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Men’s Health: Erectile Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease

Many men are embarrassed to admit that they have erectile dysfunction. They may chock it up to stress and turn to their doctor just for a prescription of Viagra. While this may help a man’s erectile dysfunction, it may only be masking a more serious and/or deadly condition.
Erectile Dysfunction Linked to Cardiovascular Disease
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Loss and Punishment Brain Activity Higher in Teen Girls with Elevated Depression Risk

In a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers suggest that teen girls who have a family history of depression process loss and punishment differently than girls who are not predisposed.
In the study, two groups were given an MRI as they completed tasks that gave them a reward or punishment. One group [...]

What You Eat May Give You Headaches

Many things can cause you to have a headache – the lights in your office or home, stress, hormones, or even the weather. However, many people don’t realize that their diet or what they eat may be directly related to their incidences of headaches.
How Food Plays a Role in Headaches
Certain foods will release chemicals once [...]

Regular Flu Shot Increases Risk for Swine Flu Infection

While you are trying to prevent yourself from getting the regular flu with the influenza shot, you might be increasing your chances of getting something much worse – H1N1 swine flu!
Study About Swine Flu Risk with Influenza Vaccine
Canadian researchers have found that people who received their influenza vaccine but not the swine flu increased their [...]

Exercise and Nutrition: Getting on Track to Losing Weight

After all of the Easter candy you consumed this past weekend, you may be thinking about how you are going to get back on track with your weight loss plan. One of the first things you should keep in mind is that during the holidays, like Easter, it’s easy to slip up and eat too [...]

Is Maintaining or Losing Weight a Losing Battle?

Eating a healthy diet and exercising take hard work. It’s much easier not to exercise and eat whatever you want than it is to watch everything you put into your mouth and then sweat it out at the gym. However, if you want to stay health and you want to lose weight or maintain weight [...]

Headaches as a Side Effect of Prescription Drugs

If you’ve ever taken a new prescription drug and experienced an increase in headaches, you may wonder what is worse, dealing with the discomfort of whatever you are taking the new drug for or dealing with the headaches.
Dealing with Headaches as a Side Effect
Headaches are a normal and common side effect to many prescription drugs. [...]

Laugh at April Fool’s Day Jokes to Improve Your Health

It’s April Fool’s Day! It’s time to take a minute to be healthy by laughing. Yes, that’s right. You can improve your health significantly but just cracking a chuckle.
How Laughter Improves Your Health

When you laugh you reduce stress hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine, and dopamine, which all increase when you are under high levels of [...]

Mental Health Help: Sleep Deprivation and Depression

If you’re feeling down in the dumps lately and wonder if you suffer from the mental health disorder depression, you may want to pay attention to how much sleep you’ve been getting. According to the National Sleep Foundation, most Americans get about 6.9 hours of sleep a night. Now this is an average so that [...]

Women’s Health and Weight Loss: Diets High in Fat Increase Stoke Risk for Women Over 50

We all know that foods high in fat aren’t good for weight loss or maintenance. We also know that diets high in fat can lead to heart disease. But what many women don’t realize is that fatty foods can also lead to other medical problems, such as stroke.
The Research on Diet and Stroke Risk
A new [...]