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What is Phosphatidylcholine and How Can it Benefit Your Health?
What is phosphatidylcholine and why should you care about this phospholipid? An in-depth breakdown of everything you need to know about PC.
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08.03.2012
Microwave Safety
In the United States, food grade containers are known not to leach harmful substances into the foods they hold, whether for storage or for microwave cooking. In most homes in the country, you’ll find a range of containers in the refrigerator, from plastics of known and unknown origin to paper to glass to metals to ceramics.
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08.02.2012
Exposure To Motor Lubricants & Solvents
Muscle car plus motor head does not equal muscle head, although it could. The first pair evokes positive images for those who remember Holley carburetors, dual exhausts, Hurst shifters and four on the floor (gears, that is). The muscle cars of the 60’s were exciting to drive and fun to work on. That was an era when there was enough room in the engine compartment to swing a socket wrench.
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08.01.2012
Replacing Your Teflon Pans?
What is Teflon? Anybody who’s spent time at the stove knows that Teflon pans were the coolest culinary invention of the time. Teflon is the trademark name for polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), used to create non-stick surfaces. It’s really good at what it does. Like most things in life, it has its fans and its detractors.
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07.06.2012
Anxious About Anxiety?
You’re not anxious about going on vacation or performing a pleasant task. You’re enthusiastic (but not enthused). You could be anxious about going to the dentist or to defend your last income tax return. Here, you’re entertaining a feeling of dread or apprehension, probably lacking clear justification. Anxiety results from a subjective way of looking at a situation in the absence of a clear and actual danger.
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07.05.2012
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
What is AMD? When given a checklist to rank their greatest health-related fears, most adults didn’t choose cancer or heart disease as number one. Of more than ten thousand people surveyed during an international study conducted by India’s Prasad Eye Institute, over ninety percent chose blindness (Giridhar, 2002).
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07.04.2012
Truth About Magnesium Stearate
We’ve all seen pitchmen, the medium-pressure peddlers who unashamedly try to lure us to their side of the street with great deals on auto insurance or oxygenated household cleaners. Forceful voices and rapid chatter are attention grabbers. But it needn’t be fast talk and loud volume that get our attention.
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07.03.2012
The Skinny On Skin: Zap The Zits and More
It seems to happen just when the prom is a week away, or on the day before your date with the most popular gal or guy in school. You get a pimple big enough to get its own name, like Everest or Matterhorn. What can you do about it? Could it have been prevented? If you’re a teenager reading this, and suffer from acne, read closely as there may be an answer to your dilemma.
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07.02.2012
Why Bother Exercising?
In our earnest attempts to maintain physical fitness and overall wellness, we occasionally overdo it. Strengthening the muscles and the cardiovascular system, fine tuning athletic skills for a particular sport, trying to lose weight, or only having fun, humans have forgotten the concept of moderation.
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06.09.2012
Kidney Stones: The Basics
Ureterolithiasis, renal calculi, nephrolithiasis and kidney stone all mean the same thing: agony. The nurse told us the pain is equivalent to passing a five-pound canned ham through the southern end of the digestive system, with the lid opened. If you’ve never experienced the long road to relief, thank the Creator for being excused.