Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
How to Stop a Runny Nose
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Heat Rash Treatment
September 7th, 2011 |Heat rash is a general term used to describe skin problems associated with heat exposure. Excessive sweating leads to clogged pores, which is the most common cause of heat rash. Once the pores are clogged they stop excreting sweat, leading to a flare up. Heat rash occurs most frequently during the summer and in hot humid climates. Most of the time the condition fades on its own, but severe rashes right might require medical attention.
Heat rash is rarely serious, but there are situations when it might be a concern. When babies and young children develop heat rash, parents should…
Gout Treatment
September 7th, 2011 |Gout is caused by a build-up of uric acid crystals in the body’s joints and tissues. It is frequently associated with arthritis and shares many of the same symptoms as arthritis, including swelling and pain. Gout flare-ups are painful and, in some cases, debilitating. Recent medical developments have led to gout treatment via prescription medication, but these are not your only option. There are natural ways to lessen the severity of pain, reduce the length of an attack, and even completely avoid a flare-up.
When an outbreak occurs, it is important to rest, elevate the affected area, and monitor your…
Cold Sore Remedies
September 7th, 2011 |Cold sores are rarely serious, but they are very painful. They occur inside of the mouth or on the lips, and are similar to blisters or canker sores. They are very contagious and are caused by the herpes simplex virus. Cold sores appear as white or red dots or bumps in the mouth and they usually tingle or burn in the days leading up to a full-blown outbrak. There is no cure for cold sores, but there cold sore remedies that reduce the severity and frequency of occurrence.
The pain from a cold sore typically lasts about a week. Natural…
Medifast Reviews
June 17th, 2011 |Medifast Reviews
Medifast is a five-step meal replacement diet plan recommended by doctors and nutritionists for a wide range of health concerns. Because Medifast Meals are low in fat content and are created to meet low glycemic index requirements, they are not just safe for people with type 2 diabetes, they are often used by physicians to help treat diabetic patients. Medifast Meals come in gluten-free varieties and a few other special meal plans to meet patient’s weight loss and health needs. Special Medifast Meal plans exist for vegetarians, diabetics, Medifast Meals for teens, seniors, nursing mothers, even people suffering…
What Is a Normal Cholesterol Range?
May 11th, 2011 |A normal cholesterol range is somewhere between 70 and 130 for LDL or bad cholesterol. A normal, healthy total cholesterol score needs to be under 200. HDL cholesterol tends to be to 1/3rd or 1/4th of your total cholesterol score and (in general) the higher this number, the better condition your arterial system is in.
Normal Cholesterol Levels
Below is a list of the normal cholesterol levels for your average person. Any number above the first number posted below tends to be getting into the danger area, often termed “borderline”. Any number above the second number posted in each column…
How Do Pain Killers Work?
May 10th, 2011 |Medicines and drugs known as “pain killers” work in two major and quite different ways: one is to stop the pain signals and the other is to stop the cause of the pain.
How and when each of these occurs should be discussed separately, so I’ll discuss how painkillers works to stop the pain signals, and how the pain killers work to stop the source of the pain.
Painkillers and Headaches
Imagine you have a headache, whether it’s a headache caused from a migraine, a hangover, or simply eye strain. When you have a headache, it’s usually because a blood…
What Is Vitamin K?
May 9th, 2011 |What Is Ketamine?
Vitamin K or Ketamine is a type of vitamin found most often in green leaves which helps human blood in the clotting process. There are three vitamins in the Vitamin K family: phylloquinon, menaquinone, and menadione. These three vitamins’ names usually are shorted to Vitamins K1, K2, and K3.
Taking Vitamin K helps those who have trouble with blood clotting. Ketamine modifies certain proteins which aid in coagulation, which helps in the synthesis of a blood clotting enzyme prothrombin, which is found in the liver. If you are taking blood thinners, you should consult a doctor before…
What Are Fat Replacement Products?
May 1st, 2011 |What Are Fat Replacement Products?
You’re probably more familiar with fat replacement products than you think. Any time you drink low-fat milk (1%, 2%, etc.) you are consuming a fat replacement product of some kind. In low-fat milk, fat replacement products are inserted to take the place of the fat that is removed. Without something to replace the fat that is taken out, the milk would have a strange consistency, mouth-feel, and taste.
Fat replacement products, also known as fat replacers, can take the place of carbohydrates, proteins, or fat based, not just fat. The only requirement is that they…
How to Get Rid of Pimples Overnight
April 28th, 2011 |How to Get Rid of Pimples Overnight
You’ve got a big date on Saturday–it’s Friday night and you’ve got a giant volcano of a pimple on your face. What to do?
