| 03/31/2006 - Is Gallbladder Surgery Necessary? |
| Is gallbladder surgery necessary? Maybe…maybe not, according to HSI members and one of the most respected doctors in alternative medicine. |
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| 03/30/2006 - Eucalyptus Tree Secret that Might Offer Relief to Sinusitis |
| I have several friends who often spend beautiful spring days nursing miserable allergic reactions to the high pollen counts that come with the season. The typical result is sinusitis; an overproduction of mucus that causes swelling and sinus headaches. |
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| 03/30/2006 - Eucalyptus Tree Secret that Might Offer Relief to Sinusitis |
| I have several friends who often spend beautiful spring days nursing miserable allergic reactions to the high pollen counts that come with the season. The typical result is sinusitis; an overproduction of mucus that causes swelling and sinus headaches. |
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| 03/29/2006 - Manage Excess Stomach Acid without Powerful Antacid Drugs |
| "My daughter suffers greatly with an esophageal ulcer. Can you recommend anything that will help?" |
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| 03/29/2006 - Manage Excess Stomach Acid without Powerful Antacid Drugs |
| "My daughter suffers greatly with an esophageal ulcer. Can you recommend anything that will help?" |
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| 03/28/2006 - Teens Experiencing Hearing Loss |
| I wonder how many teenagers subscribe to the HSI e-Alert? My guess: around zero. Let's face it; most teens are blissfully unencumbered by concerns of developing Alzheimer's disease or coping with an enlarged prostate or managing hot flashes. |
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| 03/28/2006 - Teens Experiencing Hearing Loss |
| I wonder how many teenagers subscribe to the HSI e-Alert? My guess: around zero. Let's face it; most teens are blissfully unencumbered by concerns of developing Alzheimer's disease or coping with an enlarged prostate or managing hot flashes. |
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| 03/27/2006 - "Quality of Life" May Not Be Good When Life is Challenged with a Serious Health Crisis |
| QOL is an acronym for "quality of life." When QOL is good, we may not give it much thought on a day-to-day basis. But when life is challenged with a serious health crisis, QOL often becomes a moment-to-moment issue. |
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| 03/27/2006 - "Quality of Life" May Not Be Good When Life is Challenged with a Serious Health Crisis |
| QOL is an acronym for "quality of life." When QOL is good, we may not give it much thought on a day-to-day basis. But when life is challenged with a serious health crisis, QOL often becomes a moment-to-moment issue. |
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| 03/24/2006 - Why You Should Not Use Commercial Toothpaste!" |
| Think all toothpastes are pretty much the same? No so, according to HSI members who have started a Healthier Talk community forum thread titled "Why you should not use commercial toothpaste!" |
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| 03/23/2006 - Tomorrow Turned into a Nightmare for Some Ambien Users |
| "Tomorrow will thank you." That hopeful promise is the advertising slogan for a product we've heard a lot about lately: the sleep-aid Ambien. |
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| 03/23/2006 - Tomorrow Turned into a Nightmare for Some Ambien Users |
| "Tomorrow will thank you." That hopeful promise is the advertising slogan for a product we've heard a lot about lately: the sleep-aid Ambien. |
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| 03/22/2006 - Misinformation about Alternative Health Care |
| I'm now ready to add one more item to that short list of the only things in life we can be absolutely certain of: |
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| 03/22/2006 - Misinformation about Alternative Health Care |
| I'm now ready to add one more item to that short list of the only things in life we can be absolutely certain of: |
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| 03/21/2006 - Fine Particles of Soot in the Air We Breathe |
| Imagine a particle of soot so small that thirty particles placed side by side would be about the same width as a human hair. |
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| 03/21/2006 - Fine Particles of Soot in the Air We Breathe |
| Imagine a particle of soot so small that thirty particles placed side by side would be about the same width as a human hair. |
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| 03/20/2006 - You Might Want to Make Some Room Under Your Bed for Tuna and Powdered Milk |
| Have you got plenty of space available under your bed at home? I'm not prying, I'm just asking because you might want to make some room under there for tuna and powdered milk. |
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| 03/20/2006 - You Might Want to Make Some Room Under Your Bed for Tuna and Powdered Milk |
| Have you got plenty of space available under your bed at home? I'm not prying, I'm just asking because you might want to make some room under there for tuna and powdered milk. |
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| 03/17/2006 - Minimize Side Effects of Chemotherapy with Vitamin C |
| Antioxidants - and specifically vitamin C - have been shown to minimize the side effects of chemotherapy for some cancer patients. |
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| 03/16/2006 - Trouble with a Capital T |
| Folks, we've got trouble, with a capital "T," and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for "protein" - as in C-reactive protein (CRP). (Apologies to "The Music Man" author, Meredith Willson.) |
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| 03/16/2006 - Trouble with a Capital T |
| Folks, we've got trouble, with a capital "T," and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for "protein" - as in C-reactive protein (CRP). (Apologies to "The Music Man" author, Meredith Willson.) |
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| 03/15/2006 - The End of Menstruation As We Know It. |
| Perhaps the birth control pill achieved the status of being THE Pill because of the way it sent shock waves through society and helped launch the sexual revolution. |
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| 03/15/2006 - The End of Menstruation As We Know It. |
| Perhaps the birth control pill achieved the status of being THE Pill because of the way it sent shock waves through society and helped launch the sexual revolution. |
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| 03/14/2006 - Grapefruit: Which to Choose the Red or Yellow? |
| So you're browsing the colorful stalls in the produce section of your favorite market, and you come across a selection of yellow grapefruit stacked beside a similar pile of red grapefruit. Which to choose? |
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| 03/14/2006 - Grapefruit: Which to Choose the Red or Yellow? |
| So you're browsing the colorful stalls in the produce section of your favorite market, and you come across a selection of yellow grapefruit stacked beside a similar pile of red grapefruit. Which to choose? |
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| 03/13/2006 - Address Menopausal Symptoms with Black Cohosh |
| Women have traditionally used the herbal treatment black cohosh to address menopausal symptoms, according to a study that appears in the February 2006 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. |
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| 03/13/2006 - Address Menopausal Symptoms with Black Cohosh |
| Women have traditionally used the herbal treatment black cohosh to address menopausal symptoms, according to a study that appears in the February 2006 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. |
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| 03/10/2006 - Refined Sugar and Cancer |
| In a thread titled "Refined sugar and cancer," which appears in the Cancer forum in the HSI Healthier Talk community, a member named Jim writes: "I would appreciate any information…on the effects that refined sugars have on a cancer patient. |
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| 03/09/2006 - Why are Inexpensive Generic Drugs Not Getting to Market as Fast as they Could? |
| Why is healthcare in the U.S. so expensive? |
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| 03/09/2006 - Why are Inexpensive Generic Drugs Not Getting to Market as Fast as they Could? |
| Why is healthcare in the U.S. so expensive? |
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| 03/08/2006 - The Glycemic Index is Bunk |
| As you may recall from previous e-Alerts, the glycemic index (GI) is a scale that categorizes food items according to their effect on blood sugar levels. |
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| 03/08/2006 - The Glycemic Index is Bunk |
| As you may recall from previous e-Alerts, the glycemic index (GI) is a scale that categorizes food items according to their effect on blood sugar levels. |
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