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Mommy, I'm Fat and Ugly
Written by Barbara Feiner, Contributing Editor   

ImageSinger Kelly Osbourne, who turned 22 in October, grew up in England. Upon moving to Los Angeles at 13 and later becoming an overnight celebrity on MTV’s hit reality series “The Osbournes” (alongside Dad and Black Sabbath alum Ozzy Osbourne), she was best known in the tabloids for her real-women-have-curves adolescent body. Magazines like “US Weekly” had a field day at her expense, Osbourne revealed in a 2006 interview with “Marie Claire,” calling her “fat and ugly and [saying] I dressed badly,” she says.

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Organic Living and Prostate Health
Written by Barbara Feiner, Contributing Editor   

 

Illustration courtesy of the CDC
Illustration courtesy of the CDC
By the time a man reaches age 50, he has a 50% chance of developing an enlarged prostate. The clinical term is “benign prostatic hyperplasia” (BPH), and modern medicine has yet to establish the cause.

 

“We don’t know exactly why prostatic enlargement happens as men get older,” Dr. Misop Han explained at the American Medical Association’s 24th Annual Science Reporters Conference, held last November. “It is our assumption that it is part of the aging process because of changes in hormones and growth factors,” adds the assistant professor of urology at Northwestern University and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “But what throws us off is that not all men have BPH. If it was a normal aging function, all men would have it.”

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Why Your Stretching and Exercises Are not Giving You Relief
Written by Steven Hefferon, CMT, PTA, CPRS   

Steve HefferonWhen you spend enough time working with people who are in pain, you hear it all: anger, fear, hope—but mostly frustration. Whether you are going through a treatment program for your back pain with a chiropractor or physical therapist, or trying your own exercise program (Yoga, Pilates, pumping iron at the gym, etc.), if you’re not getting relief, let me share with you a widely known “secret.” 

Knowledge Is Power

Our mission is to inspire you through education. We know that people who understand their situation and their condition get better care and faster results, regardless of the type of treatment they are going through. The reason is simple: They have more control. 

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Cosmetics and Breast Cancer
Written by Laura Klein, Publisher   

The American Cancer Society estimated that more than 211,000 women would develop  invasive breast cancer last year (the latest available statistics). Even a small percentage of men, while genetically at low risk for the disease, develop it. Science, however, has yet to identify a clear and distinct cause.

Dr. Philippa Darbre, a senior lecturer in oncology at the University of Reading’s School of Biological Sciences in England, published a report titled “Environmental Oestrogens, Cosmetics and Breast Cancer” in the March issue of Best Practice & Research: Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2006). Her article explored a possible connection between breast cancer and the daily application of cosmetics that contain estrogenic chemicals. Other factors considered were environmental estrogens that enter the body through food, water and air.

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Sore Throat Secrets
Written by Steven Horne   


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If you feel your throat when it is sore, you will probably notice some hard lumps in your throat area that are tender to the touch. These are swollen lymph nodes. The lymph nodes are swollen because the lymphatic system has been draining away the excess fluid from the inflamed tissues in your throat, and that fluid contains toxic irritants. These irritants have caused tissue damage in the lymph nodes, which have, in turn, become inflamed. So what you are feeling is inflamed lymph nodes, and these inflamed nodes are slowing down lymphatic drainage in your throat area.

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