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Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn
I remember when my oldest son was born, it was November. He was born in Los Angeles and my Mom came from New York for the big event. My mother insisted on dressing him to go home from the hospital. Being a New Yorker (and ... Views: 1221
Here is a definite answer to the question, "Is dark chocolate good for you?" Yes, the benefits of dark chocolate have been confirmed by medical science. According to an American Heart Association(AHA) scientific journal news release dated Aug. 17, 2010 there certainly are dark chocolate health ... Views: 2048
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Hi, I’m Steve Beaman and welcome to today’s SBG Cast on the Physical Path! Did you know that it is considered cruel and unusual torture to deprive someone of sleep? That’s right, one of the favorite – if you can call it that – tortures used by national ... Views: 1269
Submitting a dissertation has become regular practice for completion of any degree nowadays. It is the most important work for scoring a good grade for any degree. But how should it be done? How should you choose the topic and conduct the research. If you think you will go to a library or a ... Views: 831
It’s a development stricken world and it’s a rat-race all around with each one of us loaded with prior commitments and responsibilities, be it related to our workspace, our family, or our relationships. We strive hard and put in relentless efforts to achieve the goals that we have set for ... Views: 622
Unlike the standard measure of weight, the body mass index (BMI) is a more accurate way of gauging your overall fat composition because it takes your height into consideration. The reason this is important is that muscle actually weighs more than fat, so when starting a work-out routine, you can ... Views: 417
Normally, doctors will talk about a number of medical measures often practiced for removing kidney stones especially to patients with severe cases. Each method differs a bit from the other, and a few can be performed at home. Healthcare providers, however, will recommend the suitable kidney ... Views: 1522
Each year people die from complications related to influenza (flu). Severe influenza can require hospitalization. It can cause diarrhea and seizures in children, and complicate a number of medical conditions. Vaccination against influenza is the best way to protect yourself and your family, ... Views: 1120
Now that you're back to school, your eating patterns are probably going to change and probably not for the best either. In fact one of the most difficult times a person has in maintaining healthy eating habits is during school. This is the place where amounts of stress and pressure put on a ... Views: 502
Splinters
A splinter is a small, firm foreign body embedded in the skin or soft tissue. The most common type of splinter is wooden, either as an irregular fragment, or perhaps a thorn or a fragment of a toothpick. Other types of splinters could include various metals, glass, fiber glass, ... Views: 2550
Skin resurfacing
Precise Computerized Erbium laser skin resurfacing is a very exact procedure. It is designed to precisely remove superficial and moderately deep and deep lines, imperfections, scars, pigments and wrinkles on the face, neck and virtually all parts of the body. The laser is ... Views: 901
Sinusitis, Rhinitis and Allergies
Rhinitis is an inflammation or infection of the nose. The infection can be bacterial such as a sinus infection, or viral such as a cold or an allergic reaction with inflammation. The nasal passageway is like a main hallway in which air is constantly ... Views: 1250
Sinusitis and Allergies
Nasal congestion is an inflammation or infection of the inside of the nose and nasal passageways. The infection can be bacterial such as part of a sinus infection. It could be viral such as a cold or an allergic reaction with inflammation and nasal congestion. The ... Views: 845
Finding Your Way To Therapy
by Nancy M. Turcich, NTS, RPP, RPE
In 1982, I fell off a cliff in southern Illinois. Soon after, I decided to go with the flow of life and not question everything that came my way. Following my fall and subsequent recovery, I enrolled in a ... Views: 883
Shingles
Shingles, or Herpes Zoster as it is sometimes called, is a painful reactivation of the Chickenpox virus. These outbreaks usually appears as a local rash to one specific area of the body, what doctors call a dermatome distribution. It usually does not cross the midline of the body (i.e. ... Views: 3502
Rosacea
Rosacea is a chronic skin inflammation that primarily affects the central face. It occurs in about fourteen million American adults, with a preponderance of them being of northern European descent (hence, the nickname: “the Celt’s curse”). It causes a rash that occurs primarily on the ... Views: 754
Reyes syndrome
Being stricken with Reye's syndrome is basically like being struck by lightning. It does not happen very often, but when it does, the consequences can be disastrous. For example, you would not send your child or teenager out to play on the beach with an aluminum baseball bat ... Views: 1518
Restylane And Skin Fillers
Restylane is a gel volume filler using dextrose and a non-animal based hyluronic acid. Restylane is designed to correct skin imperfections as wrinkles and lines. It enhances lip volume, a little or a lot. It is used to pump up, fill, and restore fullness to pits, ... Views: 1451
Psoriasis: Is it Just Dry Skin or Something Else
Psoriasis is generally an inherited skin condition by genetic testing there is a HLA-B27 or B28 gene that people with psoriasis posses. Psoriasis is often noted in children as white scaly patches on the knees, elbows, or scalp, but virtually ... Views: 1341
What is oral surgery?
