By now, we all know the negative health impact of smoking in terms of our heart and lungs, with increased risk of certain cancers, heart disease stroke, blood clots and so on. Smoking also causes wrinkles and premature aging of the skin.
Did you know that smoking can also negatively affect your musculoskeletal system? That’s right, smoking can cause significant problems and malfunction of your muscles, bones, joints and even your spine.
Breast cancer isn’t just a woman’s disease. Men also have breast tissue that can undergo cancerous changes. While women are about 100 times more likely to get breast cancer, any man can develop breast cancer. Male breast cancer is most common between the ages of 60 and 70.
Lice are tiny insects that live on humans and feed on blood. When a large number of lice live and multiply on a person, it is called an infestation.
Three different kinds of lice live on humans:
Do you feel as if you’re constantly wiping your baby’s nose? You probably are! The common cold strikes most healthy babies at some point — often repeatedly.
Most colds last a week or two, but some linger even longer. In the meantime, there’s plenty you can do to help your baby beat the common cold.
In the spectrum of pain, the two ends are childbirth in a cab (paramedics please!) and a stubbed toe (cured with a yelp). But the really dangerous pains are the ones that feel innocent enough to ignore yet are actually the smoke signals to a health fire that could be burning inside you. Chances are, the majority of your minor pains are no reason to reserve the corner plot. But to protect yourself, you need to know how to make sure your harmless pains are just that and nothing more.
As we struggle to allot enough time to the job, kids, family, friends, Lost, and Joaquin Phoenix message boards, sleep stands out as a suspiciously long block of idle hours. We set the alarm early, stay up late, and order a tall whatever-we-want to help us get by on the minimum. But the fact is: When you lose sleep, you lose your health.
The generation of women entering menopause is healthier, feels younger than their years, and lead more active lives and careers than previous generations. However, there is also no doubt that for many women, this can be an uncomfortable and confusing time- plagued with hot flashes, irritability, headaches, depression, sleepless nights, and fatigue, as well as waning libido and decreased ability to enjoy sex.
Stress is our reaction to any stimulus (physical, mental, or emotional — internal or external), that tends to upset us. When the reactions are inappropriate, they can lead to health problems. The diseases most often connected to a stressful environment are heart disease, high blood pressure and cancer.
Have you eaten a pomegranate? The fruit features in Greek mythology in the story of Persephone, daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter. Hades, the lord of the underworld, kidnapped the beautiful maiden. Because she ate a few pomegranate seeds before being rescued, she had to spend several months every year in the underworld with him. According to the myth, that?s when the earth was forced to endure winter.
Yet another reason to skip karaoke: Loud music makes you drink more—and faster, reports a study in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Beer drinkers who sipped in quieter bars ordered an average of 2.6 brews during a one-hour stay.
Those who imbibed in pubs where the music volume forced them to shout ordered an average of 3.4 beers in the same amount of time and chugged each one 21 percent faster.
It’s simple mouth math: Loud music kills your convo, so you drink more because you’re chatting less, explains lead author Nicolas Guéguen, Ph.D., a professor at the University of South Brittany in France.