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Joys of Adoption

 May 9, 2017

  This is a subject close to my heart. A friend of mine has a friend who chose adopting a child from Korea, through the Holt Adoption Agency. They were already a mixed family of mine, yours and ours for children. Being a foster family for years, the welfare of children was always uppermost in […]

Healthy Kitchen Habits You Should Follow

 May 8, 2017

If you are too busy at work, most likely, you become too preoccupied and tend to overlook the chores at home. Most of the time, you may have ignored your kitchen as well as the proper habits that you need to observe. So, here’s a roundup of the various healthy kitchen habits in order to […]

Thoughts On Everyday Aches & Pains

 May 8, 2017

Everybody has some sort of pain everyday, some rather urgent and others just plain annoying. For instance, what about that tight ponytail we all must have had at one time in our life? This sensation is caused from nerve endings in the skin that contains your hair follicles. This type of pain on the skin […]

Superfood Broccoli

 May 7, 2017

Broccoli offers greater potential to ward off disease than the other vegetables. Other cruciferous veggies in the same family are Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower plus more, and all may reduce your risk for many common diseases including: Arthritis Cancer High blood pressure and heart disease Kidney disease Diabetes There might be hundreds of super-nutrients that […]

Let’s Build A Butt

 May 6, 2017

Does your “rear view” need a makeover or a lift? Here are a few hints on what you can do to achieve that “perfect” Brazilian butt you are always seeing on TV. The muscles known as the glutes define the shape of the buttocks. That includes the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus, plus […]

Curvy Hips & Intelligent Children

 May 4, 2017

We are always trying to figure out why some people are smart and others are not. Determining what might cause increased intelligence, or what is linked to children that have higher learning capabilities, is always an enigma. Some very strange links are found in studies. One is that women with curvy figures were actually more […]

Chronic Fatigue

 May 3, 2017

  CFS (Chronic fatigue syndrome) can cause sufferers to have unrelenting fatigue, no matter how much they rest. Pain and an inflammatory response throughout the body is also another related symptom. Many physicians in the past had attributed the condition to psychological origins. Reports of the condition were first made public as far back as […]

Cassava

 May 2, 2017

Cassava is a rather sweet, starchy and nut-flavored tuber that might become a staple in your pantry. It is also known as manioc or yucca and belongs to the spurge family of plants called Euphorbiaceae. Originally from the South American forest regions, it is also grown very inexpensively in parts of Asia, Africa and the […]

Barcodes & Blood Family Tree

 May 1, 2017

The researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made it possible to monitor large blood cell populations by assigning a barcode to stem cells. They also monitor individual blood cells, and study the changes over time. It has been discovered that stem cells go through different stages where their ability to restore immune cells varies. […]

Animals Limit Disease Transmission

 April 30, 2017

When wild house mice become sick, they spend time away from their social groups, which leads to a decrease in their potential for disease transmission. A new study was revealed by evolutionary biologists from the University of Zurich, in collaboration with the ETH Zurich. Models focused on predicting the spread of infectious diseases like influenza […]