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How to Lose a Pound a Week: Healthy Weight Loss

We all strive to keep our bodies functioning well. Part of this is maintaining a healthy weight so that our bodily systems can function at their best. We all face individual battles with our weight, but clinicians have recommended that...
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My Health Record: How Can I Keep Track of It?

A health record is a confidential compilation of relevant information about an individual's health history. They include all medical conditions, treatments, and specific events that took place in the past and present. All healthcare professionals providing care contribute information to...
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Using a Carbohydrate Counter to Track Your Carbs

Do all of your favorite foods happen to be carbs? You’re not alone. Carbohydrates are a wide and delicious branch of food that form the base of many diets around the world. Unfortunately, we are not free to consume carbs...
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Acute Pain: A Practical Guide to Pain Management

Everyone experiences and responds to pain differently. Acute pain is a type of pain that could last from a minute to about three months and sometimes up to six months. For those don’t know, acute pain usually begins suddenly and...
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Rating Activity Level: Samsung Health vs CareClinic

There is no secret that health apps and fitness trackers have been on a tremendous rise recently. Social media ads and TV commercials have been marketing the use of technology for health tracking. You have heard of the Samsung or...
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Daily Routine App – Live With a Purpose

Why use a daily routine app? Having a routine can help with productivity, organization, and task management. Daily routines have always helped better manage stress levels, anxiety, and mental health. This is why now more than ever, during a global...
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Guided Meditation for Pain: How to Manage Your Pain

Let’s be blunt here, pain sucks, either chronic or acute. It can be physically and emotionally difficult to do everyday activities. People will experience several challenges and feel it is not worth living anymore. If we all lived pain-free and...
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Chronic Care Management and Health Apps

Chronic Care Management under Medicare offers additional help to patients who are managing chronic conditions like arthritis, diabetes and hypertension. This includes a comprehensive care plan that lists all of your health issues and goals, other providers, medications, community services...
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Self Care Apps: Revolutionize Your Well-being

At the end of every year, we start to think about goals or resolutions for the next year. One popular resolution nowadays is self care. Self care is an all-encompassing term that includes physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social aspects...
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Reflective Thinking – How to Improve Your Life

Reflective thinking is the process of examining and reviewing events and actions. Much like reflective thinking, introspection has a lot to do with analyzing your reactions and assessing the reasoning behind these thoughts and actions. When commuting home, or before...
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UTI Tracking – Monitor Your Health

A urinary tract infection, or UTI, is an infection in a person’s kidneys, ureters, bladder, or urethra. If left untreated, UTIs may result in significant complications (R). For some people, UTIs are recurrent, meaning that they can recur or happen...
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Managing Chronic Testicular Pain

Pain is an unpleasant feeling, physical suffering or discomfort caused by disease or wound. Pain is a common phenomenon with no discrimination, and simply, it hurts. Men are very aware of their private parts, and testicular pain or scrotal pain...
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Gratitude Journal App: Use Prompts for Happiness

Have you ever felt thankful for something? That feeling is gratitude. Being grateful has a lot of focus in the field of positive psychology. Expressing gratitude is not necessarily reserved for specific moments or occasions like achieving something at school...
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AIP Diet Recipes, Meal Plan and Ideas

The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) is a diet that works to reduce inflammation, pain, and other symptoms caused by autoimmune disorders, such as lupus, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), celiac disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. Individuals who have followed the AIP diet report...
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Inflammatory Back Pain? What Really Works

Inflammatory back pain is a chronic back pain condition where pain is felt deep in the buttocks or in the lower back. It falls as a major category of back pain (R). Acute pain is pain that typically lasts less...
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Crohn’s Disease Guidelines and Management Tips

Crohn's disease is a chronic, inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract. It is an autoimmune disorder which is when your body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. Crohn's disease may appear and disappear at various times. Initially, it may affect...
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Addiction Recovery App: Track Sobriety and Stay Accountable

Addiction is a chronic mental disorder characterized by compulsive drug or substance seeking, consistent and frequent use despite harmful consequences, and long-term changes to the brain/nervous system. Addiction is a complex brain disorder, medical and mental illness. This mental disorder...
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Track Water Intake: Log Your Water Consumption Easily

Water makes up about 60 percent of your body weight. Every cell in your body needs water to work properly. Water rids your body of wastes through urination, perspiration and bowel movements. It also keeps maintains body temperature, and lubricates...
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Virtual Psychotherapy Resources with CareClinic

A psychotherapist helps with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, trauma, anger, marriage, divorce, relationships, communication, sexual problems, sex therapy, co-dependency, and adults emotionally, physically or sexually abused as children, women's issues, and stress management and ADHD. CareClinic was a tool designed...