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Sono Bello Can Help Patients to Overcome Their Midsection Woes

You could go years, even decades, feeling great about your body. Then, all of a sudden, something changes. The diet you used to live on, and the exercise regimen you used to follow no longer work. You’re now stuck with a body you’re not satisfied with, and you have no idea what to do about it. A cosmetic surgeon with a company like Sono Bello — a practice that has earned positive reviews on such sites as Zwivel — can show you exactly how to get that perfect bod back. A 65-year-old patient named Sandy was once in your situation.…

Victoria Mondloch – What Makes a Great Doctor

Although it is fair to say that all doctors have a certain greatness about them given the job that they do, there are some who truly own the tag of being great. One such person who falls into this category is Victoria Mondloch, a woman who has inspired me throughout my time at medical school, I even wrote about her in a recent journal! Victoria is a specialist in family medicine here in Waukesha, Wisconsin who also works within the fields of gynecology and obstetrics. When you spend time with someone like this you can tell that they are a…

Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia, which is characterized by progressive damage to nerve cells and their connections. It causes problems with memory, thinking processes, verbal communication and behavior. Symptoms start out slowly and worsen over time, becoming severe enough to interfere with common everyday tasks. Alzheimer’s disease is not an immediate death sentence, a person may live anywhere from two to 20 years after diagnosis. Those years are fraught with uncertainty and most patients are in an increasingly dependent state. Despite popular belief, Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging, although the greatest known risk factor is…

Affordable Mobility Products to Relieve Muscle Aches

Muscle aches can be unpleasant and they can also restrict a person’s mobility. Massage therapies can often relieve some of these aches and pains, but having them regularly can prove to be expensive. Fortunately, there are a variety of mobility products on the market that can provide some muscular relief when budget is an issue. Neck and Shoulder Heat Pad One of the most common areas of the body that receive a great deal of stress and tension from daily life is the neck and shoulder region. Both the neck and shoulders can tighten up and become sore, leaving you…

Are You Killing Your Own Libido?

Surprising but true! A study conducted by the University of Kentucky found that smokers rated their sex lives at 5, on a scale of 1 to 10, whereas non-smokers registered an average rating of 9! The nicotine shots smokers are so addicted to does indeed kill their sex drive! So, if you are thinking of gaining longer & harder erections, checking up on your own lifestyle practices might be a good first step. To learn more about how to get stronger erections, check unbiased review sites like Men’s Health Digest, which offers comprehensive information on sexual products for enhancement, such…

Living a Healthy Senior Life

Whether you’re a senior citizen or your parents are, health becomes a more important topic. With that in mind, it is imperative that seniors’ get the best medical care available when they need it. This is especially true when medical emergencies come up. If you don’t already know the emergency rooms in your area, now would be a good time to get to know more about them. By being better in-tune with what resources are available, you can lessen the odds of a bad experience. Remember, such an experience can even put your life in peril. Although you’d like to…

Jeunesse Products for Active Seniors

Getting older does not mean that you have to slow down your active lifestyle. In fact many seniors today become more active as they get older because they retire and have the additional time to participate in exercise activities, travel, and creating their own fun and adventurous schedules. However getting older does mean that you need to do certain things in order to ensure that you are as healthy as you can be so that you can enjoy your life and the opportunities that are available. One critical thing is to always get regular checkups. Going to the doctor is…

The Amazing Benefits of Saunas

A sauna is a room or a smaller house designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions or sometimes called heat baths. Saunas used to use an open fire, but a sauna manufacturer today will use an electric heater to heat stones. These stones produce a dry heat to warm the room to temperatures usually about 176°F/80°C although some saunas will go over 212°F/100°C. Water is thrown over the hot stones creating moisture in the air and allowing the room’s occupants to remain relatively comfortable in this level of heat. A sauna session is usually a social…

Altering Your Home to Cope With Limited Mobility

If you have found yourself in a position whereby your mobility has been significantly affected by an illness, injury or old age, you will need to start altering areas of your life so that things become that little bit easier. The hardest thing to accept is that you can no longer do the things that you used to be able to do and once you have made this realization, you can start tweaking things around you to improve your daily life. The home is a big area of this and you should either look into wheelchair accessible homes, homes which…

Apps That Can Help You to Stay on Top of Your Health

Unfortunately we all have to face the fact that Father Time is unrelenting and each minute, day and month that passes, we age that little bit more. Such is the way with life, when most of us start to reach a certain age, the risk of health problems increases by the day. Thankfully we are living in a good age, relatively speaking, and we have the blessing of cutting edge technology at our fingertips which medical professionals can use to keep us in shape, and which we can use to ensure we stay that way. I am of course, talking…

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