Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Health: What is Anorexia Nervosa?

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Anorexia Nervosa is commonly known as simply anorexia. It is the best known eating disorder. Anorexia means ‘loss of appetite’. It affects especially adolescent females. Patients having anorexia believe that they are overweight. They have the intense of becoming fat or wanting to be thin. Becoming thin is the most ...

What is Nail Fungus?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Nail fungus is an infection that appears in fingernails or toe nails, it is a fungal complication. Being not only a cosmetic problem, nail fungus also affects nail, nail bed and its sides. Nail Fungus Causes Organisms cause nail fungus, these organisms can be found near our nails and they wait an ...

Pregnancy: Symptoms and Signs

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Common pregnancy symptoms and signs The symptoms of pregnancy change from one pregnancy to another. There are many common and uncommon early pregnancy signs and symptoms. If you are suspect that you are a pregnant, you can do a pregnancy test at home. If the test shows positive, that means you ...

Tooth and Oral Health

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Mouth and teeth are parts of our body used not only for chewing food; they are the first steps of digestion. Any disorder of teeth or mouth is painful and problematic. Tooth Decay Basically, tooth decay is the defect of normal tooth; acids harm the hard part of tooth. A cavity is ...

Radiation and Mobile Phone

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Mobile Phone: Invention of the Century or Burden of Century? Compared with previous years and circumstances of these years, nowadays we are very lucky to have many different technological devices which make our lives easy. Mobile phone is said to be one of the most important inventions of our age. Wherever ...

HEALTH: Benefits of Pomegranate

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Pomegranate is a new trend for a healthy life. It has become popular especially in recent years. Researches have shown that pomegranate has many significant health benefits such as: It fights with breast cancer, slows prostate, prevents lung cancer, osteoarthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, protects the arteries and lowers both the blood pressure ...

Healthy Weight Loss

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Weight is the balance between the calorie you consume and the amount of energy you burn. Your body uses food for energy. The body stores any excess energy as fat. If you consume more calories from food than you burn, overweight occurs. Health professionals use a measurement called body mass ...

HEALTH: Dangers of Smoking

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Cigarette smoking is a bad habit that has unfavourable effects on the body. It causes many diseases and gives harm to every organ of the body. If a man smokes a pack of cigarette everyday, his life expectancy is 7 years shorter than a person who never smokes. It means ...

HEALTH: How to lose weight

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

34 Steps to lose weight Losing weight has become the biggest hobby and problem for many people. Overweight people are usually unhappy and try to lose weight in thousands of ways, but only few manage to reach the goal weight. Some lose a lot of weight but gain it very quickly ...

Effects of UV Radiation and Precautions

Monday, June 30th, 2008

The harmful effects of UV Radiation and Precautions The sun is the biggest source of energy and every living thing needs it. The ozone layer is also very important filter to keeping against the harmful effects of UV radiations. The rapid increase of the holes on the ozone layer creates problems ...