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Side effects of fish oil

Fish oil Fish oil has always been known to contain Omega-3 fatty acids, which are very beneficial for people suffering from heart disease, hypertension, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, bipolar disorder, and...

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Healthy Diets: How Whole Food Nutrition Helps Prevent Disease, Part 1

Understanding how a healthy diet consisting of whole food nutrition helps prevent disease is the purpose of this article. It is much easier to prevent almost any health problem than it ever is to attempt to treat it or cure it after it is already present...

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DVT Can Complicate Long Flights

  If you're going to take an overseas flight, and will be in the air for many hours, you might want to consider taking one small precaution that could help prevent considerable pain, and might even save...

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Chronic renal failure - causes and risk factors

Learn important facts about chronic renal failure. Causes and risk factors

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All About Blood Pressure FAQs

A lot of people with high blood pressure do not know they have it. It is because it usually doesn't have symptoms and you can have it even if you're feeling good. Especially if you are already getting older,...

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Osteoarthritis can affect any movable joint in the body.71

How Live with Osteoarthritis in the Knees: Causes and Treatments

Osteoarthritis (also known as: OA)is one of over 100 types of arthritis that can attack persons of any age. What makes osteoarthritis, also known as degenerative arthritis, so very different, is that is so...

0 comments    health diet fitness
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Marijuana? Legalize it

Smoked, eaten, imbibed - or just talked about - it seems the world has a strong taste for cannabis. This hub discusses the risks of drug use, provides a brief history of cannabis, describes the effects of cannabis and discusses why marihuana should be legalized.

53 comments    health people history
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Tips on Choosing Contraceptives

Things to consider when choosing a contraceptive : Some pills have side effects, some pills are not advisable if you are smoking or have high blood pressure. Barrier methods of contraception can provoke...

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Having a Sibling with Heart Disease Raises Personal Risk

 You may be living a heart-healthy lifestlye, doing everything you think you need to do to avoid cardiovascular disease. But according to a report from the Framingham heart Study, conducted by the National...

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Sunglasses are even more important for children because they usually spend more time outdoors, and their eyes are more vulnerable to sun damage.84

The Best Sunglasses for UV Eye Protection

Beware! Regardless of the season or whether it's sunny or cloudy, everyday your eyes are exposed to invisible, damaging UV radiation. In the same way UV rays damage the skin, they also damage the lens and...

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