Month: January 2017

Does Alcohol Raise Blood Pressure?

The simple answer is yes.   But let’s break it down. What is considered a drink? 12 ounce beer 4 ounce glass of wine 1.5 ounces of 80 proof liquor 1 ounce of 100 proof liquor

PCOS and Laparoscopic Drilling: The Remedy, or Just Part of the Problem?

What’s the best way of treating a disease? Regardless of which disease we’re talking about, the answer is surely that which offers the greatest chance of success at the lowest risk of further damage or health complications. So obviously, an experimental and dangerous surgery is always going to be less desirable than a natural remedy […]

Dealing With Your Siblings

It is a normal part of family life that parents require more help from their children. As your parents grow older and experience health crises, it is common to look to your siblings for help. Most of us expect that having siblings to share the caregiver load will make things easier. It can come as […]

Difference Between Ovulation and Fertility – Ovulation VS Fertility

If you’re trying to get pregnant, it’s best to know the difference of ovulation and fertility, which this video explains. Ovulation relies on the woman. It is when a mature egg is released from the ovary, pushed down the fallopian tube, and able to be fertilized. This occurs every month for women, usually 10 to […]

Zantrex Black Review – Does It Work? Ingredients, Side-Effects, Results

Zantrex Black is the latest in the Zantrex family of weight loss supplements. Zantrex Black is aimed at people who are looking for rapid weight loss. Zantrex Black uses a variety of ingredients to promote weight loss through a combination of appetite suppression and metabolism boosting. Several of those ingredients, including yerba mate, black tea […]

Don’t Compare Your Journey

One of the worst things you can do when trying to lose weight is to compare yourself with literally anyone else. In the age of the Internet, information about other people’s experiences with losing weight is more available than ever before. The great temptation is to assume that just because it happened a certain way […]

The Era of Personal DNA Testing is Here | Sebastian Kraves

How can we use genetics to improve our own lives and lives of others? Sometimes, afflictions aren’t with humans that can be seen as an epidemic. Farms had to deal with viral outbreaks with their pigs with Swine Flu and Cows with Bovine diseases. Calling the veterinarian would be a lengthy process as the time […]

Prenatal Factors May Raise Child’s Risk for OCD

There are constant reports about what you should and shouldn’t do when you are pregnant. But, the best part of these reports are to protect you and your baby. A new study shows that certain pregnancy behaviors and certain childbirth complications may influence a child’s risk of OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder. Specific reasons for […]

8 Ways to Beat Stress and Boost Happiness

Stress is an unfortunate part of all of our lives, no matter how hard we try to avoid it. When work stress, dealing with the people in your life, managing your family and a million other small irritations come at you unexpectedly, sometimes it can be too much. Stress is a change in the environment […]

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Can Ca$h Motivate People to Make Healthy Behaviour Change?

What motivates you to lose weight? Is it money, is it health, or is it the desire to not see money lost? We all know that there is an obesity epidemic in this country. Losing weight is hard. There is no easy fix to this problem and so Americans find it to be a very […]