Signs & Symptoms of Dangerous Headaches

What makes a headache dangerousDALLAS, June 30 (UPI) -- Intensity is not necessarily a sign of how serious headache pain is but there are red flags to watch out for, a U.S. neurologist says.Dr. Ahmed Jafri of the University of Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas says anyone who frequently uses pain medication to self-treat chronic headaches should seek medical help."A headache may stem from a harmless problem, or it might be a sign of a life-threatening disorder," Jafri says in a statement. "There are certain red flags that should send a person to the doctor, or even an emergency room."Jafri says any of the following symptoms warrants immediate...

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"Blood Pressure Care Naturally"

Donate to keep Natural Health News bringing you the cutting edge on health and get your copy of our newsletter on beets for health from 2008 Why beetroot juice lowers blood pressureLONDON, June 30 (UPI) -- Nitrate content appears to be the reason why beetroot juice lowers blood pressure, researchers in Britain said.Study author Amrita Ahluwalia, a professor of vascular biology at Queen Mary's William Harvey Research Institute, at Queen Mary University of London, said the study demonstrated that the nitrate found in beetroot juice was the cause of its beneficial effects on cardiovascular health by increasing the levels of the gas nitric oxide...

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Cheap Healthy Good Turns 3: The Top 10 Recipes of Our Previous Year of Existence

Sweet readers! Don’t forget: tomorrow begins CHG’s No-Cook July. It’s all the food you’ve come to know and tolerate, minus any bacteria-killing heat. See you then!You guys! We’ve been around for three years! Who knew that financial idiocy and an inability to cook would someday lead to a blog with over 120,000 George Clooney references?But seriously, folks. It’s been a sweet year here at the CHG compound. Our readership remained aweradbodaciousicalsome. We even grew a little, with over a million visits since last July. We got a tad burned out. We came roaring back. We introduced Ask the Internet, which thanks to y’all, has been a thriving success/fab...

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Watch My Weight Wednesday! Meet Tim!

Welcome to Watch My Weight Wednesdays!  I am very pleased to introduce today's guest blogger Tim from Everyday Living.  I was so happy to hear he wanted to share his story with us!  Thanks Tim!I would like to thank Angie for asking me to be a contributor to your site. I consider it a great honor to be allowed to come here and share my story as to how and why I began my weight loss journey. Thinking back to almost three years ago (music starts to play and swirling clouds begin to form)...I have to admit that for the past several years, I have not given my weight a great deal of thought. I felt that if my clothes fit, than I was...

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CHG Best of June 2010

Holy moly, there was a lot of cooking happening this month. Special thanks to all the turkey sausage, corn, and tofu that made the sacrifice. And special thanks to all yis readers, who make writing this thing so very worthwhile. Ups!JUNE RECIPESBaked Radish ChipsBasil Tofu SaladDIY Microwave PopcornFruit GazpachoGreek Tofu SaladGreen Garlic and Garlic Scapes PestoGrilled Tofu SteaksItalian Turkey SlidersLemony Couscous with ChickpeasSpanish Black Beans and Rice (Moors and Christians)Summer PanzanellaJUNE ARTICLESWe took 46 fabulous answers from a kid-concerned Ask the Internet question, and turned them into Cooking For Small Children: 15 Hows,...

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Carrots!

Your little ones hungry for a snack?  Offer them a peeled carrot.  These two had fun pretending to be rabbits and snowmen.  I remember when my son was small like these two.  He would sneak carrots from the fridge to snack on.  I always pretended not to see him do it. ...

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Ask the Internet: Eating More Leafy Greens?

Sweet readers! Don’t forget: Thursday kicks off CHG’s No-Cook July, our month-long journey into Joseph Conrad’s heart of darkness meals made without heat.But first, today’s question! It comes from the lovely Rebecca. She asks:Q: My boyfriend loves him some leafy greens and I'm trying to, really really trying to, but a few years ago I lived in a co-op where they fed me nothing but leafy greens and it's kind of ruined it for me. We even make a bunch of recipes that use greens on your site, but still no go. I think I have a mental block towards them or something, who knows. Do you have any suggestions for tricking myself into eating more of these...

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The Marvellous Health of Unvaccinated Children

Françoise Berthoud, MD [medical doctor, paediatrician]June 25, 2010Once upon a time, in April 2009 to be exact, I was invited to give a speech at a conference on vaccination.I was to talk after two of the best speakers France has to offer on the subject had their turn, journalist Sylvie Simon and biologist Michel Georget. At hearing them speak in the past, it was absolutely clear to me that the best option is to stay as far away from vaccines as possible. I just did not know what to do instead to best assure staying alive and well. As a paediatrician and homeopath qualified to speak on the subject, I decided to setup a conference called The Marvellous Health of Unvaccinated Children along with my friends, Sylvie and Michel. This work would later evolve into a book that...

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Health-Insurance Caps to Fail

Once again collusion in Big Insurance raises an ugly head - Trying to rein in health spending by limiting on insurance rates is like trying to hold down the lid on a pot of boiling water. Aside from the fact that insurance costs partly reflect ever-increasing medical costs over which insurers have little control, the legal justification for saying “no more” has never been clear. This has become apparent in Massachusetts, where an administrative court has ruled against a state-imposed insurance cap, and in California, where insurers have retreated temporarily from big rate hikes but are expected to return with new demands. Complete story While cost control is often helpful, restraining trade and reducing income for health professionals is against sound economi...

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Americans are treated, and overtreated, and overtreated...

I have reached the place where I almost can't read the news, and more specifically health news, because little seems to have changed over decades or reading, and working.Take the problem of medical professionals not knowing when to stop, and not knowing when too much is too much.Perhaps the real issue is controlling health care to the Nth degree via Big Insurance and Big PhRMA.And then there is the mental-emotional-spiritual concern that seems far more left out of care that in the 1970s.OvertreatingInvestors Hungry for Hospitals, Doctors Difficult to Manage...

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Electronic Medical Records: Hundreds of files lost daily

NHS LOSES 800 PATIENTS' PRIVATE FILES EVERY DAY"D. Mail 25.6.10  Over 800 patient records are lost by the NHS every day. The missing info includes personal health records, diagnoses & details of treatments. Often electronic data is carelessly left unencryted & without proper password protection. Documents have been left in skips or stolen from unlocked cars & offices.Critics say this raises questions over the new NHS online database of medical records. When complete next year, any doctor, nurse or health worker in UK will be able to look at our files.  Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch said "The level of incompetence revealed by these data breaches is staggering. The NHS is clearly incapable of treating our private data with the necessary resp...

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Seed Store Set for Destruction

"VITAL SEED STORE SET FOR DESTRUCTION"New Scientist 26.6.10  The world's largest scientific repository of fruits & berries near St. Petersbury in Russia could be bulldozed later this year to make way for housing. Cary Fowler director of Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome called for scientific intervention to prevent "The largest intentional preventable loss of crop diversity in my lifetime."The Pavlovsk storage has 4,000 varieties of fruit & berry see...

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Summer Panzanella: An Open Letter

NOTE #1: Today on Serious Eats: Greek Salad Skewers from Giada DeLaurentiis. This no-cook, veggie heavy, completely delicious appetizer can only mean one thing: the big-bosomed Italian scores again.NOTE #2: Sweet readers! July is NO-COOK MONTH here at Cheap Healthy Good. Starting with Leigh’s Veggie Might column on Thursday and continuing through August 1st, all our recipes will be heating implement-free. (Because frankly, we Noo Yawkuhs are freakin’ dyin' ovah heah.) See you then!Dear Panzanella,I admit it. You had me fooled.I knew you were essentially bread and tomato salad. I knew you included other foods – olives, onions, herbs – for kicks....

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Beautiful Blogger Award!

The beautiful Blogger Award for me?!  Thank you so much to Summer at Summer, Boys and as much scrapbooking as possible...  for giving this award to me!!  Summer truly has a beautiful blog Go on over and say hello to her and tell her Angie sent you!  Now the rules.I need to pass this award on to 7 other Blogs to be able to fully except this award!!Michelle at Green Earth BazaarKatie at The Stylish Dieter Lucy at lucille in the skyHolly at Southern SevenPriscilla at Blue Eyed American Girl Marsha at Taste and See God's GoodnessJulie at The going to be new me.... Now I have to tell you 7 things you may...

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Your Eyes and Cell Phone Damage

Many years ago, perhaps in the mid 90s, an attorney I know, and a HAM radio operator, was talking with me about EMF. He pointed out that for a very long time the FCC has had on its licensing exam a question regarding the fact that EMF (radio waves) are a known cause of cataract.This article looks at the issue again and also points out the importance of keeping the cell phone as far away from you as possible.This is the same concern in regard to cell phone effect on your thyroid gland and function.Nutrients 4 Eye Health Cell phones can damage eyes: Study Prashant Rupera, TNN, Jun 23, 2010VADODARA/ANAND: While scientists across the globe are still debating whether usage of cell phones results in heart diseases, a new study carried out by scientists at Charotar University of Science and Technology...

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Saturday Throwback: Cheap Healthy Good’s Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Equipment

Every Saturday, we post a piece from the CHG archives, which are coincidentally located in the same warehouse where Indiana Jones stashed the Ark of the Covenant. This articles comes from November 2007.One of the most popular, frequently-posted-on topics in all of cooking blogdom is Kitchen Equipment. Everybody (including me) wants to know: what should we buy? In what sizes? Why would anyone need a freezer thermometer, unless he’s trying to preserve a body? (Note to self: maybe cut back on Dexter a bit.)The problem is, there are oodles of clashing opinions, because everybody comes from different culinary perspectives. In other words, equipment...

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FTC - Hands Off on Your Supplements

The FTC will not get the authorization to control supplements. Thanks to everyone who contacted their member of Congress to oppose the Draconian addition to the finance bill.from Natural Health News House and Senate Ramming Through Secret Bill Add-Ons to Block ...Apr 27, 2010This language would give unelected FTC bureaucrats arbitrary authority to impose crippling requirements that will drive up the costs of supplements or remove them from the market entirely. More from LEF, 3 April - Here is a link to the ...Contact Congress Now to Save SupplementsMay 21, 20103217) passed the Senate without a controversial provision expanding the powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The bill now moves to a conference committee, where the House and Senate negotiate over the differences in their...

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TB for Allergies?

Just the other day Andy Weil mentioned that people with asthma usually are low in magnesium resources.  Many of us in natural health care have known this too and for a very long time. People with asthma also have a number of other nutritional deficiencies and this can be combined with food allergy as well.Another factor is low adrenal function and suppressed immunity associated with the 30 some vaccines children are pushed to accept from birth to teen years.  Allergy often pops up after vaccination and it also seems to increase with environmental exposure to pollutants of many kinds.In my case I think the childhood asthma I suffered with came from the fact that both my parents were constant smokers. If you read Natural Health News often you are aware that we do not favor vaccination.Keeping...

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