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Bradly Jacobs MD MPH By Dr. Bradly Jacobs

Overcoming Anxiety

Someone recently asked me whether there are treatments worth considering in addition to medications to help me manage my anxiety

 

Fortunately, there are many therapies that can help you manage your anxiety.

 

 

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Dr. Alexander Mauskop by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Overreliance on Drugs?

 

A recent survey by Beatrice Golomb and her colleagues which was reported by Reuters Health discovered that when patients reported adverse reactions to drugs their doctors routinely denied that the drug was responsible for these side effects.

 

To a great extent this is due to doctor’s lack of knowledge about potential side effects, but I suspect it is also because doctors have an unreasonable degree of reliance and faith in drugs.

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by Dr. Jonathan V. Wright

Sun Protection Nutrition

A recent article by Dr. Niva Shapira in the journal Nutrition Reviews lays out the evidence for a Nutritional approach to sun protection in 7 1/2 pages (with an impressive 149 references).

 

It points directly to the major culprit behind the large majority of skin cancers: poor diet!

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by Jonathan Galland

National Coffee Day

A day dedicated to the art of drinking coffee.  That sounds like my kind of day.

 

And to help celebrate, we are grinding out a roundup of our hand-selected coffee posts below.

 

So what am I going to do to celebrate?

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Coffee Health Benefits for Alzheimer’s Disease

Discovering a way to prevent, delay or treat Alzheimer’s disease is a major area of medical research. And learning about the latest health benefits of coffee is a hot topic in nutrition.

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Coffee Linked to Reduced Stroke Risk in Women

Drinking more than a cup of coffee per day was associated with a lower risk of stroke in a study of Swedish women.

 

But researchers caution that it’s too soon to change your coffee-drinking habits.

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