Wellness

As if bloating, achiness, and irritability weren’t enough, your monthly period has another way of making you feel lousy: It can actually exacerbate certain chronic health issues. The phenomenon is called premenstrual magnification, or PMM, and is characterized by preperiod flare-ups of conditions that are sensitive to hormonal fluctuations—everything from ...

Fighting goes hand in hand with loving, but even if you kiss and make up afterward, it can still be rough on your body. Shouters, screamers, and red-faced foot stompers can raise their risk of high blood pressure, chest pain, and, potentially, heart disease, according to researchers who analyzed couples’ ...

Creaky knees don’t have to be your destiny, says Jordan Metzl, MD, a sports medicine physician at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and author of The Exercise Cure. Minimize wear and tear on joints and tendons by strengthening the surrounding muscles: “Your body is like one ...

There are a lot of people in this world who suffer from urinary tract infection. It is now becoming a very common problem and the changing of the lifestyles and the fast paced life is one of the reasons why many people are contracting this health problem. Urinary tract infection ...

Backache is one of the most common problems that an average adult faces in his or her life. Although people of all ages can catch backache, it is most commonly seen among adults between the age group of 35 and 55 years. According to reports, nearly 80 percent of the ...

One of the most common medical conditions that a woman or a man or even children face from time to time is headaches. Headache is nothing but pain in various parts of the head and the pain in the head is not confined to one area of the head. You ...

Unless you happen to have been very lucky in the past, the chances are that at some point in your life, you will have felt the effects of a sore throat. Sore throats and colds and flu’s go hand in hand with one another, but still, a sore throat can ...

Any sound that comes out while exhaling the air out of oxygen is called as snoring. Many people mistake it to be deep sleep or sound and relaxed sleep. But this is not true. Snoring is nothing but having bad sleep. It is due to obstruction in the sleep, the ...

In this day and age it would really be very difficult to find a person who does not undergo stress and strain in his or her life. When you experience work overload or suffer from financial losses or family tensions, then you will be under severe stress. There are a ...

Heart is the key organ in a person’s body, which is also symbol for emotional attachment. Whenever a person feels depressed or emotional, chances are high that his/heart will be affected. That’s the reason why many people often say—don’t take it to heart.  It is known that heart pumps the ...