Monday, January 9, 2012
Stretching Everyday good for your body
Did you know that spending at least fifteen minutes everyday stretching, helps keep your joints from deteriorating. Muscles stay flexible and you are helping your body by preventing injuries. If stretching is not part of your daily routine, our doctors highly recommend stretching even for a few minutes right before bed every night.
Cardiovascular activity really important first thing in the morning
Our doctors have found that people who exercise every morning for at least 30 minutes of cardiovascular activity have less health problems than people who don't. Keeping your heart rate at about 65% max for 30 minutes keeps your heart strong, improves blood circulation and helps burn fat. If a morning jog, walk, bike or swim is not part of your daily morning routine, we strongly recommend considering it.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
The best activity to do in winter to keep fit and healthy
Being in North America, most American and Canadians have to deal with winter for almost half of the year. Our doctors here at AskTheDoctor.com have voted and come up with the number one activity in the winter time they feel will help you stay fit and healthy!
The winner is...........
Cross-Country Skiing
A great winter activity to help you strengthen those muscles and burn lots of calories at the same time. Its a great activity you can enjoy even with the kids. Studies show people at an average weight of between 140-170 pounds can burn an average of 600-700 calories in just 1 hour of cross-country skiing.
The winner is...........
Cross-Country Skiing
A great winter activity to help you strengthen those muscles and burn lots of calories at the same time. Its a great activity you can enjoy even with the kids. Studies show people at an average weight of between 140-170 pounds can burn an average of 600-700 calories in just 1 hour of cross-country skiing.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Medical information more popular than Facebook?
Did you know that people looking up medical information online is the third highest internet activity - higher than visiting Facebook. In fact, 83% of all internet users in the United States have looked for health information online. The only two activities more popular than this are reading an email or using a search engine.
The demand for online medical advice continues to grow as there are many popular websites out such as WebMD.com, Everydayhealth.com and AskTheDoctor.com
These websites will continue to grow as the younger internet using generation will require more healthcare attention.
Research shows that by 2015, there could be as many as 40,000 medical information websites in the United States alone.
Lets face it, people these days want to get everything online...first it was shopping, now its even health advice.
The demand for online medical advice continues to grow as there are many popular websites out such as WebMD.com, Everydayhealth.com and AskTheDoctor.com
These websites will continue to grow as the younger internet using generation will require more healthcare attention.
Research shows that by 2015, there could be as many as 40,000 medical information websites in the United States alone.
Lets face it, people these days want to get everything online...first it was shopping, now its even health advice.
AskTheDoctor.com in the news
We are please to let you know that AskTheDoctor.com, the world's leading source for free answers to medical questions was featured in the news in a few different places:
San Francisco Chronicle
Stanford University
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle
Stanford University
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Doctor's Recommended: Healing Change of Seasons Chicken Soup Recipe
The soup has a slightly bitter taste. To improve the taste, use it as a base for a hearty chicken soup!
Herbal Ingredients
1. Codonopsis root: This herb is thought to help tonify and strengthen “qi” energy and helps to build blood and nourish body fluids.
2. Astragalus root: Astragalus is a root thought to helps strengthen protective defenses, strengthen qi energy, nourish the spleen, and tonify the blood and lungs
3. Dioscorea (Chinese yam) root: Dioscorea is a herb believed to tonify and balances the lungs and the kidneys.
4. Chinese Lycii berries: Lycii berries is believed to strengthen the liver and the kidneys.
Instructions
1. Fill a large stock pot with water (2-4L). Add the above herbs to the pot and place the lid on. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2 hours. If the water level boils down, add water to refill if necessary.
2. Using a slotted spoon, or strainer, remove the herbs from the pot. You can drink it as a broth, use it as a base for soup recipes, or place it in a mug or thermos and sip it throughout the day.
To make the chicken soup, you need:
• 1L organic homemade chicken broth
• 2 organic free range chicken breasts – cooked ( I bake mine) and shredded
• 2 cups of chopped green cabbage
• 2 celery stalks – chopped
• 2 carrots – chopped
• 1 small onion diced
• 2 tsp fresh ginger
• 3 cloves of garlic – chopped
• 1 cup of fresh parsely
• 1 tbsp of fresh rosmary
• 2 bay leaves
• add salt and pepper as needed for taste – especially to cover up the taste of the herbs
Instructions:
1. Bake you chicken breasts for 40 mins at 350F – take out of the oven and allow to cool and shred
2. Sautee garlic, onions and ginger for 3 mins in a little olive oil (for flavour, not too much!)
3. Add shredded chicken – mix
4. Add all the vegetables and mix for about 3 mins
5. Add about 2 tsps of sea salt
6. Add Change of Season Soup, Chicken Stock and Bay Leaves
7. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 1.5 hours – slowly add additional salt and pepper until desired taste is reached
8. Add Parsley and Rosmary and simmer for another 30 min
I love pouring this soup over some freshly made brown rice – makes for a hearty meal!
