A new study presented at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity in November 2004, showed that low-fat diet plans work better at keeping weight off compared to low-carbohydrate diets. This particular study used The National Weight Control Registry that evaluated more than 2,500 people from 1995 to […]
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HCV can have many different symptoms at different times during the course of the infection, or it can have no symptoms at all. It is important to remember that the number and severity of symptoms suffered bears little relationship to the amount of liver damage the disease is causing. Below is a list of […]
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Cascara sagrada is obtained from the dried bark of Rhamni purshianae; the bark must be aged 1 year or heat treated before use. Anthraglycosides, or anthraquinones, which consist primarily of cascarosides A and B, are the active ingredients.
Cascara is referred to as a stimulant laxative. When ingested, the herb causes the secretion of water […]
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Hepatitis C is a flaviviros, a member of the same family as the viruses that cause yellow fever and dengue fever. Like those viroses, it has a genome that consists of a single strand of RNA.
When a hepatitis C virus enters your bloodstream, it seeks out a liver cell. This is the only place […]
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