Don T Feel The Burn
My sister-in-law reaches into her purse for a big bottle of colourful heartburn tablets. They look like candy and that s how she pops them. She s been taking these pills regularly for years. When I ask why she doesn t see someone about it, she says, It s heartburn nothing serious. For some people, heartburn is nothing serious and popping those tablets provides all the relief they need. If you re taking them occasionally, there s nothing wrong with that. However, according to naturopathic physician Megan Mackenzie, If you ve reached a pack-a-day habit, you ve got a problem that requires medical attention. Chronic heartburn is the most common symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease GERD , known to some as acid reflux. GERD is a chronic and painful condition that can leave you vulnerable to more serious dangers, including ulcerations of the esophagus and possibly esophageal cancer. At the intersection of the esophagus and the stomach is the lower esophageal sphincter, a doorway of muscle. The sphincter...
Achievement Formula
We go through our days responding to events of the immediate moment. No wonder that at the end of the day, we have achieved less than we had hoped. If we look back on the day at all, we realize that we had done many things of low or no priority and the important tasks we had hopes of accomplishing were given short shrift or put off to another day. What we urgently need is a technique, a formula to follow that will increase our effectiveness, improve our rate of achievement. Today I am the bearer of good news. There is such a formula. I must confess that this is not some great revelation which the gods have bestowed only on me. The formula has been around for as long as people have thought about human motivation. And without further ado, I am bold to present it here. Thought emotion action result. There, you have it, but let me give you an example. Suppose you are driving your car and about to head up the freeway on-ramp. You glance at your gas gauge and note that it reads half empty. Or half full...
Natural Bodybuilding
You ve seen the pictures in bodybuilding magazine. Photos of men and women with so many muscles, they hardly look like men and women anymore. Of course it s natural to want to work out and feel your best, but there s certainly nothing natural about the state of these individuals. If you wish to take up bodybuilding, but would prefer a natural approach, there are options available to you. Finding the best bodybuilding program for you is of the utmost importance. Before you commit to any kind of bodybuilding, you need to do your homework and find out as much as you can about the various types and aspects. Natural bodybuilding is a great alternative that s growing in popularity. The obvious side effects of steroid use have many people turning to natural bodybuilding. This alternative program does not allow steroid use, or any kind of bodybuilding supplements that can potentially harm your system and case irreparable damage to your body. With natural bodybuilding, everything you take is derived from natural...
Tips For Having A Positive Hospital Stay
Imagine being in the hospital and bedridden 8230;you need to go to the bathroom, you re thirsty or, worse yet, in a lot of pain and you push the call light and no one answers. Unfortunately, this scenario is all too common in hospitals today. While the call light can be a lifeline for hospitalized patients, it can also impose considerable demands on nurses time, which may be already affected by staffing shortages. To address this problem, a nationwide study, published in the American Journal of Nursing AJN , was conducted to determine the frequency of and reasons for patients call light use, and the effects of one-hour and two-hour nurse rounds on patients use of the call light and patient satisfaction and safety. The study revealed that one- to two-hour nurse rounds significantly improved overall patient satisfaction and produced a significant reduction in call light use and patient falls. Of the units that participated in rounding, 85.7 percent continued the practice. Data analyzed one year following...