Posts tagged: better

Mar 22 2009

Health Wellness Coaching For Achieving Better Health

by Randal Pike

Trying to stay on a course of good health every day of the year is not an easy task. But there’s no need to do it alone. Health wellness coaching offers expert guidance to help you obtain or regain good health and wellness practices and sustain them every day. By evaluating your lifestyle, health wellness coaching allows you to take a proactive approach to your health and wellness care.

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Mar 02 2009

Do You Want to Have a Better Brain?

by Michael Byrd

Are you satisfied with the way your brain works? Or do you want to make wiser decisions, think better or remember more (”I can’t seem to find my reading glasses.”)?

We all want a smarter brain, right? We always dread the day when forget things, are not able to make wise enough decisions or simply cannot seem to think better.

If this is true to you then it’s time you start taking Omega Read more »

Jan 16 2009

Better Heart, Better Fitness with a Forerunner

by Joseph Aaron

One of the best tools that science and technology have made available to us is the heart rate monitor. Garmin has taken the responsibility of putting heart rate monitors within reach of the common man by presenting it in the package of a watch. Garmin has come up with lots of models that not only monitor the heart rate, but also double as a personal fitness instructor.

The heart rate monitors continually keeps tabs Read more »

Jan 14 2009

Healthcare Commission urges A&Es to control patient pain better

This shows some progress since 2004 but the Healthcare Commission says further improvement is needed.

59% believed A&E staff did everything they could to help control patient pain and 27% said they did to some extent.

Many patients said they did not receive enough information when they left A&E: 37% were given a complete explanation of possible medication side effects, 37% were told when they could resume activities like Read more »

Dec 25 2008

Be Better, Be Greener

by Simon M Skinner

Did you know that green living can actually help you live longer? It might sound strange, but it’s really true – many of the same things that help the earth will help you, too. If you drive less, eat fresh organically grown foods and do many other ecologically friendly things, you’ll live a lot longer.

Consuming only healthy foods that have been organically produced means that you’re feeding your Read more »

Dec 12 2008

Do you want to look better dead than alive?

Plastic surgery hysteria has crossed over to the dead. (via Tony Youn)

Morticians are “smoothing lines, plumping lips and even boosting sagging parts for that last big special occasion — their funeral.”

Advanced arrangements are being made, like people who “mention that they want their breasts to look perky when they’re dead.”

Ironically, those who have had plastic surgery implants may need them removed if they Read more »

Nov 15 2008

ECGs no better than routine clinical assessment at predicting heart disease

Given that ECGs are routine in most UK chest pain clinics, the finding shows that better risk stratification is needed for angina patients, the researchers say.

Basic clinical assessments and resting ECGs were collected for 8,176 patients with suspected angina, of whom 4,848 also had summary exercise ECGs recorded and 1,422 had detailed exercise ECGs recorded.

The researchers found that the basic clinical assessment encompassed Read more »