5 Home Remedies For A Sinus Infection

5 Home Remedies For A Sinus Infection
10 Oct

BY KAREN REED FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2016

Stuffy noses are the worst! You can’t breathe properly, your nose runs all day long, you have to clear out snot a few dozen times a day, and it’s impossible to focus through that pounding ache in your head. All you want to do is lay down and rest, but you can’t sleep thanks to the eternal snot production.

Sound familiar? Sinus infections are incredibly common, especially for those with allergies and reduced immune systems. They can be difficult to get rid of, and can stop you from being able to work, play, train, and focus on your daily tasks. It’s definitely in your best interest to deal with them AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

We’ve done the research and found a few amazingly simple home remedies for sinus infections, remedies that will help to deal with the underlying cause of the infection, soothe your symptoms, and clear up the problems. But before we get into the remedies, let’s take a look at what’s going on… FOR MORE

10 Strengthening Exercises To Relieve Knee Pain

10 Strengthening Exercises To Relieve Knee Pain
10 Oct

BY KAREN REED FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The knee is one of the largest and most complex joints in the body. It connects the thigh bone to the shin bone. The knee joint is supported by two smaller bones we fibula and patella. The knee bones are connected to the leg muscles by tendons, which help the knee joint to move. Ligaments, on the other hand, connects all 4 knee bones and serves as a stabilizing support for the entire knee during movement or action.

The knee may seem like a minor body part but without proper care, maintenance and nutrition, it can prove to offer a debilitating risk and detrimental to the bodily movement.

The knee provides general support to the upper legs. If pain persists or when you become very uncomfortable walking or even stretching your legs, it’s a sign that you may have something that is treatable or physically serious.

Here’s common symptoms, causes and effects of knee pain to the human body. FOR MORE

Regular exercise changes the brain to improve memory, thinking skills

Regular exercise changes the brain to improve memory, thinking skills
01 Aug

Harvard News Letter – By Heidi Godman

There are plenty of good reasons to be physically active. Big ones include reducing the odds of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Maybe you want to lose weight, lower your blood pressure, prevent depression, or just look better. Here’s another one, which especially applies to those of us (including me) experiencing the brain fog that comes with age: exercise changes the brain in ways that protect memory and thinking skills.

Learning to Live With a Child’s Allergies

Learning to Live With a Child’s Allergies
19 May

NYTIMES FAMILY
Learning to Live With a Child’s Allergies
By CURTIS SITTENFELD

When your older daughter is a toddler and you are pregnant with your younger daughter, your husband says, “Every Friday, we should have family pizza night.” Four months later, you give birth to a daughter who is allergic to milk (meaning also to cheese), as well as to eggs, tree nuts, peanuts and maybe buckwheat and flaxseed. Very early on, certain foods leave rashes around her mouth or make her vomit, so you stop giving them to her. When she is 8 months old, her sister spills ice cream on her arm. Red bumps immediately rise in the places the ice cream touched. Read More

Strength training helps older adults live longer

Strength training helps older adults live longer
02 May

Older adults who met twice-weekly strength training guidelines had lower odds of dying in a new analysis by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Columbia University. The study is the first to demonstrate the association in a large, nationally representative sample over an extended time period, particularly in an older population.

 

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Older adults who met twice-weekly strength training guidelines had lower odds of dying, a new analysis concludes. The study is the first to demonstrate the association in a large, nationally representative sample over an extended time period, particularly in an older population.