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  • A Simple Act of Hand Washing Can Go a Long, Long Way!
    Hand washing is the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection and disease such as pneumonia. Pneumonia is the leading killer of children under age 5 worldwide, hence, hand washing is recommended in avoiding this deadly disease. With this simple act, and if to be practiced properly, hand washing has a lot of remarkable benefits.
  • Sexual Health and Society
    Among the various possible topics for research and study in the world, sex seems to consistency be among the top contenders. The increasing interest in all sorts of sex-related topics in both the academic and artistic world has sometimes come under fire for being unhealthy or exploitative.
  • A Look at the Thalidomide Tragedy
    During pregnancy, doctors advise their patients to be extremely careful in taking medications for fear of causing harm to the unborn child. Some drugs can cause birth defects or death in a fetus. One example of this is the tragedy of thethalidomide babies.
  • Gastritis: A Brief Overview
    This article is about Gastritis. It is a medical condition wherein the stomach lining is irritated or inflamed by gastric juices. The stomach is protected by a mucus lining designed to shield from digestive acids. Gastritis is caused any of the following factors: bacterial infection, alcohol consumption, medications, bile reflux, or other medical conditions.
  • Yearning for Effective Relief from Heartburn
    This article tackles a specific health condition which is heartburn. People, whether old or young, experience this condition and often results in pain in the end. Medications for this condition are already available, such as antacids. Today, a new medication for heartburn is introduced.
  • Surviving The Serpent's Kiss
    Snakes are a common species of reptile, easily found in nearly every environment that humans can survive in. While not all snakes are venomous, it is generally accepted that any snake that bites has some measure of venom. The effects of various snake venoms differ, but the standard procedure for dealing with them always involves attempting to minimize the damage before help arrives.
  • Paper Era: Gone?
    This article tackles on fax machines and its history. From its inventor to his successors, fax machines have entered the communication realm during the seventies. The article then describes how the fax machine works, and how it sends its messages to another. With Internet governing more communications technology, faxing is made digital with the use of Internet faxing.
  • The Science Behind The Torment
    According to a recently completed study, the old myth that women are better suited to handle pain may not entirely be true. The researchers have gathered data that implies that women have a lower pain tolerance than men. It also implied that hormonal levels, particularly estrogen, seemed to have an effect on just how much pain a person feels.
  • The Skinny on Anorexia
    This article is about anorexia nervosa. This article presents a brief statistical figure of girls and women who have anorexia. Like bulimia, anorexia is characterized by a stern fear of becoming fat or being thought of as fat. They just differ in their means of cutting back weight. While bulimic people purge after overeating, anorexic people don’t eat at all. Eating disorders may be brought about by a lot of different factors: society, refusing to grow out of puberty, and having different stressful situations in the past. Anorexia also brings about a lot of side effects ranging from physical to psychological. The best way to prevent children from developing anorexia is to lead by example and expose them to healthy food and a healthy eating habit.
  • The Positive Side of Stress
    Stress, like fear and rage, are always taken in a negative light by most people.However, after being analyzed rationally, stress can be used as a way to help someone prioritize tasks and keep someone from slacking off. Like fear and rage, moderate levels of stress can actually be used to direct someone positively.
  • The Science Behind the Terror
    Despite the fact that fear is among the few truly universal aspects of the human psyche, there is very little that we understand about how it works biologically. Research is currently underway to determine the chemical and genetic factors behind fear, with the hope of gaining a better understanding of it and how to help people struggling with phobias.
  • It’s Hard To Say Goodbye: Quitting Smoking
    This article is about smoking and how difficult it is to quit smoking. Smoking has been used since the ancient times, mostly for religious rituals. It wasn’t until the era of the European conquests that smoking was introduced as a social activity to the civilized masses. Smoking is difficult to quit because of the addicting quality of nicotine to the body. Gradually lessening the nicotine intake may help start the quitting process. However, if natural methods fail, there are stop-smoking products available in the market like: nicotine patches and gums that help supply for the body’s nicotine fits without using cigarettes.
  • Warming-up and Stretching: Routines that Have Taken the Backseat
    The article talks about the importance of pre-workout activities like warming-up and stretching. Sometimes people who exercise are too preoccupied by the workout regimen itself that they have forgotten the important things that should be done before undergoing intense or moderate physical activity.
  • Circuit Training: The Best Workout for Today's Busy Lifestyle
    Because present-day active and busy lifestyle, many individuals do not have the time to include workouts and nutritious diets in their daily lives. Because of this, countless individuals are seeking ways to improve their health. Circuit training is an exercise program that can perform without consuming too much time.