Enjoy!
Herbal Ingredients
1. Codonopsis root: This herb is thought to help tonify and strengthen “qi” energy and helps to build blood and nourish body fluids.
2. Astragalus root: Astragalus is a root thought to helps strengthen protective defenses, strengthen qi energy, nourish the spleen, and tonify the blood and lungs
3. Dioscorea (Chinese yam) root: Dioscorea is a herb believed to tonify and balances the lungs and the kidneys.
4. Chinese Lycii berries: Lycii berries is believed to strengthen the liver and the kidneys.
Instructions
1. Fill a large stock pot with water (2-4L). Add the above herbs to the pot and place the lid on. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2 hours. If the water level boils down, add water to refill if necessary.
2. Using a slotted spoon, or strainer, remove the herbs from the pot. You can drink it as a broth, use it as a base for soup recipes, or place it in a mug or thermos and sip it throughout the day.
To make the chicken soup, you need:
• 1L organic homemade chicken broth
• 2 organic free range chicken breasts – cooked ( I bake mine) and shredded
• 2 cups of chopped green cabbage
• 2 celery stalks – chopped
• 2 carrots – chopped
• 1 small onion diced
• 2 tsp fresh ginger
• 3 cloves of garlic – chopped
• 1 cup of fresh parsely
• 1 tbsp of fresh rosmary
• 2 bay leaves
• add salt and pepper as needed for taste – especially to cover up the taste of the herbs
Instructions:
1. Bake you chicken breasts for 40 mins at 350F – take out of the oven and allow to cool and shred
2. Sautee garlic, onions and ginger for 3 mins in a little olive oil (for flavour, not too much!)
3. Add shredded chicken – mix
4. Add all the vegetables and mix for about 3 mins
5. Add about 2 tsps of sea salt
6. Add Change of Season Soup, Chicken Stock and Bay Leaves
7. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 1.5 hours – slowly add additional salt and pepper until desired taste is reached
8. Add Parsley and Rosmary and simmer for another 30 min
I love pouring this soup over some freshly made brown rice – makes for a hearty meal!
Enjoy!
How AskTheDoctor.com Continues To Be Free
Happy New Year's to everyone! Hope everyone had a great holiday season.
We wanted to start off this post by addressing a couple concerns our users have had.
Recently here at AskTheDoctor.com we have gotten some emails and feedback from our users that they would like to see our website not post the answers on the world wide web. We do keep the answers anonymous but we must publish them to create content. The reason we are able to keep the website free is because of the content being created.
Let me break it down as follows:
1. Without content there will be no advertisers on our website.
2. Without advertisers, there will be no money coming to AskTheDoctor.com
3. Without money, there will be no doctors working for the website (nobody works well and for free for long term and trust me we have tried this out for the last few years)
4. Without doctors, there will be nobody to answer users questions.
As you can see us posting the answers anonymously is very important to the building of a large medical library of questions and the continued growth of the website so we can keep offering this free service. Remember 100% of advertising income goes into paying back all the doctors who are answering questions.
I hope we have been able to answer any of our users concerns with this post. Feel free to visit our website and send us a message with any comments or concerns you may have.
Contact Form For Ask The Doctor
Just another quick reminder that our top 10 physician recommended things to do in the new year list is out as well!
We wanted to start off this post by addressing a couple concerns our users have had.
Recently here at AskTheDoctor.com we have gotten some emails and feedback from our users that they would like to see our website not post the answers on the world wide web. We do keep the answers anonymous but we must publish them to create content. The reason we are able to keep the website free is because of the content being created.
Let me break it down as follows:
1. Without content there will be no advertisers on our website.
2. Without advertisers, there will be no money coming to AskTheDoctor.com
3. Without money, there will be no doctors working for the website (nobody works well and for free for long term and trust me we have tried this out for the last few years)
4. Without doctors, there will be nobody to answer users questions.
As you can see us posting the answers anonymously is very important to the building of a large medical library of questions and the continued growth of the website so we can keep offering this free service. Remember 100% of advertising income goes into paying back all the doctors who are answering questions.
I hope we have been able to answer any of our users concerns with this post. Feel free to visit our website and send us a message with any comments or concerns you may have.
Contact Form For Ask The Doctor
Just another quick reminder that our top 10 physician recommended things to do in the new year list is out as well!
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