Thankfully, you’re not the first person in the world to have to deal with a problem pimple in less than twenty-four hours. Follow this simple plan to get rid of your pimples while you snooze.
1. Wash your face with an acne soap. Use the soap of your choice, something like Clearasil. For people with really oily skin, two washes may work better. Be careful when it is time…
What Is Aloe Vera Gel?
April 20th, 2011 |What Is Aloe Vera Gel?
Aloe vera is the scientific name of the plant known as “true aloe” or “medicinal aloe.” The plant form of aloe vera is a succulent, meaning it is a plant that stores water. These plants usually thrive in dry areas where retaining water is a survival tactic. Other types of succulent plants include pitcher plants and most species of cacti.
Aloe vera is prized in many cultures because of its uses in natural remedies. Reportedly, aloe vera and the extracts from the aloe vera plant can be used to treat wounds, burns, minor skin infections, certain types of…
What Are DUI Checkpoints?
April 19th, 2011 |What Are DUI Checkpoints?
You may have seen them on the highways and byways of America especially during high-traffic times, late at night, or during the holidays. In general, DUI checkpoints are regular points along high-traffic roads that allow police and other peace officers to examine drivers to make sure they aren’t driving in an impaired state.
DUI checkpoints take many forms–some are simply patrol cars checking speed and safety, and pulling over drivers who appear to be impaired for a closer check. Other checkpoints are more invasive–all cars travelling along a certain stretch of road must pull over and…
What Are 8 Pack Abs? How Do You Get 8 Pack Abs
April 18th, 2011 |What Are 8 Pack Abs? How Do You Get 8 Pack Abs
Ab muscles are the holy grail of abdominal workouts. You could even go one step further and say that a good set of ab muscles is the ultimate goal of most people’s entire workout plans. Sure, people will say that the goal of their workout routine is to be “physically fit” or “healthy”, but really they want that sexy 6 pack and the respect and attention it gets them.
Well-defined ab muscles have a specific appearance that gives them the nickname “6 pack”–if you look at the photo…
Who Is Tony Horton?
March 25th, 2011 |One of the popular names and well-known faces in fitness today belongs to Tony Horton. Born in Westerly, Rhode Island on July 2nd, 1958, he is the man behind Power 90 Extreme, a home exercise system developed in conjunction with Beachbody. Despite the fact that he always wanted to be an actor, it became clear in the 1980s that fitness was his calling.
Getting Into Exercise
If you have searched online for a Bowflex dumbbells review, Tony Horton’s name probably comes up quite often because his program is literally the talk of the fitness world but he certainly wasn’t always…
Who Is Weight Watchers?
March 20th, 2011 |Weight Watchers is a name that has been synonymous losing weight and getting fit for years now. So it should come as no surprise to find out that there are millions of people that swear by this program as a great way to lose weight. A lot of people may wonder where Weight Watchers got its start; so here we’ll have a look at where the company came from and how they are doing nowadays.
September 1961
It was at this date in Queens, NY that Jean Neditch first conceived of what would eventually become Weight Watchers. Jean weighed about…
Who is Medifast?
March 17th, 2011 |The 1970s through the 1980s was a time of plenty for the weight loss and fitness industries. A fad diet was born every time you turned around and we all went out and bought an exercise mat. Dr. William Vitale, on the other hand, tried something different. In 1980, Dr. Vitale created a diet plan one could only get prescribed from their doctor called Medifast.
In the Beginning
Medifast was quickly picked up doctors by doctors and distributed to overweight patients. It was a true success story; so successful, in fact, that Medifast could pick up new properties and evolve…
Who is Nutrisystem?
March 16th, 2011 |If you are looking to get fit, you’ve probably thought about what kind of dietary changes you need to make and you’ve probably stumbled across Nutrisystem during your research. If you want to know more about this successful weight loss program, you’ve come to the right place.
In 1971, Harold Katz was sitting around in his native Philadelphia and had an idea after seeing his mother’s weight loss struggles. Katz had no college degree or other nutritionist training, yet he founded a weight loss program that broke commonly-held preconceptions about fitness by focusing on not only a low calorie diet,…
What Is Potassium Iodide?
March 15th, 2011 |Should I Take Potassium Iodide due to Japanese Radiation?
