Category: Health
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Constipation: Misconceptions and Symptomatic Treatment
Most people must have experienced constipation once or twice in their life. Medically speaking, Constipation is a bowel movement disorder where defecating becomes difficult for people. Due to the fact that there must have been a problem in your intestines, you found it very difficult to release the undigested food out of your body. …
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Symptoms and Treatment
Do you experience pain when you’re using the toilet? Do you experience lower abdominal pains during defecation? Maybe you have just coped up with that situation but still, you may be a victim of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS is a problem that usually occurs in the large intestine area of…
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LASIK Surgery: Positive and Negative Effects
Nowadays, many people are experiencing various eye defects that really require immediate action. Usually, these actions include wearing eyeglasses or contact lenses. We all know that eyeglasses make the wearer look ‘nerdy’ or ‘geeky’, which can be a good cause for bullying especially if you’re still studying. Contact lenses, on the other hand, became a…
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Tips in How to Have a Younger Heart
Most of the Americans today have a higher heart age compared to their chronological age. Sadly, unhealthy lifestyle habits paired with vices heighten the cardiac risk factors. The result is that your heart age is greater compared to your actual age. To know if you have a younger or older heart age, the U.S.…
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Garlic : An Alternative Remedy for High Blood Pressure
Are you experiencing sudden rise in your blood pressure? Due to various causes such as eating fatty foods, extreme heat and temperature or even hereditary issues, people nowadays are experiencing hypertension or high blood pressure, whether they are aware or not. According to Centers For Disease Control (CDC), about one of three adults in the…
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Spina Bifida: An Opening of the Spine Part
Spina Bifida is a rare disorder where some of the vertebrae didn’t achieve the ring-shaped figure due to disruption to the overall spine development. This is characterized by the opening in the vertebrae instead of forming into a ring-shaped pattern. And since part of the spinal cord becomes exposed, this leads to problems relating to…
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What Commonly Causes Lower Back Pains?
Lower back pains, as we all know, are common nowadays. Those who are experiencing this kind of pain rather find it very difficult to do somewhat easy tasks such as picking up things on the floor, bending, etc. Since lower back pains limit these kinds of activities, there’s a little chance that in order to…
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How to Perform an At Home Enema
Enema literally means to inject liquid to your colon via anus in order to motivate evacuation or bowel movement. Normally, it is a medical procedure that is being performed by doctors at various hospitals and private clinics. However, you can also do this at home, provided that you have the necessary equipment. There…
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Five Healthy Benefits of Doing Pilates
We all know that exercise is beneficial to our body. Doing it regularly speeds up our metabolism, therefore burning up more fats in our body. However, most people don’t know that faster metabolic rate also promotes faster aging in cells, especially is oxygen isn’t finely distributed in our bodies. However, it is different when…
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – Definition and Treatment
The carpal tunnel is a sort of a passageway between the median nerve and tendons to the finger pass. This part is somehow responsible for the fine motor activities involving our hands such as picking up things, holding, etc. However, diseases nowadays can affect that part in your hands. Diseases such as amyloidosis, arthritis or…