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Dear Readers,
Greetings!
Welcome to this issue of the Optimum Health Report. With regards to health,
what you don't know about can hurt you. Preventive medicine includes complete
checkups to discover brewing problems before they become serious. You can have
improved health by acquiring a new good health habit each week. Suggestion?
This week get off sugar. Think you can do it?
- D.I. Minkoff, MD
PowerBar Founder Dies of Heart Attack
Brian Maxwell, 51, founder of PowerBar and a former world-class marathon runner,
died of a heart attack March 19.
Maxwell collapsed at a post office, and emergency personnel called
to the scene were unable to resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead
upon arrival at a local hospital. read
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FDA Issues Warning on Antidepressants
The FDA is issuing a warning about the possibility of worsening depression or
suicidal thoughts in people, particularly children, who take any of 10 popular
antidepressants, especially at the beginning of treatment or when the doses
are increased or decreased.
The FDA has sent a letter to drug manufacturers requesting labeling changes
on these antidepressants - warning of possible suicide, worsening depression,
anxiety, and panic attacks in adults and children. - Jeanie Lerche Davis read
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Vitamin D May Fight Breast Cancer
Vitamin D has a very important role in many body processes. The tissue surrounding
a tumor may even produce extra vitamin D to help fight the tumor!
I recommend that each person get their Vitamin D blood level checked to see
if they are deficient. Get the 1, 25 Vitamin D level and it should be high normal
when the test comes back. Vitamin D is immune boosting to ward off cancer, keeps
blood pressure normal, prevents rheumatoid arthritis, and prevents Multiple
Sclerosis. Be sure you get your sunshine daily, and if you live too far north,
add Vitamin D supplementation under the care of your holistic doctor to bring
your levels to normal. - D.I. Minkoff, MD learn
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Smoking 'Causes Brain Decline'
Smoking speeds up brain decline in the elderly, a study suggests.
Most people find the thought of mental decline almost as scary
as getting cancer. Unfortunately, smoking is so addictive that
even the very strong can only lick it with a huge struggle. If
one had to rank which bad habits are the most harmful to someone,
in my opinion they would be:
1. Smoking
2. Sugar
Both are a sure way to ill health. I have never seen the nicotine patches and
gum really work. And Wellbutrin- forget that. One suggestion that has helped
some people quit smoking is to do this: - D.I. Minkoff, MD learn
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