  • Fathers Dealing with Postpartum Depression
    This article relates the significance of new mothers that deals with postpartum depression. New research studies have shown that fathers can also get depressed after the baby is born. Certain factors contribute to fathers getting postpartum depression, and how this study aims to provide help for those new parents that get depressed.
  • High-Level and Demanding Sports Detrimental To Youth
    High-level tennis and the demand of modern sports can be detrimental to the spine of young people. Serious abnormalities were found to afflict 85% of young people who were part of a study conducted by researchers regarding the effects of these sports during the growth spurt.
  • A Rare Case of Male Breast Cancer
    Breast cancer in men may be rare but it doesn't mean they are no longer susceptible to such condition. Several genes may contribute to breast cancer and based on studies, certain populations with an unusually high proportion of people carrying BRCA2 mutations may have a higher incidence rate of breast cancer in men.
  • Shifty Eyes and Quick Hands: Kleptomania
    Sometimes, the mind forces the body to acquiesce to impulses that it cannot control, such as the case of kleptomania. While a kleptomaniac may be aware of the theft, there are cases when they will not realize such until much later on. Kleptomania is often associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it is actually a form of psychosis and is only rarely connected with OCD.
  • Metabolic Breakdown: Why Some Drugs Might Not Work On You
    Some medications work for some people, but they won't for others. This is accepted as medical fact and is influenced by a number of things, such as dosage, age, and the person's unique drug metabolism. Drug metabolism is the process by which the body breaks down the drugs that go into your system into chemical components, which can either aid or hinder the drug's actual purpose.
  • Is “Daddy” Ready for His Own Pill?
    This article talks about how birth control pills have been used by women throughout the years. These medications allow the woman to have sexual intercourse without the
    worries of getting unwanted pregnancy. Today, several researchers have been studying the use of contraceptives in men.
  • Learning to Breathe Your Way to Health
    The article deals with the importance of proper breathing as a means to get stress relief. The article also discusses how anxiety-ridden modern life is and how important it is to learn a few life skills, such as proper and effective breathing, as a means to maintain mental, emotional, and physical health.
  • Losing Your Memory to Stress
    This article talks about how people normally experience stress and anxiety in their everyday activities. Feelings of stress can cause a number of ill effects such as poor decision-making, irritability, and even memory loss. Prolonged exposure to these stressful situations can cause more permanent and psychological problems to occur.
  • Non-Hormonal Contraceptive On The Horizon
    A new non hormonal contraceptive pill is being developed to avoid the side effects of hormonal birth control methods. The concept of RNA Interference received positive feedback from researchers and scientists. However, the availability of the pill may still be a decade away.
  • Psychosis: The Great Escape
    People sometimes just need to find a way to get away from all the trials and tribulations of life. Sometimes, people turn outwards and embrace temporary fixes for the stress and pressure of modern life, like taking a vacation. However, some people turn their “escapes” inward, which could possibly result in a mental condition known as psychosis.
  • Head Tripping: Common Psychoactive Medications
    As modern medical science begins to better understand how the brain works and how mental illnesses can be treated or suppressed, psychoactive medications are becoming more common. There are several types and can be used to treat several different mental illnesses, but there are a few common strands in the market.
  • When Passion For Fashion Is A Health Menace
    The fashionable supesized bags can be a potential hazard to women's health as an increasing number of “heavy handbag related injuries” prompted chiropractors to seriously consider issuing a medical warning on the use of these huge totes. Carrying heavy bags may lead to back pain, neck injury, and spine fracture.
  • "Breaking Point: The Factors Behind Insanity"
    Insanity is one of those things that most psychological texts attempt to categorize, illustrate, and analyze, but never outright define. Indeed, from some standpoints, insanity and sanity are too relative to the individual and his circumstances to be given any single, all-encompassing definition. There are, however, several key factors to be noted among the various “forms” of insanity known to modern mental health experts.
  • Breaking Point: The Factors Behind Insanity
    Insanity is one of those things that most psychological texts attempt to categorize, illustrate, and analyze, but never outright define. Indeed, from some standpoints, insanity and sanity are too relative to the individual and his circumstances to be given any single, all-encompassing definition. There are, however, several key factors to be noted among the various “forms” of insanity known to modern mental health experts.
