Health Directory Exchange

Directory for the health and wellness industry. Read about topics ranging from self help and mental health to diet plans and nutrition information.

Depression
Learn about depression
Mental health professionals recognize several general symptoms of depression, and others specific to depression in women, teenage depression, manic bipolar depression, and seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Read about types of clinical depression and how to recognize the signs of depression.

Symptoms of Depression
Symptoms of depression and other mood disorders, like postpartum psychosis and seasonal affective disorder, can include irritability, anxiety attacks, and suicidal thoughts. Learn about the signs of adult, childhood and teenage depression, postpartum depression, PMDD, and anxiety disorder.
 
Treatment for Depression
Read about antidepressant drugs like Prozac and Zoloft, depression support groups, and self help techniques to supplement the directions of a mental health professional. The many depression treatment options available today make dealing with depression a lot easier. Find out more.

Diabetes
Diabetes and diet
Nutrition labels and the glycemic index provide important nutritional information to those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Diabetic foods and meals made with sugar-free recipes are important to diabetic diets, but sometimes only fast food is available. Learn about fast food nutrition.
 
Diabetes and Symptoms
Signs of diabetes may be overlooked. Learn about diabetes symptoms and testing, including the FPG diabetes test, and the role of human insulin therapy in Type 1, Type 2 and gestational diabetes. Read about high blood sugar and the diabetic diet.
 
Diabetic diet and Recipes
Modify traditional recipes to create diabetic recipes. Even fast food can be part of a balanced diet and provide healthy snacks if their nutritional values are calculated for a diabetic exchange diet. Learn about the Food Pyramid and nutrition labels.

Life with diabetes
While Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes have similar symptoms, each requires a different combination of evaluation of blood sugar levels, insulin, exercise and a diabetic diet. Diabetes support groups are a source for diabetic recipes and information on diabetes care.

Exercise Equipment
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Weight Lifting and fitness Equipment
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Female Sexual Dysfunction
Overcoming Female Sexual Dysfunction
Many of the causes of female sexual dysfunction are treatable. Read about the various aspects of FSD and the treatment strategies available for physical, psychological, and relationship problems. Even good communication between partners can go a long way towards overcoming FSD.
 
Sexual Dysfunction and depression
Female sexual dysfunction and sexual health may be linked to clinical depression. A low sex drive can be driven even lower by depression. Many antidepressant drugs, particularly SSRIs, are known to interfere with libido and sexual arousal. Learn about the link between FSD and depression.
 
Straight Talk about Female Sexual Dysfunction
Female Sexual Dysfunction is a sensitive topic. Discussing sexual health issues can be upsetting. This site helps you understand why talking about FSD is a challenge and how you can broach the topic with your partner or spouse and with your doctor.
 
Types of FSD
Viagra® has done much to heighten awareness of sexual dysfunction issues. Female sexual dysfunction, in particular, encompasses a variety of physical, relationship, and psychological problems. The key to understanding FSD is to make sense of these different aspects are interrelated.

Hypertension
About Hypertension
Did you know that while you may have hypertension you might not have any symptoms of high blood pressure? Learn the basics about causes of high blood pressure, treatment options and conditions, like heart disease, which result from leaving hypertension untreated.

Blood Pressure Treatments
High blood pressure treatments regular blood pressure monitoring combined with hypertension medications combined and other approaches, such as stress management and the use of anxiety medication. Learn about prevention and treatment methods, and why women should be concerned about hypertension.

Detecting Hypertension
Read about the causes of high blood pressure, essential and malignant hypertension, and the secondary forms of the condition—pulmonary, portal and malignant hypertension. This site also discusses monitoring hypertension and explains the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

Living with hypertension
Most patients with hypertension are put on a low sodium diet and urged to apply stress management techniques; some must also take blood pressure medication. Read about the high blood pressure diet and other methods used in lowering blood pressure.

Osteoporosis
Bones and Osteoporosis
Bone loss is a serious issue because a dramatic reduction in bone density leads to osteoporosis. All adults should be aware of the body's need for calcium, vitamins, good nutrition and the right kind of exercise.

Learn About Osteoporosis
This site explores the results of studies on osteoporosis, its causes, and the recommended treatments. Information on nutritional supplements, hormone replacement therapy, and the scientific analysis of their effects—in layman's language—is available on this site.

Menopause and Osteoporosis
Understanding the changes that occur at the onset of menopause helps explain the importance of good nutrition and activities that slow or eliminate bone loss. This site explains clearly how to maintain bone health at all stages in life.

Women's Health and Calcium
Staving off osteoporosis is not as simple as taking large doses of calcium daily. This site explains how to balance calcium and vitamins, gives suggestions for foods rich in calcium and other important minerals and identifies foods to avoid.

