I have to admit I have a particular tendency to take pills anytime I am not feeling well. Don’t worry – it is nothing like an addiction, it’s just that I prefer to take the easy way out and ask the doctor for a prescription rather than suffer through an illness. Yet do you know that not all drugs are safe? I am sure you’ve heard of countless prescription drugs that have passed safety standards only to be shot down later on when adverse effects come out in patients.
MSN recently published an article on ...
The first quarter of the year is almost over – have you worked on any of your New Year’s Resolutions yet? To be honest, I have not thought much about these in the past 3 months! Thanks to
Katie Hartsough of Finding Dulcinea, I was reminded yet again of what I promised myself several months back.
They have this article called Recommit to Your New Year’s Resolution. In it, they encourage individuals to make resolutions and, more than that, offers ways on how to stick to them. Of ...
I had a blast on Friday and Saturday with my family as we got together for Easter. It was not a traditional celebration, though, as we decided to go around the city this year. There were many sights that some of the children have not seen and we thought that us adults could do with revisiting them as well. Saturday, some of us decided to go shopping and ended up spending almost 10 hours at the mall. As you can imagine, I was dead on my feet by the time ...
Most of us have known this for a while – especially those who have a liking for this wonderful concoction. Yet do you really know why chocolate is good for you? Since it is
Easter tomorrow and you will probably eat more chocolate than you normally do, I thought it would be nice to post something about these delightful treats today.
So, how is chocolate good for the health? The most common fact that people know about is that it contains antioxidants. Of course, antioxidants keep ...
I don’t know what got into my colleague’s head today but she came back from her lunch break with a new toy – a body fat percentage calculator. At first, everyone was just snubbing the gadget – especially the women. After one tried it, though, everyone queued up to check their body fat percentage. It was quite amusing as none of us really knew what the numbers meant – so I took it upon myself to do some research and try to understand what my numbers mean.
According to ...
Prostate cancer is one of the biggest concerns for men all over the world. It is, in fact, a very unpleasant subject that many people do not really want to dwell on it. New research shows, however, that there could be a
vaccine that would protect men in the long run against prostate cancer.
At this stage, though, the vaccine has only been tested in mice. According to
Dr. W Martin Kast of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles,
“By early vaccination, we have ...
We’ve been on the subject of sleep for quite some time now and I am sure you have come across the term sleep debt. What is it exactly? Remember in one of my posts, I mentioned that for every person, there is a
certain amount of sleep that you need every night? Well, if you do not get this amount of sleep, then you incur sleep debt. Just like financial debt, sleep debt accumulates over time.
So, take my example – I am used to sleeping at least ...
Lately I have been sleeping in later and later but I still feel tired and drowsy during the day. Perhaps this is why I can’t seem to get the topic of sleep off my head and, consequently, in this blog. Hopefully, in my quest to find out more about sleep, I will also provide information to those who need it.
So, how do you know if you are sleep deprived? If you always feel sleepy – like I do – does it automatically mean that you are sleep ...
While we’re on the subject of sleep, let’s take a moment to look at things that may affect our sleeping patterns. For sure, one’s
work schedule has something to do with it – tell me about it! I told you how 10 hours of sleep is what find optimal in the last post. Well, lately, some changes in my partner’s work schedule have thrown me off track. I have been getting 10 hours of sleep but it seems that I still am not getting ...
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If I were to answer this question based on my experience, I would answer “at least 10 hours” straightaway. For different people, you’d definitely get different answers. I still remember learning in school that the average amount of sleep that people need is anywhere from 7 to 9 hours. I suppose the key word here is “average.” This means that the figures cannot be pinned down for everyone. So how would you know how much sleep you really need?
According to the
National Sleep Foundation, “sleep needs ...
