Archive for April, 2011

PREGNANCY SHAPE-UP: CURES FOR POSTPARTUM BLUES | Thursday, April 28th, 2011

It’s not unusual for a woman to experience a letdown after the birth of a baby. Aside from the fatigue of labour, there are hormonal changes in the body that often cause bouts of blues and periods of inexplicable weepiness or mild depression. But these can be combated by paying special attention to your diet. [...]

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT BLOOD PRESSURE | Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

What causes blood pressure to become too high? To begin with, medicine makes a distinction between what it calls essential and what it calls secondary hypertension. Secondary hypertension results from various deficiencies and defects elsewhere in the body such as in the kidneys, adrenal glands, the nervous system, etc. Frequently these conditions can be remedied [...]