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Unconventional home treatments to common health complaints.

There are many people that claim to know of alternative treatments to common health complaints. Many years ago these claims were referred to as ‘Old Wive’s Tales’. The life experience of these ‘old wives’ lent credence to the treatment suggestions and led people to try them out. Below is a list of current day alternative treatment suggestions to everything from stuffed noses to achy muscles to splinter removals.

Although I don’t know personally whether these treatments do what the claims suggest, they may be worth a try or at least a laugh. And if you do decide to try one or more of them out, let us know if you thought the treatment was effective by leaving a comment.

1. To relieve the pain from burns, rub Colgate toothpaste on the affected area.

2. Have a headache? Try drinking two glasses of Gatorade. Gatorade is said to relieve the pain from the headache within minutes.

3. Do you suffer from congested nasal passages (aka stuffy nose)? Chew Altoids.

4. Sore throats could be relieved by mixing 1/4c of vinegar and honey each. Take 1tbsp several times throughout the day.

5. Relieve achy muscles by mixing 1c olive oil and 1tbsp horseradish. Allow to sit for at least a half an hour. Then have your significant other massage your achy muscles with the mix.

6. Try using Alka-Seltzer for relief from a urinary tract infection. It is claimed that consuming two tablets dissolved in water at the first symptoms of a urinary tract infection will cure it.

7. Before bed, apply honey to blemishes on your skin and apply a band-aid. The blemishes should be visibly reduced by morning.

8. Toenail fungus can be eliminated by soaking your feet in a bath of Listerine mouthwash.

9. Remove splinters by applying a drop of Elmer’s Glue-All on the splinter and then peeling the dried glue off the skin. It is claimed the splinter will come off with the glue.

10. Listerine mouthwash can be used to disinfect a painful blister.

11. Rubbing vinegar on a bruise and allowing it to sit on the skin for an hour is supposed to expedite the healing process

12. Arthritis sufferers may want to try mixing 2cups of Quaker Oats with 1cup of water. Warm the mixture in the microwave until slightly warm. Rub the mixture on the afflicted joint for pain relief.

If you bicycle indoors (for) 20 minutes will (you) continue to burn calories if you eat dinner afterwards?

Question: If you bicycle indoors (for) 20 minutes will (you) continue to burn calories if you eat dinner afterwards?
When you are engaging in any type of moderate to high intensity cardiovascular exercise, you will burn calories. For the first eight minutes you will burn the excess calories present in your bodies. After eight minutes you begin to burn fat. It is generally recommended that you do, at minimum, twenty minutes of cardiovascular exercise. This will ensure you are working long enough to burn both fat and calories.
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Where can you turn to find relief from allergy symptoms?

We barely leave the cold and flu season behind us and already the allergy season is upon us.  While colds and the flu are usually taxing and bothersome, they are normally short lived.  Most colds and flu last only a couple of weeks.  But seasonal allergy sufferers are generally plagued with symptoms for several months each year.  The often painful allergy symptoms can be wearing and draining on the allergy sufferer and often interferes with work and leisure activities.   
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Will using your mood each day help you exercise better and lose weight?

Taking into consideration your frame of mind when deciding your workout for the day may sound strange, but there has been a lot of discussion concerning doing just that in the exercise community.  You have probably noticed yourself that there are some days you feel more ready for intense physical exercise and other days that you just want to go home and lay in bed with the pillows pulled over your head.  Experts are suggesting you use your mood to choose your exercise for that day.  By choosing your workout based on your disposition you could get more out […] Continue Reading…

How to get the maximum benefit from your multivitamin?

Taking a multivitamin every day does not guarantee your body is absorbing all of the nutrients.  Companies that manufacture multivitamins make many boastful claims concerning the effectiveness of their product.  The containers the multivitamins are packaged in are printed with advertising claims to target specific populations such as women, men, seniors, and active people.  But the packaging rarely makes mention of how much of the vitamins your body is actually absorbing. 
In order for you to benefit from a multivitamin, your body must be able to absorb the nutrients.  There are many factors that could affect your body’s absorption of […] Continue Reading…

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