Some disorders are dealt with by other people as something hideous and not something requiring attention and help. What we don’t know is that once left unaided, these people afflicted will only be put to a more serious and helpless situation. Let’s discuss one common disorder that may or may affect someone you know – Agoraphobia.

Agoraphobia came from Greek words aγορά meaning “marketplace”; and φόβος/φοβία/phobia meaning “fear”. It is an anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. Agoraphobia is a condition where the sufferer becomes anxious in environments that are unfamiliar or where…

The skin is the largest organ of the human body, not to mention, the toughest one as well. But even superman has his kryptonite – the skin has infections and diseases it’s prone to.

Two of the most common skin disorders that we hear and see are Psoriasis and Eczema. But what are they really? How do we get them? And most especially, how do we treat and rid them?

Let’s talk about Psoriasis.

Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition affecting almost 7M in US alone. It appears to be patches of skin that are inflamed, raised and often resulting to silvery scales. It is most common on the elbows, scalp, knees and…

Asthma is the major cause of chronic illness in children. It is said that the number of children suffering from this respiratory illness is continuously increasing. Asthma is difficult to diagnose in babies or infants but is easily determined in children.

Having the knowledge to identify what causes asthma, as well as its symptoms would aid you in dealing with it.

Children develop asthma because of the following risk factors:

* occurrence of allergies
* family history or its origins
* respiratory infections
* low birth weight
* exposure to cigarette smoke before and after birth
* raised in rural environment
* most common: exposure to more allergens like dust, air pollution

Some of asthma symptoms include the following:

* rapid…

I have always envied people with shapely, thin legs – that is because I was born with heavy and big ones and I have never learned to appreciate them, not until I came to know this fact: Thin thighs might actually kill you. Or at least put a strain on your heart.

People with skinny thighs are more likely to develop, and die from, heart disease.

That’s the word from Danish researchers who studied more than 2,800 middle-aged people for up to a dozen years, only to find that those with the slimmest thighs had the highest chance of heart disease and premature death. There was up to twice the risk there…

Battling out the bad habit of taking in nicotine? Struggling for ways to remove the convention of smoking?

I have witnessed a lot of events where my peers would say they would stop smoking and guess what?! They never did. At first, they were all too excited with the products they assumed would help them in removing this habit from their system, but in the long run, they just ended up relapsing, and what’s worse? The habit became worse.

There have been a ton of methods and products out in the market that promise to keep you from burning another stick of nicotine-containing manufactured goods – nicotine patches, nicotine supplements, herbal cigarettes,…

Wanting to live longer?

Proper diet, regular exercise, healthy lifestyle – these are some things that you need to watch out for in order for you to attain longevity.

But who has all the time in this world to meticulously keep an eye on all these health habits? I, for one, don’t have the time to keep up with all these healthiness. I don’t even like exercising – not because I’m lazy, but because I hate the feeling of sweating.

Now, for all those people like me, hear me. Hear this good news:

A new study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, which took place between 1986 and 2006, almost 4,400…

“Health” is a very big word. It is vague and there are a lot of words that may define this single yet equivocal vigour term.

At the time of the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1948, Health was defined as being “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.

Achieving health and remaining healthy is an ongoing process.  Effective strategies for staying healthy and improving one’s health include the following elements:

1. Social Activity

2. Hygiene

3. Stress management

4. Health care

If you think of ways to stay healthy, and there are plentiful ways, you may only get more stressed than ever figuring…

First things first, what do we know about Constipation? Do we know enough to treat it right? Now, to give you a quick start, let me give you the meaning of constipation, a Registered Nurse’s way.

Constipation, costiveness, or irregularity is a condition of the digestive system in which a person (or animal) experiences hard feces that are difficult to expel. This usually happens because the colon absorbs too much water from the food. If the food moves through the gastro-intestinal tract too slowly, the colon may absorb too much water, resulting in feces that are dry and hard.

With this definition, let’s unravel treatments that are not only safe but are…