What men can expect at a wellness checkup
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Yet, it’s these routine annual checkups that are priceless for uncovering signs of medical conditions that can turn into very serious health concerns.
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How to choose the best walking shoe
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When you spend the time and money choosing a good pair of walking shoes, it can keep you walking for exercise for years to come.
Read MoreWhat’s the deal with summertime sniffles?
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How is it possible to come down with sniffles, sneezes and a scratchy throat when the weather is warm and sunny?
Read MoreSteps avoiding heat stroke in hot weather
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Heat stroke is a form of hyperthermia where our body temperature can rise to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 C) or higher.
Read MoreFun ways to be physically active as a family
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Being active as a family is not only a great way to bond but also to burn calories, build strength, enhance physical self-confidence, and increases life expectancy.
Read MoreSmartphone’s impact on your health
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If it conks out on us, our connection to the world suddenly seems to evaporate right before our eyes.
Read More15 Best ways protecting joint health
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Our joints, located wherever the ends of two bones come together, are kept very busy each day. From waving our fingers goodbye, turning our head side to side, swirling our hips, or bending our knees to climb stairs, their job is priceless.
Read MoreHow safe are melatonin supplements?
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All of us already naturally make melatonin. Its purpose is to regular our sleep-wake cycles and most of us should need to take a supplement.
Read More7 Tips to avoid tummy troubles
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The longer food stays in our digestive tract, the more harmful bacteria degradation products are produced. A shorter transit time means a healthier digestive system helping us feel better.
Read More5 Signs you’re sleep deprived
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These signs can show up in how you look and how you feel (other than tired). Here are 5 signs of different areas of your body telling you, you need more sleep:
Read More25 simple health habits that can change your life
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But just little things you can work into your everyday life that sooner or later, will become a habit, sort of like automatically brushing your teeth at night before you go to bed without even thinking about it.
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Don’t be led astray with laxatives
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Likely you have heard advice stating the importance of “cleansing your colon,” by using laxatives, enemas, or “colonic irrigation.”
Read MorePromising non-surgical procedure for weight loss
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Promising non-surgical procedure for weight loss
Going under the knife for weight loss is often a last resort for anyone who has struggled for years trying to reach a healthier weight. Bariatric surgery, like all surgery, has risks associated with it and major lifestyle changes in regards to eating.
However, there may be a new answer for better managing weight loss without the side effects or risks of surgery. A new non-surgical procedure, called endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) requires no incision so no scar, is simple and requires no hospital stay. Preliminary research is showing it could have the potential of helping moderately obese people lose weight and more importantly, keep it off. Complications rates are also lower compared with surgery. The research showed that only 1% of ESG patients had a complication, such as a perforation or “leak” in the stomach.
This new procedure involves the doctor threading a scope down the throat and into the stomach, then using a suturing device attached to the scope to cinch the stomach in ultimately shrinking it to a banana-sized pouch. By making the stomach smaller, a person will eat less and feel full, thus resulting in weight loss.
This procedure was first performed in 2013 at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. People with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 40 (more than 100 pounds overweight) or those with a BMI of 35 or more, and who had a obesity-related condition such as type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure, qualify.
Since that time, studies have shown that in the short term, people who have undergone ESW will lose on average about 15% of their body weight. This new study is the first to report five-year results. The good news is that patients who had had the procedure, were still maintaining a 15% weight reduction, five years later.
The downsides of ESG are that like all gastric bypass procedures for weight loss, there is the potential for people to gain back the weight. In addition, most insurers won’t pay for ESG. The cost of the procedure is about $12,000 so a patient would have to foot the bill. At this time, ESG is not widely available as only about two dozen medical centers in the U.S. perform the procedure.
3 best ways to protect your teeth
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However there are precautions each of us can take to protect and preserve our teeth keeping your smile bright and healthy into the golden years.
Read MoreSecrets on choosing the best sunscreen
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Sunscreen is an important tool in the fight against skin cancer, including melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Read MoreNight sweats? 10 reasons for sweating while sleeping
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Night sweats, scientifically known sleep hyperhidrosis, is defined as the occurrence of excessive sweating during sleep.
Read MoreListen up to protect your hearing
/The sound of silence may be hard to envisage but it would be deafeningly loud.
Read MoreAvoid these common insulin mistakes
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To avoid minimize and avoid mistakes made with insulin, here are several factors that could be preventing insulin from doing its job:
Read More8 foods that outsmart spring allergies
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If it’s a rainy spring, this leads to rapid growth of plants which means more mold.
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