What Is Hepatitis?
Hepatitis is a term used to describe an inflammation (often a viral infection) of the liver tissue than can hinder the normal functioning. Hepatitis viruses attack the liver and may result in acute or chronic hepatitis. Sometimes, hepatitis is self-limiting,...
Vitamin Deficiencies: Effect On Cerebral Neuropathways
If you want to live your life long and full, you need to take care of your brain because as long as your brain is healthy, your body is healthy. Vitamins and minerals are essential micronutrients that help your brain...
Nutrition And Brain Functioning
Our brain controls every aspect of our lives, including our heartbeat, breathing, senses, thoughts, and movements. The brain also requires nutrients to perform these functions optimally. Improper nutrition can lead to cognitive decline and other brain disorders. How Does Nutrition...
Healthy Brain: What Can You Do To Maintain Your Brain Health?
Do you know your brain is an essential part of your body for living a fuller and longer life? A healthy brain helps you solve daily life problems, communicate with the world around you, and control your body’s functions. On...
World Sickle Cell Anemia Day
The whole world celebrates 19th June as World Sickle Cell Anemia Day. It focuses on raising awareness of the most common genetic disease, also known as Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). In this post, you’ll find out what this disease is...
Blood Pressure: Why Is It So Important?
Almost 50% of adults in the U.S. have elevated blood pressure (hypertension). The problem is, not everyone knows they have it. Multiple factors can put you at risk of developing hypertension. It’s crucial that you learn to manage it if...
Wellbeing and diabetes
Wellbeing and diabetes: some facts Wellbeing and diabetes are opposites. Every year, in June, diabetes is getting full attention during the Diabetes Week. And World Diabetes Day on the 14th November is marked by the World Health Organization (WHO) to...
Vitamin D and the effect of sun lotions
Vitamin D in a nutshell Vitamin D is in fact a pro-hormone rather than a vitamin as such. This means that it only becomes active and serves its purpose after absorption and metabolism within the body. It comes in...
Colon cancer symptoms
Colon cancer symptoms: what are they? The signs and symptoms of colon cancer depend on the location of the tumor, and whether or not it has spread to other areas in the body (metastasis). Most of the colon cancer symptoms can be divided into two: local...
Can vaccines prevent cancer?
The perception of health benefits of vaccines Since the end of the 18thcentury with the English doctor Edward Jenner, and especially one century later with the seminal works of French biologist Louis Pasteur, vaccination has proven its efficacy against some...
