GOMAD vs. Olive Oil for Weight Gain
GOMAD means a gallon of milk a day for weight gain, but have you ever considered olive oil? When a man chooses GOMAD for weight gain, it’s usually whole milk, or maybe 2 percent. However, [...]
Risk of Kids of Anorexic Moms Developing Eating Disorder?
An expert explains the risks children have in developing anorexia nervosa when their mother struggles with the eating disorder herself. How much can an anorexic environment, created by a mother, raise the risk of her [...]
Should Anorexic Women Avoid Parenthood Due to Mental Illness?
It’s a fair question: If a woman has anorexia and has not yet had children, should she postpone parenthood until she absolutely feels she has conquered her eating disorder? Anorexia nervosa is a form of [...]
Can Anorexic Mom’s Body Prevent Daughter from Eating Disorder?
A girl is more likely to develop anorexia nervosa, relative to her baseline inclination, if her mother has this eating disorder. From an intuitive point of view, it seems as though just the sight of [...]
How Kids Can Motivate Anorexic Mom to Seek Treatment
Here are guidelines for kids to help their mother with anorexia nervosa seek treatment. If you’re a teenager or even younger, and your mother has anorexia nervosa, it’s presumable that you’d like to help out, [...]
Is It Wrong for Anorexic Women to Have Children?
Some people believe that a woman with anorexia should not have children -- “have” as in raise kids. In other words, that it’s not ethically right for anorexic women to decide to rear kids, as [...]
Five Ways Anorexia in Mother Negatively Affects Children
Though anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder rather than a drug or alcohol addiction, its consequences can have a profoundly negative effect on children of the patient. Don’t assume “It’s just an eating disorder; how [...]
Advice to Teen Girls with Anorexic Mothers
If you’re a teenaged girl who’s struggling because your mother has anorexia nervosa, know that you are absolutely not to blame for your mother’s eating disorder, says Linda Centeno, PhD, clinical psychologist, and assistant director [...]
Recovering Anorexic Says Eating Disorder Had Bad Impact on Kids
If you have anorexia nervosa, don't underestimate how damaging the effects of this will be on your children, especially daughters. One woman shares how badly her anorexia nervosa affected her daughter. I interviewed Kari Adams, who [...]
World’s Strongest Toddler, Liam Hoekstra, on TLC: Hype or Hypertrophy
Liam Hoekstra was born in 2005. The World's Strongest Toddler aired in 2014 on TLC about 3-year-old Liam Hoekstra, a pint-size boy from Roosevelt Park who has 40 percent more muscle mass than typical [...]
What Does “Inflammatory Lung Disease” Really Mean?
Have you or someone you know been told they have “inflammatory lung disease”? “Inflammatory lung diseases are clinically and histopathologically [under the microscope] a group of acute and chronic conditions,” begins Sashini Seeni, MD, a [...]
How Does Feeling Depressed Cause Constipation?
Depression can cause constipation. However, if your depression has caused constipation, you may not even know it. “The range of normal bowel movement frequency is from one BM in three days to three BMs in [...]
Excessive Crying in Adults: Causes & Solutions
Are you an adult who cries too much? Are you an adult who cries excessively? Just how abnormal is it for an adult to be prone to excessive crying episodes? There are different kinds of crying, [...]
Does Fasting Glucose Reading of 106 Mean Insulin Resistance?
If your fasting glucose is about 106, do not panic, as this does not automatically mean you have insulin resistance or prediabetes. A few years ago I visited a general practitioner to find out why [...]
Depression Treatment: T3 Better than Antidepressants
T3 just may work better on depression than antidepressant drugs. A large percentage of people suffering from depression actually have low thyroid, says Dr. Kent Holtorf, MD, thyroidologist and founder of Holtorf Medical Group in [...]
How Can Being Diabetic Cause Mood and Anger Problems?
Having diabetes is no excuse to blow your top and be angry at your loved-ones all the time, but this disease indeed could lead to factors that can alter mood and even cause ADHD symptoms. [...]
Can Carnivora Cure Cancer or Are Radio Ads All Hype?
The ads for Carnivora on the “Coast to Coast” radio show are incessant and strongly hint it can cure cancer. If you're a faithful listener to "Coast to Coast," then you already know that this [...]
Cough After Pneumonia Can Last a Few Weeks After Recovering
A doctor says that after recovering from pneumonia, the cough can persist for a few weeks. “Yes, it is true,” says Susan L. Besser, MD, with Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore; Diplomate, American Board of Obesity [...]
Zanaflex Withdrawal: How to Get off this Drug Smoothly
Here's best way to get off zanaflex, says a doctor. Zanaflex withdrawal can be a very troublesome experience, but there's a way to get off Zanaflex smoothly and safely. Zanaflex is a drug for muscle [...]
How Long Before Effexor, Cymbalta, Paxil, Zoloft Take Effect?
When do effects of cymbalta, effexor, paxil and zoloft kick in? What's the time it takes for Cymbalta, Effexor, Zoloft and Paxil to start working? Cymbalta, Effexor, Zoloft and Paxil are commonly prescribed antidepressants, and if you're [...]