Potassium Iodide is a chemical compound used in industry, as an additive to salt for health reasons, for pharmaceutical applications, and for the protection of the Thyroid during medical treatment and nuclear accidents.
This last application is why so many people on the American and Canadian west coast have begun buying potassium iodide from stores, in fear that radiation from the leaking radiation plant in Japan might cause radiation poisoning in them and their families.
On March 11, 2011, a rare megathrust earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. The earthquake,…
Subway Coupons
February 5th, 2011 |Subway Coupons, Promotions, and Discounts in 2011
Subway has over 22,000 franchises nationwide, so you can use your Subway coupons and coupon codes in just about any town in America. If you lay off too much of their non-fat sauces, Subway is a healthy way to eat fast. Once again, avoid the Creamy Italian dressing, which is my favorite.
Subway used to offer good, cheap sandwiches, but prices have risen over the past 10 to 15 years for Jared’s favorite fast-food chain. These days, a 12-inch sub, chips, and a fountain drink are going to cost you $8 to $9…
What Is a Pedometer?
January 28th, 2011 |What Is a Pedometer?
A pedometer is an electronic device which keeps track of how many steps a person has walked, jogged, or ran. More expensive pedometers calculates the approximate number of calories you’ve burned, the distance in kilometers or miles you’ve traveled, and the amount of time you’ve been walking.
Is a Pedometer Accurate?
There’s some debate about the degree of accuracy electronic step-counting devices have, so the key word in my description above is “approximate”. A pedometer gives you a pretty good idea of how far you’re traveled, how many calories you burn while you exercise, and the…
What Is Nicotine Gum?
January 24th, 2011 |Nicotine Gum Facts
Nicotine gum is a type of chewing gum which contains the stimulant nicotine. When chewing this gum, the nicotine is absorbed into the body through the tongue, where it enters the bloodstream.
Nicotine gum is used by smokers who are trying to quit smoking, since this dosage of the stimulant continues to offer the former smoker the same “nicotine high” they got from cancer-causing cigarettes, cigars, pipe smoking, or chewing tobacco.
Nicotine gum is offered over-the-counter in many nations, including the United States of America and Europe. Some jurisdictions allow nicotine gum to be sold off-the-shelf, often…
What Is Wii Fit?
January 23rd, 2011 |What Is Wii Fit?
Wii Fit is a video game designed by the Nintendo company for their Nintendo Wii video game console. Wii Fit is a fitness game, designed to lead players through an exercise program. The Wii Fit has been a tremendous success, selling the third-most copies of any console game in video game history (22.6 million and counting).
How Does Wii Fit Work?
Playing the Wii Fit game requires use fo the Wii Balance Board, a specially designed “platform peripheral”. The Wii Balance Board looks quite similar to a step-up body scale people use to measure themselves in…
How to Select a Lift Chair
January 19th, 2011 |When you first begin searching for your lift chair, chances are you’ll find yourself swimming in a huge industry that offers countless options for mobility challenged adults. Don’t let this intimidate you. The benefits from purchasing a lift chair are well worth the research and money you’ll invest in your chair. When you buy a lift chair, you’re not only investing in a piece of furniture that will give you increased independence. You’re investing in your own health and wellness. You deserve only the best chair for your body.
Body Size
The first and most important factor to help guide…
What is a Chair Lift: New Options for Limited Mobility Adults
January 18th, 2011 |Many adults have never heard of a lift chair, especially if they’ve never worked with mobility limited adults before. Some automatically think of a lift chair as a van lift to transport wheelchairs or a chair that lifts people up stairways. On the contrary, lift chairs are chairs that slowly rise and sink in an arching motion to provide comfortable recliners for adults who cannot sit down or stand up comfortably. Such disability is often independent of age and is commonly seen in adults who have rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or osteoporosis.
Enabling Independence
Lift chairs are wonderful because they allow…
What Is a Wheel Chair Lift?
January 12th, 2011 |There’s no doubt that wheelchairs revolutionized the ability of disabled and sick to be independent and mobile. Especially so the motorized wheelchair has become a staple for disabled adults to live full and healthy lives. As chairs become more complex and more mobile, the need for our buildings to adapt to the needs of disabled adults continues to decline. However, one thing that will always be needed for most wheelchair-bound adults is the use of a wheelchair lift.
