Heartburn or GERD can Kill

Heartburn is a common annoyance. The busy lifestyle, quick meals, fatty or spicy foods all contribute to the occasional need of a chewable pain reliever. The acceptance of heartburn as an inconvenient, but natural, part of the daily grind can blind you to the warning that a severe heartburn symptom can bring.

Heartburn as a Disorder

Heartburn can be a symptom as well as a disorder. Simple heartburn or GERD can be controlled and dealt with. However, heartburn can signal the presence of a much more serious problem. If it’s heartburn, you will have a burning sensation in the chest usually after eating. There may be a spread of the burning to the throat, sometimes accompanied by a bad taste, difficulty in swallowing, belching, coughing, hoarseness and/or wheezing.

It can become worse by lying down or bending over or by eating. Relief can come from an antacid. While the more severe heartburn symptoms may be mistaken for a heart attack, simple heartburn is usually not made worse by exercise. If there is any concern that the pain may signal a heart attack, get help quickly.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Body Cleansing Online Scams?

By Isabelle S. Mihajlov

I know you've been thinking about body detox. Otherwise you wouldn't have come onto this site, sniffing out information. And my guess is that you've come here for a definitive list of what detox systems work, of whether you should go with teas or pre-mixes, or sludge, or simply pay the hundreds of dollars for that colonic you've always known you should have gotten but have up until now avoided. Well, my friend: it's a new day. Healthful living is popularized because health care itself is getting prohibitively more expensive.

Part of the rationalization behind getting detox-- one of the central arguments you'll hear on health and fitness websites, on day-time talk shows, maybe even at the YMCA when you're taking your kid to a swim class or something-- is that these people want to be able to live longer. I don't know whether that's really a good thing. This is an over-populated country as it is, and in a certain sense it's rather selfish for any of us to want to live longer.

Failure to do so will rob those Millenials of their parents. And by "their parents," my friends, I mean us. Our last-ditch efforts to hold onto the ripple-effects of the sixties and seventies (since we were born in the seventies and eighties) is resulting in higher obesity rates and dramatic increases in health problems like heart disease, lung conditions, hypertension, and diabetes. And the last time I checked, none of us were getting any younger.

In essence, mine is the last generation to need to make sure our hearts aren't going to give out by the time we're thirty-five. Body detox is one way to help ensure that.

So before you go any further with this, check out this body cleansing program from this site and compare it to what you are doing now. Are you willing to better yourself and do you desire to live a happier, cleaner, and longer life may well be in the way of the development of a new one. So before you make the choice to improve your own life, ask yourself: is your life really worth prolonging?

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