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Using Therapy Lights Or Sad Lights To Improve Your Health

March 31, 2009

Bringing the sunshine indoors. That is how some people describe the benefits of therapy lights. Scientists believe that simulated bright light has an effect on chemicals in your brain and your skin and can be used to help some conditions. There are many different types of therapy lights so I m going to described some of them and the disorders they can be used with: Light boxes Phototherapy or bright light therapy Many therapists have noticed that sitting near a simulated sunlight box can alleviate symptoms for some complaints. The strength of the light should be at least 2,500lux and daily exposure is required. Remember that a medical practitioner must prescribe the strength and type of light used as well as the duration of exposure. You don t have to be a genius to know that we all feel better during the long sunny days of summer. We seem to have...

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Alzheimer S Disease

February 24, 2009

The popular press does not seem to know how to deal with Alzheimer s disease. They alternately make light of it by using jokes about senior moments and make it out to be a dark, terrible secret that traumatizes everyone who comes in contact with a sufferer. The term Alzheimer s disease refers to a condition discovered by Lois Alzheimer, a doctor who practiced in the early 1900s. In 1907 he wrote in medical textbooks about a 51 year old woman who had died of dementia. He examined her brain under the microscope. His examination revealed changes he had never seen before. In certain parts of the brain, fibres were tangled together, and in other areas he saw clumping of brain matter. As time went on, he discovered more younger people who had died of dementia had the same abnormalities in their brains. This condition came to be known as Alzheimer s...

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Create Your Own Metabolism

January 14, 2009

Slow metabolism is frequently blamed for excess weight. The good news is we no longer have to be the victim of slow metabolism. We can actually be the creator of our metabolism. Knowing how your body works and using that knowledge to achieve your health and fitness goals, will get you results sooner with less frustration and aggravation. My goal is to help you get the most from your effort and see results. How your metabolism works. Metabolism is the speed at which your body burns through food. As you get older, your metabolism decreases and you don t require the same number of calories as when you were younger. The rate the metabolism decreases as we age is determined by the amount of muscle mass we have on our body. Greater muscle means higher metabolism. If you re over 40, you probably aren t as active as you used to be. You aren t playing sports...

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How The Different Types Of Enzymes Support The Process Of Life

November 8, 2008

And there was this boy called Bill, one of my best friends in the Graduate School. Even if you are not an artist of a sort, you can easily draw up the full figure of him. Wondering how. Simple; draw a bamboo stick and now add a large vessel on the top of it and you get the exact picture of Bill. Thinking that this unique kind of the physique was the result of frugal food intake over a long period of time. Just the opposite. It was his extraordinary habit of devouring on everything that he could put his hands on that actually made him famous in the campus. Anytime of the day you catch the boy and you ll find him munching on something. Well, this poor boy, Bill helped me to learn an important lesson of life and that is: not everything that you swallow nourishes your body, only those elements that are absorbed in your body through proper digestion work...

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