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Eating more vitamin C can help you live longer

(NaturalNews) Of all the vitamins, vitamin C is perhaps the best-known and most familiar to the general public. What most people know is that this vitamin can help to strengthen the immune system. There are dozens of over-the-counter products for taming the flu and or colds which…

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Fulfilling 'three wishes' helps ICU staff honor dying patients

By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Doctors and nurses in a Canadian intensive care unit found that asking dying patients – or their families – to make three simple wishes, and then fulfilling those wishes, helped bring peace to the end-of-life process and ease grief. “It’s giving a face to a faceless process,” Cullinan, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.

Fulfilling 'three wishes' helps ICU staff honor dying patients

By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – Doctors and nurses in a Canadian intensive care unit found that asking dying patients – or their families – to make three simple wishes, and then fulfilling those wishes, helped bring peace to the end-of-life process and ease grief. “It’s giving a face to a faceless process,” Cullinan, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.

The Beer Belly Is a Myth

It’s time to clear up a major myth about the bodies of beer drinkers: The “beer belly” is bunk! Ironically, as much as the terms ‘beer’ and ‘fat’ are mentioned together, beer does not even contain fat.Say what!?That’s right. Beer is fat-free, people!Like all fermented beverages, beer contains calories…but not fat. Yet I don’t hear anyone…

High blood pressure danger equal for slim and obese alike

By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Though previous research has suggested high blood pressure may be more dangerous for thinner people, a new study finds the cardiovascular disease risks are similar – and high – for the lean, overweight and the obese. “Some studies done in the past 30 years suggested that for the adverse outcomes associated with hypertension – such as heart attacks and stroke – lean or normal

Jurors mull fate of Colorado movie gunman for second day

Jurors deliberated for a second day on Thursday in the capital trial of Colorado movie rampage gunman James Holmes, weighing whether he was sane when he killed 12 people and wounded 70 as they watched a midnight premiere of a Batman film. Holmes’ court-appointed attorneys say he suffers schizophrenia, that since high school he has heard voices ordering him to kill, and that he was not in control of his