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    Q: Why Am I Getting Sinus Infections?
    Q Here in the Pacific Northwest, the damp winter weather seems to affect my sinuses. When the barometric pressure changes, I get an infection. How can I avoid or prevent these infections despite the seasonal weather change? I’m not taking any medication. Carol C Portland, Oregon A You’ve hit the nail on the head! The key to your question is preventing sinus...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at February 25th, 2010 at 09:02 am
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    Hydrotherapy Immune Booster
    Dr. Gibran Ramos: We’ve been using water therapeutically for centuries. In Germany and France, there are towns that derive their names from their healing waters. The Norwegians and Swedes are famous for their saunas and some of the Turkish baths in Istanbul are hundreds of years old. The Native Americans used sweats to drive out illness. Hydrotherapy is derived...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at January 25th, 2010 at 08:01 am
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    Choosing Meat and Fish 101
    If you’ve read this you might want to go vegetarian. We are what we eat so how about the animals we eat? When cattle is raised on grains and pumped full of antibiotics, it changes the overall health of the animals, obviously. Because cows were designed to chew the cud (grass!) grain-fed cattle have much more disease, which large farms treat with antibiotics. The...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at December 21st, 2009 at 08:12 am
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    What We’re Reading 12/10/09
    We’re not reading your mind but we are reading about your brain! Here are ways to start improving memory. On the other hand, do you feel like you’re intelligent, but have trouble succeeding? There may be reasons for a lack of success even though you’re a smarty pants. At WellWire, we emphasize nutrition as a way to take care of your body and your brain....
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at December 10th, 2009 at 09:12 pm
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    What We’re Reading 12/03/09
    We’ve been reading about beauty this week. We can put over 515 chemicals on our bodies everyday. Know the ingredients in your cosmetics and skin care products by checking in with Skin Deep. Another way to know what’s in your lotion is to make it yourself. If you don’t have the time to obtain essential oils or time make your own lotions, you can use simple...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at December 3rd, 2009 at 08:12 am
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    What We’re Reading 11/20/09
    Thanksgiving is one week away. Are you ready for the family and the feasting? Do you need some good reading materials? Kill two birds with one stone and check out what we’re reading this week on WellWire. Food, Inc is a movie that will change your level of awareness regarding the modern food system and then change the way you eat. There are many similarities between...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at November 20th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    What We’re Reading 11/13/09
    Each week we come across some great sites and articles. Here is just a little of what we have been reading. This Elle Magazine article titled “Feast of Burden” takes us into the depths of the mind and emotions of anorexics during their most dreaded holiday, Thanksgiving. There is a tremendous psychological and intrapersonal and interpersonal struggle that occurs...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at November 13th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    What We’re Reading 11/06/09
    Tea, naked mole rats, cleaning with lemons, and Ikigai are just some of the things we’ve been reading this past week here at WellWire. Teaspoons and petals documents one woman’s obsession with tea. She writes about all aspects of tea and tea culture. The Tea Review blog is an amazing site that reviews all types of teas. You can even participate in a tea swap,...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at November 6th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    What We’re Reading 11/02/09
    What are we reading about over at WellWire this week? The flu, dementia, the environment and food. Okay, to be a bit more specific: With this year’s new flu strain, we have seen that viruses can be tenacious and virulent for humans. Yet there are some viruses that may be beneficial and help ward off bacterial infections. These special class of viruses are called...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at November 2nd, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Alternative Sweeteners 101
    Just take a guess at how much sugar the average American consumed, per day in 2003. Answer: 44 teaspoons. That means that in 2003, the average American consumed 142 pounds of sugar! That’s more than 7 times the recommended maximum intake of sugar (which is 6 teaspoons). As a way to curb the problem of chronic diseases, like diabetes and obesity, that result from...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at October 30th, 2009 at 08:10 am
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