May 2012
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What you didn't know about sunscreen
As the summer sun warms and waxes, protecting your skin from sunburn and UV damage should be a hot priority. While slathering your skin with the nearest SPF may seem like a keen idea, many sunscreens are loaded with some seriously questionable ingredients that can induce adverse effects on your skin and body, such as allergic reactions, hormone disruption, and premature aging. Of course, not all...
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Outsmart Stress Traps
Tempted to dig into a bag of chips?
Try this instead… Grab a handful of almonds. The omega-3s in nuts may help keep stress hormones such as cortisol in check, says Bernadette Latson, R.D., a nutritionist in Dallas. Other key angst-nulling noshes: oatmeal (it boosts the calming brain chemical serotonin) and oranges (the vitamin C counters stress hormones).
Tempted to swig an energy drink?
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Wellness and Fitness: Lumbar Pain Therapy Or... →
wellnessandfitness:
Just about the most common soreness situation felt by people is back pain. Consequently, those people who are struggling with lower back pain continue to look for the top back pain treatment. Whenever a particular person encounters lower back pain, the actual motion is restricted and daily…
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Cholesterol Is Made By All Your Cells
Why would all your cells make this terrible, unhealthy, disease-causing chemical? Because cholesterol is not a terrible, unhealthy, disease-causing chemical - it is essential for life and health and without it you would die. Cholesterol acts as an anti-inflammatory and helps your muscles, heart, organs and nerves to function properly.
That is why statin drugs that artificially lower your...
