The heart is one of the most important organs in the body. People can live with only on one kidney, an eye, an ear, or one testicle but no one could ever live without a heart. With the ever growing population of the world, only 16.7 million are affected with cardiovascular disease. Read More→
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Thursday,
November
11th,
2010
Thursday,
November
11th,
2010
There comes a time in every person when they just want to leave the life of being single to settle down and raise a family. In the old days, couples would always want to raise a family because a family would not be enough without the presence of an offspring. It is only in this generation that couples are fine about not having kids. Read More→
Tuesday,
November
9th,
2010
There are so many people in the world who are affected by the medical condition called hypertension. This disease is characterized by the increase in the blood pressure above the normal range. This disease condition is mostly cause by poor lifestyle choices such as eating fatty foods, drinking alcoholic beverages excessively, smoking, and sedentary lifestyle. Read More→
Tuesday,
November
9th,
2010
Majority of the population affected by high blood pressure includes the middle aged to late aged adults. Hypertension beyond age thirty five may not seem unusual, but those people under thirty five experiencing hypertension would generate more investigation. Read More→
Tuesday,
November
9th,
2010
The biggest problem that people with high blood pressure would face is the dietary choices that they have to live with. It is not easy to for people to drastically change their food intake. Poor lifestyle habits including poor food intake with empty calories are one of the top three causes of high blood pressure in many adults. Read More→
Monday,
November
8th,
2010
All operations done on the body whether major or minor cost a lot of money. Because of the rise in the cost of health care today, people have become more conscious about their health. While many people get worried about being sick, a few people worry too much about their physical appearance that they submit themselves to surgery just to correct some flaws on their bodies. Read More→
Monday,
November
8th,
2010
The World Health Organization has attributed hypertension as the leading cause of cardiovascular mortality. A lot of people are affected by this condition every year and many of them die from complications. Hypertension or high blood pressure is more of a chronic medical condition than a symptom. Read More→
Monday,
November
8th,
2010
Vanity is defined as the excessive belief in a person’s attractiveness to other people. Usually, it is the women who are stereotyped with this trait but judging from the way men have become too conscious about their personal appearance, vanity nowadays may go to both parties. Read More→
Monday,
November
8th,
2010
When people think about the most awful things that they do not want on their bodies, they often associate this with the presence of a double chin. Having a double chin does not look good on anyone. Sometimes, people start to realize that they are fat when a second chin starts to form. Read More→
Sunday,
November
7th,
2010
Many of us may not know much about this, but we have a lot of bacteria all over our bodies called normal flora. These bacteria live in our bodies without affecting our health. Our bodies and the normal flora live in a commensalism type of relationship where one benefits and the other is neither harmed not benefited. Read More→
Saturday,
November
6th,
2010
There are a lot of reasons why lower back pain occurs. The most common cause of this pain is poor body muscle coordination. The muscles on the back have the primary purpose of aiding the vertebrae in moving in different directions. Read More→
Saturday,
November
6th,
2010
When a couple decides to have their very first baby, they would usually think about the great things of pregnancy. Movies would show us the great things about pregnancy such as the increased bond of husband and wife and the happy disposition that the extended family enjoys. While these things hold true to many couples, no woman can ever escape all the pain that is bundled with every pregnancy. Read More→
Saturday,
November
6th,
2010
When we think about the ideal work, we would always associate it with sitting in the office all day while staring at the computer. While it is known that people love to have this kind of job, there is actually a down side to all this. Prolonged sitting can lead to intense back pain and no one is immune from back pain when sitting. Read More→
Thursday,
November
4th,
2010
Having fat in the body is not a bad thing. Humans need these fats for insulation during the cold winter months. These fats will also act as our emergency energy fuel whenever we cannot eat on the right time. The problem with fat on our bodies is that they accumulate excessively on certain body parts. This accumulation of fat will not look good on any individual and it will need to be removed. Read More→
Thursday,
November
4th,
2010
The price of looking good is very expensive and sometimes not worth the money and the time. With the many ways to look skinny and thin, people can choose wisely which method will work best for them. For those people who want a quick fix to all that fat in the body, liposuction is the way to go. Although liposuction may be effective in removing fats, some people are hesitant to undergo surgery because of its invasive nature and because of the possible complications. Read More→
