Author Archives : Bel Marra Health

For a lot of us, our diet revolves around convenience food. Out on a small errand? Grab yourself a Big Mac and you’re good to go. Home late from work? Pull out a frozen dinner and pop it in the microwave. No matter how quick and easy, these eating habits damage your health. They expose ...click here to read more

What makes up a person? We all have bones, muscles, ligaments, organs, veins and arteries (and so on!) that are connected to create a functioning body. We move our fingers and toes without thinking about it, we speak to tell stories and offer advice, and our inner workings help transport blood, oxygen and other signals so ...click here to read more

Now there’s even more reason to visit the farmer’s market to stock your fridge. If you regularly eat packaged or processed foods you may be exposing yourself to harmful, cancer-causing toxins. New research published in the February 2014 edition of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health showed that many of the synthetic chemicals that are ...click here to read more

Headaches are headaches right? Wrong, not all headaches are alike. That pain in your head can fall into three different categories: Cluster headaches, migraine headaches or tension-type headaches. It’s important to I.D. your headache for best pain relief and prevention. If you’re stressed out these days, you’re not alone. Tension or stress headaches are the most common ...click here to read more

Are you dealing with a bad back? Muscle aches? Sore joints? It may be cold comfort, but you’re not alone –most primary care visits in the United States are related to complaints like these, for chronic musculoskeletal pain. Research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons found that chronic pain of the ...click here to read more

Did you know that cancer kills 50 percent more men than women around the world? It’s true. Each year, more than 4.6 million men and 3.5 million women die of cancer globally, according to the 2014 World Cancer Report – compiled by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and published by ...click here to read more

You walk on them, you squeeze them into shoes, and they can develop blisters, bunions and calluses, but our feet also can offer us so much more insight into our overall health than just helping us get up and about. In fact, feet are so much more than five toes and a sole. They are ...click here to read more

It all comes down to diet and exercise. Believe it or not, exercising could slow down blindness-causing diseases, scientists now say. A new study, conducted by Emory University and Atlanta VA Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation, suggests that aerobic exercise may curb the progression of diseases that destroy the eye’s retina and lead to ...click here to read more