In essence, a wheelchair lift is a mechanical mechanism that’s designed to lift a wheelchair and its operator above a step, rough…
Nicoderm Coupons
January 5th, 2011 |Nicoderm Coupons
Nicoderm and Nicoderm CQ are transdermal patches used for smoking cessation. “Transdermal” simply means that the medicine passes directly through the skin and doesn’t require the user to ingest or inject the medication. Nicoderm patches are placed anywhere that skin is bare (preferably non hairy) and clean and dry. The Nicoderm CQ patch provides a measured dose of nicotine to help smokers who are trying to quit give up the habit and get over their nicotine cravings.
Nicoderm was approved by the FDA in 1991 and has since been used by millions of people to help them quit…
What Is Diabetes?
December 25th, 2010 |What Is Diabetes?
Diabetes (fancy name: diabetes mellitus) is a common metabolism disorder. The word “metabolism” refers to the way the human body uses the food you eat to produce energy and cause cellular growth. During metabolism, most of the food you eat is broken down into a chemical called “glucose”. Glucose is essentially the type of sugar that is found in our bloodstream–glucose sugars are the main source of fuel in the human body.
As our food is digested, glucose is supposed to make its way into the bloodstream. Cells use this glucose sugar for energy, but glucose cannot…
What Is Depression?
December 24th, 2010 |What Is Depression?
You may think of depression as that “down feeling” you get when something goes wrong. True clinical depression is an illness, a sensation felt over the whole body.
Depression makes your body hurt, affects your mood, clouds your thoughts, and affects pretty much every other facet of your life. People suffering from depression have trouble with the basic functions of life–eating is disordered, sleep is impossible, and just thinking or trying to use logic becomes difficult.
A true depressive disorder is far different from a “bad mood.” Many of us get a little bit blue when life…
What Is Cancer?
December 23rd, 2010 |What Is Cancer?
Cancer is an entire class of diseases involving uncontrolled cellular growth.
In cancer, cells display this enormous amount of growth by dividing well beyond normal amounts. This “invasion” of the body destroys or damages nearby tissue. In the worst cases, cancer involves cell growth in “metastasis”, or a spreading of these fast-growing cells throughout the body, usually via lymph nodes or through the blood.
Don’t confuse cancer with “tumors” in general–most tumors are benign, meaning they don’t destroy other tissue and don’t spread throughout the body. Benign tumors do not invade or harm the body and are…
How to Stop OCD
December 18th, 2010 |How to Stop OCD
OCD is a disorder marked by obsessive though, impulsive action, anxiety, and irrational thoughts and behaviors. Everyone has an intrusive thought now and again–even having a song stuck in your head is a kind of obsessive thought. People with OCD suffer from terrible obsessions that cause them to act on negative impulses. The difference between a person with OCD and a person who has a random intrusive thought is that OCD sufferers deal with obsessive thought on a nearly constant basis and have formed physical or mental coping mechanisms to deal with the stress caused by…
How to Get Rid of Razor Burn
December 16th, 2010 |Getting Rid of Razor Burn Symptoms
If you have sensitive skin, then you probably already know what razor burn symptoms are like. Usually razor burn is exemplified by some of the following symptoms:
- A red rash
- Bumps on your skin
- Infected pores
- Pimples
- Blisters
- Itchiness
The itchy part is often the worst symptom of all. Razor burn varies in severity. Sometimes it persists for a week or more. Other times it’s gone within two hours or less.
Who Is Prone to Razor Burn?
If you shave, you might experience razor burn. The more sensitive your skin, the more…
How to Treat Pink Eye
December 14th, 2010 |A buddy of mine once had pink eye, so I can attest to the fact that it’s a real handful. That’s why I’ve put together this article on how to treat pink eye. If you’re unfortunate enough to get it, I sincerely hope that the tips and suggestions listed below will allow you to recover as fast as possible with the least amount of discomfort.
What Is Pink Eye?
Before we can discuss how to treat pink eye, we need to know exactly what we’re dealing with. Pink eye, also known as conjunctivitis, occurs when the mucous membrane that lines…
How To Remove a Stye
December 14th, 2010 |How To Remove a Stye from Your Eye
A stye (sometimes spelled “sty”) is small pimple-like spot that almost always appears on the eyelid. Styes are caused by the infection of glands on the eye lids (sebaceous glands) caused by the presence of a single bacteria–Staphylococcus.
When the Staph bacteria clogs a pore in the skin on the eyelid, the first symptom most people experience is irritation. The infected eye “feels” like there is something in it. Most people who are experiencing a stye for the first time attempt to “wash out” their eye multiple times before giving…
How to Stop Obsessive Thoughts
December 13th, 2010 |How to Stop Obsessive Thoughts
You may think of “obsessive thoughts” as the domain of the mentally ill, but according to psychologists, as many as 9 in 10 people in the world suffer from it. So called “intrusive thoughts” cause repetitive behaviors that run the gamut from crippling to merely annoying. Those diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder suffer from a very unhealthy form of obsessive thoughts–most people with thought intrusions don’t have obsessions that take over their lives.
