The most basic of activities have a profound influence on our well-being. Yet it is these very basic activities that are often accorded second, third or last place in our daily lives. It is time to take a good hard look at our daily routines and re-learn the basics that are essential for health and [...]
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Over acidity, which can become a dangerous condition that weakens all body systems, is very common today. It gives rise to an internal environment conducive to disease, as opposed to a pH-balanced environment which allows normal body function necessary for the body to resist disease. A healthy body maintains adequate alkaline reserves to meet emergency [...]
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Quit smoking reason #1: Reduce your risk of lung cancer
Lung cancer accounts for 26 percent of cancer deaths among women reports the Lung Cancer Alliance. Just 50 years ago, lung cancer accounted for only three percent. Though smoking is not the only cause of lung cancer, it can greatly increase your risk of developing this [...]
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Dehydration - “Chronic pains of the body which cannot easily be explained as injury or infection, should first and foremost be interpreted as signals of chronic water shortage in the area where the pain is registered. These pain signals should first be considered and excluded as primary indicators for dehydration of the body before any [...]
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By Pratiek David
Stop Smoking - The days when smoking was considered an attractive habit are long gone. And the era when doctors assured us, via cigarette advertisements, that the future “cancer sticks” were in fact healthy, has become a distant memory.
Yet even today, according to the World Health Organization, almost 15 billion cigarettes are sold [...]
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Diet Soda is seen as an innocuous, harmless beverage that can’t possibly cause any harm to their waistline since it doesn’t have any calories. Think again.
Research published this summer in the medical journal Circulation shows that people who drink more than one soda a day — whether it’s regular or diet — have an almost [...]
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We’re constantly told that everything in our life needs balance – play vs. work, exercising vs. relaxing, veggies vs. chocolate and so on. But how important is that balance? As much as we’d all love to indulge in one thing more than another – usually something that’s more pleasurable and doesn’t require much effort [...]
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WASHINGTON — Eeeww. There’s a zoo full of critters living on your skin - a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest.
Healthy skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than scientists ever knew, says the first big census of our co-inhabitants.
And that’s not a bad thing, said genetics [...]
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By Irwan Lee
An estimated 35 per cent of the world’s populations suffer from halitosis, more commonly known as chronic bad breath.
Bad Breath or also known as Dragon Breath is an embarrassing problem and many of us would have suffered from it at some point in our lives and affects millions of people everyday. Just because [...]
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By Irwan Lee
Poor dental hygiene and not brush your teeth regularly can cause unhealthy teeth, bleeding gum which might boosts the risk of heart attacks and strokes according to researchers at a September 2008 meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin.
According to the World Health Organization, heart disease is the number one killer [...]
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20. May 2010
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