Apart from improving your quality of sleep, reducing your stress levels, and enhancing your overall physical health, yoga can also raise your energy! When you stretch, you make it easier for the blood to circulate in your body, resulting to energy boost. Yogic poses, particularly those that stretch the spine, can help combat debilitating fatigue symptoms and
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If you’ve got too much fat on your abdomen, you need to know that you’re facing a real health hazard that shouldn’t be ignored. More and more research points to the dangers of ‘belly fats’, providing reasons why we should start working out to eliminate them. Belly fat is the most dangerous body fat. Excess fats present around
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They say for you to be successful, you’ve got to have clear and unambiguous goals so you would exactly know what to do to achieve them. Whilst the human mind is highly capable of setting clear goals, this process appears to be hampered among those who have clinical depression, a new study suggests. Researchers at University of Liverpool, headed by Dr
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Most of us know that deep frying, grilling and other forms of aggressive cooking destroys the nutritional profile of meats, and worse, make them carcinogenic. But experts propose a better solution: marinate it first. Not only does this technique make the meat softer and more flavourful, it can also reduce its toxicity. Previous studies show that when
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Most smokers use tobacco regularly because they are addicted to nicotine. Nicotine dependence is considered one of the hardest addictions to break. Good thing, the increasing awareness about the harmful effects of smoking has encouraged many people to quit. Unfortunately, more than 85 per cent of them experience a relapse, most within one week. There are pl
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One in 4 women and one in 12 men in the UK suffer from migraine, according to the NHS. But migraine is more than a severe headache. It is a chronic neurological condition that causes intense pain usually on one side of the head, and is accompanied by other debilitating symptoms such as vomiting, nausea and extreme sensitivity to light. A single migraine atta
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For a long time, insulin was not thought to play a role in the lactation process. But a growing body of research suggests that it does have a significant function which goes beyond the uptake of sugar. These findings could help explain why many women have difficulty producing breast milk. Previously, the researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
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Strokes are a medical emergency that can be fatal. Every year, there are 15 million cases of stroke worldwide, of which nearly 6 million die and 5 million develop permanent disability. Stroke is the world’s second leading cause of disability, next to dementia, according to the World Heart Federation. Although stroke incidence in the UK has declined for
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Depression is one of the most common mental health problems of the modern world, with one in 10 men and one in 4 women experiencing periods of real depression during their lifetime. For those going through depression there seems to be no way out, as if they are trapped and confined in this state, and that it will go on like this forever. For those who care f
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How often do the phrases, “anything worth doing is worth doing well,” or “practice makes perfect,” come into your head? In a today’s perfection-obsessed society, many women are finding that trying to keep up with their inner perfectionist is having a negative effect on their health and happiness. Perfectionism isn’t alwa
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