Running can be a great pastime. It’s an activity that allows you to be in touch with your environment, get a nice workout, and have a great time. Running is a popular exercise for a good reason- it is great for the heart and lungs, for weight loss and for the allover condition. When you start...
Knowing and following your strengths: encourages insight and perspective in your life makes one less sensitive to stress generates optimism and resilience provides a sense of direction helps to develop confidence and self-esteem generates a sense of vitality and energy engenders a sense of happiness and fulfillment helps achieve one’s goals enables one to be more...
Obesity is associated with a range of adverse health consequences. Widely recognized are the increased risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers. Obesity and low body weight can impact on reproductive function by causing hormone imbalances and ovulatory dysfunction. Abnormal weight is usually defined as a high BMI (kg/m2) of >25 and a low BMI...
Fishing is an activity that has been with us from the beginning of time. It is something our forefathers engaged in as an economic activity. However, just like other traditional activities like hunting, fishing has acquired new meaning. It is no longer done as a primary source of income. Some now do it as a pastime...
In today’s society, the first pregnancy delay phenomenon led to increased infertility rates associated with maternal age (Stephen and Chandra, 2006). Thus, a high percentage of couples depend on assisted reproductive techniques to achieve a pregnancy. Increasing infertility incidence correlated with female age is primarily caused by changes in ovarian function, otherwise attested by decreasing ovarian...
It almost seems like a mystical correlation. Babies conceived at certain times of the year appear healthier than those conceived during other times. Now, scientists have shown that the surprising impression may actually be true — and they think they may know why it happens. As early as the 1930s, researchers noticed that children born in...
Every woman loves to be fashionable all the time. With lots of designer clothes and classy accessories flooding the market, it may be challenging sometimes to give all of them a try. Fashions come and go, but the way you clad communicates a lot about you. Well, as much as this is true, you do not...
Don’t fool yourself into thinking infertility is rare. Roughly one in six couples will struggle to have a baby and both male and female factors can contribute. Some experts believe aspects of our modern lifestyles like poor diet, body habits and environmental agents are contributing to the problem and negatively impacting the quantity and quality of...
It is natural for a woman to wish to have an idea of her potential fertility. A measurement of the anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) concentration has become the most commonly used test of “ovarian reserve” – a term that refers bothto the number of oocytes within the ovary and their fertility potential. Ovarian reserve, orthe number of...
We all want to look pretty and good from the moment we step out of our homes. People spend a lot of time and money on things that can make them beautiful. Being beautiful is also considered to be a positive influence for being confident and successful. When it comes to being beautiful, we can never...
No, this article is not meant to dissuade you from getting a piercing. As a matter of fact, this article aims to give you an overview of the piercing process and how to avoid possible problems during the healing period. Belly button piercings cannot be done out of whim for they entail a serious caring procedure...
Sedentary lifestyle, a modern problem People are less active today, in part because technology has made our lives easier. Few of us still perform manual tasks or have a job involve physical exertion. All our activities are now much less demanding in terms of physical effort. Inactivity is a “silent killer”, actually. Sedentary behavior is very...