Getting Off Lyrica Without Problems: Minimize Side Effects
Getting off Lyrica may cause a number of discontinuation side effects. This drug is prescribed for the pain of fibromyalgia, and the nerve pain associated with diabetes and shingles. Quitting Lyrica suddenly can result in withdrawal [...]
Cymbalta Dizziness Withdrawal: My Solution Worked
Lessening your usual daily dose of Cymbalta can cause a thick kind of dizziness. Cutting the dose down to wean off Cymbalta (for whatever reason) can leave a side effect of dizziness. I witnessed it when [...]
Five Ways to Prevent Injury from a Treadmill Desk
Learn about these five key ways to help avoid injury from the use of a treadmill workstation. Though a treadmill desk will reverse the adverse effects of sitting all day on the job, the user [...]
Hate Your Flabby Inner Thighs? How to Firm Inner Thighs
Do any inner thigh exercises actually tone the inner thighs? Do you have flabby inner thighs? Loose inner thighs? Can’t anything work to firm the inner thighs? Well, yes, and here it is. A good [...]
Pec Deck vs. Cable Crossover for Chest Exercise
Here is a fair comparison of pec deck to cable crossover. Is the cable crossover better than the pec deck for building chest muscles? Though the cable crossover and “pec deck” target the chest muscles, [...]
Why Your Knee Still Hurts Months After Knee Replacement
Is it normal to still suffer knee pain months after a total knee replacement surgery? Immediate post-surgical pain is expected, but we're talking months here. Knee replacement patients are given powerful narcotics to numb the [...]
Why Are 2 Knee Replacements at the Same Time Better than One?
When two replacements are done at the same time, it's called bilateral knee replacement. For many patients, this is the way to go. But for some patients, it's definitely off-limits. Have you been told that [...]
Lower Back Pain When You Wake Up: Causes and Solutions
Here's how to eliminate low back pain when you wake up in the morning. Your low back should not hurt or ache when you get up after a night's sleep. To help solve the problem [...]
Lower Back Pain Relief Naturally without Drugs
Prescription drugs only mask back pain; they do nothing to cure back pain. If you suffer from chronic back pain, here are natural ways for back pain relief. In most cases of chronic low back [...]
Is a Hot Pack or Cold Treatment Better for Your Low Back Pain?
An ice bag or very cold pack may numb the pain in your back, but does this also promote healing? Heat won't numb the pain, but won't it increase blood flow to your hurting muscles? [...]
Does Shoulder Pain Wake You at Night? Solutions
Shoulder pain at night can prevent even a few good hours of sleep, so here are some things you can do to fight and maybe prevent shoulder pain that strikes at night while you’re asleep. [...]
Simple and Quick Ganglion Cyst Pain Exercises
These ganglion cyst pain exercises are very simple. Do you have wrist pain? You may have a ganglion cyst, and I have exercises to relieve ganglion cyst pain. These ganglion cyst exercises should be done [...]
Everyday Movement Patterns that Can Hurt the Rotator Cuff, and How to Relieve Pain
Everyday motions can strain the rotator cuff and even prevent healing. You likely don't even realize when a particular movement is bad for your rotator cuff. The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles [...]
Cardio Exercise for Plantar Fasciitis: 3 Aerobic Routines
I've had plantar fasciitis and have discovered that you don't need to limit your cardio exercise routines to the stationary bike with this painful heel condition. I used to have a very nasty case of [...]
Why an Imminent Heart Attack Causes Shoulder Pain
Ever wonder how a heart attack about to happen can cause shoulder pain? There are people who've experienced recurring shoulder pain thinking it was only a rotator cuff problem or arthritis. But some of these cases [...]
Why a Looming Heart Attack Can Cause Nausea, Vomiting
©Lorra Garrick Vomiting and nausea can be a sign that a heart attack is imminent. This is not about an actual heart attack in progress, but vomiting and nausea as a warning sign [...]
How Dangerous Is Low Blood Pressure? How to Raise It
Chronic low blood pressure may be harmless or extremely dangerous; low blood pressure can cause damage to your organs, not to mention cause you to take a serious fall from fainting. Low blood pressure is called [...]
Life Expectancy in Elderly After Coronary Bypass Surgery
The life expectancy (long-term survival) of elderly people after coronary bypass surgery is receiving increasing attention, since the population of advanced age people is ever-growing. This means more and more elderly people, including octogenarians, are [...]
Does Normal Blood Pressure Mean You Don’t Have Heart Disease?
The answer is NO! In fact, you can have life-threatening heart disease -- extensive coronary artery blockage -- and still have consistently normal blood pressure readings. "High blood pressure (Htn) causes the occlusions (blockages), but [...]
Coronary Bypass Surgery Post-op Complications that Seem Scary
If a loved-one has coronary bypass surgery, you as the visitor may become aware of a lot of interesting things that occur post-op. Some of these will be considered "complications," and they may seem very [...]
