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Common Cold or Flu ?

You’re sneezing, your head hurts and you have fever. Although we often confuse common cold with flu, you have to know that both of them are contagious viral infections caused by viruses from different families and that they have different symptoms.
Usually, cold has easily bearable symptoms that disappear after four five days. The flu is […]

10 Reasons To Get More Sleep

Sleep is more important than physical exercises and good eating. The lack of sleep may cause diseases, produces dark rings around your eyes and ages your skin.
10 reasons to get to bed earlier:
1. Sleep is essential for a good functioning of the brain and of the whole body. Rest adjusts the body temperature and […]

How To Defeat Chronic Fatigue

Chronic fatigue may endanger your health if you ignore it.
Every day a colleague, a relative or a friend are complaining of feeling tired. It seems natural and normal. But it is not. The human body is like a complicated machine that needs fuel: food, water, sleep and physical exercises in order to work properly. Meanwhile, […]

Stem Cells in Blood Transfusions

The use of stem cells in the regeneration of tissues offers new perspectives and gives hope to the world. Stem cells may regenerate the neurons in Parkinson disease, the cardiac cells destroyed by myocardial infarction or the pancreatic cells that are responsible with the production of insulin.
A new perspective on the use of stem cells […]

Six Medical Myths

Turkey meat makes you sleepy. The faint light ruins your sight. Drink at least eight glasses of water per day. There are some myths and even the doctors think they are true.
Here are six myths promoted by the media and some doctors. They have no scientific background.

We Must Drink At Least Eight Glasses of Water […]

Nine Tips for Back Pains

Have you had enough of your back pains? Here are some smart and easy tips to help you put an end to your pain!

1. Have a Proper Position In Bed
What you should do: when you want to sleep, lay down on your back or on one side, in the fetus position. This positions respect the […]

12 Steps For A Healthier Life

1. Breakfast

It’s a tag, but also a truth: people who have breakfast burn less calories at lunch and dinner. A breakfast rich in proteins but low in fats will give you the energy needed for the entire day. Or you can choose a breakfast rich in fibers that will satisfy your appetite until noon.

2. Less […]

Preventing diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often referred to as diabetes, is the result of insufficient insulin hormone and is characterized by high quantities of sugar in one’s blood.
Its most frequent symptoms are: frequent urination, excessive thirst, extreme hunger, unusual weight loss, increased fatigue, blurry vision.
At the moment, diabetes is considered a chronic disease and seeing that there […]

Alcohol - does it cause you troubles?

Those persons who drink alcohol on a regular basis over long periods of time will notice that the more time passes since they last drank alcohol, the worse they will feel. The general symptoms that occur are: nausea, sweating, shaking of fingers and hands, fear, tension.
All these are caused by the fact that the body […]

Staying fit: 4 Good habits and 4 Bad habits

Which are the best daily habits for a healthy life? Which are the less indicated ones? In case you decided to live a healthy life we recommend you to pay more attention to apparently insignificant daily activities but which on the whole play an important role for your health.
Try to answer to the following questions:
What […]

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