and Facts

Hernias are one of the most misunderstood health problems. Very little is known about them and patients who suffer from hernias don’t grab media attention. One popular myth associated with Hernias is that only men suffer from these conditions. The truth is that both men and women suffer from this medical condition. It may also [...]

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Omega 3: Not Just Another Fish Story

Omega 3 is from a family of “good” fats or polyunsaturated fatty acids. Fats are needed for normal body functions and play an important part in normal cell growth and functioning. Omega 3 also belongs to the group of “essential fatty acids” or those which the body can’t produce. These essential fatty acids are important [...]

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Medical Procedures for Kidney Stones

Medical procedures for kidney stones can range from less-invasive methods such as shock waves to major open surgery. Usually kidney stones pass without medical intervention, but in some cases the stone is so large that no amount of consumed water will ease its passage down the urinary tract. If the stone is still growing, causing [...]

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Kidney Stones: A Ten on the Pain Scale

If you have passed a kidney stone, it is an experience that you don’t want to repeat because it probably was the most painful episode of your life. The good news is that usually no damage is done to your body in passing the stone, but the bad news is that once you have produced [...]

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Coffee: How it Effects the Digestive System

Ahhh, the savory aroma of freshly-brewed coffee in the morning, and those consumed cups of morning Joe help millions of people come alive to prepare for their day. We are a nation of coffee drinkers, consuming tons of the roasted coffee beans to make it a profitable 18 billion dollar industry in this country alone. [...]

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Major Complications of Peptic Ulcers

In my many years as a nurse, I’ve been through the different wards and specialty care areas in the hospital. I have seen simple illnesses turn into life threatening situations. Peptic ulcers are medical conditions which millions of Americans suffer everyday. Minor illnesses even coughs and fevers can turn into severe medical conditions.
Early detection of diseases [...]

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Friendly Bacteria: A Help or All Hype?

Friendly-bacteria products are they a help or are they all hype? If you watch TV or read health magazines, you probably have seen ads for “friendly bacteria” or “probiotics” sold in yogurt, fermented or unfermented milk, soy products, or other foods. Evidently, these ads are working because spending for bacteria-ladened products has tripled in the [...]

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Flatulence: A Normal Process

Flatulence is a normal process by which the body expels gases from the lower intestinal tract. A source of embarrassment in polite society, passing gas is often considered abnormal and a sign of ill health by many people. Yet the average healthy adult produces one to four pints a day, and passes gases about fourteen [...]

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Crohn’s Disease

Crohn’s Disease is one of a variety of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, or IBDs, which manifest with symptoms of inflammation to the intestines, the anus, the mouth, and also the gastrointestinal tract. The disorder is thought to have genetic components regarding causes and origins, and evidence supports the idea that the condition is partly hereditary. Crohn’s [...]

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External Hemorrhoids: symptoms and treatment

External Hemorrhoids occur when the hemorrhoidal veins in the rectum breach the wall of the anus to distend outside of the anal canal. Any hemorrhoid that extends beyond the anus is considered to be external, with the exception of what is called a prolapsed hemorrhoid, which occurs initially inside of the anus but as it [...]

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