5 Things You Need to Know Before You Buy Your First Puppy
Your kids want a puppy. All your neighbors have dogs. It’s the great American Dream (for children, anyway) to have a dog like Lassie. However, if this is your first puppy, there are some things you need to know before you commit to buying [...]
An Associated Press story discusses new treatments using a powdered pig extract that have allowed humans to regrow fingers or parts of a finger. In one case a man regrew a finger by using the powdered pig extract at the suggestion of his brother who was involved in the research.
The summer before Lee Spievack’s accident, [...]
Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making wooden hunting spears according to a BBC news article.
Chimpanzees were observed jabbing the spears into hollow trunks or branches, over and over again. After the chimp removed the tool, it would frequently smell or lick it.
In the vast majority of cases, the chimps used the tools in the [...]
Can you believe that it is already day twenty-three of the Wilderness EMT course in the North Cascades? We have spent the past month surrounded by people who surround themselves with remote settings, where medical care is anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks away. It has been an amazing course and [...]
For the first time since 1981, oral health was on the agenda at the recent World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board Meeting in Geneva.
The WHO’s Global Oral Health Programme prepared an extensive report on “Oral health: action plan for promotion and integrated disease prevention”.
The Executive Board has also made a number of major recommendations [...]
1. Take it one step at a time
Start by paying attention to what you eat. Cut back on fat and sweets and add more fruit and vegetables. After you have that under control, add exercise. If you hate to exercise try it for only 15 minutes a day at first, then a 1/2-hour. Keep in [...]
The mental process behind dieting and weight loss is as important, if not more important, than the actual eating and dieting part of the process. The reason being that everything comes from your thoughts and without the right thoughts, the right action and results can never manifest.
Visualization is a very powerful tool in creating the [...]
How much will power does it take in order to go through the torment of weight loss? Though the answer to weight loss varies from each individual, all it takes is the correct attitude, admitting to yourself that you do have the desire of letting lose the unwanted pounds.
For years, people all over may have [...]
You know you have weighted, err, waited more than enough. So you decide to get yourself started on some weight loss programs and regimens. In all likelihood you would draft yourself with the ones that promise you sure-hit quick weight loss tips.
So you sweat and strain with your chosen weight loss program, perhaps ecstatically so [...]
Being overweight brings about lots obesity related health problems. In most cases, people who are obese suffer from type II diabetes and hypertension. If you are one of those people who have tipping the scale more than you should, start making a difference in your life today. Here are five weight loss tips that could [...]
Losing fat gaining muscle is something most people should be concern. Having excess fat and being overweight is dangerous to your health and to your life. There are consequences that people with excess fat must face. People who are obese are more likely to develop heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney trouble, gastro intestinal [...]
Now days so many people live in a fast paced existence that leaves them reaching for a fast meal from convenience stores and fast food restaurants. Unhappily, these kind of foods, many of which incorporate chemicals and food coloring, are harmful to health.
To cut out the chemicals and preservatives for continued good health, means going [...]
