Type 2 Diabetes Causes Hearing Loss

by | Mar 16, 2011 | 0 comments

According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, hearing loss is twice as common for adults with type 2 diabetes compared to those people same age. Hearing tests are rarely taken in association with diabetes tests. So if you suffer diabetes, make...

Grieving and Blood Pressure

by | Mar 14, 2011 | 18 comments

Recently a staff member has been going through a very rough time. She asked me to share her experience because she knows as well as I do how grief can affect health and wanted our readers to know that you are not alone. Her mother passed away after a brief but...

Atrial Fibrillation and High Blood Pressure

by | Mar 11, 2011 | 21 comments

So back to the reader inquiries we go with today’s article. We had a lot of readers ask about a condition called Atrial Fibrillation. Most of the questions related to how to stop or prevent it. What is Atrial Fibrillation (AF)? There are a lot of symptoms and...

Eggs drop THEIR cholesterol!

by | Mar 11, 2011 | 1 comment

The Agricultural Research Service recently released results from a nutrient content check on eggs from 12 locations that showed that eggs today have 30 mg less cholesterol than eggs twelve years ago. Modern eggs also contain 16 IU more Vitamin D than those a decade...

Good cholesterol lowers cancer risk

by | Mar 10, 2011 | 0 comments

A recent study including more than 520,000 Europeans, and published in the journal “Gut” shows that high HDL (“good cholesterol”) drastically decreases the risk of bowel cancer. A simple rise of only 16.6 mg/dl in HDL reduced bowel cancer risk 22%....