Breath sustains life. While it’s possible to go without food and water for a short period of time, you simply can’t survive without air. And while breath is an essential life-sustaining element, the benefits reach even beyond the continuance of life. When you learn about yoga breathing, the mental, physical and spiritual aspects of living [...]
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Headaches are commonly classified under categories such as tension, sinus, migraine, menstrual and cluster among others. Many researchers and doctors are no longer drawing distinct lines between tension and migraine headaches. They may only be different degrees of the same disorder, tension headaches being less severe than migraines. Headaches have been difficult to study [...]
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Why Weight Lifting Delivers Top Health Benefits
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By Vince DelMonte
While some individuals are strictly interested in obtaining muscle for aesthetics, for most people, this isn’t an interest. Instead, you’re more interested in knowing what health benefits weight lifting will have for you…
Far too many people overlook the many health and fitness benefits [...]
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By Keith Goh
The Stroke of Destruction
Strokes are both common and preventable: 80 percent of strokes are preventable. Recognizing the symptoms and acting fast to get medical attention can help save lives and limit ensuing disabilities a stroke victim may suffer.
In medical jargon, a stroke is a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and it occurs when a [...]
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By Cory Quirino, Philippine Daily Inquirer
SCIENTIFIC knowledge is out there but is not being translated into clinical settings, according to Bill Faloon, editor of Life Extension Magazine based in the United States.
Medicine today is challenged to focus on prevention rather than just cure, teach patients to be more cooperative with their doctors, and seek [...]
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Martin Muehlensiep, sleep expert
Can’t sleep? There are one or two things to avoid if you want a really restful night.
It’s 3 a.m., pitch dark and you can’t sleep. How can you survive the next day after being awake so long the night before? Difficulty sleeping is a common problem, but there are ways to [...]
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Health News by: T. Sima Gunawan
Source: The Jakarta Post
Nobody likes being stressed out, but sometimes it seems inevitable. Stress may attack us now and then, especially if we live in a big city like Jakarta, where everybody seems to be in a constant rush.
The harder we work, the higher the stress level is. We all [...]
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Here’s help on how to stay calm.
Fear and anxiety are an unavoidable part of life. You may feel anxious before a dental appointment, or when you’re walking alone down a dark street. This kind of anxiety is useful - it can make you more alert or careful. It usually ends soon after you are out [...]
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Everyone’s talking about the age-defying benefits of antioxidants, but do you know what antioxidants are—and how they actually work?
The U.S. Government’s Medline Plus database defines antioxidants as substances that help to protect your cells against the effects of free radicals. Free radicals are molecules produced when your body breaks down food or by environmental sources [...]
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If you’re like most people, you are actively seeking more happiness in your life. But you may be looking in the wrong places, and that may not be your fault. Turn on your TV, read a magazine, or log on to the Internet, and you’re assaulted by a never-ending bombardment of advertising pitches. They’ll [...]
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Monday, November 2, 2009
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