Eat Your Way To A Healthy Heart

Wednesday 31st March 2010A healthy diet can reduce your chances of getting heart disease, and believing that prevention is better than cure I have come up with a list of foods that you can eat to help keep your heart healthy.Salmon Fish is an excellent source of omega 3 fatty acids that protect your heart by reducing both inflammation and the risk...

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Omega 3 Linked To A Longer Life

Monday 29th March 2010(NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, have found that omega-3 fatty acids have another beneficial effect besides maintaining a healthy heart. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study found that patients with high levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their blood experienced...

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Can Seaweed Help With Obesity?

Wednesday 24th March 2010Yesterday scientists from The university of Newcastle revealed that Seaweed could be the answer to all our obesity woes.Researchers found seaweed fibre could reduce the body's fat uptake by more than 75%.A fibrous material in Sea Kelp called alginate was better at preventing fat absorption than most over-the-counter slimming...

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Contraception - Abstinence

Monday 22nd March 2010If you are looking for a contraceptive that is 100% effective at preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases then abstinence is the perfect contraceptive for you.While the idea of abstinence is not taught in many schools, in my opinion it should be. A good sex education class should cover all bases including how to...

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Contraception - The Morning After Pill

Monday 15th March 2010The morning after pill can be used by a woman to prevent pregnancy after having unprotected sex. While it is very effective at preventing pregnancy if they are used soon after having unprotected sex, they are not a barrier to protect you from any sexually transmitted infections. The emergency contraceptive pill can be taken...

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Something For The Weekend 24

Friday 12th March 2010Now, if you have ever watched Dragons Den then you may have actually heard of the Tangle Teezer Detangling Hair Brush.As the brainchild of celebrity colourist Shaun P, this unique Tangle Teezer Detangling Hair Brush waves goodbye to those troublesome hair tangles while dramatically reducing hair breakage and splitting.Available...

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Women And Hair Loss

Thursday 11th March 2010Here is a really interesting article I found today about women and hair loss that I wanted to share with you all. It's written by Tracee Cornforth and you can fond the origianl article here on about.comThe advertisements for treatment of balding and hair loss in men can't be missed. These ads might lead one to believe that hair...

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Estrogen and Your Health

Wednesday 10th March 2010Estrogen and Your HealthWhat Is Estrogen?: What is estrogen and how does it affect your health? If you're interested in lowering your risk of breast cancer,or if you want to understand how to prevent recurrence after treatment, it's important to understand the role that estrogen, and other hormones, play in your health. Get...

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Contraception - Intrauterine Device (IUD)

Monday 8th March 2010 An IUD is a small, T-shaped contraceptive device made from plastic and copper that fits inside the womb (uterus). It used to be called a coil or a loop. It is a long-lasting and reversible method of contraception but it is not a barrier method. This means that an IUD cannot stop you getting sexually transmitted...

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Something For The Weekend 23

Friday 5th March 2010Okay, you've seen the adverts on television promoting this particular product, and if you are anything like me you probably think 'yeah right' because Bio-Oil does sound like one of those beauty miracles that's just too good to be true. Well I can verify that this product is a miracle and it does do exactly what it says on the...

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Eat More Curry...It's Good For You

Wednesday 3rd march 2010Once hailed as Britain's most popular dish, the curry is much more than a tasty tea time treat. While curry or curry powder is a concoction of a few different spices, one main spiced used in curry is indeed turmeric. This spice is a member of the ginger family and this is what gives the curry dishes that yellowish colour.Curry...

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Contraception - Vasectomy

Monday 1st March 2010 The Vasectomy is a simple and straightforward operation that stops sperm entering semen. It is a permanent form of contraception, but as a rule it shouldn't interfere with your sex life because you will still have erections and produce semen. However, it's clear that a very small number of men do run into trouble after...

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