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Health & Fitness > Nutrition & Health Issues Health benefits of brown rice: 1 of 16
Brown rice is a complex carbohydrate that provides 15 essential nutrients, including B-vitamins, niacin and potassium. In the olden days, paddy used to be hand pounded and winnowed to remove the husk and consumed as such. Nowadays whole rice is milled minimally to remove the husk to get the brown rice. The brown rice is proce... More..
Health & Fitness > Exercise Tips Why women should lift weights: 2 of 17
Myths rule when people are misinformed. Women doing weight training? Horror of horrors, they would be Schwarzenegger-like, bulky and masculine. And when they stop the training, the muscle would transform into fat, making them even worse than before! Let's smash these myths. Lifting weights would provide you with a sleek, tone... More..
Health & Fitness > Hypertension & High Cholesterol How walnuts can help lower your cholesterol: 1 of 7
You have been diagnosed with high cholesterol and the doctor has ticked off or told you to limit many of the stuffs you love: steak and eggs, ice creams, cheese burgers or ham sandwiches. You go crazy planning how to include flax seeds and avocado in your diet. Just go nuts over walnuts and you will be fine. Those kernels enc... More..
Health & Fitness > Nutrition Basics Can eating breakfast help you lose weight?: 1 of 5
If you nix your breakfast believing it'd help you to reduce weight, you couldn't be farther from truth. For, research has proved that this paves the path to weight gain. Assuming you had the night's dinner two hours before sleep, you've had a ten-hour gap after the food that leaves your energy bank empty. The brain is now in... More..
Sciences > Anatomy The appendix: Is it a useless part of the human anatomy?: 1 of 5
Doctors have long considered appendix, a narrow, muscular worm-like pouch found at the intersection of the small and large intestines, a vestigial organ, and they advocated its surgical removal as a preventive measure when it got infected. It was considered a evolutionary remnant, a potential mischief maker whose rupture was ... More..
Health & Fitness > Dental Treatment The benefits of having your wisdom teeth removed: 2 of 9
Ever since hominids started walking upright, their jaws have been shrinking (and their brains expanding) over the millenia owing to evolution. Our ancestors ate rough roots and nuts and raw meat that caused the teeth to protrude forward and create space for wisdom teeth or the third molars that came in later. The excessive we... More..
Health & Fitness > Health Risks An overview of hearing tests for babies: 2 of 8
After the initial euphoria over the birth of the baby, it's time for parents to ensure baby's hearing is sound. Most hearing loss is congenital, but babies can develop hearing loss later too, especially if they were born prematurely, developed severe infections and had to be treated with certain antibiotic medications that wa... More..
Health & Fitness > Nutrition & Health Issues How to lose weight after menopause: 3 of 8
Menopause and perimenopause the years leading up to menopausecause most women to gain weight. Most women will gain about 10 to 15 pounds during their menopausal years, most of it around their abdomen. Women who have experienced early menopause or surgical removal of ovaries may experience more rapid and extreme weight gain. T... More..
Health & Fitness > Holistic Health Natural remedies for bad breath: 2 of 5
Fewer than one in 10 people would tell friends and family that they have bad breath, according to a survey. They prefer to keep their lips sealed and avoid socializing with the friends and family, the survey finds. Halitosis, the malodorous breath, is caused by anaerobic oral bacteria growing on the tongue, around the teeth a... More..
Health & Fitness > Cancer How to prevent cancer: 2 of 5
We are what we breathe, eat and drink. 'Garbage in, garbage out' is the dictum in the computing world; toxins in, toxins (cancer) out is the dictum in the medical researcher's world.You may have heard of Ann-Marie Donaca. She is an intrepid woman who survived an aggressive cancer called mantle-cell lymphoma caused by the pest... More..