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  • Taking Osteoporosis In Stride
    Osteoporosis is considered a silent disease with no obvious symptoms until bones become so thin that it easily breaks or fracture. Doctors advise women to get a lot of vitamin D, calcium supplement and bone density screening test to determine the future of their posture.
  • Dental Anxiety: A Self-fulfilling Prophecy
    Many people have dental anxiety and would rather endure the excruciating pain of a toothache than pay their dentists a visit. The fear comes from the anticipation of the pain rather than the pain itself. However, modern dentistry has recognized this problem that they continue to develop new techniques to alleviate it.
  • Possible Heart Risks Due To Long-Term Pill Use
    One small study from Belgium suggests that long-term use of oral contraceptives might increase the chances of having artery build-ups that can raise the risk of heart disease. Although the study needs further rigorous testing, its importance can never be undermined due to the great number of women that are now taking the pill.
  • Moderate Drinking Can Still Lead To Breast Cancer
    While excessive alcohol use has been known to increase the risk of a number of diseases, some studies suggest that moderate drinking can actually help you stay healthy. However, latest study reveals that even moderate drinking of red wine increases the risk of breast cancer in women.
  • Getting Motivated With Physical Fitness
    Most people would spend money to enroll in gym memberships or buy those fitness equipments only to quit as soon as they start. Either they are too busy that they couldn't find time to keep it going or they quickly lose their interest due to lack of motivation. It's easy to start a lifestyle of fitness. What's difficult is how to be consistent with it.
  • Abortion: A Public Health Crisis
    Abortion is a very personal decision. Women and couples who are considering this procedure should also consider counseling. Research revealed that women are just as likely to get an abortion whether it is outlawed or legal, which increases the incidence of unsafe abortion.
  • Unlocking the Mysteries of Depression and Bipolar Disorder
    The article focuses on the studies made to treat bipolar disorder --- a condition that is characterized by frequent mood swings, mania, and severe depression. The article also cites the number of treatments and medications that are currently available in the market; as well as the new developments being made in the area of DNA research for the purpose of finding a treatment for the said disorder.
  • Holiday Blues Are Just Around The Bend
    While it is a time for gift-giving and merry-making, it can also be a source of stress and depression. Keeping humor up and having realistic expectations help a great deal in being in tune with the holiday spirit. Setting realistic goals for the holidays and keeping your expectations simple for yourself and everyone else is the key to avoid stress and anxiety brought about by the occasion.
  • Holidays Challenge: Keep Off Those Extra Calories
    During the holidays, most people struggle with their diet that seasonal weight gain becomes an issue specially to people who have problems with obesity. This article offers some practicals on how to overcome this holiday diet blues through wise planning and moderation.
  • Food Synergy: The Key To A Healthy Diet
    Nutrition researchers are breaking down the nutrients in food to identify its most potent benefits and its individual health benefits in the body. However, studies revealed that attributing the broad health benefits of a diet to a single compound is considered misguided.
  • The Privilege of Being Nosey
    The sense of smell plays an important role in the enhancement and improvement of our life. Since the beginning of time, it has been fundamental for survival of early men in identifying healthy food sources and detecting danger. Disorder in the olfactory system can cause great disturbance in the quality of our life.
  • Health Benefits of Marriage and More
    Married people were healthier for nearly every measure of health. Both men and women live longer, happier, healthier and wealthier lives when they are married. While the increasing statistics on divorce may be true, it is important to know some facts about marriage and how it benefits both spouses.
  • Caution: Hidden Sodium Inside Common Processed Foods
    Salt is not just to perk up the flavor of dishes but is also essential to maintaining a good health. While sodium deficiency can be problematic, excessive salt intakes have been associated with diseases and other conditions, such as hypertension and stomach cancer.
  • Maternal Deaths Still Happen In This Day and Age
    Many people find it hard to understand how in this modern day hospital facilities and advanced medical knowhow that maternal deaths still happen just like that. More U.S. women are dying due to, what experts believe to be partly to blame, the increasing maternal obesity and the rise in Caesarean sections.
  • Hard Habits To Break Lead To Heart Disease
    Inactivity or lack of exercise, smoking and a poor diet are considered risk factors for heart disease. This article discusses each risk factor as well as the five main areas of diet which can prevent coronary heart disease: cholesterol, blood pressure, healthy weight, blood clots and fiber.
  • When Women Have No Voice In A Relationship
    There is a general notion that women are taught not to deal directly with their feelings. On the other hand, men are raised to express their anger openly. Marriages and close friendships marked by negativity, such as conflict and adverse exchanges, boost the risk of heart disease.
