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Category: HEALTH NEWS
34 Ways to Eat Watermelon at Every Meal
Feeling a bit parched? Here, let us pass you a hydrating recipe (or 34). At 92 percent water (no wonder its name), watermelon is nature’s thirst quencher. This isn’t a one-trick fruit, though. Chc vitamins and minerals such as thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B-6, folate, pantothenic acid, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium, choline, lycopene, and betaine, watermelon has been shown to reduce blood pressure, ease inflammation, and soothe sore muscles. Ready to get your watermelon on? These 34 recipes will keep you hydrated while you sip, slurp, and bite into the watery fruit’s benefits. Soups Photo: Green Kitchen Stories 1. Watermelon Gazpacho Chop, blend, freeze, eat! Could you ask for anything more deliciously stress-free? This gazpacho not only replaces tomato juice with watermelon, but it also
The Best Jobs In Healthcare In 2015
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Infections Requiring Hospitalization Can Lower Your IQ, Study Finds
To the already long list of reasons to avoid a hospital stay, a new study adds one that will make you think – or potentially impair your ability to think. Researchers have uncovered a strong correlation between hospitalized infections and lower IQ scores. The study used an enormous amount of tracking data
This Wearable Prototype Can See Through Skin To Scan Your Blood
Echo Labs uses light and a clever algorithm to measure oxygen and CO2 in the blood stream.
Sneakernomics: Solutions For The Run Specialty Business
After several years of strong sales growth in the run specialty channel, that trend has now slowed. While the run specialty business is only a small portion of the overall running market, the channel controls tremendous mindshare. In order for the industry’s running business to improve, we need run specialty to
Healthcare "Tax" Has Crushed Nest Eggs By $1,000,000 Per Household
It’s been reported that 80{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} of employer payroll increases have gone to pay healthcare costs over last 20+ years so employer costs have increased with little going in the pockets of workers (not to mention no meaningful improvement in overall health outcomes). Over the last 50 years, the cost of consumer goods
America’s Biggest Health Insurance Providers
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Medicaid Health Plans Face Quality And Performance Ratings
Just as millions of Americans enroll in the expanded Medicaid health insurance program under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration is rolling out new rules that will measure quality and performance of private plans that provide such benefits. Already, the federal government rates private health plans that contract with the
The Pill Can Kill In Rare Cases — If You Don’t Know The Signs And Risk Factors
I nearly died when I was 18 years old because I was taking birth control pills and did not realize I had a blood clot. Neither did my doctor. For five weeks. After traveling up my legs with no symptoms and lodging just below my heart, the pulmonary embolism grew
Hospice Care Decreases Depression Symptoms In Surviving Spouses, Study Finds
Patients being placed in hospice care aren’t the only ones eligible to receive services. Family members can also benefit from the wide range of medical, spiritual and emotional resources being offered by a palliative care facility. A new study took a look at the spouses of seriously ill patients and found that hospice