Confusing information on pet food labels may make it hard for pet owners to find the right diet food for their overweight dogs and cats. A new study shows the calorie counts of 44 commercial diet dog foods varied from 217 to 440 calories per cup; the recommended serving size varied from three-fourths to nearly… Continue reading
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Some homemade recipes for hair conditioner
Deep Conditioner Ingredients * 1/2 cup of real mayonnaise Instructions Comb the mayonaisse through your damp hair, then wrap your head in a towel, let it penetrate for 20 minutes. Shampoo. Special Note: Make sure to use mayonaisse and NOT salad dressing. Salad Dressing will dry your hair out. Use fresh. Ravishing Rosemary Hair Conditioner… Continue reading
Mom’s emotional and physical support may be protective against disease
Mothers from poor families who provide strong emotional support for their children can reduce their children’s future risk of mental and physical illnesses, a new study suggests. Low socioeconomic status has been associated with increased risk of mental and physical illnesses, but there are people who are able to thrive despite the adverse circumstances associated… Continue reading
Proper nutrition to fight acne
Definition The acne diet or more accurately, the acne-free diet, is simply a way of eating claims to improves or eliminates acne. There is some debate in the medical community about the impact of diet on acne; however, there is a body of evidence to support the idea that what is eaten may affect the… Continue reading
Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarettes
Lots of people who quit cigarettes to escape the dangers of nicotine are turning to water pipe smoking, wrongly assuming that toking on “hookahs” is safer, new research indicates. Researchers used questionnaires and collected information on 871 Canadians aged 18 to 24 and found that 23% had used water pipes, commonly known as hookahs, during… Continue reading
New method to cure deafness: functional inner-ear cells
Deep inside the ear, specialized cells called hair cells detect vibrations in the air and translate them into sound. Ten years ago, Stefan Heller, PhD, professor of otolaryngology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, came up with the idea that if you could create these cells in the laboratory from stem cells, it would… Continue reading
All about amino acids
Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. The body has twenty different amino acids that act as these building blocks. Nonessential amino acids are those that the body can synthesize for itself, provided there is enough nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen available. Essential amino acids are those supplied by the diet, since the human… Continue reading
New effective bipolar and schizophrenia drug
The FDA has approved a new drug called Saphris to treat schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder in adults. “Mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be devastating to patients and families, requiring lifelong treatment and therapy,” Thomas Laughren, MD, director of the division of psychiatry products in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and… Continue reading