April 2007


This recipe is a bit difficult, but it’s definitely worth of the effort. You can enjoy it with friends or surprise your boy/girl for a special event.
Plus, salmon is an extraordinary healthy option, specially for people with high cholesterol levels.
It also contains an elevated amount of omega 3 fatty acids, so, what are you waiting [...]

Multiple scientific studies shows that beets’ anti-cancer compounds have the property of preventing skin, lung and liver tumors in mice. Beets also may help the coronary system by lowering an artery-damaging compound, homocysteine.
This recipe helps you to reduce your cholesterol, since it doesn’t contain any. Remember, a healthy nutrition is the foundational stone of a [...]

Gigantism (from Greek gigas, gigantas “giant”) is an excessive secretion of growth hormone or IGF-I (insulin-like growth factor I) during childhood, before the closure of the bone growth plates. This excess growth hormone causes overgrowth of the long bones and very tall stature.
Acromegaly is the same disorder of IGF-I excess when it occurs after the [...]

Photo: Richard Kiel, as “Jaws”, from James Bond. He suffered acromegaly
Acromegaly is an uncommon hormonal disorder that develops when your pituitary gland produces too much growth hormone during adulthood. When this happens, your bones increase in size, including those of your hands, feet and face. The term “acromegaly” is derived from the Greek words [...]

A headache is a symptom, not a disease. A headache is rarely the symptom of a serious illness, but severe or frequent headaches can be exhausting and can affect daily life.
There are three basic types of headaches. The vascular headache occurs when blood vessels in the head enlarge and press on nerves, causing pain. The [...]

Minoxidil is a vasodilator and originally was exclusively used as an oral drug (Loniten®) to treat high blood pressure. It was, however, discovered to have the interesting side effect of hair growth and reversing baldness, and in the 1980s, Upjohn Corporation produced a topical solution that contained 2% minoxidil to be used to treat baldness [...]

Most of our work is done on computers, and there is usually no escape from it.
It is a visually intensive task and, unfortunately, our work pressure and lifestyles do not give us the opportunity to be kind to our eyes.
But if you are wise, you should try out these tips that’ll help you to take [...]

By having a regular check up and wearing glasses or contact lenses if you need them, you can prevent problems with your eyes in the future.
Having a sight test
Sight tests are an important way of identifying any problems early on. They:

should be taken at least every two years (depending on your age and medical history, [...]

Nowadays almost everybody uses computers on a daily basis. This habit comes very often attached with eye irritation and other uncomfortable aspects that are caused by our exposure to those bright monitors for hours.
And not only computers, long distance drivers, filmmakers and police officers are always strugling with there eye problems because their jobs require [...]

Split ends make us look sloppy, and you and I both now how much hard work we put in looking good.
Furthermore, with split ends it’s almost impossible to maintain that posh, sleek look we’ve learnt to love. Even the split end ponytail looks corny.
One of the most important things after getting a fresh haircut (all [...]

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