Did you know that the indoor air is 3 times more polluted than the outdoor air? That should raise a big warning sign for you and since you're here, this means you're taking measures to improve the air quality of your house and without a doubt, your overall health.
Just like any other product on the market, some are better...
Pain is an unpleasant sensation with varying degrees between mild and agony. Pain scales range from 1-10 and some scales have faces to help a person better define their discomfort.
And is further broken down into acute and chronic pain.
Everyone has experienced pain at some point in their life. Perhaps it has been merely from a needle prick for the...
Most often, when we are feeling overwhelmed in life, by work, home, and other obligations we talk about the stress we feel.
The pressure is defined as using persuasion to make someone do something.
Stress is defined as a state of mental or emotional strain or tension that usually results from very demanding circumstances.
Stress is a word we read about constantly...
You have just taken a bite out of your favorite chocolate bar, gooey gummy worm or that savory pie and you feel pain in your mouth… well, in your tooth or multiple teeth.
Uh-oh!
You instantly start to worry… you think it must be a cavity because that’s what you were told growing up. You wonder if you broke a tooth...
Restless Legs Syndrome, commonly referred to as RLS, is a health condition that causes unpleasant sensations in the legs. The scientific name is Willis-Ekbom Disease (WED).
It's considered a neurological sensory disorder with symptoms that are actually produced in the brain, not the limbs.
The sensations are commonly described as creeping, crawling, pulling, aching, throbbing, itching and even sometimes like electrical...
Infrared and ultraviolet light are two forms of electromagnetic energy which can be harnessed for different purposes.
Both radiations exist at the two extremes of the electromagnetic spectrum and are invisible to the human eyes.
The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of the frequencies of the various electromagnetic radiations, their respective wavelengths, and photon energies.
The spectrum covers electromagnetic waves with frequencies...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 40 million adults will suffer a headache in a given year. Headaches range in severity from mild to severe and can last minutes to hours to days.
The causes of headaches can be stress, eye strain, sinus pressure, emotional distress or even injury to the neck and/or back.
Headaches can also be...
We reach for it for dry, itchy skin, we grab the green gel for nasty sunburns because we know of its soothing and healing properties. It's also useful for acne, psoriasis, cankers and cold sores. It has been relied on for skin care relief for a really long time.
Aloe Vera has been used in traditional medicine for thousands of...
The sun brings us light and heat and is essential for the growth of much of our food as well as healthy living.
We get about 90% of our Vitamin D from the sun which is a requirement for developing strong, healthy bones aiding in the absorption of Calcium, decreases the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes type 2 and can...
Studies have been done for years that all say the same thing…there is a significant impact on both the quality and the quantity of sleep people get when they suffer from pain.
What researchers haven’t quite determined is if there are differences between acute and chronic pain and the location of the pain and if these have an impact on...
For some reason, people overlook the aquarium sponge filter and go for a more complex system such as those fancy ultraviolet sterilizers for fish tanks, which not always works better than the simple sponge.
Although sponge filters have been around for so many years, only a few know or have an idea of what they are, what they do and how...
There are two primary color systems in the print and digital design industries: RGB and CMYK. Conveying the right message via your designs is crucial and possible, but only if you use the right colors.
Color has always been a significant part of everyday life from time immemorial. It is so inherently powerful that it can affect your mood or...
Women are creatures of beauty, and this reason alone is more than enough to stimulate any woman to enhance her beauty in every way possible. One part of a woman’s anatomy – apart from her face and skin – that takes a lot of her attention is the fingernails.
In most cases, some women visit nail salons so that professionals...
Infrared radiation is electromagnetic radiation that is invisible to the human eyes, compared to the visible light spectrum.
It has frequencies that range from less than one hertz to over 1025 hertz and corresponds to wavelengths from thousands of kilometers to a fraction of half the size of an atomic nucleus.
IR was discovered in 1800 by William Herschel when he was...
Four decades ago, carrying out certain healing procedures without making an incision on the body or employ the use of drugs was quite impossible.
But in 1967, Prof Andre Mestre applies in medical practice the physics behind Albert Einstein’s theory of Light Amplification through Stimulated Emission of Radiation or what we all know as LASER.
But this is only after Theodore...
Are you dealing with receding hairline? Or perhaps, you are noticing for the first time, an abnormally high volume of dislodged strands?
As you may well be aware, hair loss is often a traumatic experience – the shock of suffering spot baldness, a thinning scalp or even going completely bald is a devastating bitter pill – and could potentially act...
Ever tried to get tie-dye off your skin or hands without success? Here are 5 simple methods which might come in handy! But first...
Now and then, it's impossible not getting your hands dirty while crafting on a DIY project at home. Maybe you have a couple of some favorite old clothes you’d like to wear still, but you know they have...
Considering how important our skin is to our everyday lives, it is surprising to think how often people do not fully understand what it takes to look after it properly.
There are obviously different suggestions being filtered through to us via the media and through our friends, but at the end of the day, regardless of brand-preference or what you...
Coffee is an interesting thing to consider in relation to hunger, therefore a great thing to discuss and engage with. The main reason it is so interesting is that it can have two opposite effects depending on the person you ask…
Or even, for the same person! For instance, sometimes people say that drinking a coffee instead of eating a...
There are many reasons why people would want to lighten their skin, whether it is for personal, aesthetic or for health reasons.
However, there are a lot of products on the market that offer this outcome without considering the potential damage it has on your skin.
For years, people have used products with bleaching agents, which is both dangerous, painful, as...
