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Good Health: Good Health ( 36 articles)
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Understanding is the key
(Added : 7/1/2003 Hits : 1073 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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A hospital revolution
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 203)
In any real medical emergency the best place to go is to a hospital. At least that is how it ought to be. The Accident and Emergency department of even a small county hospital will have more efficient access to a wider range of facilities and medical personnel than any private institution, and in most cases it is the equipment that will save the patient's life.
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An epidemic of unhealthiness
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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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An Evolutionary Step
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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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Assessing your risks
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How is one supposed to respond to health and safety statistics? What is one supposed to make of estimates of "risk"? Consider, for example, that statistically one is more likely to die from a comet striking the Earth (which happens, on average, once in every 60,000 years) than from a crash in a commercial aircraft. Whoever heard of anyone dying from a comet strike?
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Attitude is the key
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 804)
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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Checking your cholesterol
(Added : 9/2/2003 Hits : 232)
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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Choose to live
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"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven." William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
I was fifty years old on the first of October, 1996, a turning point, they say, in the life of a man. Would that it were twenty-five instead of fifty, not because fifty is old, but because these are such exciting times in which to be young.
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Choosing a life
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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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Commitment not promises
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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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