Bad breath can lead to a bad date and the worst kind of bad breath is halitosis. It doesn’t make you a bad person, but it does make leaning into a kiss very, very awkward. Like pimples, it’s a social stigma that afflicts teens and adults alike, sometimes forcing them to avoid social interaction entirely. [...]
Now, baking soda has gotten a lot of publicity. Not as much as a sports superstar or the Pope, but definitely some publicity. People at least know that it’s useful for some things although on what those things are exactly is pretty vague for most people. If you’ve got a little box of [...]
For a lot of people, smoking is the monkey on their back. The effects of smoking are disturbingly disastrous, from cannibalizing your muscle tissue to just spawning all kinds of different cancers. Combining something so deadly with a very addictive substance should be illegal, but as it is, people have to deal with it [...]
Weight loss is the target of many people, from men and women who just want to look and feel better to athletes who have to maintain a specific range of weight, like mixed martial artists and boxers. Various diets and fad diets have sprung to life and faded away just as quickly, but sometimes those [...]
Cleanliness is next to godliness, or so the saying goes. Of course, getting too clean leads to images of scrubbing the skin clean off in the sink due to obsessive compulsive disorder, bordering o germophobia or an irrational fear or germs.
Also known as mysophobia, it’s becoming less of a condition and more of [...]
Heart disease is a dangerous and common condition – well, it’s not as common as the common cold but common enough to be considered one of the leading causes of death. Like knowing how to deal with the common cold, knowing how to prevent, counteract and in the worst case, deal with heart disease [...]
Thanks to all the medical and hospital shows running around like Scrubs, House and the wildly polarized Grey’s Anatomy, we’re exposed to plenty of medical jargon. Some of which, sometimes, seems very important. Endometriosis is one of those seemingly important terms, leading to the inevitable question of “What is endometriosis anyway?”
What is Endometriosis?
Endometriosis, [...]
Ahh, acne – the leading cause of awkward dates from ages thirteen and well, up, depending on your skin type. No matter how old you are, you’re never too old for the types of acne, from acne vulgaris to acne rosacea, though that latter one is largely a misnomer. If a part of [...]
Smoking’s a tough monkey to kick, but it can be done – though sometimes, it can manhandle even the strongest of wills. For some people, normal quitting aids like nicotine patches just aren’t enough.
That can happen for a number of reasons, but luckily, there are more exotic and eccentric methods of helping [...]
An ovarian cyst is something that many women around the world can develop. Ovarian cysts, as the name suggests, start in the ovaries. The name does not suggest, however, what they are. They’re essentially small sacks filled with liquid and for the most part, these cysts, whether ovarian or anywhere else generally don’t [...]