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Guest Post: Rebound Headaches–Does Today’s Headache Medication Cause Tomorrow’s Misery?

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Rebound Headaches By: Tom Thorne http://www.FeelingOutstanding.com One of the most devastating cycles that a person can fall into is the rebound headache cycle. Doctors all over the country realize that many of the popular over-the-counter headache medications, when used too often, can cause rebound headaches, or the pain the return, often at a more severe level, 12, 24 or 48 hours later. It is definitely a twisted and cruel marketing technique that is blasted all over the television, magazines, newspapers and other media praising these medications as a gift from above. When in fact, if a person over-uses these drugs,…

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What Sugar Does to Your Brain

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What Sugar Does to Your Brain

This article will piece together the bits of information out there on sugar and brain function to get a better understanding of what sugar is doing to our brains.

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Weird Things Humans Do

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Weird Things Humans Do

We do a lot of strange things, and unfortunately for our health, they often lead to illness. As a whole, our memories are short, we think that the things we do every day are the things that humans have always done, but this is just not true.

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What? Foods That Act Like Sugar?

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What? Foods That Act Like Sugar?

Foods that Act Like Sugar I write a lot about sugar and foods that act like sugar in this blog. Lately, I’ve been getting a few questions about what I mean by “foods that act like sugar,” so here is the explanation and it all start with an understanding of the glycemic index. The Glycemic Index By now, most people have heard of the glycemic index, but I’ll take a moment to explain it. The way the glycemic index works is that a scientist will measure the blood sugar of a volunteer and then feed that volunteer a single food.…

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Diabetes Doubles Down on Nation

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Diabetes Doubles According to recent research, the number of people with diabetes has doubled in the last 10 years.1 The report, by the Centers for Disease Control or CDC, shows that the nation (and really the whole developed world) is becoming heavier and heavier (see YouTube video) and with that excess weight comes an increasingly large number of people who have diabetes. Having diabetes is far from a mild disease; it has major implications on the quality of life. People with diabetes are much more likely to have: Heart disease Kidney disease Eye disease (cataracts, macular degeneration, blindness) Vascular disease…

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Insomnia: Poor Sleep Robs you of More Than a Good Night’s Sleep

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It is estimated that thirty to forty percent of Americans suffer from some form of insomnia. The most common way to combat this problem is to take prescription or over-the-counter medications, but most of these drugs have adverse affects on the normal sleep cycle, which means you become addicted to using them.

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Are You Addicted to Sugar? Take This Test

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Addictions can be tricky to define; there are both physical and psychological addictions. Proving something is an addiction is a bit difficult, but the test below is a test that would work for any addiction. Give it a try:

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What is Eating Below the Glycemic Index?

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What is Eating Below the Glycemic Index?

What you should notice about this chart, or any glycemic index chart, is that there are a number of foods that are missing. The reason why these missing foods are not on the chart is that they don't have any effect on your blood sugar at all.

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Cold and Flu Season Doesn’t Mean You have to be Sick

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There are two ways to look at cold and flu season. The first is to think that there are bugs out there and if you are too close to someone who has those bugs, you are going to get sick. The second is to realize that there are bugs out there, but there are always bugs out there, and that you only get sick when the conditions are right for the bugs to thrive.

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Disease Busting Power Foods

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Power Foods All foods are not created equal. Some foods are simply not good for you and I talk enough about them: principally sugar, foods that act like sugar and processed foods (see my book Sugarettes), but let’s talk about those foods that are not just good for you, but are the foods have the ability to change the course of your life and pack outstanding health benefits. You want to include as many of these disease busting power foods into your diet as possible. What to Look For Finding these power foods is not that hard, you probably have…

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