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Quickly Lower Blood Pressure with Exercise

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An effective solution to quickly lower blood pressure is exercise. It helps reduce arterial stiffness thus improving not just blood pressure but overall cardiovascular health.

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Do The Risks of Weight Loss Medications Outweigh The Benefits?

There are many drugs in the market for weight loss. Patients from all walks of life come to clinics in search of  medication which is going to make them thinner without any effort. No exercise, no dieting. It seems like the perfect and obvious choice. But is it? What about the side effects of these [...]

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8 Health Benefits of Exercise Beyond Weight Loss

A lot of us tend to think of exercise as a means to lose weight. We forget that exercise has many benefits beyond the obvious weight loss. In a CDC study, it showed that poor diet and lack of exercise caused 400,000 deaths in 2000, 33% more than in 1990. Tobacco related deaths jumped by [...]

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Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) – The Battle With Weight Loss 2

This is the second part of the PCOS story. In the first article Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome – The Battle With Weight Loss, I explained what PCOS was, the symptoms of PCOS and risks of PCOS.  In this article, I want to elaborate further on the diagnosis and management of this syndrome.
Diagnosis of PCOS
Diagnosis of PCOS [...]

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Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome(PCOS)- The Battle With Weight Loss

There are so many women fighting the battle with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) or also known as Stein Leventhal Syndrome. The incidence is 1 out of 10 women, with varying degrees of severity of the disease.
What is PCOS
PCOS is a condition with multiple cysts in the ovaries.
Under normal circumstances, at the start of each monthly [...]

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