Repetitive action is used by the body as a defensive mechanism against intrusive thoughts. Depending on the severity of the obsessive thought…
What Causes Constipation?
December 8th, 2010 |What Causes Constipation?
Constipation means irregular or infrequent movement of the bowels. People don’t like to talk about constipation, so sometimes it is hard to find information about this gastrointestinal problem.
Constipation is completely normal, as long as it isn’t chronic, or happening all the time. Everyone will get constipated at some point in their life, and as much as 2% of the US population deals with chronic (or constant) constipation.
Constipation is the most common digestive problem in the United States, more common than diarrhea or vomiting. Constipation makes a person feel bloated, have terrible headaches, act irritable, and…
What Causes Cold Sores?
December 8th, 2010 |What Causes Cold Sores to Break Out in Your Mouth?
Cold sores are embarrassing, even painful. There’s lots of rumors about cold sores, their cause and effects, and how cold sores are contracted. Let’s take a look at the causes of cold sores.
Cold Sore Causes
Cold sores are caused by one of the two herpes simplex viruses–the most common cause of common cold sores around the mouth is what is known as “herpes simplex type 1″, or HSV-1.
Not everyone with cold sores around the mouth have HSV-1. It isn’t common, but some people develop HSV-2 sores on the…
What Causes Bad Breath?
December 7th, 2010 |What Causes Bad Breath in Adults and in Children?
Bad breath has a fancy medical name–halitosis. Bad breath has a few common causes, but for the most part it happens when a person has poor dental hygiene. In some rare cases, bad breath is a symptom of another disease and is not caused by poor hygiene at all but by something organic in the body. Then there is everyday bad breath that anyone gets from eating certain foods, smoking, or other bad habits.
Foods that Cause Bad Breath
Don’t worry about avoiding garlic, onions, or other “stinky” foods.…
What Causes Breast Cancer?
December 7th, 2010 |What Causes Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer is the most common malignant cancer in women, taking the lives of about 40,000 women a year in America alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are an average of nearly 200,000 women living with breast cancer on any given day in America. Breast cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, with only lung cancer killing more women than breast cancer. So what causes breast cancer?
Researchers do not agree about the root causes of breast cancer. Let’s look at a few possible causes of breast cancer, risk factors, and other things…
What Causes Bed Bugs?
December 6th, 2010 |What Causes Bed Bugs?
An explosion in the bed bug population in America over the past year has led people to wonder–what causes bed bugs? No venue is safe from the infestation, as chic upscale boutiques in Manhattan are affected just as much as rundown low-rent apartment buildings. So what causes bed bugs, anyway?
Forget what you think you know about bed bugs. The first thing most people assume when they hear about a home infested with bed bugs is that the home must be filthy. In reality, there is no connection between bed bugs and a dirty environment.
What…
What Causes Acne?
December 6th, 2010 |What Causes Acne Breakouts in Adults?
Acne is a common skin condition that affects most of us at some point in our lives. While most acne sufferers are teenagers, people of all ages can develop acne.
The biggest myth about acne is that it is caused by poor hygiene or a bad diet. While both poor hygiene and not eating right can contribute to acne, they are not directly related to the root problem that causes acne.
Acne shows up when the body produces too much oil. This oil comes from oil glands in the skin. This oil is meant…
How to Get Rid of Flies
December 2nd, 2010 |How to Get Rid of Flies in the House
Flies are annoying little pests that seem to gather in the least convenient places. They’re hard to get rid of–simply killing a few flies won’t get rid of your fly infestation.
Flies gather at certain spots because they love filth. Flies are attracted to garbage, dirt, blood, and poop. Flies like to get inside people’s homes because our houses are like twenty-four hour buffets of filth. That’s why it’s so common to find flies around garbage or standing water in the home, and it is why they’re so hard…
How to Lose Weight in a Week
November 25th, 2010 |How to Lose Weight in a Week
Most doctors will tell you that a diet takes time, and that the amount of weight you can lose in the first week of a diet is somewhere in the neighborhood of five pounds, depending on your body size and type.
Losing weight in just a week is difficult because changing your habits enough to see weight loss after just seven days can be really tough. Here are three diet plans said to help you lose tons of weight in under a fortnight.
