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Tips
and advice for workaholics
Lately,
your job has taken up much of your time. You’ve even started
bringing work at home and you keep working until the wee hours of
the morning. You spend Saturdays and Sundays with your head bent
on your work. And you’re supposed to spend these days with your
family, or friends, or for your relaxation!
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Understanding
the Basics of Your Cholesterol
There
is so much teminology floating around with this that make any
sense of what it's all about. That's why you have to start by
understanding what they're talking about: the “good?,the
“bad,?and the ugly.
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True
Lies about Health
Myth:
eating Lots of Carrots Will Make You See Better in the Dork.
Truth:
You could see it that way. Lots of brightly colored fruits and
veggies- including
carrots, apricots and even broccoli-can improve your night
sight, but only if you're lacking vitamin A to begin with, says
Carl Kupfer, M.D., director of the National Eye Institute of the
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.s "Most of us
get enough vitamin A in our diet, so eating lots of carrots won't
change anything, " says Dr. Kupfer.
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Sunshine
& Cancer
Although
too much exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays can cause
skin
cancer,
sunshine
may
have
a
protective
effect against
some cancers,
U.S. scientists
said in
April. They suspect vitamin D,
the
so-called
sunshine vitamin
that
is
also
found
in fortified milk and
dairy products,
cod liver oil and some
fatty fish, can help to slow down the speed at which cancer
cells divide.
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Smile!
You’ll feel Better
As
the song says, smiling when you' re feeling blue appears to put
you in a rosy mood. At least that's the theory set forth by Robert
B. Zajonc, Ph.D.,director of
the
lnstitute
for Social
Research
at
the University
of
Michigan.
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Your
Sleeping Position and your Personality
Everyone
has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and
the other that is secret and real. You
don't show your secret personality when you’re awake because you
can ciontrol your behaviour ,but when you’re asleep, your
sleeping position shows the real you. In
a normal night,of course, people
frequently change their position. The important position is the
one that you go to sleep in.
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Secrets of
People Who Never
Get Sick
How do some friends and colleagues survive every
winter without even a sniffle? Some experts believe that they boost their immunity through
simple lifestyle habits. Steal their strategies and stay healthy
all winter long.
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Pessimistic
Outlook Does Harm to your Health
A
growing amount of research shows a pessimistic out look can
take a huge toll on your health. This
may
be because
pessimists are
not
as
good
as
optimists
at
handling
stress,
which
taxes the
immune system and
causes other
health
problems,
such as high blood
pressure. Optimists go into situations with more
confidence, so events seem less threatening and stressful. ......
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Only
the Good Die Younger Academy
Award nominees who go home empty-handed may not have a'shiny Oscar
to show off, but they may turn out to be
the
bigger winners in
the
game
of
life. According to
a study published
in British
Medical Journal,
Oscar-winning screenwriters are more successful,
more productive,
and more respected
than
losing nominees;
however,
they
die
sooner
by about four years.
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Fighting
infection effectively
Leading
naturopath shows how to supercharge your immune system and fight
infections without relying on antibiotics
There
are natural ways to boost your body's defence system.
In the
right circumstances antibiotics are invaluable, but we have
to use them selectively.
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How
to Evaluate Your Sneeze
Sneezing
fits
can
strike in any season. But are they caused by allergies,
viruses,
bacteria
or something
else? Ask your
nose--it always knows .
1.Consider
the circumstances surrounding your
sneezing episodes. Did your local weather forecaster issue
a pollen warning? Did you recently clean: the house, mow
the
lawn
or snuggle your new kitten? If so, you may have
allergies. Did you stare into
oncoming car
headlights
or blast
your
stereo? Bright
light and loud noises stimulate
the cells in the
nose that release his tamines, which. trigger sneezing.
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Hostility
Is linked to Heart Disease
A
study found that men with hostile personalities had almost
five times as many heart attacks as those who showed little anger.
In addition to higher coronary disease rates, the men, who were
doctors, also had a five-fold risk of dying from all causes.
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WHAT
IS HEALTH PROMOTION?
Health
promotion is a broad field encompassing educational, social,
economic, and political efforts to improve the health of a
population. Health education, health protection, and disease
prevention form the essential triad of health promotion.
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Health
Education
During
the 1970s and 1980s, health education emphasized altering
individuals' behavior. In the 1990s, health education expanded to
encompass social action and become more integrated with health
promotion. Mayhew Derryberry wrote forty years ago. ......
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Hard
Work Is Good for Health
Scientists
find that hard-working prestigious people live longer than average
men and women. Career women are healthiel than housewives.
Evidence shows that the jobless are in poorer health than the
job-holders. An investigation shows that whenever the unemployment
rate increases by 1%, the death rate increases correspondingly by
2%.All this comes down to one point: work is helpful to health. ......
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Women:
express yourselves
Women
who are uncomfortable expressing themselves, particularly negative
emotions such as anger, are more likely to end up feeling even
more angry and may also be vulnerable to eating disorders,
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Exercise
Myths
The
more you sweat, the more fat you burn
This
myth has encouraged people to work out in extreme heat
or wear layers of clothes or rubber or plastic weight-loss
suits in the hope of sweating fat off. Unfortunately, it's water
they're losing, not fat.
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Eating
More Often May Help Lower Cholesterol
A
person's cholesterol levels may depend not only on what he or she
eats, but also how often, according to UK researchers.
They found that middle-aged and older adults who ate frequently
throughout the day had lower "bad" cholesterol levels
compared with those who tended to down one or two large meals per
day. This was despite the fact that the frequent eaters average,
had a higher calorie and fat intake.
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Diet
and Diabetes
Some
16 million Americans have diabetes mellitus, a serious, chronic
disease that impairs
the body's
ability
to convert
blood sugar, or glucose,
into energy .Persons
with diabetes
eitper
cannot produce
or
respond
to
insulin,
a
hor mone
instrumental
in glucose
metabolism.
Because
all
human body tissues must have a steady supply of glucose,
diabetes
can affect every
organ.
In particular, it can, lead
to heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and nerve
problems. Diabetes is the leading cause of amputations in the US.
And the fourth
leading cause of death, both of which can often
be prevented
by
early,
effective
treatment.
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The
Double-Edged Sword of Antibiotics
In
1946, just a year after winning the Nobel Prize for discovering
penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming noted the Achilles heel of
antibiotics: "the production of resistant strains of
bacteria." Indeed, the greatest medicine in history has
gradually become less effective. The incredibly rapid reproduction
of bacteria combined with their ability to impart acquired
resistance to other bacteria by transferring genetic material have
led to today's "superbugs": bacteria that are refractory
to all conventional antimicrobial treatment. ...... |
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