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Yellow Fingernails or Toenails

Yellowing of nails on the fingers or toes often have different causes. Fingernails stay healthiest when they are not covered with polishes, artificial nails, and glues for too long. Exposure to air and...

4 comments    health nails nail
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Living Happily Alone

With today's high divorce rate, the fact that children grow up, the number of people who remain childless, and any of the other circumstances that can lead to living alone, living alone is a fact of life for...

2 comments    health living alone
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Electronic Cigarettes - Not As Completely Safe As Many Believe

Electronic cigarettes (e.cigarettes), which are battery-operated devices intended to provide "the smoking experience" with water vapor, rather than smoke, may not be as harmless as many believe.

115 comments    health technology smoking
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On Spending Too Much Time Thinking About the Past

There are people who tend to live in the past, and there are people who just love nostalgia. I, on the other hand, are a look-to-the-future kind of person. That's why last Winter, when I went through a few...

1 comment    health mental health memory
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Turbo Jam - My Second Positive Infomercial Experience

Is the stuff sold on Infomercials any good? Can we trust the companies selling products through infomercials? I never really trusted infomercials and generally ignored them until I made one purchase with which I was happy. Turbo Jam was my second infomercial purchase, and again I was extremely satisfied. This is a review of Turbo Jam - and, yes, you can get high-quality products and good customer service from companies using infomercials.

2 comments    health fitness exercise
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Eyes, Eyesight, and Computer Monitors - Consequences of Too Much Online Reading

While too much screen-viewing is not believed to have serious effects on the eyes, there can be other health concerns associated with it.

5 comments    health computer eyes
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How to develop basic communication skills for someone suffering from Social Anxiety Disorder for 20+ years

As all disorders do, social anxiety disorder can be present in varying degrees. Medication may help some sufferers, although that may not be the right approach for all. The following techniques are not...

7 comments    health shyness being shy
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Thoughts on Vaccines for Children.

Whenever a discussion of childhood vaccines arises I always think of the oval-framed picture that once hung in my grandfather's home, and that it is now in my possession. The antique frame holds a 1920...

4 comments    health advice family
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What Diet and Exercise Should A Child with Diabetes Get?

Whether the child (or anyone else) has Type I diabetes or Type II diabetes, the diet to follow should be outlined by a dietitian who specializes in diets for diabetics. Diabetics must eat certain portions...

2 comments    health diabetes blood sugar
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Worries About the H1N1 Flu and What We Can Do About It

When it comes to the H1N1 flu (aka, "Swine Flu"), none of us really knows what we can do.  We hear conflicting predictions about the severity, or possible severity, of the problem.  We hear conflicting...

3 comments    health swine flu flu
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