Showing posts with label Helpful Guides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Helpful Guides. Show all posts

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Best Fish Oil Supplement: Which One ‘Top Rated’?

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Fish oil supplements are one of the most popular supplements in this modern living. Fish oil is a high source of omega-3 fatty acids (particularly EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (ocosahexaenoic acid))! Therefore, there are a lot of health advantages that we can get from them -- though there are also a few side effects! Even for healthy people who are eating well, taking daily omega-3 from fish oil supplement is good idea. The big questions are; how to choose the best or top rated fish oil supplement? And what dose we should take?

Monday, July 9, 2012

Stop-snoring Pillow Review for More Comfort!

Though there is limited study showing the correlation between pillow and snoring, but there are also some doctors recommend using the right pillow to stop snoring effectively. However for better result, you should not choose a stop-snoring pillow for your single treatment. Changes in lifestyle such as; stop smoking, get back your ideal weight, and avoid excessive drinking alcohol before going to bed are some of other important checklists that also you need to concern to reduce your chance of getting snoring when you sleep.

As well we know, there are a lot of brands and products of stop-snoring pillow, but which is the best one you should choose? Whatever your choice, it should help you to keep the airways open during sleep which then will be useful to decrease your chance of snoring.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Whooping Cough Treatment | Home Remedies

In many cases, whooping cough is often marked /characterized by’ a severe hacking cough’ which usually also followed by ‘whoop’ (a high-pitched of sound from the intake of breath). Several years ago, this disease was often considered/referred as a childhood disease (before the vaccine was discovered). But today, it is more common in individuals who over 11 of the age (adolescents & adults) and in young children who haven’t received vaccination. What else you need to know, particularly about whooping cough treatment and home remedies?

Fortunately, the prognosis of whooping cough in older children and adults are relatively very good. The death rate for whooping cough in adults is very low, but this chance is high if it occurs in infants (less than 1 year of age). This is the reason why individuals (including pregnant women) who get a close contact/interaction with an infant must be vaccinated.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Cataract Surgery Recovery: How Long It?

There are natural clear lens in the eyes, and if it becomes clouded, a disease what we call as cataract will occur. Cataracts can be caused by some factors, but the natural process/progress of aging is the most common cause.

Cataract surgery is one of the most common choices to cure cataract. It is also one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States of America. Generally, this option is purposed to remove/clean the cloudy lens. This lens will be replaced by new & clear lens (man-made lens). Then, how long is cataract surgery recovery?

You might also like to know more about differences between optometrist and ophthalmologist (both are eye doctor), before continuing!

Almost ‘98-96 percent’ of all cataract surgeries are finished/completed every year and luckily with no any serious complications. Nevertheless, it is so important to always discuss with an eye surgeon before/after surgery until you get completely result.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Optometrist vs. Ophthalmologist | Eye Doctors

Having eye-health problems? You need the right eye doctors to find the right treatments! But you may be confused on choosing between optometrist and ophthalmologist -- ‘two major types of eye doctors’! The following are pieces of helpful information about eye health professionals that you should clearly understand.

You might also like to know more detailed information about cataract surgery recovery, before continuing!

Before discussing about optometrist and ophthalmologist, there is also an eye-health professional what we call as ‘opticians’. They are also familiar known as dispensing opticians that usually help patients in some important ways, like filling the lens as well as the prescriptions given by ophthalmologist or optometrist. They usually obtain a 1-2 year technical degree/diploma/certificate -- but they are not specially trained to do or perform ‘eye exams’!

What is Difference between Cold and Flu?

How do you distinguish between cold and flu when you experience feverish, coughing, difficult to move a muscle feeling, coughing, or sneezing? By knowing the exact health condition that you have, you can decide on choosing the right treatments and drugs that you should take! That’s why you should clearly understand the difference between cold and flu?

You might also like to read more about symptoms of cold & flu and simple tips to treat cold, before continuing!

