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10 Myths About Cold And Flu That You Should Not Believe

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We usually blame the air conditioning, wind and low temperatures when we are cold.

Some people think we should take antibiotics to prevent colds from turning into flu. Others think they can not get cold more than once a season, however, most of the information we have is false.

What are the most common 10 myths about cold and flu?

1. A cold can turn into a flu

Chlamydia and flu are caused by different viruses, so one disease can not turn into the other. People usually confuse the early signs of these diseases. Here are some signals that can help you differentiate them:

– A cold starts gradually, with sore throat, headache, fever and stuffy nose. A person feels these symptoms in 3-5 days. Flu is accompanied by fever, headaches, muscle aches and spontaneous pain.
– If you’re cold, your body temperature does not usually increase. If you have flu, the temperature rises to 38°c or even more.
– People do not sneeze too much during flu, this is a symptom of cold.

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9 Signs That You Have Vitamin D Deficiency – Health Risks and Treatment

We all have days when we fell utterly exhausted or sometimes a little down in the dumps, but if you find yourself continually catching a cold, feeling depressed more often than not and even losing your hair, you might have a vitamin D deficiency.

Vitamin D is a unique vitamin. Unlike all the others, vitamin D functions as hormones do and your body produces it from cholesterol. You can get it from food, like other vitamins, but your body also produces it when you spend time in the Sun.

Unfortunately, 40% of Americans don’t get enough vitamin D, and 15% of the world’s population is deficient. This shocking prevalence is due to many factors.

First of all, most people aren’t getting enough vitamin D in their diet because of unhealthy eating habits, and also because people spend more times indoors nowadays and whenever they do go outside, they slather on the sunscreen.

There’s nothing wrong protecting yourself from getting skin cancer, but there is a delicate balance when it comes to sun exposure. We do need it, but just not too much of it.

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7 Healthy Low-Carb Foods That Are High in Magnesium

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Most of us already know that we need to lower out carbohydrate intake to help stay as healthy as possible and prevent inflammation and chronic disease.

Magnesium is a great mineral that is very important for your body and it’s involved in over 300 enzymatic reaction in the body. It helps your immune system be strong, it’s great for muscles, help your heart beating steadily.

Magnesium is great for your lungs, people with asthma do better when they have a good magnesium intake, constipation get better with magnesium, you sleep better, and people experiencing frequent migraines will get better when their magnesium intake is optimized.

Maybe you didn’t know that too many people in Western society are depleted in magnesium. If your doctor checks your magnesium level in your serum, it’ll be normal, but that does mean that you have enough magnesium stored in your cells, which is where your body stores it. So you can have severe magnesium depletion and still have a normal blood test.

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How to Reverse a Fatty Liver – Keeping Your Liver Healthy

The liver is about three and a half pounds, it’s on the right side of your body and it has over 500 functions. It does everything from immune control, digestion, detoxification of chemicals, building up of proteins, and so many things. It’s an amazing and miraculous organ. it has 50.000 to 100.000 small little units of cells that help do the needed work. Your body could be functioning pretty good with only 90% of your liver destroyed or dysfunctional.

So a lot of times the liver will not show up until more than 90% of it is destroyed. Thus, without proper check-ups, you can’t always know if your liver is badly damaged until its too late..

Some of the symptoms of having some real bad liver issues are the following: when you get bloating, you have right shoulder pain, the whites of your eyes turn yellow, there’s a lot of skin issues, itching of the bottom of the feet and the palms of the hand, basketball-type belly. You can really predict the health of the liver by the person’s lifestyle habits.

There’s several stages of liver damage that can occur. One of them is inflammation.

Inflammation can arise from a virus but it also could be the cause of bad eating or alcohol. So every time you drink alcohol, it creates a trauma for your liver, kind of a whiplash, because you’re basically killing liver cells when you’re doing that.

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7 Simple Rules For Super Healthy Teeth

Having healthy teeth can make the difference between living a happy life or a not-so-great one. That’s because physical appearance plays an important role in relationships and society in general. So if you can show a great smile in day to day life, you’re definitely steps ahead in society. For example, those considered more physically attractive are more likely to be accepted for the job role than their less attractive colleagues. And healthy teeth plays a big role for the physical appearance.

1. Brush wisely

Clean teeth is the basis of dental health. When you brush make sure that you’re using a soft bristled toothbrush. Hard bristled toothbrushes can actually damage and scrape away your protective enamel, leaving you more prone to developing cavities. Also really important to remember that if you’ve had acidic foods, like citrus or kiwis, or anything with lemon juice or vinegar in it, do not brush your teeth for the next two hours afterwards. As your enamel can actually be softened and susceptible to being scarped away. Hibiscus tea is also included in that acidic category.

Most dentists agree that brushing your teeth twice a day is totally adequate, some say after every single meal, but that is your call. Regardless of that, you should always go to bed with clean teeth.

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Signs You’re Drinking Too Much Coffee – Drawbacks of Caffeine Excess

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Ever wake up feeling sluggish and barely roll yourself out of bed? You feel it’s way too early for your brain to function properly? Luckily there’s one magic potion that can perk you up and bring you back to life: A cup of coffee.

Coffee really is magical. It improves your mood, temporarily speeds up your metabolism and at least from some times, it boosts your physical and mental performance. But too much of a good thing can be bad, and coffee is no exception.

How can you know if you drink too much?

I’ve put together nine signs that you’re consuming too much coffee and what health ricks this can bring about.

About 50% of all Americans admit that they’re loyal coffee drinkers. According to statistics, the average coffee drinker has 3 cups a day. Every single day approximately 30 million Americans order specialty drinks like: lattes, cappuccinos, mochas, iced coffee and so on.

It’s all fine and great if you know where to draw the line, but unfortunately many people have no idea how much is too much.

It’s not as easy as you think. Since each person has their own unique coffee tolerance. How much caffeine you can take in without experiencing any negative effects of over-consumption depends on your genes and personal coffee drinking habits.

However, even if the amount depends on the individual, anybody can reach a point of having too much caffeine in their system. Here are 9 signals that your body isn’t dealing too well with all the coffee you give it each day.

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First Thing To Do When a Cold or Flu Strikes

Wouldn’t it be nice to avoid the hassle and inconvenience of ever having to have to deal with colds or flus?

Most uncomplicated colds can last between eight and nine days, but about 25% last two weeks or more, and 5% to 10% can last up to three weeks. So when you have a cold you feel miserable and you’re clearly not functioning at your best. More than this, you may have to take off work or cancel important appointments, thus making you feel pretty miserable.

So what’s the key to optimize your immune system to help protect against these infections? I’m going to share with you some of the key secrets and how you can do that.

Probably one of the most important and one of the reasons why we have such an increase in these upper respiratory infections in the fall and winter, is because the sun exposure is really minimized. For most of us the sun’s incidence of the rays coming through the atmosphere is on such an angle that even if you were to go out without any clothes on for the entire day on a sunny day, you wouldn’t get any significant ultraviolet radiation to increase your vitamin D level. So essentially it’s physically impossible to get it from the Sun during the winter, for most of us.

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