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“The same procedure as every year” – Are Healthy Resolutions useful?
New Year’s Eve, just before midnight. Countless good intentions – spoken or not – are caught and sent to the fireworks brightly lit sky. But is this really make sense? Or is it only an insubstantial ritual?
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With training and aids for incontinence
The diagnosis of incontinence are the most affected themselves. They watch as starts to dribble urine or at worst a urine stream comes at a sneezing, coughing or laughing fit. A stressful situation that can cause even that patients avoid publicity.
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Are antibiotics useful in case of acute sinusitis?
Still, many doctors rashly prescribe for acute sinusitis antibiotics. A new study now shows, that the drug therapy has little advantage over placebo.
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Good intent beginning of the year – healthy without cigarettes
Many take the start in the new year the good intention to live smoke-free from now on. In order to succeed, it is important to tune soon enough for the time without cigarettes.
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Too much work causes depression
Who works in the long term more than two hours a day, doubled his risk of suffering from severe depression. This is the result of a study by American scientists.
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With hot drinks against freezing
On cold days, the cold creeps downright through the body. What feels uncomfortable, is also unhealthy. Hot drinks help. What few people know is that there appear the hot drinks also different.
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Good resolutions for the new year: Remove few extra pounds
Among the most common New Year’s resolutions taken at all include the famous “Few Extra” that want to be sure to get rid motivated next year forever. So how do you manage to resist temptation and to remain permanently slim?
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HDL Cholesterol: “The Good Cholesterol” but no heart protector?
In contrast to LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol is considered to be cardioprotective. But a new gene study about its cardioprotective effects causes doubt. Cholesterol are lipids intended to transported to different parts of the body to be able to bind certain proteins. These compounds are called lipoproteins of lipids and proteins. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) transports cholesterol in to the tissues where it is needed as a building block of membranes, but also deposit in the vessel walls and can promote atherosclerosis. Therefore, a high LDL level is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) refers to excess cholesterol from the body cells and brings it to the liver.…
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With motion fit and health in the new year
At the end of each year we like to look back on the past. What was it, what can you do better? We usually start with good intentions in the new year. Reason enough to continue to pay attention to more exercise.
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Modified stress and the activity of our genes?
That can lead to physical and emotional stress disorders, is known. But if even a short-term stress can affect the activity of our genes, researchers wanted to find out.