http://www.healthexplored.com Health Guides involving all types of therapies Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:58:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, what do I do? Go out in the sun or stay indoors? Put on sunscreen or keep my clothes on? Work on my tan or stay pale and interesting? More importantly, who is telling the truth? Conventional doctors or the alternative therapists? Is there an answer or do I ... http://www.healthexplored.com/how-much-sun-is-enough/ Neighbourhood shops and businesses, which find themselves under extreme financial pressure following the latest onslaught from the supermarkets, tend to put up posters proclaiming, “Use it or lose it”. It an unfortunate truth in today’s economic climate that it only takes a relatively small number of people to take their ... http://www.healthexplored.com/use-it-or-lose-it/ Now that spring is well and truly here, it’s a time when advertisers try to cash in on the latest diet plan. Regular readers will know that I have a jaundiced view of fad diets mainly because they don’t work in the long run. Yes, you’ll lose some pounds. But ... http://www.healthexplored.com/mind-and-body-dieting/ I've been visiting my children and attending a wedding hence the reasons for my not adding an article last week. However, I've now sorted out my e-mails and am almost back to normal - whatever that is!There's a particular TV program here in the UK with a regular health spot. ... http://www.healthexplored.com/tv-health-complaints-and-vitamin-d/ You can't have failed to notice the press reports on how vitamins are the new killers. As usual, the journalists don't bother to check up on the truth behind a story and certainly don't let the facts get in the way of a blockbuster headline.Since publication of the 'antioxidants may ... http://www.healthexplored.com/take-your-vitamins-please/ I am returning to the cholesterol topic today. Not that I am obsessed you understand. It's just that I've come across two recent articles that more or less support my views that a lifetime of taking statin drugs is not necesarily the only or best way to proceed. Certainly, I ... http://www.healthexplored.com/fight-back-against-cholesterol/ It has become routine to suffer from one of the big four - high blood pressure, diabetes type-2, stomach acid, or cholesterol. People wear them like a badge of distinction, bragging at the dinner table of their diagnosis and showing their drug collection with pride. Only last week I was ... http://www.healthexplored.com/cholesterol-drug-problems/ Being told you have high cholesterol may not rank alongside getting bad news of cancer, but it is the start of justifiable worry about your heart. Publicity suggests cholesterol is the one and only risk factor, and a heart attack will surely follow - unless you get your cholesterol down! ... http://www.healthexplored.com/cholesterol-and-statin-side-effects/ It's good to know both sides of an argument, or so I understand. Only one side can be biased and misleading. What everyone needs is balance. Unfortunately, the doctrine of balance doesn’t reach into every aspect of reporting. Twice in the past few days I’ve come across examples of bias ... http://www.healthexplored.com/truth-or-half-truth/ I spend most of my working hours reading or writing about general health matters. Not just one specific illness or disease. For me the basics are to regain and maintain the very best of health that you can. And this means looking after all of you and addressing the whole ... http://www.healthexplored.com/health-thoughts-for-today/