Archive for November, 2008

Virginia Drugstore Refusing to Sell Contraceptives

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

CNN says a new drug store in a Virginia strip mall is refusing to sell any contraceptives of any kind. They are doing this because of religious beliefs. You can also read an here about the Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy (DMC Pharmacy) in Virginia.

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Commonly Known Facts about Smoking

Friday, November 21st, 2008

It is well known that smoking is a health hazard. Smokers know common facts about smoking but it does not bring them stop. Let’s systemize the knowledge about smoking. Smoking can cause: stained teeth, fingers, and hair; emphysema; high blood pressure; heart disease; insomnia; arthritis; nervousness; wrinkles and senilism; decreased sexual activity; mental depression; tobacco angina, pneumonia, asthma, lung cancer; arteriosclerosis; cancer of the lip, tongue, pharynx, larynx, and bladder.

Have you already known all these facts about smoking? Have you ever thought you wouldn’t choose any one disease, but run chances to get some of them, even most of them? To be able to afford yourself to treat these facts with indignity you should know the score.

The most troubling fact about smoking is that nicotine effects human nervous system. This affection begins with somatic and psychological dependence symptoms and ends with the nerve-muscle junctions disorders. The nerve-muscle junctions’ disorders usually cause tremors and shaking.

Nicotine causes narrowing and constriction of the arteries – one of the reasons for the heart failure and heart disease. Nicotine may cause excitement, anxiety, depression, morbid fears and aggravates nervous breakdowns, because of its ability to stimulate. Nicotine makes the blood more viscous and decreases the available oxygen. It also has an adverse effect on the breathing, sweating, intestinal, and heart actions of our vegetative nervous system.

It is also well known that if the mother smokes during pregnancy, the baby’s pulse is one third faster than a non-smoker mother’s baby is, and there can be heart trouble symptoms in the baby after birth. Premature birth is very often related to the mother’s smoking. There is also a confirmed relationship between parents’ smoking and children’s respiratory disease.

Some more facts about smoking… Do you know a smoker needs much more food and sleep because of the fact that nicotine makes his body work harder and less efficiently? The facts about smoking are that the smoker’s heart beats faster; his organism needs more fuel and energy, because it is permanently affected by the toxic agent. So, this is the explanation why smokers have less trouble keeping their weight down. By the way, the other disadvantage about the smoking is that foods taste much better to non-smokers.

How to Stop Premature Wrinkles

Friday, November 21st, 2008

What if I told you many people feel that what they are suffering from is a case of premature wrinkles?  Nobody wants to admit that he or she just may be getting older and are starting to see the results of aging beginning to creep up on them.  Of course there are factors that in some cases may cause the skin to age a little faster than it should, but most of them are dependant on the kind of lifestyle you have led.

If you have spent most of your time working in an office behind some desk then your exposure to the elements and especially the UV radiation of the sun may be far less than what many people face.  If you are the type of person that has lived your life by spending as many of your waking hours working or frolicking in the great outdoors you may in fact see the impact from that.

The elements play a huge role in enhancing the aging process that brings about premature wrinkles.  Although you body may be totally healthy from your constant running, hiking, and biking, your skin may not be so lucky.  The UV radiation from the sun can exact a terrible toll on your skin in the form of free radicals that will attempt to break down your skin at a molecular level.

This problem can be easily solved through the use of products that use plant based ingredients as their primary moisturizers.  Plant oils, emollients, waxes, and extracts all provide you skin with an ample dose of antioxidants, which act to eradicate the free radicals in your skin and quickly and effectively repair the damage they have done.

Another cause of premature wrinkles may simply be heredity.  What you have to figure out in this case is when did your parents and grandparents begin to first begin to suffer from the loss of their collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid?  By examining old pictures of them you should easily be able to piece together when this decline began to take a visible hold on them.

Heredity can be overcome to an extent through the use of products that contain such natural ingredients as Functional Keratin, and Phytessence Wakame.  This pair of ingredients is a mixture of keratin proteins carefully chosen for their ability to create growth inducing cells, and a kelp extract that can deactivate certain enzymes in your skin.

Your premature wrinkles will disappear once Functional Keratin stimulates the growth of new collagen and elastin in your skin, and Phytessence Wakame stops the breakdown of your hyaluronic acid.  With the introduction of new tissue underlying your skin you should be able to expect your skin to smooth out within just a few weeks.

Make no mistake about it.  Premature wrinkles can be beaten through the use of products containing the right mixture of ingredients.  You will be surprised at how much different your skin looks once you get Functional Keratin and Phytessence Wakame working for you.  Give the products containing these ingredients some time to work their magic on you, and you will never use anything else from that point on.

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Study Finds Web Health Searches Fuel Fears

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Everyone likes to search for information about their ailments online. There’s always detailed information all kinds of diseases and conditions. There are also online communities filled with people dealing with similar ailments and illnesses. The BBC reports on a study that found some of this online research may feed health fears and breed a “generation of cyberchondriacs.” The study surveyed 515 Microsoft employees about their health-related searching.

The researchers found Web searches for common symptoms such as headache and chest pain were just as likely or more likely to lead people to pages describing serious conditions as benign ones, even though the serious illnesses are much more rare.

Searching for “chest pain” or “muscle twitches” returned terrifying results with the same frequency as less serious ailments, even though the chances of having a heart attack or a fatal neurodegenerative condition is far lower than having simple indigestion or muscle strain, for example.

About a third of the 515 Microsoft employees who answered a survey on their medical search habits “escalated” their follow-up searches to explore serious, rarer illnesses.

It seems the study only found the obvious. Sure a search for “chest pain” or even “itchy rash” can send you toward some very serious conditions if you search hard enough. The study is missing the point as to how valuable all this information is that people could not easily get before the Internet. No one is suggesting the Internet replaces your physician. It’s important that people have access to all this information so they can conduct their own research and so they can communicate with – and learn from – others suffering from similar conditions and diseases.

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