Month: April 2012

Measuring weight

Why is it so Difficult to Lose Weight?

Losing weight is very difficult, contrary to all the TV commercials. Except for those lucky types we all hate, who stay thin whatever they eat. If our parents did not gift us with genetics that allow us to eat chocolate cake whenever we want, we have our work cut out for us. There are simple […]

Ovulation

Diet and Lifestyle Can Affect Your Fertility

Thousands of women are declared perfectly healthy, but they still cannot get pregnant. One of the most common causes for the inability to conceive is ovulatory disorder, a condition with often unknown cause. Scientists found recently that poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle might be one of the main reasons for ovulatory disorder infertility.

Heartburn, GERD, Acid Reflux, Chron’s What is Wrong with Me?

Almost everyone had heartburn at some point. More than 60 million Americans suffer from it regularly. Heartburn is caused by lose valve between our stomach and esophagus (the tube between the stomach and the throat), which allows the food, together with stomach acid, to back up. If it burns like heartburn, feels like heartburn, we […]

Does Sensa make sense?

Every time you turn a TV on, a bunch of gorgeous girls in white bikinis are dancing on the beach and singing about how Sensa made them so thin and lovely. You have two options: go right away and order some, so that you can look like those girls, or find out what is Sensa.

Green Coffee Beans – Magic Pill for Weight Loss?

We cannot help it. Any news that offers hope of losing weight without hard work is very attractive. The latest study conducted on 16 healthy volunteers shows that green coffee supplements can help us lose weight without any particular diet and increase in exercise. Can it be real?

Prostate exam

Prostate Screening Controversy

After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men. Last year, 217,730 men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 32,000 died of it. At the moment, the common screening for prostate cancer is through a digital rectal exam, ultrasound exam or PSA (Prostate-specific antigen) blood test. While none […]

Stop smoking

Cigarettes Can Kill, Electronic or Not

If you thought that electronic cigarettes are safer for you than the regular cancer-causing smokes, think again. Tom Holloway, a father of three from Niceville in Florida was puffing on his electronic cigarette when it exploded in his mouth and severely injured him. While Tom is recovering in the hospital, the debate is heating up […]

Shower

Reclaim Your Tap Water

We are brainwashed by advertising companies. There is no better example than the bottled water fad. Because we are convinced that bottled water is cleaner and healthier than the one we get from our taps, in 2009 Americans spent $10.6 billion on bottled water. Millions of bottles end up in our overflowing dumps, and we […]

What is in Tea?

Tea is probably the most popular drink in the world, if we do not count water. There is something about tea: the aroma, the taste or maybe the ritual of seeping the perfect cup. But, there is more to tea than the pleasure of drinking it, otherwise it would not remain so popular for thousands […]

Lower Back pain

Back Pain and Diet

Acute or chronic, back pain can be agony. It affects almost everyone at some time and it has a range of causes. It is not a disease in itself, but a symptom of a problem. Mostly, back pain is caused by the problem with the spinal column. It can be disk degeneration, wearing down of […]