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Laboratory Tests: your questions answered
(Added : 9/4/2003 Hits : 553)
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<li>What is a laboratory test?</li>
<li>Why are these tests useful?</li>
<li>Will my insurance pay for my tests?</li>
<li>I am healthy - why do I need a test?</li>
<li>How is a test done?</li>
<li>How will I receive the results of my test?</li></ul>
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Understanding is the key
(Added : 7/1/2003 Hits : 481 Rating: 8 Votes: 1)
Good health lies within you - if you will only take the time to stop and think, and most of all, to change your habits. Change is the real challenge in modern health care, not better treatment
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Will you drop dead?
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 384 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
What happened to Sharky (a body-builder in peak condition who recently died from a massive heart attack at age 43) is so unusual that no one in genuine good health should give it a second thought. Such a person is more likely to be struck by lightning on a sunny day.
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What is health?
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 371)
What is health? Like beauty, you know it when you see it. But health is much more than beauty; you also know it when you feel it; when you live it. Most of all, you know it when you have lost it.
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Attitude is the key
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 327)
The most important requirement for good health is a healthy attitude, by which we mean a positive outlook; a willingness to accept personal responsibility for life's ups and downs, and confidence in one's ability to take control of personal circumstances.
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Commitment not promises
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 98)
There is something terribly wrong with the way in which the poor are being treated in this new world order, but there is as yet no society that has found a way to keep pace with the changes that are required for economic growth, and also keep those who cannot adapt to these changes from losing the little that they might have had.
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An epidemic of unhealthiness
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 98)
There have been several reports in the media about a rising prevalence of diabetes around the world. An "epidemic", it has been called, with the implication that diabetes is a sickness, like influenza or AIDS, that is increasingly afflicting otherwise healthy people. The truth is, people do not get diabetes in the same way that they "catch" the flu.
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Checking your cholesterol
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 95)
Dear Doctor, if my cholesterol is `OK', does that mean that I will not get a heart attack? The answer to this question is `no', but unfortunately, the conventional approach to the threat of heart disease is to pretend that the answer is `yes'.
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Choosing a life
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 93)
When a computer is turned on it goes through some preliminary self-checks and then sets itself up - "configures" itself - according to the instructions in a file called config.sys. Only then is the computer able to run certain programmes.
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An Evolutionary Step
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 91)
The word "wellness" is not in the Concise Oxford Dictionary. It is, however, to be found in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, where it is briefly defined as: "The state of being well, or in good health". It is also in Webster's Dictionary which defines it as "the quality or state of being in good health".
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