Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | July 1st 2010 | 3 comments
Autism is a fear many mothers and future mothers have to deal with and it's not easy not to think about risks of having your child developing it when 1 in 100 children in the US have been reported by recent research to suffer from autism. This makes it a frequent disorder so a lot of attention has been directed on this issue in the last decades. Specialists have been putting a lot of [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | July 1st 2010 | one comment
We all know by now that a good night's sleep can be equaled by few things and more of them by virtually nothing. Be very careful not to underestimate the influence of not sleeping enough on your life and your organism. Sleep deprivation is clueless self-destruction. You might think that lack of sleep can only cause drowsiness and with a difficulty to concentrate, but it can actually [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | July 1st 2010 | no comments
We keep seeing drugs being withdrawn and then allowed back on the market with no apparent change having occured. We see drugs being pulled out while others in the same class remain. It can get quite confusing if you really look around at this process and it makes you wonder if safety is the only criteria specialists look at when it comes to deciding if a drug should or should not be [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 30th 2010 | no comments
There's a lot in nature we can use to treat our many modern diseases. How nature knew about the developments in human pathology and devised ways to treat them is one of our great mysteries. People are actually those who have linked these elements to treating diseases like cancer and it would be easy to argue that it's all just simple chemistry.
Let's take pomegranate. Pomegranate juice [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 30th 2010 | 2 comments
Depression is increasingly common nowadays. In fact, it might have been just as common before but people didn't use to diagnose their conditions as depression. There are many debates about what causes depression, whether you're the source or the environment is the main perpetrator and there's an ongoing debate on what can best help people deal with it. There are many options and they all [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 30th 2010 | no comments
If you like coffee but are given a hard time by people around warning of its side-effects here's something you can throw right back at them. If you liked it before you're gonna love it now. It seems that coffee can fend off more than just sleep but also cancer, particularly head and neck cancer. People who drink a lot of java have been proven to have a lower risk of developing such [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 30th 2010 | 2 comments
You would have thought that all the news, the campaigns, the TV shows warning against obesity and praising exercising and being fit, would have by now resulted in less obese people and reduced incidence of sedentary lifestyles. Still, Americans are set on consumerism and this mill stone keeps them away from any form of exercising. This situation is not only persisting but it's actually [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 29th 2010 | no comments
It seems that a normal sex life after a certain age comes at great risk. This is not a new thing but only since 2007 have Viagra and other impotence drugs begun considering to bear new warnings about side effects that may occur, mainly hearing loss. This is not a mild side effect so it makes you wonder how these things manage to come out on the market in the first place.
It might be [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 29th 2010 | one comment
Brain power is something you can have control over, to some extent at least. You've probably been advised many times by doctors and even by mothers and grandmothers to eat right or watch your blood sugar if you want your mind to function to its maximum potential. It's probably all so fixed in your head that you don't even consider actually listening to them anymore.
Still, there's a lot [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 29th 2010 | no comments
There's no need to get defensive as this time MP3 player users are not accused for disturbing the people around as it usually is the case, but are warned about the harmful effects MP3 players can have on them. 2,5 to 10 million European citizens are likely to suffer hearing loss mainly due to the increased and abusive use of MP3 players. This might not be a novelty but it is becoming a [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 29th 2010 | no comments
New research points to the fact that exercising, working out, and any kind of movement for that matter, can bring great benefits to cancer survivors. All cancer survivors are advised to start exercising and use this turning point to improve their lifestyle and to find the motivation to do everything possible to keep cancer away for good.
It's common sense that exercising is good but, [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 29th 2010 | no comments
Nobody's surprised or upset when the oldest from the group forgets something, even if it's the one thing you needed. Everybody understands how this comes with aging, as well as other things like being absent minded at times, forgetting names and even simple words. If you consider things more carefully you'd see that we do the same at every age, it just become more salient with growing [...]
Posted in: Health by Diana Iftodi | June 28th 2010 | no comments
We all experience balance disorders at some point or another. These can occur disparately or quite frequently but, either way, most of us surely stop and wonder what brought it about or if whether there's any underlying condition we should worry about. Still, very few of us seek medical attention for something like this. As quickly as they occur so they pass and we rarely give it a [...]
