Diet affects blood pressure more quickly and obviously than it affects most aspects of our health. Drinking too much coffee can instantly elevate your blood pressure, for example. The relationship between diet and blood pressure is simple to understand. There is a great deal you can do to optimize your blood pressure by monitoring your diet and changing it when necessary.
Salt
Over time, excessive salt intake can cause high blood pressure, ...
The Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a calculation designed to tell you how over- or underweight you are. The test is designed to suggest your total body fat, but not all versions of the test are equally good. Some tests only take into account your height and weight, which ignores the differences in builds, such as that some bodies contain significantly more muscle than others. Any body builder would ...
There are quite a few special issues for teenagers with regards to dental health. Cavities, of course, are still very common. Wisdom tooth extractions are also not unusual, particularly when the teenager has had braces to straighten his teeth. Braces are probably the most common reason for teenagers to see dentists.
Orthodontics is a dental specialty dealing with the re-alignment of teeth which are crooked or jutting out in an “overbite” ...
While there is no cure for Down Syndrome, there are a number of ways to make this condition less uncomfortable for those who have it. Physical therapy performed on young children with Down Syndrome can have lasting benefit to their muscles, joints and bones.
Down Syndrome and the body
There are several ways in which the body of a child with Down Syndrome differs from the bodies of children without it:
Hypotonia, or ...
According to the National Diabetes Education Program, there are certain groups at higher risk for contracting Type II diabetes than others: those who are closely related to people with diabetes, those who are overweight and those who are African American. If that last one surprises you, it has surprised researchers as well. Why African Americans should contract diabetes more often than any other ethnic group is still not known. Diabetes ...
Not everyone has heard of the diagnosis PDD-NOS. It stands for Persuasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and is applied to children who do not quite meet the diagnostic criteria for any of the autism spectrum disorders, but do meet several of the criteria. If the name sounds vague, well, so is the concept – for now. Researchers are still working to develop meaningful diagnoses of autism spectrum and similar ...
