Alternative Health Blog October Archive

Emergency Room

By Jesse Aarons at 10/27/08 22:41

Last Sunday morning, we had to rush my mom in the hospital for she was having a heart attack. Actually situations like this one is nothing new because she always has this occasional attacks like once every year.

Not that we are always anticipating such event will happen, but at least we're prepared in case it happen again and also a bit prepared for what might happen to her. And last Sunday, it did happen again. Though we are used to this kinds of situations, I still can't help but cry everytime I see my mom being rush to the hospital or everytime a syringe is lanced in her skin.

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Contact Lenses For The Halloween Costume

Are you thinking of joining a Halloween party this coming November? Have you decided on what to wear and how to accessorized them? Well, if you're thinking of using a contact lens, think again.

The American Optometric Association (AOA) has recently given the public a warning about wearing decorative contact lenses especially for this coming Halloween holiday. They warned the public of wearing one more specifically on those that doesn't have prescriptions on knowledge about wearing contact lenses.

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Gaming For Health

When I was a kid, my mom would always scold me if I stay too late because of computer games. They will always say computer games is bad for our health, mentally and physically. Mentally because all of you can think of even at school are games and physically because you forgot to eat on time and stay up too late hours. Well, that concept has already changed.

This time, technology assures that games do not just cause bad things, do not just satisfy ones imaginary adventures, but now it also helps a person fight diseases such as cancer, when Hope Lab Foundation released the video game Re-Mission.

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I'm Having A Concussion, Again

When I was still in grade school and high school, I used to play badminton and a combat sports called arnis. During those times, I usually suffer from having concussions.

Concussion is a medical term usually use in sports medicine, and that time I hear that word almost every day whenever the team doctor visit our quarters. The most common translation of concussion is a mild brain injury. In hospitals, they used MTBI (mild traumatic brain injury) or MHI (mild head injury).

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Knowledge Is Power

"For also knowledge itself is power" - this is the ever famous words of Sir Francis Bacon on his famous essay Meditationes Sacrae. This very quote is now famous with its more common form, Knowledge Is Power.

Indeed, knowledge is without a doubt a great power. If a person is knowledgeable enough about certain things, then he is powerful enough to face life, in its real form.

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AIDS - Years Of Prevention, Still No Effect

Just this morning I read an article about the increasing number of people acquiring AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) despite the fact that the world has now better access to medical facilities as compared to the previous years. It also seems that the awareness people are throwing about the disease is not enough.

People around the world are now well aware of AIDS, or at least that's what we know. But still, a total of 34 million people around the globe are suffering from it.

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Let's Fight Breast Cancer

Monday, a parade that can perhaps be considered as the largest in the world that aims to fight breast cancer was held in Manila, Philippines. About 8,000 people joined the parade dubbed as the Walk Vs. Breast Cancer 2008. The event was simultaneously done in other parts of the country, marking a total of 30,000 people.

he event was sponsored by Avon Philippines and the proceeds of the event will go to different breast cancer foundations that helps people with breast cancer cope with heir situation and also to help promote the awareness about the deadly disease.

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Superfoods - Secret To A Longer Life

Registered dietitian Keri Glassman demonstrate to host Lara Spencer that super foods that according to her are the secrets for a longer life.

There are a lot of foods discuss during the show. Some of mentioned foods are blueberries, seaweed, keifer, pomegranate, avocado, gojiberry, yogurt, green tea and apples.

Let us join them and be informed, it's not everyday a real dietitian appears on TV to discuss the secrets of life.

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