Most active persons try hard to maintain or lose weight. Well, there is another category of people: those who try hard to put on weight!
Rugby or hockey players, bodybuilders and sprinters try to increase their muscular mass, just as old persons try not to put on weight.
If you think you are too skinny and you […]

Scars depend on person, on age and on the affected wound. Some scars evolve faster than other does and it is the fastest at children. Usually it takes six months, even a year, to get back to the original look. Meanwhile, you can take some action!
How?
For a good cicatrisation, the wound must be very […]

Obesity is a health problem that leads to serious medical complications, the shortening of life expectancy and a higher cost for society.
There is a well established treatment strategy for fighting against obesity according to the characteristics of each case. The first step is the evaluation of the medical background of each patient, the treatments he […]

‘Silent’ diseases, medication and life style lead to an unexpected decrease of libido. Find out what are the enemies of a satisfactory sex life.
Untreated Diseases
‘Hidden’ diseases such as anemia and diseases of endocrine glands may cause a low libido. They affect the period, fertility and provoke exhaustion, depression and the decrease of sexual appetite. […]

Do you think love is just a matter of feelings? Well, you’re wrong: love lives in the brain and it is in fact the result of some hormones variations. This is the less romantic side of love, yet interesting. These hormonic modifications explain the need of finding your soul mate and the serenity of those […]

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 […]

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 […]

You love to have tanned beautiful legs and nice pedicure and to wear short skirts and dresses. Still, something is bothering you. Lately, on your legs appeared some blue greenish enlarged and convoluted veins. Above all, Varicose veins are a matter of health and not beauty, because they indicate blood circulation problems.
Even if some people […]

Organic food, regular physical exercises, meditation… and a pack of cigarettes per day - a life style that undermines itself, as Abby Ellyn writes in an article in ‘New York Times’.
Don’t be surprised if your plastic surgeon will advise you to give up smoking when you contact him for a facelift. And you know what? […]

Erectile dysfunction, also called impotence, affects men over the age of 40. There are 80% physical causes and only 20% psychological causes. The good news is that there are efficient treatments that can fix this problem.
Each man is, at a certain time in his life, unable to initiate and maintain a good erection until “the […]