Archive for the 'Health' Category
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or organism. Dietary are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. Dietary may be more or less healthy, right nutrition requires the proper ingestion, absorption of vitamins, mineral, and fuel in the form of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Months ago, I was writing about health promotion and head transplant topics and now here I am again, writing another transplant. The face transplant.
I was reading an article and I was so surprised that even a face transplant is now possible. The procedure, I guess, is quite similar to kidney and liver transplants.
They reported a [...]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Do you want to have a beautiful smile? If so, you should know how to take care of your teeth. We all know that brushing our teeth regularly will prevent tooth decay. But it does not matter many times we brush or loss or how frequent we see our dentists, it is still not [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
A recent study shows that adults with Vitamin D deficiency are more prone to death compared to those with high levels of vitamin D. This is evidence that Vitamin D is very important for health promotion especially in protecting from heart ailments and skin cancer.
When we are exposed to sun, it is the only time [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Here’s something we all could learn from. According to research, our children’s health
and nutrition are badly compromised when we give them junk diet as early as three years
old. Findings show that, by the time they go to school, the damage has already been done
as they emerge the worst-behaved in class and the least to perform [...]
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I work during the night and the only problem I have encountered is staying awake at work. That alone is so hard for me. Maybe I am just starting to adjust my body clock because I used to work during the day for almost 4 months. In order to fight this weakness of mine, [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Stress is an inevitable part of everybody’s lives. We get stressed due to different kinds of situations like work, family problems, personal losses, school assignments, etc. These are just few examples of stress-producing situations that often cause us to experience anxiety attacks. Nevertheless, stress can be reduced if we just know how to manage it.
In [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
It’s funny how smokers never get scared enough to quit when told of the dire effects this filthy habit has on their health. Show them gross pictures or videos that have anything to do with illnesses caused by cigarettes, and chances are, all they’d do is comment on how gross those were, and then go [...]
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Walking is for sissies. Ask any jock out there what they think about walking as regular aerobic exercise and that is likely what you’re gonna hear. Heck, these people probably even scoff at badminton, thinking that it’s a “gay” sport. That it takes a lot of skill, agility, stamina and really strong arms to be [...]
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Have you heard about water birth?
It’s very common to us to hear a home birth and hospital birth, but it’s also possible to have a water birth. When I first heard about it, I was really amazed.
According to my readings, this method is believed to be safer than the standard types of delivery and [...]
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