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Self-Care: It’s Good for Your Health
Does this sound familiar: you make time to take care of everyone else but you “don’t have time” to do something nice for yourself? Occasionally you might manage to eat a balanced meal or workout. Guess what: self-care is as important to your health as nutrition and exercise.
Since being healthy means functioning at your best in all areas of… Continue reading
Eczema
What is Eczema?
Eczema is also known as dermatitis, or an inflammation of the skin. It is characterized by itching, blisters, red bumps, swelling, oozing, scaling, and crusting. Though eczema is not life threatening, it can be uncomfortable and impact the eczema sufferer and those around the eczema sufferer.
Eczema occurs more often in people with families histories of… Continue reading
Anorexia nervosa, Eating Disorder
What is Anorexia?
Anorexia is an eating disorder with an obsession with weight loss, refusing to eat, and where starvation affects the personality. It is also associated with bulimia. Anorexia is more common for teenaged girls in developed countries.
For bulimia and anorexia, the main causes are understood to be a fear of becoming overweight, an obsession with body fat, and… Continue reading
Bulimia nervosa, Eating Disorder
What is Bulimia?
Bulimia is an eating disorder with overeating and then self-induced vomiting. It is also associated with anorexia nervosa, obsessive weight loss and starvation.
Bulimia is more common for adolescent girls and women aged 12 – 30 in developed countries. However, it is difficult to know how prevalent bulimia truly is, because the eating disorder is done… Continue reading
Hypothyroidism
Functions of the Thyroid
The thyroid is a small ductless gland weighing less than one ounce, located in the neck along the trachea or windpipe. The thyroid is the only place where iodine can be absorbed into the body.
Iodine comes from the different foods we eat and is necessary in small quantities to make thyroid hormones: triiodothyronine… Continue reading
Ovarian Cysts, Tumors
The ovaries are two small reproductive organs in a woman’s body located on the left and the right of the uterus. The ovaries produce an ova or egg each month, release hormones like estrogen, and bring about menstruation.
Various kinds of cysts can form in or around the ovaries. Most ovarian cysts occur during the childbearing years. 75… Continue reading
Vaginal Infections (Vaginitis)
Vaginal infections or Vaginitis is a condition that causes the inflammation and infection of the vagina. If the vulva and vagina are inflamed and infected, the condition is called Vulvovaginitis.
Symptoms of Vaginal Infection (Vaginitis) May Include:
- Itching around the vagina
- Burning during urination
- Irritation of the vaginal and vulvar
- Abnormal vaginal discharge with an unpleasant odor
- Pain… Continue reading
