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Keeping your mind and body in check - popular topics in health and medicine to maintain a long and healthy life.
Take Better Care of Your Body with These Four Simple Steps
Look at your hands in front of you. See them? That’s part of your body.We each have our very own, and each one is different. Through out all of the variations that we are born with; if it's slightly longer legs, multi coloured eyes, or that freckle that’s shaped like a heart; we’re each created perfectly. No one is more or less flawed than the other.
By Nicole Addison7 years ago in Longevity
When Silence Becomes Shrill
My Dad suffers from Meniere's Disease. In addition to tinnitus and vertigo attacks, he is deaf in one ear. At least, sometimes he seems deaf in that ear. My family is often surprised to hear him say from another room that we are being too loud and it hurts his ears in response to us talking and laughing. Yet, when we call to him from the other room, he doesn't hear us. This phenomenon is known as recruitment.
By Jenny Beck7 years ago in Longevity
My Life with Chronic Illness
I grew up on a small farm in rural Kentucky and probably spent more time in the fields then I did in my home. I ran wild in the hills and woods, and loved every minute of it. I don't think that I had so much as a cold growing up, so when I was struck with a mystery illness at the age of 21, seemingly in the prime of my life, my world stopped and very nearly ended.
By Chelsea Lawson7 years ago in Longevity
Don't Hide from Your Condition
It’s hard to admit that something is wrong with your body or even your mind. It took me a long time to admit that I had vaginismus. Reading about it online, prior to being officially diagnosed, was horrifying to say the least. I couldn’t comprehend how a trigger, that I couldn’t even discern, was causing my body to be in physical pain. I would think to myself, “How is this a real thing and how can it possibly be fixed?”
By Victoria Johnston7 years ago in Longevity
Water—Is Liquid Gold?
The best way that I can put is that every time that we turn on the tap, or drink that bottle of water, wash off our fruit, with clean water this is a luxury that too many of us are taking for granted. "Ten percent of American homes squander 90 gallons of water on a daily basis." It makes me wonder what am I doing or unaware of when I turn on my tap or run my clothes through the washer. So, if you are anything like me I wonder how can I get more aware of our natural life source? And how can I do my part in preserving it for the good of our human race?
By SAYHERNAME Morgan Sankofa7 years ago in Longevity
The Time I Was Diagnosed with a Major Spine Condition
Hello everyone, I hope that you are all well. When I was 12 years old I was diagnosed with Scoliosis (a curvature of the spine). This diagnosis came after I spent a week or two gardening at school, carrying around heavy bags of soil and other such things, which caused me a lot of back pain and stiffness. In fact, I was in so much pain, and found it so hard to move, that my mum had to start helping me bath again. Additionally, it was when I was in the bath and my mum was washing my hair for me that she noticed that one half of my back was sticking out more than the other. After noticing this she took me to the doctor who said it was probably Scoliosis but I needed an x-ray to be sure. So he referred me to a back specialist, I got an x-ray and was officially diagnosed.
By Paige Makepeace7 years ago in Longevity
