Anorexia nervosa typically has numerous complications. The disease has one of the highest death rates among all mental illness, hovering around five percent or higher than this. Death may occur suddenly- even when someone is not severely underweight. This may result from abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) or electrolyte imbalance. In fact, it was the anorexia [...]
Bypass surgery is a surgical procedure performed to relieve angina and the risk of coronary heart disease. The arteries or veins from elsewhere in the body are grafted to the coronary arteries to bypass blockages. The surgery reroutes, or bypasses, blood around clogged arteries to improve blood flow and oxygen to the heart. The surgery [...]
If your hands and feet turn white with cold- called Raynaud’s Syndrome- Viagra may put the heart back in ‘em. Erectile dysfunction(ED) drugs relax constricted blood vessels in the penis by inhibiting an enzyme (phosphodiesterase type) crucial to the complicated business of maintaining proper blood vessels “tones”. The spongy erectile tissue in the penis swells [...]
If you’re looking to break the monotony of a traditional cardio workout at the gym and have ever played some tennis, you may want to give Cardio Tennis a try. The programme, launched by the US- based Tennis Industry Association, is a group exercise class that combines traditional tennis practice drills with other endurance- building [...]
Unlike alcohol, mood altering drugs, such as tranquilizers, antidepressants and sedatives, have long been marketed as medicines. They also have been primarily aimed at and used by women. In the nineteenth century, present, patent medicines containing dangerously large amounts of opiates were sold to women for relief of female troubles. Today, physicians prescribe two –thirds [...]
More of us are drinking than ever before, with two thirds of adult women and about 80 percent of teenage girls now using alcohol regularly. Whereas society once frowned upon and even punished women for drinking, alcohol is now available to us –at times even pushed on us in a dizzying range of social and [...]
Today’s men, unlike the past have grown conscious about their looks. In the past, men used to concentrate only on the body physic but nowadays they are more concerned with their over appearance. Healthy skin is the outcome of healthy body and mind. Nowadays we hear now and then that,due to increase population, shortage of [...]
In general 60% of the population spends lot of time in sitting for long hours at one position.This leads to bad posture and ultimately back ache, neck pain and generalized tiredness.Its because more amount of forces and movement is noticed in the spinal disc leading to back pain. The neck and backache along with headaches [...]