Chlamydia is known as a human sexually transmitted disease or STD that is a result of the bacterium known as Chlamydia trachomatis. This is said to be damaging to a woman’s reproductive organ especially in severe cases. The sad truth about this STD is that there are no symptoms. If there are any, Chlamydia symptoms [...]
Infrequent disease is a short term for infrequently reported notifiable diseases. In the US, this is a long list of diseases ranging from anthrax to botulism to mumps to smallpox to yellow fever. You may want to know more about the infrequent diseases reported in the US for the first half of 2010. Here are [...]
It’s often difficult to determine whether you have nutritional deficiency, unlike common illnesses or diseases. For instance, you know that you’ve caught a virus when you start sneezing and developing a fever. You also know that you have an allergy if you start developing rashes all over your body. If you have zinc deficiency, on [...]
Most Americans probably think of tuberculosis, or TB, as a disease that our grandparents or great-grandparents had to worry about but was cured decades ago. A century ago, it was known as “consumption” because it slowly consumed a person until the person seemed to waste away. Back then it killed one out of every seven [...]
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Floyd H. Chilton, PhD, a professor at Wake Forest University, authored the book on the Gene Smart Diet. In The Gene Smart Diet: The Revolutionary Eating Plan That Will Rewrite Your Genetic Destiny—And Melt Away The Pounds, Chilton says that understanding your genes is the secret to controlling your weight and reducing your risk [...]
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Renowned naturopath Dr. Peter D’Adamo promoted the blood type diet in his first book, Eat Right 4 Your Type. He inherited the notion from his father that an individual’s ABO blood type can be an important factor in determining a healthy diet for that person. D’Adamo believes that people of different blood types should follow [...]
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Homocysteine is a naturally occurring amino acid that is produced by the body and found in blood plasma. Amino acids are considered to be the building blocks of all the body’s proteins. A homocysteine is a product that is naturally made and is commonly acquired from consuming meat.
Homocysteine levels vary with a person’s gender, age, [...]
There is plenty of information right online that you can use to stay health conscious. These blogs range from those that focus on new medications and treatments that are available to the public to those that concentrate on how you can stay healthy using home testing products. Those who are interested in trying to stay [...]
If you have an iPhone, you can take advantage of some of the best health applications for this device that can help you stay healthy. Most of the iPhone health apps concentrate on diet, fitness, weight loss and good mental health. You can easily download these apps to your iPhone and use them when you [...]
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS is said to be unexplainable. Even after a complete investigation has been made, the cause of the death cannot be established. Experts usually conduct an autopsy or an investigation of the death scene. At times, doctors will also look into an infant’s medical records to see if there are [...]
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