The Health Benefits Of This Popular Activity | sex
a good sex life helps you stay happy, healthy, and fit I know no one talks about sex a lot because most people find it a little embarrassing, but I came across an article that talked about the health benefits of sex and it’s pretty interesting. It turns out, having a good sex life helps you stay happy, healthy, and fit…and it has numerous health benefits that even I didn’t know about. For example, did you know that sex can actually cause you to get fewer colds? It’s true! Research has shown that couples who have sex weekly have a 30% increase in immunoglobulin A, which is an antibody that fights infections. Sex also has the positive health benefits in either improving or reducing the following: * It helps women have a more predictable period cycle. * It help...
Read MoreAre 20 Minute Exercise Routines Any Good?
I think we both know that exercise is very beneficial to a person’s health. So why don’t more people exercise on a regular basis? Is it lack of money? Or lack of motivation? Or the lack of equipment? No. The #1 reason people don’t exercise is lack of time. Martin Gibala, a kinesiology profession and exercise research at McMaster University says, “We know that 50% of the population doesn’t exercise and the most commonly cited barrier to exercise is the lack of time.” most commonly cited barrier to exercise is Lack of TIme Click To Tweet Professor Gibala put his theory to the test in a study published in the Journal of Physiology. What he did was compare a group of people that exercised a “traditional” 90 to 120 minutes a day to a group that only exercised 20...
Read MoreStartling News: Medical Error Misdiagnosis Kill Up To 80,000 People A Year
What a Sensational Eye Catching Headline, don’t you think? According to a study recently published in the March 11, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, misdiagnosis accounts for 40,000 to 80,000 deaths PER YEAR. misdiagnosis accounts for 40,000 to 80,000 deaths PER YEAR. And tort claims for diagnostic errors – defined as diagnoses that are missed, wrong, or delayed, are nearly twice as common as common claims for medication errors. Any way you want to look at it, that’s a lot of deaths. And when you add these deaths to the 1.5 million injuries and deaths per year caused by medication errors, you’ve got a huge problem. World Health Organization (WHO) ranks our health care system 37th Click To Tweet I bring this to your attention because a lot of people think our health care...
Read MoreThe Health Benefits of Red Wine
more proof that moderate red wine consumption is healthy. Red wine contains nutrients called polyphenols. For the past several years there have been reports about the health benefits of drinking red wine. Here is more proof that moderate red wine consumption is healthy. Red wine contains nutrients called polyphenols. And while some health conscious people take nutritional supplements to get these grape compounds, recent research is showing that the best way to get these nutrients is to drink red wine. The reason for this is red wine contains the entire group of polyphenol nutrients, a group that has been shown to work much better synergistically. Nutritional supplements on the other hand do not contain the entire group of polyphenols. One cool thing to know is that new research from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine is showing...
Read MoreThe Truth About Eggs And Cholesterol
The myth that eating eggs increases cholesterol levels has been busted! If you like eating eggs, then I’ve got good news for you! According to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Surrey and published in the Nutritional Bulletin of the British Heart Foundation, eating eggs has virtually no effect on cholesterol levels. In other words, eating eggs does not raise your cholesterol level. eating #eggs has virtually no effect on #cholesterol levels Click To Tweet The researchers reviewed several different studies on eggs and nutrition and concluded that eggs did not contribute to the body’s cholesterol levels. Although eggs are a high cholesterol food, the researchers note that only one-third of the body’s cholesterol comes from your diet. only one-third of the body’s #cholesterol comes from the #diet Click To Tweet Bruce Griffin, one of...
Read MoreNew Research on Chiropractic Care and Colic
Anglo-European College of Chiropractic has shown that chiropractic care provides a lot of benefit for children who have colic. crying was significantly reduced by about 2 hours on average. Four weeks later, colic had disappeared in 82% of the children (infants) undergoing chiropractic care. I was doing some research online the other day and found some information that I thought worthy to share with you. I know that many of my patients are either parents or grandparents, and if you aren’t, this is still important information to know. A recent study done late last year at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic has shown that chiropractic care provides a lot of benefit for children who have colic. If you’re not sure what colic is, it’s generally defined as persistent crying, not likely to be soothed by a caring parent, mainly...
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