Month: March 2013

Biking

Bike Weight vs Performance

Numerous features can affect biking performance and one is the terrain, your physical fitness, your body weight and the weight of the bike. You do have control over every one of these factors, and it does depend on the type of biker you are. You can choose the terrain you want to bike in, though […]

Nootropics enhancing brain power

Nootropics? Enhancing Brain Power?

Nootropics are smart drugs, memory enhances and cognitive enhancers. Is intelligence enhanced or your neuro system made better by using nootropics? There are supplements, nutraceuticals, functional foods and drugs that specifically improve mental abilities. These mind bending substances are believed to work by altering availability of the brain’s supply of neurotransmitters, hormones and enzymes with […]

Floss thread in teeth

Dental Health and Heart Disease

There are billions of microscopic entities and bacteria that live in your mouth. These do influence the health of teeth and gums and they positively do cause problems for the rest of your body and possibly the heart and blood vessels. If you improve your oral health you may find that you are preventing cardiovascular […]

Vegetables

Gaining Weight While Being a Vegetarian

Vegetarians are formally defined as those who have diets that are plant based and stay away from poultry, red meats, seafood and fish. Nutrition is based on a plant-advanced diet and only those foods grown from the soil are permitted. There are, however, several types of vegetarians who do add “forbidden” items to their diets. […]

Food Allergy vs Food Intolerance

According to the Food Allergy and Anaphylactic Network, more than 15 million Americans suffer from one or more foods allergies. In addition, physicians believe that many more people suffer from food sensitivities, which are undiagnosed and untreated. Knowing the difference between the two conditions caused by commonly consumed food can make difference in seeking help, […]

X-ray of human brain

All about Strokes

A cerebrovascula accident or stoke occurs when blood supplies to the brain are disrupted. This causes brain cells to die. Some of the causes of a stroke include narrowing of the small arteries in the brain or hardening of the arteries leading to the brain.

Cancer highlighted on a page

Colorectal Cancer

Colon cancer affects the large intestine or the colon which is the lower part of your digestive system. Rectal cancer which is located in the last several inches of your color plus colon cancer are referred to as colorectal cancers. Colon cancers start out as small and noncancerous grouping of cells named adenomatous polyps. As […]

Sinus Surgery

Before sinus surgery is performed an ear, nose, and throat specialist will prescribe medication and procedures for treating acute sinusitis. If sinus infections are so recurrent and non-responsive to antibiotics, decongestants, and nasal steroid sprays then surgery may be the only option to enlarge sinus openings to drain the infections.

Child suffering from Coronavirus

Should We Worry About Novel Coronavirus?

According to the media and WHO (World Health Organization) reports, 13 people worldwide have been infected with the new strain of the coronavirus. Why such attention to the disease that affected only 13 people? One reason is that half of them died from the disease, and other is that nobody knows how they got infected. […]

Hip replacement doctor

Hip Replacement Issues And Problems

Total hip replacement is an increasingly popular procedure in the US. The reason is probably in the huge number of baby boomers getting old and getting their hips busted. According to the CDC , in 2009, there were 327,000 total hip replacement surgeries. About 400,000 hip replacements is a yearly average. Women seem to be […]