  • Coping with Job Stress and Heart Disease
    While everyone knows that stress has an obvious negative implication on heart health, still, many people have the notion that a heart attack is caused by a slow, progressive build-up of plaque. To think that a blood vessel takes a lifetime to become completely clogged is simply not true for most cases of heart attacks.
  • The Hallmark of Performance Anxiety
    Performance anxiety affects even the most seasoned professional speaker or performer. While some people have the ability and presence of mind to remain cool and composed, most of us are geniuses as far as coming up with all the negative thoughts that may happen before and during a performance.
  • Exercise and Diet as Pain Relief Therapy
    While regular exercise promotes natural pain relief by releasing mood-enhancing chemicals in the body that reduce pain sensations, being overweight also takes its toll on the joints due to the excess poundage they have to carry. A nutritionally-balanced diet is a proven method for weight loss that can help reduce pain perception.
  • When Pain Relief Medications Cause More Headaches
    Overusing pain relief medications can become a cycle. It can make headaches return as soon as the effect of the medication wears off. Once the pain returns, the tendency is to take more medications until it becomes a worse cycle. Medication overuse headaches are also known as rebound headaches.
  • Social Anxiety Disorder: Holiday Spoiler
    Shyness may range from mild social awkwardness to totally inhibiting social phobia, more commonly known as social anxiety disorder (SAD). By facing their fears and acquiring conversational skills, shy people can eventually overcome their shyness. However, exposure to fearful situations fails to desensitize people with SAD.
  • New Technology For Chronic Pain Relief
    For people suffering in pain problems, modern advances in medicine provide new methods for chronic pain relief. Over the years, chronic pain had been dismissed as something that is just “in the head”. However, modern technology has developed ways to understand how the sensation of pain occurs.
  • Overcoming Anxiety Disorders Through Alternative Therapy
    Just like other emotions, anxiety is a common reaction that helps a person cope and deal with a situation. However, when it becomes excessive to the point of obstructing daily life, it becomes anxiety disorder. Recent advances in research has done a great deal in developing new ways to treat anxiety disorder.
  • Panic Attack: A Real Illness With A Sense Of Unreality
    Panic attacks are symptoms of panic disorder, a type of anxiety disorder affecting millions of adults in the U.S. While the exact cause of panic disorder is yet to be known, researchers suspect a combination of biological and environmental factors may contribute to the development of the condition.
  • The Complex Web Of War Tragedies
    Reliving the harrowing experience of war has become a daily nightmare to many military and civilian survivors, men and women, young and old alike, causing severe stress and anxiety which may lead to other serious medical conditions.
  • Balance Your Life With Stress Relief Techniques
    Stress is a psychological and physiological response to any event that upsets our personal sense of balance and comfort. So, if your hectic lifestyle seems to take its toll in your physical, emotional and psychological well-being, stress relief techniques can bring you life back into balance.
  • The Dark Cloud of Depression
    Everyone feels overwhelmed by difficult emotions or situations at some point in their lives. Depression is affecting the way a person thinks and feels about the situation he or she is in. While most people can pull through their problems with determination and hope, some would simply resort to suicide or antidepressant overdose.
  • Beyond Vanity: Skin Care is Imperative to Health and Wellness
    Economy and a busy lifestyle play a great deal on why people would refrain from availing those skincare services being offered in the media. However, there is more to skincare than just a case of vanity. The skin serves as the body's first barrier against bacterial infections.
  • Physical Therapy as Alternative Pain Relief
    Many people would do anything to find a relief for their pain. One of the advantages of trying out a number of alternative pain relief remedies is that you may find a pain relief treatment that works for you. However, it is always best to consult a doctor before trying any alternative options.
  • Insomnia: Perils of Staying Awake All Night Long
    Sleep inadequacy can have severe detrimental effects on health. Studies have shown that sleep is essential for normal immune system function and for healthy cell growth. People with sleep problems can take over-the-counter sleep aid drugs, which are most effective for an occasional sleepless night.
  • A Breath Of Fresh Air
    There is no more question to the veracity of the ill effects of cigarettes to people who smoke as well as to those who do not smoke. Second hand smoke is a proven cause of lung cancer and heart disease in non-smoking adults and of sudden infant death syndrome, among others.
  • Fact: Smoking Is Taking Minutes Off Your Life
    Cigarette smoking is absolutely damaging to the human body. The number of reasons why people should quit smoking more than outweighs the number of excuses for quitting. Yet, it isn't easy to quit. But unless one starts with determination, nothing can be accomplished.
  • Sipping Tea to Get Rid of Insomnia
    Most people experience difficulty getting sleep. There is more to sleep than just lying in bed and closing your eyes, then opening them the next day. Sleep is a dynamic activity. Something goes on while you're asleep, such as regeneration of the brain and consolidation of memories.
