Poliana D. Vale, M.D.
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Want to Prevent A Heart Attack? Get Enough Sleep!
Do you want to prevent a heart attack? You need more than a plant-based diet and regular exercise! Adequate amounts of good quality sleep are very essential to heart and blood vessel health!
Read MoreMedicine from Your Kitchen: Peppermint
Culinary herbs have many medicinal properties, but may not be helpful to everyone and can aggravate certain health conditions. Take peppermint, for example. Peppermint is rich in anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds.
Read MoreWillpower for the Obstacle Course
Why is it that less than two percent of people who lose weight keep it off? Why do New Year’s resolutions or our good intentions so often fail? Toward the end of the article, you will learn powerful secrets from Florence, Stanley, and Lilo on…
Read MoreChew on This!
Want to lose weight? Want to improve your digestion? Here is a tip. Chew your food thoroughly. Why? What other benefits does chewing food offer? You may be surprised!
Read MoreNatural Remedies for Uterine Fibroids
Uterine fibroids (leiomyoma) are usually benign tumors that are in the smooth muscle tissue of the uterus (womb). Overall, these tumors are fairly common and occur in about 50% to 80% of women by the time they reach age 50. Uterine fibroids (UF) can be…
Read MoreNatural Remedies for Rheumatoid Arthritis
The average age of onset for rheumatoid arthritis (R.A.) is between 30 and 60 years of age. What is worse is that children can develop RA. About 1.3 million adults in the U.S. have rheumatoid arthritis. Women are three times more likely to get it…
Read MoreCan Your Good Cholesterol Go Bad?
Regarding lab testing for atherosclerosis or heart disease, it is not wise to assess one's risk based solely on LDL and HDL cholesterol levels. The particle size of LDL cholesterol counts, too. Small dense LDLs are the most atherogenic. Higher HDL levels are beneficial only…
Read MoreProven Strategies to Defeat Inflammation
Persistent inflammation fuels most chronic diseases and plays a major role in the complications of viral illnesses. If you have a chronic disease–arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, obesity, or chronic major depression, these science-validated suggestions will help you defeat inflammation and improve!
Read MoreProven, Physical Strategies for Stress Relief
So how can we reduce stress? Identify the stressors we can change! A stressor, among other definitions, is a violation of any law that governs our beings. So, in this article, we will consider physical laws that we often overlook. If we want less stress…
Read MoreSix Mental Strategies for Stress Relief
Adjust Your Perspective At a women's conference, prime front seats were erroneously double-ticketed. Many of the ladies who had previously arranged for front seats were delegated to the back. Their unhappiness with the seating arrangements threatened to derail the positive tone of the meeting. Apologies…
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