March 21, 2017 @ 12:30 PM
DEALING WITH DEPRESSION
Men with clinical depression are more than twice as likely to develop coronary artery disease (CAD) as their non-depressed counterparts, a Johns Hopkins study has shown.
"Clinical depression appears to be an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease, even several decades after the first episode," says Daniel E. Ford, M.D., lead author of the study and an associate professor of medicine, epidemiology and health policy and management at Hopkins. "When we accounted for traditional risk factors for CAD, such as high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, hypertension and diabetes, depression remained a statistically significant cause."
While the researchers did not make a direct link between ...
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March 11, 2017 @ 10:40 PM
Love Your Liver for Life
One of the most important of our body’s organs is the liver.
Many of the liver problems people have are as a result of the process of detoxification demands on the liver from foreign substances or drugs.
One quarter of the whole body’s blood supply is in the liver at any one time.
1 litre of bile is formed in the liver daily. The liver is often secondarily involved in other infections and diseases. Liver malfunctions can also result in diabetes, gallstones, jaundice, atrophy, sclerosis, constipation etc.
The liver has so many functions that the signs and symptoms of liver problems are numerous. Some of its functions are formation of urea, excretion of bile, the regulation of carbohydrates, ...
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March 1, 2017 @ 11:35 AM
WHY YOUR KIDNEYS ARE IMPORTANT
We may take them a little for granted unless being unfortunate enough to be one of the one in 5 persons who may get kidney stones. The kidneys are bean-shaped organs which are approximately 11 or 12cms long and half as wide, that lie at the back of the abdomen .They are protected by muscles at their rear and by the 11th and 12th ribs in their upper halves. They are like a true friend — valuable and hard to replace. So if you look after them — they’ll be more likely to look after you.
The urinary system consists of the kidneys, ureters, bladder & urethra. It is an excretory system -removing waste products from the blood and eliminating them from the body. Other functions of...
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