Health Articles

Health | By Tony James @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 4:25 PM

The main factors which pave way for skin aging are dehydration (loss of water content from the skin tissue), toxins (from a bad food habit), and reduction in oil secretion from glands. The best anti aging skin care approach is a comprehensive one that includes a combination of nutritional supplements, exfoliation, toning, a healthy diet, and exercise. As we grow older our skin tissue regeneration slows down, resulting in aging skin. Wrinkles start to appear under eyes, beside lips and on... more...

Health | By Tony James @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 4:18 PM

Skin aging usually happens due to reduced cell division and regeneration. Today there are various products in the market that treat such skin aging problems, and most of them contain a basic chemical composition that treats skin dehydration, acts as a sunscreen to protect the skin from hyper-formation of vitamin D and encourages the skin tissue to generate collagen and elastin, which reduces the formation of wrinkles. What follows is an overview of what to expect from the best anti aging produc... more...

Health | By Aydan Corkern @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 3:51 PM

There are a few ways that can make your skin age: the sun, smoking, not getting enough sleep, bad diets, and junk food. These can make your skin age and make you look older then what you are. The sun damages your skin making it get wrinkles, lines, and bags and really dark circles under your eyes. So you need to protect your skin as much as possible to prevent this from happening to you. It also can give you sun spots on your skin. It could be on your arms, back, chest, or any other part of your... more...

Health | By Abigail Aaronson @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 3:25 PM

Stretch marks are red or purple lines in the skin, that often turn silvery or white over time. They are the result of rapid weight gain or loss, or from rapid growth of bones and tissues. For women, the most common time for developing them is during pregnancy. Men often develop them during teenage growth spurts, when the arms and legs are growing rapidly and the skin is being stretched intensely to keep up with the growth. And of course, massive weight gain or loss can make them appear on... more...

Health | By Peter Clark @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 2:10 PM

Have you got sensitive skin? Sensitive skin care is an issue for some of us, not for others. But for people with sensitive skin it can be a major issue. Problems for people with sensitive skin include redness, blotchiness, swelling, rashes, dry skin, tightness and general skin irritation. Sensitive skin can be a problem for those with different skin types, including those with oily skin. Here's 5 things that you should be doing for optimum sensitive skin care. 1. Have a... more...

Health | By Aydan Corkern @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 1:45 PM

If you are like most men and women in this country and the world, you might have shaved your face or legs. In some of these times, you can have your skin feel like its on fire. Maybe because it's the first time that you shaved your face or you have worn a beard for so long and your face just isn't used to the kind of razor or you got too close. The skin on women's legs are every sensitive to most types of razors and also the kinds of shaving lotions that they will use. If ... more...

Health | By Garen Arnold @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 1:16 PM

The fastest way to lose weight safely is to speed up your metabolism. Metabolism refers to the process of converting food into energy, and it also affects how quickly you burn that energy off. Some people just naturally have a more sluggish motor that makes keeping excess weight off harder. The fastest way to lose weight is to speed up this process so that you burn off calories as efficiently as possible. What makes a fast metabolism so desirable is that it enables you to burn more calo... more...

Health | By Garen Arnold @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 9:55 AM

When you first start to make healthier food choices and exercise on a regular basis you may be surprised at how fast you see real changes in your body. If you really commit to your program and do everything you are supposed to do, it is even possible to lose 10 pounds in a week. That is more likely to happen if you start out obese and have a lot of weight to lose, but it is possible for some people to actually lose 10 pounds in a week and keep it off long term. When you first start cutti... more...

Health | By Joaquin Costa @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 9:37 AM

Tattoo removal treatments should be done four to eight weeks apart to allow your body to remove the maximum amount of tattoo pigment. Treatment sessions usually only take from 10 to 30 minutes. Tattoo removal is much more expensive than tattoo placement. Laser tattoo removal can range from several hundred dollars up into the thousands of dollars, depending upon the size, type and location of the tattoo and the number of visits required. Tattoo removal provides a relevant context for expl... more...

Health | By Christine OKelly @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 8:53 AM

Traditionally, going to the dentist has meant one of two things: either you needed to have your teeth cleaned and checked for decay or you needed to have something repaired (i.e. a cavity filled, a cap placed, etc.). While some people visited their oral care expert to have braces put on or dentures fitted, most went for reasons of prevention or treatment. Over the past 20 years, the range of services offered by dental professionals has expanded. Today, a cosmetic dentist can provide clients with... more...

