Colon cancer is one of the major diseases that claim thousands of lives every year in the USA. The reason has been attributed to American people’s fetish for low fiber-high cholesterol diet. Add to it the lack of physical movement and tensions of modern day living and you will see the reason why USA is […]
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The cosmetic industry is a huge business around the world that makes billions off consumers every year. Probably each and every one of us use a number of cosmetic products such as soaps, body cleansers, moisturizers, and make-up on a daily basis. In fact, according to a 2004 study conducted by the Campaign for Safe […]
Women want the dye to be present on the hair, but not on the scalp. Among women with other slow genes (the “CYP1A2 slow” phenotype), exclusive permanent hair dye use was associated with a 2.5-fold increased risk. Large epidemiological studies show no elevated health risk for women using hair dyes. Now, an equally important part […]
The flax plant, an ancient crop, yields the fibre from which linen is woven, as well as seeds (linseed or flaxseed) and oil. The oil, also called linseed oil, has many industrial uses – it is an important ingredient in paints, varnishes and linoleum for example. Like olive, canola, and most other plant oils, flax […]
While everyone is well aware that proper diet and exercise are paramount to good health, still many people find it too much of an inconvenience to watch what they eat and to exercise. These people may feel that the benefits that they may get from all that effort is not worth the hassles of watching […]
There is only one drug in the world so well known that it’s called “the Pill.” For more than forty years, more people have taken “the Pill” than any other prescribed medicine in the world. Sex, pregnancy, and contraception have been hot topics for millennia. It wasn’t until the U.S. government approved the birth control […]