It’s not only during the hottest days of summer that your skin can be seriously damaged by exposure to the sun. Dermatologists say you are just as vulnerable to sunburn and sun damage to your skin throughout the coldest days of winter as you are during summer. The reason the skin is in year-round danger [...]
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When your body detects an invading substance it doesn’t like, it reacts— usually by sneezing, wheezing, dripping, and itching. The best way to treat an allergy is to avoid whatever you are allergic to. While that is sound advice, it is not always practical or possible. Most allergies fall into three basic categories: food, contact, [...]
Recent studies show that weight-bearing exercises, such as walking, retard bone loss and in some cases may even help bone growth. One study, at Washington University in St. Louis, found that women with osteoporosis—a progressive thinning of the bone caused by calcium depletion—who took an adequate amount of calcium and walked for one hour a [...]
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This is a mysterious, although common skin disease which is characterized by thickened patches of inflamed, red skin, sometimes covered by silvery scales. It tends to recur in attacks of varying severity, the exact cause of psoriasis is unknown, and treatment varies. While there is no cure, there are a number of things you can [...]
Current studies suggest that women who get enough calcium may be able to avoid high blood pressure which is one of the most common complications of pregnancy. When hypertension develops during pregnancy it presents a serious risk of still-birth, but calcium can lower blood pressure in some pregnant women.
The Recommended Dietary Allowance of calcium for [...]
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