Headaches Should Not Be Taken For Granted

Written by Charlie on February 26, 2007

Headaches are only normal for people to encounter. This especially holds true when people are put under a lot of pressure, stressed out and lack the necessary hours of sleep to recharge their body and mind. Abuse of the body�s health is only normal as this is something that most people would usually do when they are always on the go or have to perform the duties necessary for them to uphold their career and lifestyle. But while an aspirin may relieve some people of headaches, recurring instances should not be taken lightly. Headaches are associated with other things such as peripheral vision, heart conditions, and neurological issues which may be a cause for alarm. The best way is to see a physician and determine the cause of headaches and rule out any serious illness, like aneurysm as mentioned above. Headaches may not be ...

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How Thyroid Also Affects Males

Written by Charlie on February 16, 2007

Eight out of ten thyroid patients are actually women. But there is also an alarming number of men affected with hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism. If we base this on figures and not percentages, of 15 million afflicted with thyroidism, 3 million or so come from the men.

It is not certain why many thyroid conditions happen in women than in men. Medical practitioners believe that the hormonal changes women�s body go through during puberty, pregnancy and throughout menopause, may be the result of these. In other words, a woman may genetically inherit this predisposition. Of thyroid cancer cases, about a miniscule percentage is composed of men. Yet if there is a presence of a nodule in the glands, this problem may be a lot more harmful to men than women. Nodules in men are the single components that lead to men�s thyroid cancer. They mutate and ...

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Coffee and Pregnancy?

Written by Charlie on January 26, 2007

We all know that this is a big no no. One thing that coffee drinkers find really frustrating about carrying another life inside of them is the fact that one of their lifelines � coffee � is being denied to them. Yet there seems to be hope for us! A recent study conducted in Denmark showed that it is in fact, quite all right for women to continue having their daily coffee intake during pregnancy. According to Bodil Hammer Bech, Ph.D., of the Institute of Public Health at the University of Aarhus, three cups of coffee a day didn�t have any effects on the baby. The same study showed, however, that women who smoked and drank coffee during their pregnancy had the increased risk of having smaller babies. An important thing to note about the study is that it was conducted ...

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