  • Break Free from Drug Addiction
    Drug-addiction is a problem ever since. Statistics of drug addiction are very alarming. However, there are treatments and help an addicted person can go to and find ways to cope with this problem and as such breaking a drug addiction may be difficult, but not impossible.
  • Pregnant Women Deserve Only the Very Best
    This article is about pregnant women and how they are when they are pregnant. By taking prenatal vitamins, it would help in reducing health risks for both the mother and the baby. Gaining weight is also important, since this could give the idea that both of you are doing well and healthy. A simple guideline on what to eat and what to avoid is also included in this article.
  • Understanding Mental Health Issues
    Mental health issues can be caused by a lot of factors such biochemical imbalances in the brain, nutrient deficiencies, as well as toxins. It can also be genetics, inability to cope, poor social skills, or a reaction to a negative experience. The anxiety and depression being felt are signs of deeper psychological issues.
  • The Dangers of Overeating and Poor Self-Image
    This article talks about how young women react to the concept of beauty and the various ways they act to attain that value or status of being beautiful. Some have already developed serious psychological disorders such as bulimia due to the social pressure to be“beautiful.” This article also explains bulimia, how women suffer from it, and how counseling can help women overcome this disorder.
  • Carving the Flesh With the Scalpel of Philosophy
    According to some recent studies, it would appear that one's outlook, attitude, and philosophy towards life holds a greater influence on physical well-being and longevity than initially believed. The main theory to explain this is that a positive outlook has a strong influence on mental health and subconscious actions, theoretically leading people away from self-destructive lifestyles. Another is that positive thought has a direct influence on a person's physical being, likely through chemical responses.
  • Hair: Every Woman's Crowning Glory
    The article deals with the importance of hair in both men and women. It also tackles the social significance of hair as well the number of problems encountered by people in caring for their hair. The problem of hair loss and the availability of hair care products and treatments are given emphasis in the article.
  • The Power Of Emotional Health
    It has always been said that a healthy body cannot be divorced from a healthy mind or a healthy spirit. Neglecting your emotional health can damage your physical health in the process. Emotions are so powerful it has the ability to make us sick, as well as provide healing.
  • Beware of What You Puff!
    Smoking seems to be a part of our society. It is addicting that too much of it can cause various illnesses and even death. The smoker is not the only one that is at risk on the bad effects of smoking, but the other people who inhale the smoke that they breathe. This article tackles the ill effects of second-hand smoke.
  • Muscle Cramps: Description, Causes and Treatment
    This article tries to describe the occurrence of muscle cramps among individuals. It also briefly states the various difficulties and other negative effects of this condition. Finally, the causes and possible treatments for this health problem are discussed to gain knowledge on what to avoid and what to do during instances of muscle problems.
  • "Yeast Infection: Description, Causes and Treatment"
    This article discusses the symptoms, dangers, and related health problems of yeast infection. It also discusses the various causes and treatments available for this health problem. Finally, it mentions the importance of knowing these information about this condition relative to the problem's prevention and treatment.
  • Yeast Infection: Description, Causes and Treatment
    This article discusses the symptoms, dangers, and related health problems of yeast infection. It also discusses the various causes and treatments available for this health problem. Finally, it mentions the importance of knowing these information about this condition relative to the problem's prevention and treatment.
  • Alcoholic Drinks and Health Issues
    Alcohol is a depressant that can act as a sedative drug and may slow down the nervous system. In small doses, alcohol can help reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. Alcohol however may do more harm than good if overused. Extremely high doses of alcohol at one time can cause alcohol poisoning which can lead to coma or death.
  • Rock Stars, Music Icons, Alcohol, and Drug Overdose
    The article talks about the unhealthy lifestyles of many music personalities. It says that many of them are involved in excessive use of alcohol and other banned substances. Furthermore, the adverse health effects of excessive use of alcohol and illegal drugs are stated.
  • Direct Response Advertising and Consumer Satisfaction
    The article is about the importance of advertising and the methods of advertising used by many companies to generate sales, develop brand recall, and improve customer satisfaction.
  • Eliminate Junk Faxes with E-faxing
    Junk faxes can be eliminated with the use of Internet faxing or e-faxing. Junk faxes can be deleted because faxes received online goes straight to one's e-mail account. This enables consumers to read or print out necessary fax messages and delete unnecessary ones.
  • Prevention Is Better Than Cure
    This article is about unwanted pregnancy and what causes it. It also includes a brief discussion about contraceptives, abortion, and diseases that are transmitted through sexual intercourse.

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