  • The Benefits of Yoga for Stress Management
    While most people have the notion that you have to be flexible in order to do yoga, the truth is, anyone will benefit from yoga regardless of age. Even people who aren't flexible will actually see results faster. It's perfectly suited to all levels because yoga is a practice geared to helping you become aware of your own highly individual mind/body connection.
  • Treating Muscle Spasms And Muscle Knots
    The treatments for muscle pains are as diverse as the causes. From over-the-counter and prescription medicines to mind/body techniques to acupuncture, one approach that works for you may not work for another person. But when it comes to treating chronic pain, no single muscle relaxer technique is guaranteed to produce complete pain relief, but may be found by using a combination of treatment options.
  • Waking Up Refreshed From Sleep Aid Pills
    Insomnia may afflict anyone from time to time. But if it lasts for a month or longer with no relief, it becomes chronic insomnia. Sleep aid pills are most effective for an occasional sleepless night. However, take it only when you're going to bed and avoid mixing it with alcohol to prevent untoward incidents to happen.
  • Relieving Muscle Pains Due to Sports Injuries
    Muscle relaxants work quite well for relieving muscle pain due to injuries, but are not effective for other types of pain. Muscle relaxants do not heal the injuries, but they do relax muscles and help ease discomfort and stop muscle spasms.
  • Arthritis: Not Just for the Senior Citizens
    While arthritis usually affects aging men and women, most people are not aware that there are other types of arthritis that may occur in both sexes of all ages.Eliminating the underlying cause of the arthritis is one of the goals for treating arthritis.
  • Easy and Effective Techniques for Leg Pain Relief
    Leg pain is something that is a common complaint and a common symptom for a lot of different causes such as muscle spasms or cramps, injuries, dehydration or depletion of minerals like potassium, sodium, calcium, or magnesium. It can also be classified as inflammatory, orthopedic, neurological, and vascular.
  • Taking Back Pain In Stride
    Back pain can sometimes be tolerable or it may be unbearably painful to the point of interfering with daily functions such as spending too much time sitting while at work, or driving for a long period of time. Treatment varies depending on the severity of the condition.
  • The Healing Potential of Art
    Art therapy is the therapeutic use of art by people who experience a variety of challenges in life, such as stress and emotional problems, anxiety and depression, illnesses and other health conditions. It is also for people who seek personal development and fulfillment.
  • OCD: Extreme Rites of Anxiety
    Some superstitions and rituals seem harmless and may actually help us to become productive and produce positive results. However, when these rituals are taken to extremes and begin to affect normal daily function, it becomes an anxiety disorder that may lead to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • Empowering Your Emotional Health
    Having a healthy mind and spirit go well with a healthy body. Neglecting your emotional health can damage your physical health in the process. Emotions such as fear, joy, sadness, anxiety and anger are mental responses that are so powerful that these can even cause illness, or, in some cases, healing.
  • Sexual Health Awareness and Social Responsibility
    Young people will normally get curious and interested about sex as they go through physical and emotional changes during puberty. It is the duty of the parents to prepare their children in the matters of physical, emotional, and social dimensions of sexual health and its consequences.
  • Birth Control: Shaping Your Family's Health and Future
    In most countries, there is no limit as to the number of child a parent can have as long as he can provide for their needs and welfare. However, family planning is not just about birth control but laying a solid foundation for a better future.
  • Sexual Health Awareness and You
    Sexual health issues involves attitude, behavior, genes, environment and the economy. It is not just the absence of the disease or its dysfunction and infirmities. One must learn to practice a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships.
  • Women's Sexual Health: Age Doesn't Matter
    Based on a recent study, there appeared to be no differences with respect to frequency of sexual intercourse or the desire for sexual activity not involving intercourse among the differing age groups. Age did not make a difference in regard to frequency of orgasm or in sexual satisfaction ratings with their partners.
  • Losing the Sexual Drive
    Sexual drive declines naturally with age based on physiological factors. It is a sexual health problem that is more than just an issue of low libido or sex drive but also encompasses interpersonal and psychological factors that allows the body to create a willingness to be sexual.
  • Birth Control Pills: Further Evaluation Is Needed
    Further research is needed to identify whether SHBG (Sex Hormone Binding Globulin) changes induced by birth control pills may or may not be completely reversible after discontinuation of oral contraceptives, and whether this leads to long-term sexual, metabolic, and mental-health changes in some women.
  • Freedom of Choice in Birth Control
    As most women gained a sense of control over their bodies, career, and future, a great number of men also welcomed the idea of the Pill as a symbol of the Female Sexual Freedom and the power of choice. In spite of opposition from the religious sector, there are now a lot more options for both men and women when it comes to birth control methods.

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