When it comes to creating a budget, most people don’t consider that it can help their health. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, however. When you get your finances under control, the rest of your life easily falls in line behind. Here are five ways that you can utilize your budget to improve your health: 1. Credit Card Debt With the recent tank in the economy, more and more people have found...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Is It In Your Head? Although stress and anxiety are not believed to directly cause irritable bowel syndrome, studies indicate that stress and anxiety can and often do accompany IBS. The physical toll of IBS can certainly stress anyone out. According to UpToDate, while stress and anxiety probably do not cause IBS, stress and anxiety do affect digestion and can make IBS...

A recent study in the UK suggests that people who drive while suffering from cold or flu symptoms may experience the same motoring tendencies that effect people who drive under the influence. According to this study, people who drive while ill see their ability to successfully operate a motor vehicle drop by fifty percent when compared to the same skill of healthy drivers.  Sick drivers suffer...

I have suffered with allergies for years. Outdoor allergies had me sitting in my bedroom looking out the window, watching my brother have a great time in the yard like kids are supposed to do. I still feel twinges of jealousy when I think about that lonely, sad little kid stuck in the house during the warmest months of the year when the other children were out playing. Times have...

As a child develops, the brain needs help developing its capacity to learn and remember information. While schools try to teach students many skills that can be transferred across various subjects, such as critical thinking, children are also expected to memorize names, dates, equations, grammar rules and many other things. All children can benefit from additional assistance, whether it be the...

When you leave the comfort of your home country and travel to different climates and environments abroad, you risk exposure to diseases and health risks. Diseases that are not prevalent in the US such as malaria, dengue fever, rabies and yellow fever are prevalent in other countries. It’s important that you understand what to do in order to stay healthy during your foreign travel. Vaccinations...

If you’re studying for your MBA, there’s no doubt that your time is limited. Trying to find a balance between school, your relationships and your health can be difficult, if not downright impossible. What you must remember, though, is that if you don’t keep yourself healthy, you will suffer both physically and mentally. Failing health will ultimately take its toll on your studies. While you...

Remember how creeped out you felt when, as a child, your parents urged you to “sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite!”?  Probably not the most kosher way to ensure a child’s sleep, especially when you consider that bed bugs are tiny parasites that can infest your bed, furniture, clothing, or almost anywhere in your house with little bloodsuckers.  No wonder that happy little jingle...

Hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities have patient safety at their core and this is something which is invariably achieved through the hard work and dedication of healthcare professionals such as nurses and doctors and the use of technology such as nurse call systems. This type of technology is essentially devised with the intention of making the day to day routine of nurses...

Blood pressure is the stress put upon blood vessel walls by the blood that circulates through them. In the body, blood gets pumped out of the heart, and travels through the various parts of the anatomy via arteries and capillaries, delivering life-sustaining oxygen. When that blood pressure is high, known as high blood pressure, or hypertension, those pathways shrink, and the heart has to work...

MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. An MRI machine is used to create detailed images of the inside of the human body from almost any angle. Using a combination of powerful magnetic fields and radio waves, an MRI scan can help doctors see and examine a body’s organs, bones and soft tissues. The procedure is painless and harmless, and can be used to detect the exact location and nature of...

These days it seems like everyone is on some kind of health kick.  If they’re not trying to lose weight, get fit, and reduce their cholesterol and blood pressure they’re eating organic, training for a marathon, or trying to quit smoking.  The truth is that there are plenty of health issues to contend with and people are starting to realize that the quick-fix mentality of diet pills and...

Running your business from home can sound like a great idea. Did you also know it can cause your health and relationships to suffer? If you are type A, chances are you will focus all of your energy on your company and forget that you need to push yourself away from your desk and get out of your office. If you wouldn’t put in 16 hours a day on-site, you shouldn’t be doing it at home...

Have you worn a favorite piece of jewelry for years only to wake up one morning and find the body part the jewelry is covered with a red, flaky rash? Or maybe you’ve bought a new piece of jewelry and found yourself reacting to it as soon as it touched your skin. If you’ve had this problem, chances are you are among the over 30 percent of the population with a nickel allergy. This allergic...

Any nutritionist or other health professional will tell you that there is no such thing as a diet. Diets don’t work. Diets, in fact, set you up for failure. Think about it: you diet, you lose weight, you go off of your diet and you gain weight. Rather than talk about diets, let’s discuss a lifestyle change: The Mediterranean Diet. Yes, we know, we just said there’s no such thing as a diet....

Car accidents are something certainly something to dread, no matter the season. Involvement in a winter weather car accident brings with it a whole new level of stress. Roads are more slippery, making it difficult for other drivers to stop, the temperature is lower making it more dangerous to be stranded, and if there is snow and ice on the road it can take longer for first responders to reach...

Everyone makes mistakes in life and when it comes to dieting, there are plenty of mistakes that people make. If you’ve been trying to lose weight and haven’t had much success, take a look at these ten mistakes and see which ones you’ve been making. Aim to correct just one mistake at a time and you’ll likely start noticing results. 1. Drinking Calories: While you know to...

Winter can be harsh on your skin. The cold temperatures outside and dry heat inside the home actively dry out your skin, leaving your complexion dull and lifeless. You can keep skin healthy and enjoy a natural glow throughout the winter by following a few basic tips. Humidify Add some moisture to the air in your home with humidifiers. They will prevent your skin from drying out during the long...

If we are lucky, we’ll live into ripe old age. However, along with a longer lifespan comes physical changes to our bodies that we aren’t ready for or would rather ignore. One of the first signs of aging is a change in eyesight, particularly how our eyes function at night. Fading night vision is common and shouldn’t be ignored. Denying the change in the functionality of your sight is not...

We have known for a long time that exhaust fumes affect our health in many bad ways. It may lead to respiratory problems, cancer, heart disease and even death. However new studies have shown it can even affect the brain as well. Two different studies show that exhaust fumes can affect the brain in both good and bad ways. The Bad Effects of Exhaust: Jui-Chiuan Chen, a medical epidemiologist at the...

We all know what we should be eating, but when you are faced with a budget it can make the high processed, cheap and convenient foods alluring. As a society we are obsessed with staying fit and being healthy. This may seem out of reach to some of us who are trying to stretch every dollar these days. But rest assured, you too can be a healthy eater on a budget. Here are a few ideas to take the...

With all the crazy weather that we’ve been having lately I’m sure you’ve been asking yourself if it is related to global warming. Although its existence has been hotly debated, even hardcore resisters of the concept are starting to change their tune. You can’t deny that the earth is in fact getting warmer and it is starting to affect our weather patterns at an alarming pace. It seems...

At the beginning, I’d like to second all the posts here about losing fat by gaining muscle. There is a ton of benefit to building your chest and pushing the fat out by increasing the muscle. I have done and I have seen it done. But just as “getting fit” requires more than running your heart out, losing that extra amount of fat on the chest demands more than weight lifting. If you want to...

You know how you’ve always heard “eat your carrots, they improve your vision.”  Well, it turns out your mother was right.  Yet, carrots are only one of many natural foods with Vitamin A you can eat to improve your vision. One way you can get more vitamin A into your body is through juicing.  That’s because liquids go straight to your bloodstream.  That’s why people recommend...

It seems like every other day some new study comes out linking cell phones to conditions as varied as carpal tunnel syndrome, rashes, and brain tumors.  Of course, this is totally aside from the very real threat posed by automobile accidents that occur because drivers are distracted from the task at hand by talking or texting on their cell phones.  But what if there were actually healthy...