It can be easy to think about a baby's health once a baby is born but taking care of a baby begins in the womb. Once the fetus is formed, a mother has to consider how her health affects the baby and take extra steps to ensure that both she and baby are getting adequate nutrients.
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Small, pimple-like bumps inside your mouth can be caused by multiple conditions, such as canker sores, mucous cysts, oral lichen planus and inflamed papillae. These conditions usually resolve on their own, but certain medications can relieve some of the accompanying pain and discomfort.
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There is no secret ingredient to losing weight. To lose weight, the National Institutes of Health advises, you must take in fewer calories than you burn over an extended period of time. The ideal way to lose weight is to eat a nutritionally balanced, low-calorie diet and increase physical activity.
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Allergies are the body's response to substances that can be irritating, including pollen, dust or cigarette smoke. When exposed to an allergen, the body releases histamines as its defense – which in turn causes a number of unpleasant symptoms.
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United Healthcare is a publicly traded company offering health-related products and services to millions people. United Healthcare offers an assortment of health coverage programs to small and large groups with varied benefit packages.
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When you're trying to lose weight, your dietary habits can make or break your success. A healthy diet can help you shed pounds even if you don't have time for a vigorous workout schedule, and -- on the flipside -- even the toughest workouts can't compensate for a bad diet.
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If you have an underactive thyroid or hypothyroidism, weight gain and obesity can be byproducts. Additional health problems associated with low thyroid include chronic fatigue, infertility, joint pain and heart disease.
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Cantaloupe is a low-calorie fruit that can be included in any healthy weight-loss meal plan. But eating too much cantaloupe to lose weight can drain your energy, hinder weight loss and lead to nutrient deficiencies. Adding protein-rich foods to cantaloupe can help boost satiety for overall calorie control.
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After age 50, you have a greater than one in three chance of developing metabolic syndrome, which includes obesity and high blood pressure. Both women and men experience age-related loss of lean tissue, resulting in a slower metabolism and increased body fat.
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Your blood pressure is a good indication of the health of your cardiovascular system. When your blood pressure is high, your heart is working under stressful conditions. A high blood pressure, also called hypertension, is categorized as such when you have chronic readings of 140/90 mmHg or higher.
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Weight loss and weight gain rely on the balance of calories in, which are obtained through your diet, and calories out, which is the energy you burn throughout the day.
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The anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL for short, is one of the four major fibrous ligaments in the human knee. Its job as a ligament is to anchor one bone to the other; in this case, it originates deep within a notch of the femur in the upper leg and attaches to the tibia in the lower leg.
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Sausage may be a meat product, but due to added fillers some types of sausage may also contain carbs. If you're following a low-carb diet, you'll need to read the nutrition label to look for ones lowest in carbs.
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A whole foods diet doesn't require any books, complicated meal plans, calorie counting, gadgets or supplements. All you have to do is restrict your intake of processed foods and eat primarily whole foods, those that are as close to their natural state as possible.
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Your baby face may influence how people treat you. As pointed out in a 2008 paper published in Social & Personality Psychology Compass, people associate a baby face with childlike, immature traits. You're viewed as cute and approachable, not strong and authoritative. (ref 1, under "
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You may be alarmed if you find small red bumps or pus-filled pimples on your child's scalp. There are a number of causes that can mimic acne pimples, and it is even possible that your child is starting to develop acne.
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Puffy, swollen eyes are commonly caused by stress, lack of sleep, allergies and high sodium intake. Though this condition may not be esthetically pleasing, it is typically not a serious medical condition.
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Sunburns can occur after excessive exposure to ultraviolet light from the sun or a tanning bed. Symptoms may not appear until several hours later. Superficial sunburns are red, itchy and tender, while second-degree burns begin to form blisters within the first 24 hours after exposure.
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Waxing looks simple enough when you're in the chair at the salon. Your tech slathers some wax on your face, applies a strip over top and yanks the hair out.
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Daily wear and tear can really take a toll on the luster of your fingernails. With monthly buffing and a little spit and polish -- minus the spit -- you can restore their natural sheen.
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