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30 Days Of Superfoods: Cashews To Ease Inflammation
30 Days Of Superfoods: Cashews To Ease Inflammation Welcome to 30 Days of Superfoods, Prevention’s 30-day challenge to incorporate more healthy fuel into your diet all November long. Superfoods have myriad benefits, from boosting your immune system and fortifying your body to warding off disease and even managing menopause. Here’s what, why, and how to incorporate cashews into your diet—starting today! The buttery-tasting cashew comes packed with vitamins such as
Holding in a sneeze can be a literal pain in the neck
Holding in a sneeze can be a literal pain in the neck (CNN)If you are about to sneeze -- even if you are in a quiet place -- doctors would advise you to let it rip. A 34-year-old unnamed man in Britain learned that lesson the hard way and had to spend two weeks in the hospital due to his resulting injury. That's according to a case report with the
8 Ways To Prevent A Cold
Do you have any tips beyond this list to prevent a cold? One of my favorites is diffusing On Guard from Doterra. 8 Ways To Prevent A Cold When it comes to colds, you know the drill. Once you have one, the best you can do is chain yourself to a box of tissues and brave the storm. In other words, prevention is the best medicine. Here, 8 surprisingly effective
Could Yoga Be The Chronic Pain Solution You’ve Been Seeking?
Chronic pain in America is big business—$560 to $635 billion, according to the American Academy of Pain Medicine. An estimated 100 million Americans suffer to varying degrees, and many of them are desperate for relief. While pain-relieving medication often helps, there are serious side effects to consider, it doesn't work well for everyone, and some people just prefer to go a more natural route. Might yoga fit the bill? Recently,
Ease Aches With This 5-Minute Foam Roller Workout
Ease Aches With This 5-Minute Foam Roller Workout Tight, achy, and just plain stiff sometimes? We've all been there. While a foam roller can be a great prop for a killer workout, it's also the perfect tool to help ease aches and pains after a killer workout or particularly long day. These five foam roller exercises are going to make you feel so much better, especially if you commit to
The Role of the Q Angle in Anterior Knee Pain
The Role of the Q Angle in Anterior Knee Pain Postural distortions can lead to numerous soft-tissue disorders. Clients with these postural challenges often look to the massage therapist to help with the pain or biomechanical challenges that result. In the lower extremity, a large quadriceps angle, more commonly called the Q angle, is a postural distortion involving patellofemoral biomechanics. An exaggerated Q angle can lead to knee pain and
Is It Time For Joint Surgery? Here’s How To Know
Is It Time For Joint Surgery? Here’s How To Know Alison Ripa, 59, of Sterling, MA, paid a price for ignoring the pain in her left knee. When she was a teenager, she'd badly injured it in a softball game. Injured joints are often more vulnerable to osteoarthritis later in life, and sure enough, the disease developed decades later in Ripa's knee. "My husband, my son, and my daughter all
100 Simple Strategies To Sleep Better Every Night
100 Simple Strategies To Sleep Better Every Night Getting enough sleep is a good health must: It keeps you slim, prevents heart disease and diabetes, muscles up your memory, and more (if you have diabetes, you don't just have to accept it: Prevention's The Natural Way To Beat Diabetes shows you exactly how to get your life back). Don't sleep on it—start following these easy tips today to wake up
Here’s How A Standing Desk Could Help Your Sciatica
Here’s How A Standing Desk Could Help Your Sciatica Long workweeks are painful enough as it is, but when you have a sciatica flare-up, sitting at a desk all day can be downright miserable. Sciatica is a specific type of pain that happens when something—like a herniated disc or a bone spur—puts pressure on your sciatic nerve, which extends from your lower spine all the way to your feet. This
Cancer Rates Are Down, But Obesity-Related Cancers Are Up
Cancer Rates Are Down, But Obesity-Related Cancers Are Up The rate of new cancer cases has decreased in the United States since the 1990s. But, increases in overweight- and obesity-related cancers—which now account for 40% of all U.S. cancers—are likely slowing that progress, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2014, about 630,000 Americans were diagnosed with cancer associated with excess body
