Health Blog November Archive

Taking A Good Sleep

By Jesse Aarons at 11/18/08 16:15

When I was still a kid, my mom used to tell me that I have to get enough sleep for me to grow faster. Unfortunately, I have a hard headed son. Whenever she's around, I follow her rules and always sleep in the afternoon. But when she's not, I go around and roam to different places.

Aside from that, I also hate drinking milk. Over the years I have developed a dislike for anything with milk. Not totally a lactose intolerant, but for some reason I want to classify myself as one.

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Search The Flu - Introducing The Google Flu Trends

When there is something we need to know, we faced our computers and go to Google. We all know Google is the God of search engines and it amazingly has the power to know more than you know. 99% of the time, it gives you the right answers to your inquiries.

But right now, Google is working in something worth the note for our doctors and medical personnel. Google has made a breakthrough with their newest part of the family, the Google Flu Trends.

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Google Flu Trends

What you search in Google tells a lot about your current state. What your community searches tell a lot about that community. With this information, can we conclude that data of searches from Google may tell us substantial information about the state of a community?

Some health agencies think so, for a new model using Google searches to create a database of flu outbreaks in the United States is now out. It's called Google Flu Trends.

Link: Google tool uses search terms to detect flu outbreaks - CNN.com

Fulfilling The Dying Wish

When my grandmother died some two years ago, we were all near her bed in the hospital with my mom holding her hands. A few seconds because she gave her last breath, she clearly stated that she wanted my mom to live longer than she did.

My grandmother is my mom's greatest adviser. She is my mom's best friend. She would looked up to her in such a manner she would treat a queen of a country. We all know why she cared a lot for my mom. Not only that she is the only daughter in their family, it's also because she used to be the one who was always sick and always weak.

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Congenital Heart Disease, Is It Really That Bad?

A few nights ago, I was able to talk to a good friend about our personal lives. I never got to talk to him like that since we met so I was like feeling lucky that night he is letting me into his private life.

We came to a point that we discussed about his health. It wasn't a secret that I too got some body defects so I started sharing mine first before he revealed that he too got the same disease as mine. The whole world knows about this life threatening defect, the Congenital Heart Disease.

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A Big Step To Cancer Research Technology

The Big "C" or Cancer has been the leading disease that has been killing millions of people and breaking the hearts of families worldwide. Cancer, up to the present still remains to be an incurable disease in its later stages. Some of its common treatment includes an agonizing treatment of radiation therapy to as far as surgeries tends to be effective to address the early stages of patients with lighter cancer cases. Learn one of the biggest step to cancer research here:

Link: A Big Step Forward For Cancer Research: Scientists Map Cancer Patient’s Genome

Snoring can cause Stroke and Heart Attack!?

Whether you snore a little or a lot, snoring is taking its toll on your body.

In addition to being sleepy and perhaps more accident prone, there is growing evidence that snoring affects our health. In fact, Hungarian researchers have suggested that heavy snorers are at a significantly higher risk of developing acute cardiovascular problems.

Read more: Snoring can cause Stroke and Heart Attack!? [click]

Try out this jaw strengthening exercise to stop snoring

It's Proven! Strenghtening your jaw can stop Snoring!

The best way to see how simple these exercises are is to try one out.

So here's an exercise that helps to loosen your jaw - because tight or clenched jaws are considered one of the leading causes of snoring.

This exercise takes only a minute, but before you're done, you should feel your jaw muscles strengthen and the back of your mouth opening up.

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If You Snore Now, It's only going to get worse!

Whether you snore a little or a lot, snoring is taking its toll on your body.

In addition to being sleepy and perhaps more accident prone, there is growing evidence that snoring affects our health. In fact, Hungarian researchers have suggested that heavy snorers are at a significantly higher risk of developing acute cardiovascular problems.

Read more: If You Snore Now, It's only going to get worse! [click]