Health | By Christine Harrell @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 7:42 AM

If you suffer from severe, embarrassing, excessive sweat, chances are you have already spent a lot of time, money, and effort on several brands that haven't worked. Every brand claims to be the best antiperspirant, but more often than not, the product doesn't live up to the marketing campaign claims. Many people feel as if a medical solution is their only option to prevent sweating excessively. But these procedures can be expensive and invasive. However, there are non-medical s... more...

Health | By Katie Kelley @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 5:55 AM

A study recently published in the journal of Biological Psychiatry has discovered a link between accelerated dementia and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and brain infections. Individuals affected by dementia may see an acceleration of their condition when inflammation of the brain occurs because of a brain injury that also leads to an infection. Scientists had already been aware of systemic inflammation, in which the body becomes inflamed as a whole, to have an affect on brain function, acc... more...

Health | By Chris Jensen @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 5:08 AM

Building muscle is a tough one but if one can go through hardcore diet and workout then result will be highly positive as well as impressive. It takes s a long time to build arm muscle and therefore one must have patience. First one should know need that their arms are made of several muscle groups, the main two are your bicep, your triceps and your forearm. One's triceps are the keys to get big and attractive arms muscle. But most of the people are interested in building bicep muscl... more...

Health | By MIKE SELVON @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 3:02 AM

Vaccines create immunity to disease by stimulating the body's natural immune system to identify, attack, destroy and remember a known pathogen, so the next time the virus enters the body it is eradicated before any cellular damage is done. Most immunization comes in the form of a shot, but some can be administered orally or through a nasal spray. While vaccinations are believed to be 100% safe by most health experts, there are some factions who believe vaccinations needlessly make people si... more...

Health | By Katie Kelley @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 2:39 AM

An October 10, 2008 article from Market Watch, a part of The Wall Street Journal's digital network, published an anti-diabetics market forecast, which found that Avandia and Actos are and will continue to lose market shares and their leading marketing positions status because of unresolved safety concerns. The article found that by 2011 Avandia, a type 2 diabetes non-insulin treatment, will see a decrease in sales because of the continued cloud of controversy shrouding the drug'... more...

Health | By Katie Kelley @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 2:10 AM

Officials with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recently published a study in the October 2008 issue of Chemical Science about naturally occurring asbestos (NOA), which is becoming more of a threat and an increasing pollutant within the environment. According to researchers from the organization, naturally occurring asbestos is the name that describes "the silicate minerals serpentine and amphibole" that can form extremely thin crystals in patterns similar... more...

Health | By Katie Kelley @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 1:50 AM

According to news reports a new drug known as cethromycin, part of the ketolide drug class, will begin being marketed in Asia even though a similar medicine known as Ketek, from the same drug class, raised serious red flags among physicians and drug regulators when the antibiotic was linked to severe liver toxicity among patients leading to several fatalities. Ketek is part of the class of drugs known as ketolide belonging to the macrolide group. The ketolide antibiotics are a new group o... more...

Health | By Christine Harrell @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 12:57 AM

What makes addiction so hard to overcome? Is it the physical cravings, stress, emotional baggage, guilt, depression, or the inability to see that it is actually a problem? Addictions are different from person to person and each addiction has different dynamics and situations which make every case special and need of help. Drug and alcohol addicted individuals generally never see how much pain and sorrow they are causing their loved ones. As a family we can never give up on our loved ... more...

Health | By Katie Kelley @ Monday, 20th October 2008 @ 10:05 PM

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) recently implored the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to amend the Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate) label to include a statement that promotes a vegan diet. Avandia, which was released for market in mid-1999 from GlaxoSmithKlein, is a type 2 diabetes prescription drug that assists in the regulation of glucose among diabetes patients. The PCRM was founded in 1985 and consists of physicians, doctors and laypersons that all work... more...

Health | By Michael Hehn @ Monday, 20th October 2008 @ 9:49 PM

Your body does so much for you and that is why so many people are returning the favor so that their body keeps giving them that boost in life. Natural health is one of the ways many people are opting for as they have come to appreciate all that Mother Nature has to offer in the ways of ingredients that help the body. This is all about taking more responsibility for your health and following a proactive approach to physical and mental health. This should be a subject that is taken seriousl... more...