Archive for August, 2010

  • Sun Light – Your Buddy or Foe
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    Sun Light – Your Buddy or Foe
    Sun has supported life on our planet since ages and also venerated in multiple cultures due to its myriad curative and restorative properties. However, in recent times, majority of the individuals are in fact fearful of sun exposure due to reasons like being causal to skin cancer and untimely aging. The so-dubbed impact of exposure to the sun’s rays being overly embellished by physicians, beauty specialists and those in businesses of vending sunscreen & age-defying products has resulted in sun, the innate potent life-giver being wrongly reputed as nature’s detrimental forces. Still, figures reveal that nearly a million individuals face death and develop grave ailments yearly due to dearth of sunlight exposure. This must not be misinterpreted  [...]
    Posted at August 30th, 2010 in Health Tips
  • Brewed Versus Bottled Green Tea – Making the Best Health Choice
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    Brewed Versus Bottled Green Tea – Making the Best Health Choice
    With the soaring temperatures it is not surprising to spot chilled bottled beverages being chugged down in profuse quantities. For the health fanatics, several of these drinks have or are made from green tea which has an indisputable reputation of proffering myriad health benefits. Green tea is touted to help reduce the risk for wide-ranging ailments caused either by bacteria or virus, unceasing de-generative health problems like heart ailment, cancers, stroke, RA (rheumatoid arthritis), diabetes among many others. However, beverage consumers need to understand a vital point that green tea preparation is not the same in every case and the key lies in the manner that it has been brewed. Green tea is the one which has undergone the least extent  [...]
    Posted at August 26th, 2010 in Health News
  • Obesity in Women – No effect on Birth Control Pill Effectiveness
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    Obesity in Women – No effect on Birth Control Pill Effectiveness
    Study investigators have uncovered that till the time oral birth control pills are used with consistency, overweight or obese women have the analogous risk of getting pregnant similar to their normally weighing counterparts. During a RCT (randomized controlled study), ovulation deterrence was ‘sizeable and equivalent’ amongst those who consistently used contraceptive pills, irrespective of how much they weighed, as per information provided by the researchers from the Columbia Univ. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Doctor Carolyn Westhoff along with study associates disputed this outcome in the latest edition of the journal ‘Obstetrics & Gynaecology’ which would finally put to rest apprehensions about oral birth control pills being  [...]
    Posted at August 23rd, 2010 in Birth Control, Health News
  • Recurrent Headaches and Pitiable Lifestyle – Chummy Twosomes
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    Recurrent Headaches and Pitiable Lifestyle – Chummy Twosomes
    Norwegian scientists noted that in almost six thousand teens in the age band of thirteen to eighteen years of age they evaluated, those with overweight issues, inactive existence and smokers had a greater likelihood of citing recurring headaches in the last year – inclusive of migraine as well as prevalent tension-form of headache. The outcomes appearing in ‘Neurology’ do not reveal if these lifestyle behaviours might augment the likelihood of teen to develop regular headaches in the foremost instant. However, they increase the likelihood that when factors like weight issues, inactivity and smoking are addressed then they could aid in preventing or managing headache issues, according to senior scientist, doctor John Anker Zwart from Oslo  [...]
    Posted at August 19th, 2010 in Headache's & Treatments, Lifestyle
  • Are Cancer Imposters Despos or Psychopaths?
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    Are Cancer Imposters Despos or Psychopaths?
    It is a common tale – individuals reaching to buddies and kin on ‘Facebook’ or on blogs for professing they are victims of cancer and require aid to pay for therapies or their final wish. These pals and kin members then start reaching out to many more people and then contributions start to pour in. However it turns out that several of such individuals are not really ill and presently stand indicted of telling lies regarding sickness for conning individuals out of cash. Twenty-three year old Ashley Kirilow is one such of the scores of suspected persons responsible for tricking people. Her dad came clean about his daughter on a famed morning news program ‘Good Morning America’. Mr. Kirlow stated that his daughter did in fact post a message  [...]
