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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Being Organized Is An Effective Stress Reliever
    Some people just have to look around inside their house to see how the clutter is so overwhelming. That kind of stress can make people more vulnerable to potential health problems. As more people become health-conscious, being organize can be an extremely effective stress reliever.
  • 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.
  • Birth Control Pills and the Era of Seasonal Menstruation
    The approval of continuous-use birth control pills began the era of seasonal menstruation. Having more control over their reproductive cycles, women gained access to a contraceptive that will not only minimize the occurrence of menstruation, but would completely eliminate monthly periods for up to a year.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Brain Imaging Model Accurately Identifies Alzheimer’s
    Brain scanning technology is now being used to improve the health and reduce a person’s risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and other illnesses. New technology is also being developed to determine predisposition to a variety if illness including dementia. Brain scanning also helps patients to get a proper, evidence-based diagnosis.
  • Caring For Patients With Chronic Pain
    A person suffering from chronic pain is usually unaware that the anxiety and depression that often go with it can also afflict family and friends who may feel helpless to offer relief. Make sure these patients remain involved and are encouraged to participate in family plans and activities to avoid feeling out of place and useless.
  • 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.
  • Change: Major Source of Stress and Anxiety
    While change is inevitable, anxiety and stress are the natural response to any
    changes in our environment. Anxiety is defined as a feeling of uneasiness and apprehension over something that is unrecognized or unknown, or to a situation or event that one does not have control over. That is why change is a major source of stress that causes bodily and mental tension which leads to anxiety.
  • Confronting Burnout, Stress and Anxiety
    Some people take a grand vacation to address the problem of exhaustion and boredom. However, it may not be effective in totally eliminating the sense of disillusionment, stress and anxiety. Here are some ways people resort to in dealing with a stressful situation like burnout.
  • 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.
  • Defining the Complexities of Sexual Health
    Awareness of sexual health issues is very important. More than just the abseof the disease or its dysfunction and infirmities, sexual health is also a state of physical, emotional, psychological and social well-being with regards to one's sexuality.
  • 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.
  • Depression Linked With Hyperparathyroidism
    Whether young or old, no one is spared from going down the abyss of depression. Not even research scientist Marlene Belfort who described the experience as being in psychic hell, was able to eat or sleep during the experiment. It was found that psychosis was the scariest aspect of Belfort's depression.
  • Easing the Pain of Sciatica
    Since sciatic nerve pain is caused by a combined pressure and inflammation on the nerve root, sciatic pain relief treatment is generally focused on relieving both the pressure and inflammation through non-surgical treatments and/or surgical methods.
  • 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.
  • Effectively Managing Morning Sickness
    Morning sickness usually lasts throughout the first trimester of pregnancy. To get a relief from its hassle and inconvenience, a combination of lifestyle and dietary
    changes, as well as some alternative approaches, can do the trick.
  • 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.
  • Evolution of Male Birth Control
    While women enjoy a wide range of birth control options for more than four decades now, experts are optimistic with the recent developments in male birth control that within the next few years, male hormonal contraception may finally become a commercial reality.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • FoIP: Changing The Transmission Medium Of Faxing
    Every time you send a fax from a computer, you are actually using a form of FoIP. Also known as Internet faxing, FoIP is a method of sending faxes over the Internet. While VoIP changes the transmission medium of a phone call, in the same way, FoIP changes the transmission medium of faxing.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Habits That Make You Vulnerable To Heart Disease
    Lack of exercise, smoking, and having a poor diet are bad habits that could increase the risk of heart disease. The good news is that death rate is declining steadily by about 40% due largely to improved medical care and widespread public education about risk factors for developing heart ailments.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Keeping the Immune System in a Fighting Mode
    The immune system is a complex web of mechanisms inside the human body designed to protect and defend against millions of invaders such as allergens, bacteria, viruses, and other potentially harmful organisms, collectively known as antigens. Lacking in one or more of the essential nutrients may prevent the immune system from functioning at its peak.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • No Weight Gain With Birth Control Pills
    It's been more than four decades ago since the “Pill” had changed the way a woman's body functions. However, a published review suggested that many women believe in the widespread notion that birth control pills and other forms of hormonal contraceptives cause weight gain.
  • Obesity and the Horrors of Childbirth
    First-time parents experience major attacks of anxiety as the labor and delivery day approaches. While the risk of death from childbirth is very small, more and more American women are dying due to the increasing number of cases of maternal obesity and Caesarean sections.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Overcoming Insomnia Minus the Sleeping Pills
    The condition of having difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep is called insomnia. However, when this problem of falling asleep, maintaining sleep, or experiencing non-restorative sleep occurs on a regular or frequent basis and often for no apparent reason, it becomes chronic insomnia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Pregnancy Loss: Predetermined Or Random Error
    Miscarriage is rarely anyone's fault. Pregnancy loss can be caused by a number of factors that somehow predetermine the outcome from the start of conception. While there may not be any logical explanation at hand, the medical community is able to recognize a few known miscarriage causes, and theories abound with several ongoing research and controversy.
  • Preventing HIV Through Circumcision
    Circumcision is actually a cheap, safe and an early but lifelong protection for your newborn boy against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
    Circumcision can also help prevent penile cancer and various bacterial infections.

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