I have noticed that most of the posts here on The Health Blog is focused physical health. While aiming for a healthy lifestyle that will result in a healthy body is indeed important, I think we sometimes fail to emphasize the importance of having good mental health.
Good mental health is not just being free of mental illnesses that would require you to see a doctor. Instead, you can look at it as having the "ability to enjoy life, and create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience." In short, it is important because it is a prerequisite to being able to live your life to the fullest.
Just because you are an achiever doesn't mean that you have sound mental health. Indeed, we only need look at the number of famous people in history who have taken their ...
If you had a strange physical deformity would you choose to keep it or would you want to remove it? You would think that most people would choose to have surgery to have it corrected but not Chandre Oram, who was born with a
human tail.
In the womb human embryos have a prenatal tail but as the embryo develops into a fetus the tail is absorbed by the growing body. But this didn’t happen to Oram and he now has a tail 13 inches long. Despite this Oram has refused any operation to have it removed saying he wouldn’t be the same person without it.
Oram lives in West Bengal and was born on the date known as Rama Navami, which is the birthday of Hindu King
Rama. Because of this Oram is regarded by many as an incarnation of the ape like Hindu deity Hanuman. Thousands of people queue up ...
Eating a healthy diet and being the right body weight is important for men who are hoping to become dads.
A study conducted by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine found that over three quarters of men with a low sperm count did not eat enough vegetables and fruits.
Studies have also shown that obesity can increase
male infertillty. Aim to be the right weight for your height by eating sensibly and exercising on a regular basis.
Follow the principles of
healthy eating. Eat a variety of foods that will help ensure you have all the nutrients you need such as zinc and selenium, which are essential for good sperm production.
As well as eating healthily,
men with infertility problems should also quit smoking should also quit smoking and cut down their alcohol consumption.
The effects of drinking alcohol causes a noticeable decrease ...
The holidays are over and so is the feasting. In case your resolve about eating healthily during the holidays weakened, then you're probably thinking of ways to shed off the pounds that you put on.
Though it is pretty tempting to go for quick fix/crash diets, we all know that going on one is not the right way to go about losing weight. First of all, crash diets are not not good for your health. And second, they're not an effective way to keep those pounds off. Sure you might lose a few pounds when you go on a crash diet, but since this kind of dieting is but reactionary, you'll find that those pounds will come creeping back snagging you into an endless crash diet roller coaster.
If you want to shed the extra pounds you got from eating way too ...
