by admin | Nov 3, 2011 | Natural Facts, Newsletter thru 2013
Omega-3 fatty acids have already been proven to lower the triglycerides that can harden arteries and lead to heart disease, but researchers theorize these health-critical nutrients can do much more throughout the body. A new study offers intriguing evidence that fish...
by admin | Oct 12, 2011 | Natural Facts, Newsletter thru 2013
Background Constipation in children is a very common occurrence, affecting roughly 10 percent of children. It is characterized by bowel movements occurring less frequently than usual or stool that tends to be hard, dry, and difficult and painful to pass. The following...
by admin | Oct 5, 2011 | Natural Facts, Newsletter thru 2013
Dry mouth (xerostomia) is a condition in which saliva secretion is reduced, resulting not only in a dry mouth sensation, thirst and difficulty with eating, but also disturbed taste, periodontal disease, cavities and oral pain. Obviously, having chronic dry mouth...
by admin | Sep 28, 2011 | Natural Facts, Newsletter thru 2013
An accumulation of beta-amyloid in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Amyloid is a general term for protein fragments that the body produces normally. Beta-amyloid is a fragment snipped from an amyloid precursor protein (APP). In a healthy...
by admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Natural Facts, Newsletter thru 2013
The usually benign yeast Candida albicans can sometimes overgrow in the human gastrointestinal tract and give rise to a complex medical syndrome known as chronic candidiasis, or yeast syndrome. Candidiasis can cause a wide variety of symptoms in virtually every system...
by admin | May 2, 2011 | Natural Facts, Newsletter thru 2013
On April 20, 2011, the British Medical Journal published a study conducted by researchers from the University of Auckland that indicated that women taking calcium supplements had as much as a 22 percent increased chance of suffering a heart attack than women who did...