June 9, 2012
Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES
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What You Should Know about GERD
Perhaps you have heard of “silent” diseases, so-called because they don’t have easily recognizable, clear-cut symptoms and can therefore cause damage to the body without revealing their existence. High blood pressure is a silent disease, so is osteoporosis, early-stage hepatitis C, and so are a number of sexually-transmitted diseases.
Bunions
Bunions (those swollen, painful bumps on the inside of the foot at the base of the big toe) are so closely associated in our minds with women and with fashionable but often ill-fitting shoes, that the question I was asked last week as to whether or not men even get bunions was not at all unreasonable.