Thursday,
November
4th,
2010
Everybody hates fats! Nobody likes to have excess fats hanging onto our bodies. Fats would be okay in some areas of the body where they are needed but if they accumulate in places where they may look bad, it will need to be eliminated at all costs. The most annoying place where fat will deposit is in the neck area. Having a double chin is not a beautiful feature to see in people. Read More→
Wednesday,
November
3rd,
2010
Back pain commonly occurs in adults. The incidence of this pain occurring in adults is as high as 60%-80% among the adult population. The incidence of back pain in children on the other hand, is still unknown. The common reasons why back pain occurs in adults are brought about by stress on the back muscles. If back pain occurs in children, it would warrant further investigation and assessment because it is very rare for a child to be affected by this type of pain. Read More→
Monday,
November
1st,
2010
You often hear it a lot from people that there are a lot of fish in the sea. Literally, this saying is true because majority of the earth is made of water and fish are its natural inhabitants. With the number of fish present in the ocean, Mother Nature would not mind at all if we humans would eat them for survival. Read More→
Tuesday,
October
26th,
2010
The human body is amazing! It is comparable to a well oiled machine that reacts even to the slightest imbalance and it has the ability to heal itself even under the most devastating injuries. One of the many things that the human body can do that amazes me is the way it can control the behavior of blood and and other fluids in it. Read More→
Tuesday,
October
26th,
2010
There are many disease conditions out there that can be prevented easily. Most of them are even self induced conditions which are caused by a sedentary lifestyle, bad dietary choices, and bad habits. With these preventable conditions, they actually come with consequence of discomforts and a lot of pain. Read More→
Monday,
October
25th,
2010
The way that fruits are being handled nowadays have changed since the ancient times. This would be expected of society since all of us are striving to move forward in to the future with technology. Now that all of the people in the world are busy with their lives, they rarely have enough time to eat and sleep. Read More→
Monday,
October
25th,
2010
I was on an out of town business trip last week and we were housed in a really fancy hotel. Fortunately for me I had the best room among all the guest. The morning after the meeting with the client was truly delightful. The breakfast menu featured nice foods and drinks but the most amazing thing I ordered was the Pomegranate Tea. Read More→
Sunday,
October
24th,
2010
When the Egyptians discovered fermentation from baking dough and started to make wine and alcohol, they were not aware of the extent of damage that these chemicals were capable of. Since then, people have learned how to make alcohol beverages through fermentation. Read More→
Saturday,
October
23rd,
2010
Juice drinks taste a lot better when they are freshly squeezed from a natural fruit and they taste best when you eat them in fruit form. Today, the presence of food factories have changed the way fruit juices are made. We now have juices that are made from powder as well as milk, food supplements, and tea. Read More→
Friday,
October
22nd,
2010
Microbiology has contributed so many things to human beings. They have taught us the different behaviors of bacteria, they have taught us how to protect ourselves through medicines, and most importantly, they have taught us how to cook our food. Microbiology has helped us a lot and one of the most important discoveries that it has given mankind is the use of yeast. Read More→
Friday,
October
22nd,
2010
The biggest problem that all of us will face in our lives will not be the absence of money, or the absence of food, or the absence of support system. The biggest problem that all people would face in their lives is the difficulty in breathing. Read More→
Friday,
October
22nd,
2010
All of us are vulnerable to diseases and infections. No human being in this world was ever made to withstand anything that the environment has to offer and not get a disease or even a common cold. A person’s vulnerability is determined by how strong or weak his or her immune system really is. Read More→
Thursday,
October
21st,
2010
Some countries consider the month of May as national allergy month. It is that time of the year when people gather around in a venue to discuss about the recent trends in allergy treatment, research findings discussion, free health clinic, free medications and many more. Read More→
Thursday,
October
21st,
2010
Have you ever heard of a swimmer who is allergic to chlorine? Well, many people have and his name is Ian Thorpe. This guy, also known as the THORPEDO, is an Australian freestyle swimmer who has won five Olympic Gold medals and the first person to ever win six gold medals in one world championship. This is an amazing achievement considering the fact that he used to be allergic to chlorine during his childhood days. Read More→
Thursday,
October
21st,
2010
The air that we breathe today is not the same type of air that we use to breathe ten years ago. With all the air pollution and all the chemicals that hang in the air, there is no way that people can be safe from the dangers of airborne diseases. One of the airborne diseases that have disturbed mankind is the mold allergy. Read More→