When doctors start talking about cholesterol, it’s rarely a good thing. They usually bring it up in the context of high cholesterol, which can lead to some serious problems further down the line. You do need some cholesterol, though. It’s essential to human survival. To start, let’s discuss what cholesterol actually is and what it […]
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It’s taken a while, but people are finally starting to realize that mental health is just as important as physical health and needs just as much care. We’ve still got a way to go before attitudes – and available treatments – catch up with those for physical health, but it’s amazing to think how quickly
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We all have our worries and our fears. Sometimes, they embed so deep that they’re a source of constant stress. When your anxieties reach the point where they stop you from living your everyday life, they may have gone past what can just be dismissed as human nature. In general, anxiety refers to ongoing unease.
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People have been experiencing dark moods for as long as humanity has existed. Sometimes they’re for understandable reasons, like the loss of a loved one or because of ongoing life problems. Sometimes they seem to appear from nowhere. It’s only more recently that we’ve really started to understand depression as an illness. There are a
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We probably all know a few basic facts about diabetes – it has to do with blood sugar levels, there’s no cure, and you manage it with diet and insulin. You might not know, however, that there are three different types of diabetes, that there are ways to reduce the risk of developing diabetes, or
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