Health Tips
Welcome to Epler Health Tips! It's dedicated to patients, their families and others who want to learn how to manage their diseases.
Five Ways to Prevent a Cold
When the leaves start to change their colors and fall from the trees it’s a signal things are moving toward winter. Time to trade in your sandals for shoes; time to bring out the hats and scarves (at least for those of us not lucky enough to live in the more temperate climates of the south). And it’s also the time to make sure you are well stocked with tissues; we tend to get more colds in the colder winter months than in the warmer ones. Why?
Five Ways to Boost Your Energy
Fatigue can really get you down, not only physically, but emotionally, too. Not only does a lack of energy sap your body of any forward motion, it can impair your performance by making you feel depressed and unmotivated.
Five Ways to Protect Your Eyes Against Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
It’s not uncommon for your eyesight to change as you age. Reading glasses may become your new fashion accessory. Driving at night might become a bit more challenging. But there are some changes – like macular degeneration – that are a bit more challenging to deal with. There are some treatments for the condition, but no cure. But being proactive may go a long way toward protecting yourself and the health of your eyes.
5 Things to Look for on a Your Prescription Medication Label
According to a 2006 Institute of Medicine report, about 1.5 million preventable medication errors are made each year.
Five Steps to Avoid Heat-Related Health Problems
Hyperthermia - which is also known as heat stroke, heat exhaustion, or heat fatigue - occurs when your body overheats. Signs of heat stroke include a strong rapid pulse, lack of sweating, dry flushed skin, faintness, staggering and mental changes such as confusion, disorientation and in extreme cases, coma.
Five Ways to Keep Your Skin Safe This Summer
We may be celebrating the return of summer after a long, harsh winter, so, we need to care for our skin. And now, with improved labeling laws, it’s easier to stay safe and reduce our risk of cancer, early skin aging, and painful sunburn.
5 Steps to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
Manage your health: Type 2 diabetes can be prevented.
While researching an article on diabetes for a magazine a few years ago, I learned a lot of things I didn’t know before. I interviewed a gentleman named John whose doctor warned him that unless he change his ways, he’d end up with full-blown diabetes and be dependent on medication for the rest of his life. It was one of those wake-up calls that some of us are lucky enough to get and even wiser when we heed them.
Nutrition Management: 5 Steps to Portion Control
How many times have you marveled or envied someone who has a healthy weight and seems to eat whatever they want?
Oh, they’re just lucky, you think. Or they have the right genes or a fast metabolism.
My suspicion? It’s not luck, they work at it. They pay attention. No one can really eat whatever and whenever they want. It’s not healthy. People need to eat the highest quality, healthy food in the right amount and at the right time.
5 Steps to Dealing with Your Osteoarthritis
Joint pain and stiffness of arthritis may worsen with age. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t treatment options or helpful changes you can make in your life.
Osteoarthritis, caused by years of normal wear and tear, is no fun. Its aching, stiffness and swelling can be painful, frustrating and sap your mood. And although there are medical therapies - pills, rubs and injections – many times they only offer temporary or limited benefits and may cause side effects.
Five Steps for Staying Strong
Lean muscle mass naturally decreases with age; do nothing to replace it and fat will step in to take its place.
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