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Driving Tips for Seniors

Driving changes as a person ages. Seniors are prone to accidents due to several factors that are not common for younger adults. Although teenage drivers have more accidents than senior citizens, seniors who are involved in auto accidents have a much higher rate of injury or fatality. As a senior, there are some things you [...]

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Xbox Kinect and the Connection to Senior Health

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Elderly Gamers and the XBox Kinect Seniors across the country have spent the past few decades decrying the rise of video games as a children’s pastime, but the latest innovation in video game technology just may be a perfect fit for the elderly community. The newly introduced Xbox Kinect gaming system, which is an addition [...]

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Can HGH Help Treat Diabetes?

Diabetes is a serious condition that affects 8.3% of the US population. What’s even more shocking is that although 18.8 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes, the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse estimates that 7 million more Americans have yet to be diagnosed with this condition. This widespread diabetes epidemic has much to do with [...]

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Signs of Dementia – Difference Between Alzheimer’s and Dementia

If there’s one thing you don’t want to lose, it’s your ability to think rationally. That’s exactly what happens to those unfortunate people who develop dementia. Although they may have been intellectually gifted early on in life, when afflicted with dementia in their later years their thought processes begin to break down and their memory [...]

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Resistance to Insulin -Risk Factors and Treatments

What is Insulin Resistance ? Insulin plays an important role in processing glucose, the fuel that keeps many of the cells in our body alive.  The hormone is produced by the pancreas when blood glucose levels reach a certain level, normally after a meal.  In a normally functioning body the insulin then triggers cells to [...]

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How a Good Air Conditioner Can Help Your Asthma

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory disease that affects over two million people in the UK alone. It often stems from heavy smoking, passive smoking, living in a heavily air polluted environment and can develop very early on particularly if you are susceptible to different types of allergies. As study have shown, people suffering from [...]

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