Oral surgery is extremely important when functional dental concerns such as keeping your natural teeth, correcting congenital growth issues, controlling serious oral disease and treating significant trauma-related injuries that supersede esthetics require the immediate ... Views: 2109
There is no denying that chemical peels are one of the most popular fast acne treatments today. These chemical peels are composed of acids like glycolic, salicylic and lactic, all of which are very effective ingredients in acne or acne vulgaris treatments. What these chemical peels do is ... Views: 1868
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All About Aspartame - by Melanie Downey, Owner/Founder of Wilava: For Premium Skin
Well, really not ALL about it, just the parts I don't like. I avoid eating/drinking/buying foods or drinks with aspartame in them when I can, and one of my friends just asked me why, so I told her I'd blog about it. To tell the truth, I'm not really sure if she really wants to know, or if she ... Views: 910
Have you ever heard of the four agreements? This set of very simple concepts can literally transform your life; profound, yet extremely difficult to practice on a daily basis. “You need a very strong will in order to adopt the four Agreements – but if you can begin to live your life with these ... Views: 2284
Pancreatitis: How Serious is it?
The pancreas, like many other of our organs, doesn’t come to mind much when it is humming along doing its job. The problem is that when something starts to misfire in the pancreas, pandemonium commences to result in the rest of the body. For instance, various ... Views: 1126
Nausea and Vomiting
I don’t think anyone of normal intelligence and human experience needs a long dissertation on the experience of nausea and vomiting. Nausea is the anticipatory sensation that one is going to vomit. Vomiting itself is the reflex mechanism by which the stomach upwardly expels ... Views: 750
Auto Accidents
Motor vehicular accidents are a leading cause of death and non-fatal trauma in the United States. Although statistics have improved with safer cars, more diverse law enforcement and better roads, annual deaths in the US still exceed 41,000. There are over 1,700,000 crashes a ... Views: 654
MRSA
Staphylococcus aureus: This bacterium, often called Staph, is one of the most common causes of skin infections. It is a double sphere shaped bacteria. Staph is one of the most common causes of skin infections. It is differentiated by a coagulation test. They place the bacteria in a test ... Views: 855
Melasma the Mask of Pregnancy
Melasma is called a facial dyschromia, that is, a disorder of facial pigmentation that accompanies about seventy per cent of all pregnancies. It usually starts after the third month of pregnancy, and most commonly affects the centrofacial area which includes the ... Views: 849
Lymph Nodes: Big or Swollen?
