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One of the medicines utilized by the ancient Chinese for a good thousand of years for effectively treating allergies and asthma, is the now famous diet drug called ephedra. Now, ephedra has been dubbed as the most effective weight loss product here in the United States, the Ephedra Educational...

• Date Added: 6/5/2008
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FDA banned ephedra because it believed that taking ephedra based diet pills are far more harmful than carrying around excess fat day in and day out. But ultimately, the question is; do ephedra diet pills actually work?

The government, with all its wit and wisdom, has tried unsuccessfully to...

• Date Added: 6/5/2008
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Essential Massage Facts
A massage is a traditional form of therapy in which muscles and other soft tissues of the body are manipulated to improve health and well-being. Variants of massage range from tissues to deeper manual techniques. Massage was practiced as a healing therapy for...

• Date Added: 4/29/2006
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Buying an exercise bike? An exercise bike is an excellent way to build fitness, lose weight and get fit.

But how do you choose the best one? This buying guide will show you exactly what to look for when shopping so you can find the very best exercise bike for your...

• Date Added: 9/20/2005
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Diet pills may be very tempting if you want to lose weight, especially if you've tried the more conventional weight loss diets with little or no success. If this is the case, exercise extreme caution! Research the product carefully...

• Date Added: 12/4/2006
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10 Ingredients in Weight Loss Pills

Looking for help with losing weight? Help that goes beyond the usual lifestyle changes, portion control advice and exercise routines? Weight-loss supplements touting names like "fat burner" and "thermo max" can be enticing. But do they work? And even more...

• Date Added: 12/28/2005
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Fatigue is a term that is very difficult to define exactly. The reason for this is that it shows different symptoms, causes and conditions in different people. In broader sense fatigue is the feeling of tiredness, sleepy, exhaustion, lethargic, drowsy all the time through out the day. The other...

• Date Added: 6/26/2008
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Have you been feeling a little blue lately? Statistics claim that an estimated half a million people suffer each winter from a condition called Seasonal Affective Disorder. Sometimes this can bring on severe depression along with weight gain. For many of us it is only a re-adjusting time that...

• Date Added: 2/8/2006
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Have wheat refuse all day long for a ship-shape you

Refined tastes have all the appreciation from one and all. But when it comes to food, refined means more fat and more carbohydrates and less of fibre. If you have not known this basic fact earlier, let me tell you that fibre is a super car...

• Date Added: 8/10/2006
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There is a popular saying that goes, "You can never be thin or rich enough". Well, being thinner is something we will discuss today. Wealth is a different story! But, "thin" is a deceptive word. Too many people today, and not just the young, are living with a plethora of eating disorders because...

• Date Added: 5/8/2006
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How Important Is Flossing?
In one word...very! Flossing not only cleans areas of the teeth where ordinary toothbrushes can't reach, it is a key factor in preventing gum disease. Brushing is an excellent beginning, but flossing is a crucial factor when it comes to keeping healthy...

• Date Added: 4/24/2006
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Some people say that "there is no such thing as a "good food" or "bad food", just "bad diets". Usually after that they say something about another kind of low-fat, balanced diet which will let you reach your 100 birthday in good health. Most of these "wonder diets" became sooner or later another...

• Date Added: 4/24/2006
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Reverse Osmosis is a system of filtration that is highly effective at removing even the smallest particles from a liquid. It is also known as Hyperfiltration. The Reverse Osmosis process can remove particles as small as a dissolved individual ion. The most popular use for this process is in the...

• Date Added: 3/23/2006
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The New Year has brought with it some drastic shifts in the fitness industry. What was hot and trendy in 2005 isn't necessarily still giving off the same steam in 2006. Fitness in 2006 is no-nonsense! Functional fitness marks the return of many tied and true fitness trends that are hardly worthy...

• Date Added: 7/10/2006
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The term sinusitis is one many individuals have heard mentioned in the past yet may be unsure as to the true definition. Those who have been diagnosed with sinusitis may also be in the dark with regard to what causes sinusitis, the symptoms surrounding this medical condition and some of the more...

• Date Added: 6/23/2006
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Alternative Names: Condyloma Acuminatum, Fig Wart, Moist Wart, Pointed Wart, Venereal Wart, Verruca Acuminata

Definition:

Genital warts are small, benign (harmless) growths caused by a viral infection i.e. Human papillomavirus, typically HPV 6 and HPV 11. A female with genital warts...

• Date Added: 10/31/2006
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One round of boxing stimulates all of the major muscle groups – delivering a total blast to the body that helps improve power, coordination, aerobic fitness (lengthier sessions with oxygen) to build endurance and stamina, and anaerobic fitness (shorter quick bursts of training without oxygen) to...

• Date Added: 2/26/2007
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Welcome to the cultural era of the energy drink! It seems that everyone from business men to high school students are jumping on the energy drink bandwagon. There are so many different energy drinks to choose from, available in just about a zillion different flavors and in every color of the...

• Date Added: 8/10/2006
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Pigeons have lived together with human beings for thousands of years. Some pigeons carried posts to help our ancestors and most of them dropped diseases for us to suffer.

Human diseases and health risks associated with pigeon droppings are Histoplasmosis, Cryptococcosis and...

• Date Added: 5/24/2006
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There are a couple of things in life that we know, at some stage, we will be worried about. Growing old certainly seems to be one of them. More and more, our culture is becoming obsessed by the cult of youth. Not only are film stars and musicians young and beautiful, but increasingly, politicians...

• Date Added: 1/26/2006
• Views: 368