    Posted at August 16th, 2010 in Health News
  • Pain Relief Patches Gain Ground in the United States
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    Pain Relief Patches Gain Ground in the United States
    Clinicians state that pain allaying patches, commonly chosen as opposed to oral pain relievers outside the United States could assist its residents in avoiding discomforting or unsafe side-effects which mostly arise due to the intake of aspirin and several tablets. In the United States, pain patches are obtainable as OTC (over-the-counter) intended for direct application to the pain-ridden area of the body. They function by releasing medicine which is taken up by the skin for close to twelve hours. Since the medicine does not pass via the digestive track hence carries a lesser risk of causing abdominal, liver or intestinal distress. Unpleasant episodes linked to oral OTC pain relievers include side-effects and over-dosages which account for  [...]
    Posted at August 12th, 2010 in Health News
  • Savoury Salubrious Fenugreek
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    Savoury Salubrious Fenugreek
    Across the world, certain spices are used in almost all cuisines. Spices are known to flavor foods thus enhancing taste as well as health. The culinary world is replete with a plethora of herbs and spices that add charm to our delicacies. From a bountiful of spices, only a few are used worldwide. Fenugreek is one such herb cum spice that is used all across the world. Foods acquire an amazing taste once herbs are added. The seeds of this herb in varying tones of yellow and amber are used as a spice. Since this herb is available all across the world, it has been baptized with every different region. Known as the magic mantra in Indian cuisine, it is added to numerous dishes. They are added to flavor pickles, curry pastes, and curry powder. It  [...]
    Posted at August 9th, 2010 in Diet & Nutrition
  • Dicey Skin Whitening Products Flourish Globally
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    Dicey Skin Whitening Products Flourish Globally
    Being fair is a common hang-up among major populaces of Indians. This obsession impels scores of females to flock to stores for procuring skin whitening products. Fairness advertisements manage to strike a delicate chord on the conviction held across cultures that lighter-skinned people are deemed more beautiful and able to seize better jobs, mint more bucks and are seen as part of an upper class. Indian males harbour the same thought process and many moms do not wish their daughter or daughter-in-law to have a darkish skin tone. Similar to self tanning products types thriving in N. America and European regions, skin lighteners hold cultural relevance in Asian countries. According to the investigative company, Global Industry Analysts, the global  [...]
    Posted at August 5th, 2010 in Beauty & Skin Care, Health News
  • Yoga poses for PMS
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    Yoga poses for PMS
    Almost ninety percent of women across the globe ail from pre- menstrual problems. Pre- menstrual syndrome is the most agonizing phase and essentially draws down the confidence of facing a menstrual cycle. Menstrual cycles actually drain out vast amounts of energy from a female’s body. Excessive loss of blood during menstrual cycle is accountable for the woes of women and is causal to immense stress and traumas. This condition could mallet a woman’s physical as well as mental wellbeing. To overcome all such conditions, it is necessary that a woman possesses a strong body as well mind. This is possible by pay attention to proper nutrition and healthy diet on a daily basis. It is important to consume good amount of nutritional diet for restoring  [...]
    Posted at August 2nd, 2010 in General Health, Health Tips
  • Gastric Bands for Teenagers – Gauging the Safety and Effectiveness Quotient
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    Gastric Bands for Teenagers – Gauging the Safety and Effectiveness Quotient
    The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is lately taking into consideration expanding standards on gastric bands for including people in their adolescence (fourteen to seventeen years of age). Presently, the method has lawful approval for usage in weight loss for morbidly obese adult populaces in the ages of eighteen years or more. However, latest research findings have indicated that gastric banding, like Lap-Band has shown success in assisting teenagers with severe obesity issues. The risk of adults facing death as a result of weight reduction surgery has dropped to less than one percent in the current years. But, researches done on teens that underwent such methods are uncommon. A scientific study, printed in the initial part of 2010 in the  [...]
    Posted at August 1st, 2010 in Health News, Health Tips