I’ll bet when you go into see your doctor for all or part of a physical examination, you wonder why he probes and presses around your neck, under your arms, maybe around your elbow, in the left-sided spleen area, perhaps in the groin or behind the knee. He is ... Views: 4631
Lower Back Pain
In a busy primary clinical practice, at least one patient a day comes in with a backache. It is one of the most common human ailments. Most of the problems are with the lower back; and no wonder. The lower back is the "foundation" on which most of the other muscle movements base ... Views: 594
Loss of health insurance
The current economic situation of job loss, occupational insecurity, and the hardships of unemployment continue to be a topic of discussion in our community, within the healthcare industry, and in governmental policy making organizations. The job loss numbers for 2008 ... Views: 660
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I get asked this all the time “Why do I have recurring bacterial vaginosis?” You see most of us notice a problem, go to the doctor, have a quick diagnosis by the doctor, get prescribed an antibiotic, clear up your symptoms for a short time and bang get another infection. ... Views: 4215
Estrogen Dominance is a term many women have not heard about. Yet, they should not only have heard about, they should understand it thoroughly. Why? This is how seriously Dr. John Lee, author of the book, ‘What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer, How Hormone Balance Can Help Save ... Views: 1144
Recently on my Blog Talk Radio show I interviewed Dr. Flechas who is a leading expert in the field of iodine. In my book, Breast Health Exposed, I have a chapter on iodine so I knew it was an important component of breast health but Dr. Flechas provided a whole new dimension to the world of ... Views: 853
Most women assume they get enough iodine in a day. However, the RDA of 150 mcg is grossly insufficient according to Dr. Flechas, an expert in the field. In Japan, where the average person consumes 13,800 mcg of iodine per day, they have a longer life expectancy and a lower rate of breast ... Views: 2001
Did you know that the vast majority of people in this day and age have excess abdominal fat? The first thing that most people think of is that their extra abdominal fat is simply ugly,it is covering up their abs decreasing visibility, and makes them self conscious about showing off their ... Views: 996
Flu (part1)
The 2009-2010 flu seasons was supposed to be "routine." Usually, patients take their seasonal flu shot. Those people who had flu symptoms normally go to the doctor's office for an exam and testing. It is usually easy to spot the flu patients. Among the usual nasal congestion and ... Views: 1231
Like most teenagers who know nothing about putting on muscle, when I first started working out at the gym I didn't do one compound exercises. Unsurprisingly - I also didn't see any real results besides being able to "curl well". Why? Because isolation exercises just don't cut it if you want to ... Views: 2025
Chlamydia and Sexually Transmitted Infections
All physicians want every sexually active patient to know and understand that one of the most prevalent Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) is Chlamydia. It occurs in about an estimated 4 million patients per year. The second most common is ... Views: 679
Chest Infections, Asthma & Allergy
Bronchitis is an infection/inflammation that can be caused by viral, bacterial, mycoplasmic, rickettsiae, parasitic or allergic reaction in origin. This affects the big, main air transportation tube systems of the lung all the way to the smallest tubal at ... Views: 2218
Those with type 2 diabetes can exercise just about any time of the day. The best way to learn when you can exercise is to experiment and monitor the results. Some find exercising in the morning is better than the evening. Some find the opposite to be true. Many choose to exercise in short ... Views: 818
Attachment theory explains the bond or tie between a child and an attachment figure, a parent or guardian. Nowadays it is starting to become obvious that children with insecure attachment styles are prone to eating disorders more so than children with secure attachments.
When children ... Views: 2665
How would you like to be more efficient with your cardio exercise while exercising for shorter time and burning more calories? You may not need to exercise as long as you think! A while back I came across the work of Dr. Al Sears who has been in the field of exercise for over 25 years. His PACE™ ... Views: 2355
The Doctor profession is a highly respectable and worthy position. It is said that doctor is next to god, because he is the one who can put a diseased man to live. It is a honor to be a doctor and serve the needy.
In India we have a special respect, love and affection towards Doctors The rich ... Views: 658
There should be a careful selection of the words in criminal justice essay, whether you are composing a thesis statement, arguments, introduction etc. an essay writer should be able to express his ideas with clever use of words. The best way for writing a perfect essay is to visualize it first ... Views: 2211
Commonwealth essay competition is organized inviting people from all over the world to participate in it. It is now counted as the world’s top most essay competition where people are given a platform to air their voices regarding any important issue that they want the world to know. This is why; ... Views: 3009
Research shows that adopting a diet in line with Mediterranean eating habits can help manage type 2 diabetes without taking drugs. What exactly do they mean by referring to a Mediterranean diet? This diet comes from the cultures that ring the Mediterranean Sea including Italian, Greek, and ... Views: 746
There is no special diabetes diet that you must go on if you have type 2 diabetes. There is no one standing at the grocery cash register monitoring what foods you purchase. No one will stop you from ordering your favorite foods in a restaurant. However, you must make some changes if you hope to ... Views: 910
One of the many things you learn when you get a Type two diabetes diagnosis is that heart disease comes along with it. Those with diabetes have a significantly higher risk of developing heart disease. This can then lead to heart attack or stroke and could be deadly. That is why it is vital to ... Views: 1113
Here are the most common chemicals used in deodorants that you should avoid buying:
Aluminum – One main concern with deodorants is related to their high levels of aluminum salts. Aluminum chloride, aluminum carbohydrate and aluminum zirconium chlorhydrate glycine complexes can make up 25 ... Views: 2571