If you smoke cigarettes you’ve probably at one time or another wondered what kinds of cancer are caused by smoking cigarettes. You know there are health concerns with smoking but you may not know all of them. You no doubt have heard that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, but there are other kinds of cancer [...]

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If you’re thinking about having lap band surgery you may be wondering what do lap band patients eat or is there a special lap band diet. You’ll want to thoroughly understand what the lap band diet is all about if you decide to go ahead with the lap band procedure. It’s absolutely important that you [...]

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If you’re taking painkillers right now for a recent injury or other trauma for pain relief or if you have other acute or chronic pain that you’re taking them for here are a few risks, dangers and warnings I want to pass on to you about over-the-counter and opioid or narcotic painkillers. Plus what happened [...]

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A new study reports that taking certain painkillers can lower the levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) which can cause problems with the PSA screening tests used for prostate cancer detection. In this study of more than 1000 men who took nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs called (NSAIDs), levels of PSA were about 10% lower than for [...]

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If you’re spending any time in a wheelchair you’re not likely to be getting the exercise you need. No matter what type of disability you may have we all know that we need exercise to release hormones like endorphins to help us boost our immune systems. One reason to exercise that you don’t hear about [...]

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If you’re considering lap band surgery or just beginning to think about lap band surgery as a solution to your weight problems and wondering how much weigh you can lose, I will try to answer this in this short article. This is one of the questions I’m most often asked along with the cost. If [...]

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If you plan to quit smoking you may have heard that the nicotine patch, nicotine gum or other nicotine replacement therapy products don’t work. I’ll try to dispel this and other myths in this article. You can stop smoking with or without it. But knowing the facts will help you decide which way to go. [...]

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There was a time when people thought they had a sinus infection they made a trip to their doctor’s office expecting to get antibiotics to treat their sinus infection. Doctors routinely wrote prescriptions for antibiotics because it was assumed that sinus infections were caused by bacteria and it was the standard sinus infection treatment. This [...]

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Breaking any type of addiction can be difficult. And it’s thought that nicotine addiction has been especially hard to break. It’s well known by now that nicotine is an addictive drug. It causes many changes in the brain. These changes may cause smokers to smoke even more. Addictive drugs like nicotine can raise havoc with [...]

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If you’re wondering if you have too much belly fat or know that you have too much belly fat you may want to know just how much you have. A belly fat test can do that. Too much fat stored in the abdomen or belly raises the risk of heart disease. There is a lot [...]

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