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How to use living foods to protect yourself from the problems that will arise from socialized medicine (should it continue to grow in America). Once upon a time, I worked for a company that offered its employees 3 levels of health insurance to choose from: The first level, an HMO, offered total and complete 100% health care cost coverage, for even small things. It covered up to a million (or 2) bucks a year (or something like that) for major catastrophic illness. In other words, no co-pay for office visits – ever. But you had to do EVERYTHING within the HMO facility – there were no choices about how things were done or treatment options available. Read more…

• Is Butter Bad For You? If you want to talk about much-maligned foods, butter is right up there at the top of the list. Health authorities have been telling us for years that foods like butter, rich in saturated fat, are clogging our arteries and causing heart disease. So they told us to replace them......
• Control Your Sodium Intake For Good Health Syndicated from eZineArticlesMany recent studies warn against excessive use of sodium in diet. This is because high intake of salt often leads to various health problems such as high blood pressure, heart diseases, and kidney disease or stroke. While it is important not to have salt in high quantities in......
• Back Pain Relief Supplementation In the recent past, I've been lax on being consistent with my supplementation. I could make excuses: Work, vacation, kids, etc. Those all come into play, but it's really just laziness. And my back paid for it. I have been experiencing some pretty severe discomfort in my lower back (from......
• The Health Benefits of Eating Organic Food and What Everyone Needs to Know Syndicated from eZineArticlesWhy are so many people going organic and raving about the health benefits of eating organic food? The better question is are there any health benefits? What many people don't know is that there are tons of positives to eating organic food, and there are some who would......
• Inexpensive Way of Keeping the Weight Down Syndicated from eZineArticlesThe United States is among the nations with the highest obesity rate in the world. Obesity has been a difficult issue to deal with in the social life of us Americans, and in the last decade we have really led the way in overweight people but recently we......

• The Danger of Fad Diets and Why They Never Work When desperate to loss weight, people tend to lean toward fad dieting, due to their tendency to offer "instant" results. They’re always commercially successful, but they leave their practitioners without many options and issues with health. In short order, another one fad will take its place. Fad diet work in......
• Essential Tips for Good Health Here is a look at ten essential tips for good health, which involve diet, weight loss, good nutrition, fitness and movement and other aspects of your health. Tie these ten essential tips together and you will have a picture of good health and wellness. Essential Tip #1 - You absolutely......
• Top 5 Considerations when Long-Term Care is on the Horizon This is a post by Sasha Kahn. I recently received an invitation to my grandfather’s 96th birthday party. Yes, it’s pretty amazing to consider he’s been around just short of a century. And he’s sharp as nails. The people in my family live long lives. But that doesn’t means that old age......
• Comparing Retirement Cost of Living in Different Locations When baby boomers retire, many will consider relocating to lower their cost of living.  I think this strategy will take on more importance because of damage caused to retirement nest eggs in 2008-2009. To properly consider a relocation strategy, a prospective retiree must have accurate information about costs of living in......
• 20 Frugal Tips from Someone Who Lived Through the Great Depression During another weekend road trip to visit the family for Mother's Day, I always make it a habit to drop in on Grandma and soak in a few hours worth of knowledge she's accumulated over her near 75 years. Gifts were exchanged, I overindulged in home cookin', but in the......