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5 Tips for Promoting Healthy Eating Habits in Children
The food that is aggressively marketed to children (think sugar filled cereals, neon colored yogurt, and pressed chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs) is filled with unhealthy ingredients, including chemicals and preservatives. How is a parent, committed to getting their child to eat healthy, supposed to compete with these colorfully, high sugar and salt content foods,…
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Saving Lives: Workable Solutions to the Opioid Crisis
In 2017 over 70,000 people died of drug overdose. While Purdue pharma, TEVA, and many other pharmaceutical companies work on settling thousands of cases for their role in creating this opioid crises, drug overdose deaths continue to impact communities in the United States. We need to find strategies to confront the opioid epidemic and reduce…
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Corporate Greed: The Cause of the Opioid Crisis
Opioids are the most commonly used and effective analgesic treatments for severe pain, but they have recently come under scrutiny owning to epidemic levels of abuse and overdose. In 2017, there were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States. How did we get here? In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community…
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The Overlooked Activity that Leads to a Longer, Healthier Life…Sex
Which activity burns 100 calories while reducing your risk of heart disease, lowers your blood pressure, boosts your immune system, and enhances your sense of well-being? Sex. Research shows that sex can be great for your health and these benefits extend into our senior years. Here are just some of the benefits to staying sexually…
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Urban Overload: How to Manage Stress in American Cities
America is often touted as the preferred destination for international citizens, and for good reason. It’s a country ranked in the top 5 in Cultural Influence, Entrepreneurship, and Job Markets according to U.S. News. Unfortunately, there is more than meets to eye. Fifty-nine percent of Americans believed 2017 was the lowest point in our…
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Dentistry and Autism
Children with autism can have difficulty accessing preventative dental treatment due to challenging behaviors and sensory processing disorders coupled with a reported reluctance by dentists to treat these children. The lack of eye contact, reduction of concentration, and sudden body movements make it difficult for dentists to treat autistic children. For a child with Autism…
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CBD Oil and Autism
Cannabis was readily available for millennia. The first documented use of cannabis-based medicine was from 2737 BC by Chinese emperor Sheng Nung, who used cannabis-infused tea to treat memory, malaria, rheumatism, and gout. An Irish physician named William B. O’Shaughnessy conducted a study on cannabis’ therapeutic effects in 1839, which was quite controversial at the…
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Inconsistent & Imprecise: Haphazard American Food Labeling
Food labeling isn’t the only field where manufacturer opinions take precedence over established science. As of 1979, drug manufacturers are required to stamp an expiration date indicating when a manufacturer can no longer guarantee the full potency and safety of their drugs. A study conducted by the FDA found that 90% of more than 100 drugs were still just as potent 15 years after the expiration date. As previously mentioned, the FDA advises against using products past their expiration dates, and I will not recommend the use of expired medication.
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Holistic Dentistry
Holistic dentistry is an emerging field of probiotic dental medicine that supports the life process. It is an aesthetic, relatively nontoxic and biocompatible treatment modality. The knowledge and understanding of Holistic approach of treatments is still an ongoing process and further research should be carried out in this regard.
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How Pornography Impacts Violence Against Women and Child Sex Abuse
If we are to protect our most vulnerable populations from sex abuse and sexual violence, we need to aggressively pursue research regarding frequent consumption of internet pornography, especially when it has become available to so many, so much earlier in life. Education on how that increase is distorting the collective minds of today’s society must become available and understood in order for necessary change to take place.