Urinary Incontinence
About Stress Incontinence
Stress incontinence doesn't actually have anything to do with emotional stress. Read about urinary stress incontinence: what it is, its causes, risk factors, and treatments. Find out what incontinence products can help.
 
Bladder control Treatment
A lack of bladder control is often associated with the very young or the very old, but in fact, incontinence can affect anyone, at any age. This site discusses a number of strategies for correcting bladder control problems, including surgical intervention, medical treatment and a variety of therapies.
 
Bladder Disorder
Over 35 million Americans suffer from bladder problems, and yet few people realize just how widespread these problems are. This site is an overview of bladder problems, including those that cause urinary incontinence: bladder infections, bladder cancer, atonic bladder, interstitial cystitis, overactive bladder (OAB), and bladder prolapse.

Living with Urinary Incontinence
When you suffer from bladder problems, your life changes. Lead a life of quality in spite of urinary incontinence with adaptations and incontinence products. Learn how to provide support for a bed wetting child.

types of Incontinence
Bladder control problems fall into several distinct categories. Bed wetting (nocturnal enursesis), childbirth and prostate problems are concerns related to urinary incontinence issues. Read about urinary stress incontinence and lesser-known types of incontinence.
 
Urinary tract Infections
A urinary tract infection occurs when bacteria enter the urinary tract and reproduce. Learn how kidney infections and bladder infections are related, what causes urinary tract infections, what the symptoms are, who's at risk, and how they're treated.

Weight Management
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Diet and health Info
From childhood nutrition to nutrition during pregnancy to elderly nutrition, Diet and Health Info addresses how healthy eating and a healthy diet are vital to healthy living.

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Lifescript supplements
LifeScript packages customized nutritional supplements to suit your body, life and health. Use this site to order custom-made vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements online.

NuTrak - Nutrition & Life Tracking Software
Expands food database to include supplements. Add any nutrient or formula. Keep a journal for total consumption of each nutrient and track effectiveness.

Nutritional Supplements Guide
Nutritional Supplement Guide was designed to lead you through the maze of dietary supplements: vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements. The site includes a vitamins-minerals chart with Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs).

Supplements and Diets
This website discusses how vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements enhance diet, increase fitness training performance and weight loss, and are important in disease prevention.

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Animal Health
Zoonotic Diseases
Zoonotic diseases are those that are naturally communicable to humans from animals—whether a pet, garden pest or hamburger. Learn about sources of zoonoses, what risks these diseases pose to us, and how to minimize the chances of infection.

Bad Breath
Bad Breath or Halitosis?
Bad breath can be devastating to anyone in all aspects of life. Even if it's just bad garlic breath after lunch, there is that time when you think your breath isn't that great when you sort of hang your head, try not to talk to people and feel very embarrassed. In every place I have ever worked, there's what I call the "post-lunch gum search" where people are walking around asking everyone, "Do you have any gum?".

Clinical Negligence Claims
Clinical Negligence Claims
Expert clinical negligence claims advice from accredited Law Society specialists.

Drinking
All about Hangovers
What is a hangover? Is there any way to prevent hangovers? Or better yet, is there a cure? Visit this site to get accurate and up to date answers about dealing with the effects of alcohol . . . before drinking!

Health Improvement
A Brand New Year
The New Year: a time for fresh starts, new goals and complete reevaluations of life and habits. Learn how to get the motivation to meet the self-improvement challenges ahead whether you resolved to make physical, mental or lifestyle changes.

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Feel Better Quit Smoking
You know the health risks of smoking, cancer, emphysema, and so on, but quitting can be one of the hardest things to do. Hear from someone who has been there, gone through it and made it out the other side.
 
Feel better with exercise
Did you make a New Year's resolution to get in shape? Before joining a gym or fitness club develop an exercise program that fits your lifestyle, budget and commitment level, and one that you can stick to and manage.

Figuring out Relationships
From short term relationships to long term ones to the guy who cut you off in traffic, whether they bring emotional fulfillment or grief, learn about dealing with emotions and reducing stresses that result from these relationships.

Get a grip on your Life
If instead of having a grip on life, it feels like life's got a stranglehold on you, visit this site to learn about using stress management, progressive relaxation and self-hypnosis to reverse the situation and help change your perspective.

How to Keep your New Years Resolution
What are some common resolutions made on New Year's Eve? Most of us have lofty goals, but they are difficult to attain, let alone attempt to achieve—this results, more often than not, in broken resolutions. Be successful with these goal-setting tips.
 
Increase your Energy
Tired of running on empty? Find out if your chronic fatigue could be a symptom of disease. Learn how to regain vitality with a new way of looking at exercise, diet and rest. This is your guide to recharging your battery.

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Relax and Heal
Self-hypnosis and meditation are effective ways of dealing with the anxieties that accumulate as a result of everyday stresses. See how these self-help methods can help in stress management, improving relationships and freedom from addictions.

