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E Cigarettes the Smoker’s Answer to Better Health

by carolann491 August 16, 2010

ElectronicCigarettes vs Tobacco Everyone knows that cigarettes are bad for their health. It has been reverberated around the brain countless times from the media, from loved ones, from strangers, but yet people continue to light up at every opportunity. It has almost become defiance. The more cigarettes are banned in public places the more smokers assert their right to smoke. If having to go outside to puff because it is not allowed inside then so be it. The cons are many and the pros are few when it comes to cigarettes, however. The biggest deterrent of course is the cancer causing carcinogens in every single puff, not to mention the prices just keep going up. A pack of generic nowadays [...]

The Art of Massage

by carolann491 July 1, 2010

Massage is therapy that will make your toes curl, literally. The skilled massage therapist knows how to manipulate the muscles to relieve pain and stress from work and/or play. The art of massage has several categories that a massage therapist can specialize such as trigger point, Swedish, deep tissue, and reflexology, to name only a few. A trigger point massage manipulates an area that is causing discomfort in another area of the body. For instance an area in the hip when manipulated may cause pain in the buttocks area. When the hip pain is enflamed, the practitioner will massage the area by applying pressure for a few seconds then stopping, applying more pressure for a few seconds then stopping, by [...]

Gravity and Our Body

by carolann491 July 1, 2010

Gravity is the not so subtle way nature tells us that we are growing older. We see it in our face as our jowls start to droop. We see it in our hips as are butt starts to droop. The bulge at the tops of our thighs was not there a few years ago. Even our breasts have begun to respond to the laws of gravity. There was a time you used to go without a bra and nobody knew the difference; if you tried that now everyone would notice and wonder why your breasts were emerging from your torso’s midsection instead of up around the chest area where they used to be. We can accept these inevitabilities caused by [...]

Poison Ivy Exposure

by carolann491 June 16, 2010

For all you summertime explorers beware of that harmless looking plant over there because if you decide you want to rub up next to it—you just may wind up with a nasty itchy rash, commonly referred to as poison ivy—not fun! The best way to keep away from this plant is knowing what it looks like. For the poison ivy sufferer he or she already knows what it looks like because once you have been a victim, you never want to ever risk exposure to that plant again. If you are walking along on a wooded path and you happen to see a plant that has clusters of three leaves—it is best to stay away from that one. It will [...]

For the Uninsured the Health Reform Bill may be the Answer

by carolann491 June 16, 2010

Affordable health insurance is a subject that many have worried about since the economy has taken a turn for the worst. People who had good health benefits through their employer but are now unemployed due to “cutbacks” and so many lost jobs are wondering how they are going to pay for benefits, especially if they have a prior medical condition. Retirees who were once promised a lifetime of health benefits for all the years that they worked for a company before retiring are now having their benefits cut—so what are people to do about affordable health insurance? The harsh reality, people who are not old enough to qualify for Medicare benefits, will now have to purchase individual health insurance or [...]

Leftover Raw Food turn into the Best Recipes

by carolann491 June 16, 2010

There is no denying that food preparation and a healthy diet go hand in hand. But if your intentions are good when you go to the store to buy a lot of fruits and vegetables, only to return home to look at the stuff and say, “Now what?” Well it is easier than you think to turn your raw vegetables and fruit into delicious and healthful dishes, and the best part is you don’t have to be a cook to do it. Potatoes are a great source of iron, fiber, and Vitamin C. Nothing is easier than dicing or slicing into wedges a raw potato with the skin on or off; it is personal preference; however, the skins have more [...]

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