Generally, cold is a kind of respiratory illness (milder than flu). The symptoms are also not as severe as flu symptoms which may only make you feel not-good for a few days. On the other hand, the symptoms of flu may make us feel bad for a few days to weeks, even sometimes (in rare cases) can make you get serious health problems. And both cold and flu are caused by viruses --not bacteria!

Saturday, April 28, 2012

How to Lower Triglycerides | Lifestyle Changes

Triglycerides are one of cholesterol types -- it is a type of fat that can be found in the blood! Having high level of triglycerides is not good for your health. Fortunately, this problem is treatable and preventable. So, what you should do on how to lower triglycerides with lifestyle changes? Let’s explore more this issue!

You might also like to know more tips about how to decrease LDL and top foods to decrease cholesterol level, before continuing!

Generally, the normal triglycerides level should be less than 150-199 mg/dL, and higher than this number can be categorized into high level! Furthermore, the safe level of your triglycerides is also influenced by other health conditions that you have.

If you have been diagnosed with heart disease or other health problems associated with high cholesterol, your doctor may ask to get a lower level of total cholesterol (including lower level of triglycerides). Talk more with your healthcare provider to find out how low you should go for the safely level of your total cholesterol (particularly for LDL cholesterol)!

Friday, March 23, 2012

How to Increase Metabolism (Simple Ideas)?

Talking about weight loss ideas, the conversation is often directed to ideas on how to increase metabolism! Better metabolism of your body will help to burn your calories or extra fat more easily. -- You might also like to know more about best foods to boost your metabolism, before continuing!

No matter how old you are, or how overweight you are -- you have power & chance to boost & increase your metabolism! There are a lot of ways that you can do! And if you can keep focus to your health goals, more pounds that you can burn is something that can be reached not too difficultly.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Protect Your Memory with Simple Ideas

We all are getting older, and along with accepting this condition - the performance of our memory is also getting fall off. Therefore, someday you may often forget to certain things! The memory loss is not only worried by older people, because nowadays it also can attacks at the earlier age of 20. Thankfully, there are also some simple things and helpful ideas to protect your memory in order to keep it sharp!

And the following are some easy steps and ideas on how to improve the performance of your memory and helpful to protect it, and keep it sharp!

Guide on Choosing the Gym!

Sometimes, choosing the best one of gyms that is right for you is not as easy or simple as it sounds! There are a lot of choices to choose from, and you may be confused due to this situation. However more choices of fitness or gym centers in your local area should be beneficial for you, because you can find one that can accommodate your requirements almost perfectly.

You may also like to read how to lose weight without exercise, before continuing! The following are pieces of helpful information that you should read before deciding to sign up for a certain gym membership.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Cold and Flu Symptoms (Common Signs)

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You may ask to yourself frequently about what do you get between flu and cold when you wake up coughing or sneezing. And even some people have opinion that there is no difference between flu and cold! You can get the answer clearly if you can distinguish the cold symptoms and flu symptoms! Moreover, this is also important and helpful for you to find the best treatment .

Flu symptoms are something that can be worst than cold symptoms for your body, because they can make your body get quite ill for several days or for weeks, and even in several cases can lead to a serious health problem (like hospitalizations &  pneumonia).

On the other hand, cold symptoms are something that just a milder respiratory illness that only can make you feel not too good for a few days and even you may still be able to do your activities normally.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Helpful Guide to Stay Hydrated Better!

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It is around 70-60 percent of your body made up of water (this calculation is dependent on the gender, body composition and type)! You need to get adequate intake of water per day to exercise, eat, sleep and even important to help your body to excrete toxins. Therefore, you could not live without it and you have to stay hydrated! So, how to keep hydrated better?

In order to keep far away from dehydration, you have to encourage the intake of water into your body. Read also simple tips to keep healthy!

Make sure you can drink 8-7 glasses of water per day! And you should clearly understand that bad lifestyles can make you be difficult to keep hydrated.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Lifestyle Approaches to Boost Your Sex Life

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For some people, a steamy sex life is something that only can be read and found in books. This is reasonable, because with all of the stress packed & mounting hassles into every day will make a good sex be something like only fantasy or dream rather than reality. Today, you can find a lot of tips and articles on internet about how to improve and boost your sex life. But one of the best ideas is the right lifestyle approaches.

