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When you’re planning your vacation overseas you look forward to sunny skies, romantic nights, and spectacular sights. What you don’t look forward to is the possibility of becoming ill or injured during your trip, but it happens.
If your regular group health policy doesn’t cover your medical expenses overseas, they won’t be much help if you [...]

Overweight people have an increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and other illnesses. Losing weight reduces the risk.
Men and very active women may need up to 2,500 calories daily. Other women and inactive men need only about 2,000 calories daily. A safe plan is to eat 300 to 500 fewer calories a day [...]

Having headache is annoying and sometimes it is difficult for us to avoid. Mostly when we are under pressure, headache appeared automatically. If it gets worse, we might faint due to the pain we felt.
A headache is a condition of mild to severe pain in the head. It can also attack at our upper back [...]

So you have high cholesterol and need to lower it? That is no surprise considering how many people have high cholesterol these days. To help lower your cholesterol, here are 10 tips you can get started with today.
As with anything health related, diet and exercise are the two crucial components. What you eat is critical [...]

Cold and flu season is upon us. The first line of defense is to wash your hands often, and keep your work area clean by wiping it down with an alcohol solution.

Hypertension is commonly known as high blood pressure and relates to the pressure or tension in the arteries and veins of the body. Blood pressure is the pressure that causes the blood to flow through the body from areas of high pressure, the arteries through the body organs and into areas of low pressure in [...]

If you’ve ever had an asthma attack, you know how miserable it is to be doing something and then not be able to breathe.

Bad breath, morning breath, breath odor or halitosis are all terms used to describe a noticeably unpleasant odor exhaled on the breath. Halitosis is not a problem by itself, but it can cause concerns in our interpersonal relationships.

Honey is the most known apicultural product, it is a substance that the bees produce through a complicated process of elaboration, where they absorb the nectar and deposit it in their stomach, then go back to the beehive to deliver it, throwing up repeated times; this way ferments, acid and albumen are added to the [...]

Many classify cholesterol as good and bad. This is not true. Cholesterol is simply cholesterol. When thinking of good and bad, many are referring to HDL’s and LDL’s. HDL refers to high density lipoprotein while LDL refers to low density lipoprotein. Lipoproteins are merely cholesterol carriers. Lipoproteins are part lipid (fats) and part protein. The [...]