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Kathleen MacNaughton

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Nutrition and COPD - When Keeping Weight ON Is a Problem

A while back, I talked about how to eat healthy to avoid gaining too much weight when COPD makes it hard to stay active and burn calories. But many people who have COPD actually have the opposite problem -- keeping weight on. As your disease progresses and makes breathing ever more difficult, you can find that the mere act of eating a... Read more Chevron

posted 05/27/2011, comment (1)|

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Kathi MacNaughton

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New Blood Test May Detect COPD Much Earlier Than Traditional Diagnostic Methods

COPD/Emphysema often goes undiagnosed, sometimes for years, after it actually starts to cause damage to the airways and lungs. As the third leading cause of death in the United States, this is problematic. When COPD is not diagnosed and treated, damage to the lungs can occur that could have been prevented or at least slowed down. And that... Read more Chevron

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Maryee

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I am in my mid-40s, have kids, work full-time, & manage our home.

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Food Journaling for Weight Loss

As the winter months linger on, in order to get through these last weeks without totally zeroing out on my weight loss accomplishment, I decided it's time to employ some tools to keep me on track. Exercise has been far and few between during these winter months and I've regained four of the 15 pounds I had lost --- something I worried would... Read more Chevron

posted 03/14/2011, comments (0)|

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Fred Little

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Allergen of the Month: Sulfa-Containing Medications

Allergy to sulfa-containing medications is very common; these are typically antibiotics. However, not all antibiotics are pills. Doctors will sometimes prescribe antibiotic eye drops or ointments for ‘pink eye’. Several eye drop preparations contain sulfa antibiotics, and it may not occur to the patient to answer that they have any... Read more Chevron

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Gina Clowes

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Life Coach,Speaker, Author, Advocate at AllergyMoms.com

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Food Allergy: The Peanut-Free Tables are Turned

“…I realize that the more I understand of other people’s difficulties, the less funny they are.” --Joel SteinMany of you will recall that Joel Stein wrote a piece for the LA Times titled “Nut Allergies-A Yuppie Invention” last year questioning the increases in food allergies and attributing this to parents who... Read more Chevron

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