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Exercise Recovery Nutrition Plan: Who Needs It?

How should you refuel your body after exercise? We seem to be surrounded by commercial recovery foods and fluids. These recovery foods and fluids offer a combination of carbs and protein, but are they the best for exercise recovery nutrition?

If you are an athlete who exercises one or two times a day to the point of total exhaustion, you most definitely need to focus upon adequate recovery nutrition. A few examples of this type of an exerciser would be swimmers preparing for competition or even high school males and females preparing for any type of sport competition.

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Lung Cancer Symptoms

Cancer is one of those scary words that not too many people like to talk about. The three most common types of cancer are lung, breast, and prostate; lung cancer is the leading cause of death of both men and women. According to the American Lung Association, lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer to become the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Smoking is one of the major causes of lung cancer in the United States, which is estimated to cause 90% of lung cancer cases.  Pollution, exposure to radon, asbestos, and other toxins, including second hand smoke are also known causes. There may be no lung cancer symptoms present when the disease first develops, which makes earlier diagnosis more difficult. And we’ve all heard about someone dying from this type of cancer after experiencing few or no symptoms.

Unfortunately, people only visit their physician after they have been bothered by certain symptoms over a period of time. Many times, patients are unsure when to seek medical care and what questions to even ask the doctor once they do seek care. Patients suspected of having lung cancer symptoms should undergo a thorough physical examination. According to various websites dedicated to lung cancer education, patients who are suspected of having lung cancer frequently experience symptoms like cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, chest pain, spitting up blood, loss of appetite, or weight loss. Other less common lung cancer symptoms include pneumonia, weakness, chills, swallowing difficulties, and signs of oxygen deprivation, vis-à-vis finger and nail abnormalities, skin paleness, or bluish discoloration.

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Hairy Cell Leukemia

Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a rare cancer of the blood. It affects B cells, a type of white blood cell (lymphocyte). HCL is due to increase of a clonal malignant B cell that infiltrates the reticuloendothelial cells, mainly the bone marrow, resulting in bone marrow failure. Somewhere between 600 and 800 people are effected with hairy cell leukemia every year in the United States. Hairy cell leukemia affects more men than women, and it occurs most commonly in middle-aged or older adults.

Children and teenagers don’t get hairy cell leukemia. This disease is observed more commonly in whites. Occasionally, hairy cell leukemia has occurred in members of the same family. However, this is uncommon and no hereditary pattern has been established. Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is associated with gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial infections as well as atypical mycobacterial and invasive fungal infections.

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