What to Tell Your Family Physician

by E-NewsCast Team
October 5th, 2010

A family physician is a professional able to create caring relationships with patients and their families. They really get know their patients. They listen to them and help them make the right health care decisions. To accomplish this knowledge, a family physician receive a very special training in all areas of medicine in order to know: how to take care of the physical, mental, and emotional health of their patients and their families; how your family’s health history can affect your health; what are the special health problems for children, young and adult people, as well as for seniors, whether they are men or women; how human body parts and organs are related and what disorder may causes each one; how to diagnose the full range of problems people bring to their attention; when to treat you, and when to bring in another specialist you can trust.

Good communication with your

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Simple Home Remedies for Gout Sufferers

by E-NewsCast Team
October 4th, 2010

Most people have heard of gout, but I suspect many don’t know what it really is. Simply put, gout is a disease caused by excessive levels of uric acid in the blood-stream (hyperuricemia). Not everyone who has high levels of this acid their blood develops gout disease, but it does seem most do. Specifically, gout occurs when uric-acid crystals form around body joints like knees, fingers, elbows and especially big toes – in fact, for the vast majority of gout sufferers, the first sign of the disease is big toe pain! After salt-like crystals form, inflammation, tenderness, and even a reddish rash may occur around affected joints. The disease has been noted and documented since the time of Hippocrates. Traditionally, it’s been associated with exuberant living – eating and drinking well. And there is some indirect evidence to support this. For example, a long-term study noted …

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Healthy Snacks for Kids – Understanding the Food Labels

by E-NewsCast Team
October 3rd, 2010

Are the snacks you’re buying for your children really healthy? It’s time to start scrutinising those labels.

One thing’s sure when you’re buying snacks for your children – you can’t trust what you read on the label. Manufacturers are well-versed in the art of seducing parents with words, to make us believe that we’re buying something that’s good for our kids.

A product claiming to be ‘nutritionally equivalent to a portion of fruit’ could also contain a huge range of additives, including sugar and fat, and is likely to clock in at 6 or more times the number of calories of a piece of fresh fruit.

Labels that trumpet ‘Reduced fat/salt/sugar’ should also be regarded with suspicion. If levels are mega-high to start with, then they’ll still be too high, even when reduced. Look for ‘low ‘ or ‘no’ salt etc on the label, instead.

Words like ‘pure and natural’ are nothing but

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Girlfriend Gift Ideas

by E-NewsCast Team
October 2nd, 2010

Whether youÂ’re buying for the holidays, birthdays or special occasions, girlfriend gift ideas can be hard to come buy. HereÂ’s a list of top gift ideas. Girlfriend Gift IdeasUnless this is your first girlfriend, IÂ’ll assume you know jewelry tops the list of best girlfriend gift ideas. That being the case, weÂ’ll skip to non-jewelry ideas you can afford. You can find all of these gift ideas online by just searching for them on your search engine of choice.1. 1,000 Thread Count Sheets – .This is a serious luxury item. The softness of a sheet is determined by the thread count. Thread counts are the number of horizontal and vertical threads in one square inch of sheet. Typical thread counts are from 70 to 340 or so. 1,000 thread counts are so soft she will lose her mind. …

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Prostate Part One – Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

by E-NewsCast Team
October 1st, 2010

The Prostate: Part I – BNP

What is situated below a body of water, has four zones and is commonly associated with venial pleasures. No it is not some romantic European city, but rather a walnut sized male organ that serves important procreative functions. It also happens to be an organ that plagues men as we age. This organ or gland is the prostate. This is the first of two articles on the male prostate. This article will focus on a disease process that affects older men, something we refer to as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). BPH is a non-cancerous growth in the size of the prostate gland that impairs the flow of urine out of the bladder. The second article will focus of prostate cancer.

But first a little about the small yet important male organ. The gland is located just below the bladder. It usually measures one inch by one-and-a-half

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