Is Exercise or Rest Better for Patients with Cancer or Chronic Illness?
Did you know that there is one thing you can do to reduce your stress levels, enhance your ability to perform the activities of daily living (ADLs), and potentially boost your immune system? Well, there is: it is called exercise. Exercise can increase your quality of life and enhance feelings of independence and self-confidence. There is no magic to it. You just need to do it! The medical community, fitness professionals and physically active people with chronic disease all...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
The Effects of Exercise on Specific Cancers
Over the past thirty years, a growing number of evidence-based scientific papers have compared patients who exercise to sedentary patients. In general, those exercising thirty or more minutes per day at a moderate to vigorous rate of activity will have an increase in survival, decreased risk for cancer recurrence or a new cancer, improved quality of life with less fatigue, a decrease in obesity and being overweight, and positive treatment benefits for those undergoing cancer therapy. A recent study...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
Are Your Medications Putting You at Risk?
Did you know that adverse drug-related events in the Medicare population occur at a rate of approximately 5% per patient per year? Among seniors, there are more than 180,000 life-threatening or fatal adverse drug events yearly.1 Some of the reasons for these medication-related problems include: Polypharmacy (use of more than 4 to 5 medications) Poor adherence or not taking medications as they are prescribed Lack of understanding of medication use Multiple medical problems Inappropriate prescriptions Most of these tragic...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
The All-In-1 Pocket Guide to Healthy Choices
Harvey Gilbert, MD along with members of Holistic Health of America (HHOA) have compiled The All-In-1 Pocket Guide to Healthy Choices, a pocket guide book that discusses Metabolic Syndrome (MSx) and instructions on maintaining or regaining your health via diet, exercise, stress relief and supplements. Clear and simple instructions along with Do’s and Don’ts make it simple to know what are good and bad choices. Contributing authors include: Joe Woelfel, Ph.D., RPh, FASCP, Pharmacology Monty Merrill, MS, PT, Exercise Teri...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
Sit Down, Oil Up, and Heal Your Body: The Wonder of Castor Oil Packs
As most of my patients will tell you, I have a little saying at the end of my office visits: “If you don’t do anything else I told you today, do the castor oil pack.” Right now you are probably wondering what a castor oil pack is and what it does. If you are one of my patients, you are probably thinking, “I should probably be doing a castor oil pack right now while I’m sitting here surfing the...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
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