You may also like to read about erectile dysfunction in young men!

With the right lifestyle approaches, you are not only able to improve and boost your sex drive but also so useful to promote good health for your entire body in long term. In other words, there are a lot of advantages by having a good lifestyle.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Keep Air Clean At Home (4 Simple Ways)

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It is undeniable that fresh and clean air at home is so important to support our activities and promote good health for our body. But if you live in urban areas, clean air is something that cannot be found easily in your environment. Bad quality air at home can lead to COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and other diseases. Therefore, it is so important to keep air clean at your home.

Generally, there are two major processes of ‘Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease’ that usually occur together. Both are emphysema (can disturb the performance of the lung organ to work) and chronic bronchitis (this can lead to inflammation of the airways).

Friday, December 30, 2011

Keep Active Your Family and Kids (4 Simple Ideas)

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Well, it is undeniable by keeping active your kids will be helpful to promote good health for their body, especially for their heart. There are a lot of options to make your kids active so thus any heart disease or other health problems can be eliminated.

Read also another helpful articles about ideas to keep fit in the winter! The following are 4 simple ideas and tips to keep active your kids and your family.

Make your housework more fun!

One of welcome ideas is by creating a nice game in order to make all family members to do their separate chores more fun. The game is not only useful to encourage fun atmosphere but also helpful for all family members to finish their task more easily.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Ideas to Keep Fit in The Winter!

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Winter is something that can make you lazy to do any kind of exercise! But you have to keep motivated to do an effective exercise in order to keep fit in the winter. This is not only important to keep the health of your body but also closely associated to your productivity.

Well, one of great ideas is indoor exercise! It is effective enough to keep active and fit for your body during the cold days of winter. With a few simple steps and tweaks to your routine, you can maintain your fitness not too difficultly and even this is simple option but effective enough to promote good fitness for your body throughout the unfriendly cold days in this winter. Read also some small mistakes that spread germs!

Indoor exercise will allow you to get adequate exercise without needing to leave your lovely house and face the unfriendly cold temperature in the outside of your home. You can get a valuable result by just only exercising indoors (at least 10 minutes per day) during winter.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Simple Guide to Ward off a Cold (Flue Fighting Tips)

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There are many people who have opinion that catching a cold in this winter is pretty reasonable!

But there are also some simple tips and ideas to ward off a cold in order to keep fit for your body and also will be helpful enough to eliminate or ward off viruses!

The following are helpful flue fighting tips.

Monday, November 28, 2011

3 Healthy Holiday Tips for Your Travel

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Holiday is one of the most fun activities but sometimes without adequate preparation, there are always the risks of yucky infections or nasty injuries.

So it is better also to consider the safety, especially for your health during holiday. Below are helpful healthy holiday tips for your travel.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Ideas for Healthy Christmas Gifts!

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Are you looking for a nice Christmas gift for somebody? Well, you might clearly understand that there are a lot of choices to choose!

But whatever your selection, it is better to choose one that not only actually needed by receiver but also much better will give a significant contribution to the health of recipient. So why you don't choose healthy Christmas gifts!

You can find some great ideas about healthy Christmas gifts on internet, and the following are some of them:

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Choosing a Plastic Surgeon: Crucial Issues to Look For!

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In this modern living, there are a lot of options to look perfect in the appearance of your beauty, including through plastic surgery. But the quality is the priority and don’t forget to the safety by choosing the right plastic surgeon.

As well we know that plastic surgery is usually performed to improve the condition of people who have an accident, certain illnesses or the presence of scars & marks on the body that can influence the appearance of your body. But there are also plastic surgeries that purposed to change the shape, structure or even function of a certain organ of the body.

Here are some crucial issues or clues to look for on choosing a plastic surgeon: