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Protect Yourself from These 4 Healthcare Scams
We’ve all seen those sketchy-looking ads from people claiming to have the cure for cancer or the real solution to weight loss. Others remember getting phone calls or emails telling them their insurance has been compromised and they need to confirm their login...
A Basic Guide to Handling Diabetes
Despite its prevalence in America, diabetes is an often-misunderstood diagnosis. Whether it’s confusing Type 1 and Type 2 or blaming the patient for their own disease, plenty of people have very little detailed understanding of what diabetes truly is and how to manage...
Living with Chronic Pain
Everyone has experienced pain at some point in their lives. Whether it’s the result of an injury, sickness, or the body simply acting strange, pain is a universal human experience. But a significant number of people deal with a different type of pain. In 2016, the CDC...
Creating Healthy Habits for a Healthy Life
If there was a magic pill to make you perfectly healthy and keep you healthy for life, that pill would be in absurdly high demand across the world. Sadly, no such pill exists. Even the best medicines and supplements on the market today can only do so much. By and...
Cholesterol: A Bird’s-Eye View
There are certain words in the medical field that induce worry for sometimes nonsensical reasons. One of these words is definitely “cholesterol”. Most people are vaguely aware that cholesterol is a bad thing and can be managed by eating fewer animal products. However,...
Choosing Nutritionally Dense Foods
We’re all familiar with macronutrients: carbohydrates, fat, and protein. Likewise, we’ve all heard of micronutrients like vitamin A, iron, calcium, and more. But knowing where to find these micronutrients isn’t always as straightforward as identifying macronutrients....
Healthy Lifestyle vs. Crash Diets
We’ve all heard outlandish claims about rapid weight loss or curing diseases by doing one weird trick every morning, cutting out a specific food from our diets, buying a particular product, or some combination of all the above. False claims about health abound on the...
5 Healthy Habits to Boost Your Immune System
As the pandemic continues, more people than ever are asking questions about boosting their immune systems and staying healthy. Of course, this is a great idea even in the best of circumstances. There’s no “magic pill” or awesome habit that will make your immune system...
How to Handle a Virtual Doctor Appointment
Even before the coronavirus pandemic made them a necessity, virtual doctor visits were becoming more popular. Patients with chronic diseases or transportation issues took advantage of this relatively new setup to continue receiving the medical treatment they needed...
Coronavirus: 5 Significant Risk Factors
The coronavirus, or COVID-19, needs no introduction. By now everyone is familiar with the worldwide pandemic that threatens anyone and everyone. While no person is truly safe from the virus, people that meet certain criteria or have certain health conditions are at...
Men’s Health: 4 Common Health Issues for Men
Certain diseases or general health problems affect men and women equally and produce nearly identical symptoms. However, there are always exceptions. Other types of diseases are unique to men or affect men differently than women. Because of this, it’s crucial for men...
7 Types of Cancer in Men
Cancer is a terrifying disease for anyone. According to the National Cancer Institute, while both men and women are susceptible to cancer, men have a higher mortality rate from the disease. Part of this may be attributed to the fact that some forms of cancer in men...