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    More medications that cause weight gain

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    / February 8, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Foods and medications or drugs can interact in many ways, but the food-drug interaction that patients seem to be most aware of is weight gain associated with taking certain medicines. While there are medications that cause weight gain by stimulating the appetite, there are also meds that may cause weight gain by...

  2. 12 stress signals of the body

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    / February 7, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Money, work, kids, in-laws, home repairs, relationship problems – basically if you’re not stressed to the hilt, you haven’t been opening your mail, e-mail, or answering the phone. Imagine a fire station on full alert – all emergency vehicles are set to race off, all staff members are dressed and ready, all...

  3. Cancer: don’t become a statistic

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    / February 6, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Cancer is a global epidemic, so much so that the international and South African cancer communities created an international day of awareness - 4th February is World Cancer Awareness Day - in an effort to highlight the issues and bring about change. This is a treatable disease after all! In an effort to address the...

  4. Iron overload: a silent killer

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    / February 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    “Haemochromatosis: Canada’s most common genetic disorder,” reads a prominent search-engine result. But what, you may ask, is the relevance of this to you? If you trawl through Cyberspace, you’ll soon notice that the Canadian Haemochromatosis Society isn’t alone in recognising haemochromatosis – or iron overload – as the most common...

  5. Most common causes of death in SA

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    / February 2, 2012 / 4 Comments
    According to the South African Survey released in early January 2012, South Africa’s biggest killer is tuberculosis. The Survey was published by the South African Institute of Race Relations. The leading cause of death among African people is tuberculosis (TB), followed by influenza and pneumonia, and intestinal infectious diseases such as cholera. Coloured people also die...

  6. [Official notice] Our Ozone Sauna now carries the official CE mark

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    / February 2, 2012 / Leave a comment
    We are proud to announce that Salvagente Wellness Clinic now distributes the ONLY South African ozone steam saunas that carry the Internationally recognized CE Mark. In our constant endeavor to improve our offerings, we can officially add safety to our checklist. All our models now adhere to the European standard...

  7. Working overtime ups depression

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    / January 31, 2012 / Leave a comment
    People who work overtime are at much greater risk for depression, according to a new study. Researchers followed roughly 2 000 middle-aged British government workers and after taking other risk factors for depression into account, found that workers on the job for 11 hours or more each day are twice as likely...

  8. Why coffee reduces risk of diabetes

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    / January 30, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Why do heavy coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a disease on the increase around the world that can lead to serious health problems? Scientists are offering a new solution to that long-standing mystery in a report in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry. Ling Zheng, Kun Huang...

  9. Heart attack or stroke rises over lifetime

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    / January 27, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Will you have a heart attack or a stroke in your lifetime? Your odds may be worse than you think. Men and women may have a false sense of security about their chances of having a heart attack or stroke based on the current practice of calculating a patient’s risk 10 years into the...

  10. Saliva HIV test passes the grade

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    / January 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    A saliva test used to diagnose the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is comparable in accuracy to the traditional blood test, according to a new study led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University. The meta-analysis, which compared studies worldwide, showed that the saliva HIV test,...

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