W3 Health and Wellness
Visit this e-zine site for informational, entertaining and insightful articles by various writers on topics such as health and medicine, diet and exercise, mental and physical well being, and quality of life. Updated regularly. Submit your own article, too!

Hypnosis
Applications of medical Hypnosis
Medical hypnosis can be used as a form of therapy in dealing with both psychological and physiological issues. Geared towards the medical professional, this site, written by clinical psychologist Dr. Brian Alman, discusses the use of trance in medicine.

Self Hypnosis
An overview of Dr. Brian Alman's philosophies and work on self-hypnosis and personal growth, this site offers lessons to promote relaxation and minimize stress, and details the self-help books and video tapes available from his extensive collection.

Why Self Hypnosis
Learn about self-hypnosis, relaxation exercises, meditation, guided imagery, and prayer, and how each of these techniques can help target and channel your natural inner resources for problem solving and mind and body healing.

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Lifestyle
emu Oil and Pain relief Products
Need relief from arthritis pain, muscle or joint pain, injuries, or even sunburned or chapped skin? See how the anti-inflammatory and healing properties of emu oil can help reduce pain. Read testimonials from medical professionals, athletes and pain sufferers.

Skin First
Acne, eczema, dry skin, chapped lips, limp hair, dandruff, signs of aging. Emu oil is a natural remedy for hair, scalp and skin conditions, minimizes scarring and inflammation, reduces signs of aging and protects your hair and skin from the elements.

W3 Lifestyle
Full of interesting, up-to-date, and sometime humorous articles about leisure, relaxation, home decor, travel, hobbies and collections, and aging in the 21st Century. Submit your own article!

Mental Health
Families and Therapy
Therapy is a way to construct real solutions to real problems. Learn about the therapy of Today, how it differs from the methodology of Yesterday and how it can help children, teens, adults, couples and families get back on track.
 
Haley Therapies
Order books and videos (VHS and PAL) by Dr. Jay Haley, one of the founders of short-term, focused, family therapy and widely acclaimed pioneering therapist and master teacher, which illustrate his innovative approach to problem-solving and strategic therapy.
 
Healthy Mind and Body
Read about Dr. Brian Alman, noted lecturer, author, and self-help promoter. See how Alman's self-hypnosis techniques can teach you the power of self-assessment with methods that help you change your present, your future and your view of the past.
 
Jay Haley on Therapy
Dr. Jay Haley played a critical role in developing family therapy, problem solving therapy and strategic therapy. This site discusses these methods and provides a list of Haley's books and video tapes on therapy and therapist training.
 
Managing Depression Intelligently
What causes clinical depression? What are the symptoms? What are some viable therapy and management methods? This site explains what depression is and provides effective self-help treatment options for better mental health.
 
Mental and Physical Well Being
Therapist Dr. Brian Alman specializes in self-hypnosis and meditation. His self-help books, videos and audios turn problems into resources. Acquire tools for self-hypnosis, addiction recovery and stress reduction for improved physical well being and better mental health.

Self Help for Depression
Internationally recognized for his work in clinical hypnosis and psychotherapy, Dr. Michael Yapko's books, audios and video tapes are now available online. Among the items features are Focusing on Feeling Good and Breaking the Patterns of Depression.

Teens and Therapy
Are you a teenager and feeling lost? Under pressure? Like life is suffocating you? Learn how therapy can help you find your direction, make sense of where you've been, understand your conflicts and find the answers you are searching for.

Yapko
This site details Dr. Michael Yapko's activities, teaching schedule and highly acclaimed books, CDs, audiotapes and video programs. Dr. Yapko is an internationally known expert on brief therapy, stress management, treating depression, suicide prevention, and applying hypnosis in solution-oriented psychotherapy.

Repetitive Strain Injury
Armaid
Suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome or tennis elbow? Visit Armaid to learn more about and purchase a product to treat these and other repetitive strain injuries (RSI) of the arm, wrist and hand at home. Endorsed by health professionals.
 
Carpal tunnel Questions and Answers
Have you just been diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, concerned that you may have the symptoms of CTS or are your working at a job that requires repetitive movements? This site addresses the issues associated with this repetitive strain injury.
 
Musical Injuries
Whether you are a musical artist or just enjoy listening to music, visit this site to learn more about how your passion can harm you. Read about repetitive strain injury, eardrum damage and ways to help prevent injury.
 
Repetitive Strain Injury
Visit this site for information about repetitive strain injuries: areas of the body at particular risk, who is at risk, symptoms, RSI treatment, prevention of common injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis, and computer ergonomics.
 
RSI questions and answers
What causes a repetitive strain injury? How do I know if I have an RSI? Who is at risk? Are there factors that predispose one to RSI? How can it be prevented? What are the options for RSI treatment? Visit this site for answers.

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