Tuesday, 27 January, 2009
Tom Daschle : Health & Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle, the new Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a good choice for the department. He will bring his experience as former Senate Majority Leader to the President’s Cabinet. Additionally, he authored the well known book “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-care Crisis”. It is my understanding, that he will also coordinate the efforts of President Obama’s administration to overhaul and revamp the nation’s health care system, by overseeing the White House Office of Health reform. The Department of HHS focus is on the protection of all Americans.
The Obama-Biden Health Care Agenda states:
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Thursday, 8 January, 2009
How well one eat -good nutrition- plays an important role in healthy living. Starting at about age 30 body fat increases and muscle mass decreases. As the years go by there is a disproportionate number of obese individuals in our society. Why does this happen? Our metabolism slows down and the result is weight gain.
Eating well, as a general rule, does the following:
- Helps lower the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes
- Help us loose weight or maintain our weigh
- Help lower our cholesterol
- Help build and maintain our bones
- Help lower our risk of diverticulosis and diverticulitis
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Wednesday, 7 January, 2009
High blood pressure (hypertension) is the most common cardiac risk factor in the United States. As the lifestyle habits of western culture are increasingly adopted in other countries, the incidence of hypertension is also increasing.
Meditation, exercise, aromatherapy and biofeedback have been found to be useful in treating individuals with hypertension. In addition, a form of Ayurvedic medicine has been shown to play a therapeutic in the treatment of coronary heart disease in older adults.
What has been your experience with using complementary therapies for high blood pressure? what therapies have you used? Where the therapies of value to you or people you know? I’d love to read the comments you write below.
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