Calorie Restriction
Though it isn’t really “a diet”, restricting…
What Is a Perforated Bowel?
November 9th, 2010 |What Is a Perforated Bowel?
A perforated bowel is a medical condition in which a hole or gap forms in the wall of any part of the gastro-intestinal system. That system is made up of the small intestine, large intestine, and stomach. These holes form for various reasons, and lead to food or stools passing into the abdomen, resulting in inflammation and infection. Perforated bowel complications can cause infection in the blood, internal bleeding, and other problems that ultimately lead to death if left untreated. Timely treatment is required to avoid the potentially life-threatening consequences of a perforated bowel.
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How to Stop Biting Your Fingernails
November 8th, 2010 |How to Stop Biting Your Fingernails
Nail biting is a habit born out of anxiety. We’re not talking about the kind of heart-pounding, gut-wrenching, wake-up-at-3-AM type of anxiety that requires medication and counseling — for the most part, nail biters’ anxiety is reduced to little things. Everyday anxiety that we all have when speaking in public or making a difficult decision.
As a fingernail biter myself, I know the ugly side of nail biting. I’ve had all sorts of symptoms caused by nail biting, from upset stomach to infected nail beds. Fighting the urge to bite your nails is difficult…
What Is Wheat Germ?
November 5th, 2010 |What Is Wheat Germ?
Wheat germ is huge in the “natural foods” and health food market. Every health food store worth its salt substitute stocks endless products that have wheat germ as an ingredient. Wheat germ is considered one of the most nutritional natural foods in the world. Doctors tell us that wheat germ contains 23 different nutrients, meaning that it contains more nutrients per ounce than any other vegetable or grain.
What Nutrients Does Wheat Germ Contain?
Wheat germ is a “complete protein“, meaning it contains all nine essential amino acids that your body uses to create protein. As…
What Is a Workout Playlist?
November 4th, 2010 |What Is a Workout Playlist?
A workout playlist is exactly what it sounds like — a list of music ideal for the gym. Working out is hard, but by playing music that gets you going, music that you love, and tunes that inspire you to push your workout to the next level.
So what goes into an ideal workout playlist?
Good Dance Music for Working Out
Ever notice that those ultra-cheery workout mavens on TV are always listening to some generic thumping dance music? Lots of bass and very little in the way of music? They use that music because…
What Is Gluten?
November 3rd, 2010 |What Is Gluten?
Gluten is a kind of special protein molecule that is really common in our food supply — grains like rye, wheat, and barley are full of gluten. Because of this, gluten is found in almost every variety of bread, cereal, or grain — in fact, most types of bread contain gluten. The exceptions to the gluten rule are wild rice, corn, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, quinoa, teff, soybeans, oats, and sunflower seeds. Breads or products made from these grains contain no gluten.
When Is Gluten “Bad?”
So what’s the big deal about gluten, anyway? People who avoid gluten…
How Much Water Should I Drink Daily?
November 2nd, 2010 |How Much Water Should I Drink Daily?
How much water should I be drinking? Not even our vast knowledge of the human body helps us out here — we mapped the human genome but we still don’t know exactly how much water a person “should” drink every day. Different studies release different numbers, and some doctors now think that each person’s essential water needs are different. So how much water should we be drinking? Let’s look at a few different takes.
What Does Water Do For Us?
So you know you need water but you don’t know why. Remember that…
How to Treat Flea Bites on Humans
October 30th, 2010 |How to Treat Flea Bites on Humans
Humans can be targets of flea attacks just as easily as dogs. Fleas use their powerful jaws to cut through human skin and pump in anticoagulant chemicals through their saliva to keep the blood flowing. Fleas are capable of jumping over a foot and don’t care what they bite as long as it draws blood. Fleas are capable of transmitting disease, from typhus to bubonic plague as well as the larvae of tapeworm and other parasites. These flea bites itch — and scratching that itch can easily lead to a serious infection.
Flea…
How to Lose Water Weight
October 28th, 2010 |How to Lose Water Weight
Water weight refers to excess weight on your body due to stored water. When you retain extra water, you feel “bloated”, and as your wrists, hands, ankles, and feet swell (not to mention your face) your weight is going through the roof. The strange thing about losing water weight is that the easiest cure is simply to drink more water — sounds counter-productive, but it is true.
Your body takes on extra water weight when you get dehydrated or your body thinks you may be getting dehydrated. Your body is retaining water as a counterattack…