Health Resources

We’ve all heard of someone having “high cholesterol,” and your doctor may have even told you that yours is high. Most of us would agree that it’s a bad thing, but few really know what cholesterol is or how to combat unhealthy levels.

Cholesterol is a fat-like substance that your body actually needs a small amount of in order to function normally. However, if you have too much of it in your bloodstream, the extra amounts may be deposited in your coronary arteries where it can lead to the narrowing and blockages that cause the signs and symptoms of heart disease.

In some cases, certain prescription medication can cause elevated cholesterol levels, but for the most part, inherited risk factors, a sedentary lifestyle and an unhealthy diet are the main causes:  Read more...

Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations (for example, in the case of twins, or triplets). Human pregnancy is the most studied of all mammalian pregnancies.

Human pregnancy lasts approximately 9 months between the time of the last menstrual cycle and childbirth (38 weeks from fertilisation). The medical term for a pregnant woman is genetalian, just as the medical term for the potential baby is embryo (early weeks) and then fetus (until birth). A woman who is pregnant for the first time is known as a primigravida or gravida 1: a woman who has never been pregnant is known as a gravida 0; similarly, the terms para 0, para 1 and so on are used for the number of times a woman has given birth.

Medical and legal definitions

In many societies’ medical and legal definitions, human pregnancy is somewhat arbitrarily divided into three trimester periods, as a means to simplify reference to the different stages of fetal development The first trimester period carries the highest risk of miscarriage (natural death of embryo or fetus). During the second trimester the development of the fetus can start to be monitored and diagnosed. The third trimester marks the beginning of viability, which means the fetus might survive if an early birth occurs.  Read more...

Teeth are a part of human body that can’t be natural replaced. They play a very important role in digestive system and in whole body functions. That’s why is necessary to take good care of them and keep them in perfect condition.

Decay is a complex disease. Its starts like a little injury which evolves into a cavity, destroying step by step the hard layer of tooth.

Based on its intensity, decay can be: first grade, which affects only tooth enamel; second grade, which penetrates tooth enamel; third grade, consist in deep penetration of the tooth, accompanied by pulp necrosis.

For diagnosis and treatment you must sea a dentist. Before you get to the dentist, you can use parsley as a natural treatment.

Here are some ideas for tooth care, using medical plants.

Natural treatment with sweet basil:

Decoct from two tea spoons of dry leaves for a mug, with cold water. After ten minutes, you boil it, and then you wait 15 minutes to cool. With the mixture you rinse out the mouth several times a day.

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In North America, it’s been computed recently that roughly 65% of the people are overweight with thirty percent of these being at least medically obese. To add to this shocking statistic is the figure that 15 to 20% of the state’s youngsters are also overweight or obese. Now, obesity is starting to spread more to nations that have always had a comparatively low rate of obesity, like those of Japan and China which is alarming.

This is one of those cases where being part of the majority isn’t considered a nice thing. According to the body mass index (BMI), you are thought to be oversized if your index is between twenty five and twenty nine. The US college of sports medicine outlines obesity as a quantity of body fat that increases the chance of illness and disease. As a rule, more than 25% subcutaneous fat for men and more than 32% fat for girls is regarded as obesity and unhealthy.

Let’s take a look at some of the likeliest reasons that so many people throughout the U.S and the rest of the world are overweight:

Reason one: Overeating

Reason two: Shortage of exercise and activity  Read more...

Health supplements today have become a necessity if one wants to empower her/his own body against aging and disease. Some argue that health supplements are not at all necessary but with the invention of food processing methods and modern farming practices, food quality is now lower in nutrient density.

Chemical fertilizers, environmental pollution, and food preservatives have deprived us from essential nutrients that are needed to fend off diseases and repair our immune system. Nutritional health supplements hence are necessary to close this nutrient gap. These nutrients include minerals and vitamins but also have traces of amino acids, co-vitamins and much more. These health supplements are made up of concentrated whole foods. We all know that tomatoes are a great source of vitamins E and C. You will have to eat half a dozen tomatoes a day to get these nutrients in proper amount. But dehydrate them and grind them up and then put them into soluble capsules and you can achieve the same result.  Read more...