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Calf raises directly target your lower legs. You can perform this exercise with or without weights. Some people develop sore feet during and after calf raises. If you do, stop the exercise until you have assessed and treated the problem. A few different causes are possible. See your doctor if you have questions.
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Your digestive system runs on a delicate balance, processing nutrients out of the foods you eat and making stool that is neither too hard nor too soft so you do not get constipation or diarrhea.
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Eating within two hours of your workout is imperative, even if you usually exercise at night. When you exercise, your body depletes its glycogen stores. Eating replenishes these stores, helping your body recover and repair itself more quickly.
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Bench pressing involves use of upper-body strength to lift a heavy weight, which includes chest, shoulder and lower neck muscles. Occasionally, bench pressing a weight heavier than your muscles are prepared to lift may cause muscular tears or strains, resulting in pain or swelling.
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Professional basketball players compete in 82 games during the regular season and their knees take a tremendous amount of abuse over the course of the year. When a player's patellar tendon swells from jumping or falling, it causes a condition referred to as jumper's knee or patellar tendinitis.
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The colon is an organ in your digestive system that holds waste product until you have a bowel movement. While a healthy colon causes few, if any, notable symptoms during digestion, an inflamed, diseased or damaged colon can stimulate pain. Certain foods and eating habits may be particularly problematic.
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Activia, a brand of yogurt that promotes digestive health, is a good food to eat while you have diarrhea. While Activia can help shorten the duration of diarrhea, any yogurt that contains live and active cultures is beneficial and can have the same effect.
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Inflamed liver, a condition commonly referred to as hepatitis, may be caused by several hepatitis viruses, according to Health Canada. However, other factors, including long-term alcohol abuse, may also cause liver inflammation. Hepatitis may be associated with a variety of symptoms that range from mild to severe.
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Shortness of breath or breathing problems involves difficult breathing unrelated to the intensity of physical activity. Breathing problems after a workout may be a side effect of medication, a symptom of a health problem or an indication of stress or anxiety.
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When you notice changes in your body, you may wonder whether it's anything serious or something that will resolve on its own. It's also normal to wonder whether the symptoms you develop are related.
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According to the Mayo Clinic, internal hemorrhoids are swollen and inflamed veins in the anus and lower rectum. They are often caused by straining during a bowel movement, frequent diarrhea and pregnancy. Hemorrhoids can be extremely uncomfortable. Symptoms include itching, burning, pain and bleeding.
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Because your body digests pasta more slowly than many other starchy foods, pasta offers you sustained energy without causing fluctuations in your blood sugar.
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If you have breathing difficulties, such as asthma or bronchitis, you may find it necessary to use a nebulizer. There are several of these on the market that you can purchase, but if you don't have a medical plan that covers such purchases, it may be far more cost effective to make your own.
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Sinusitis, or a sinus infection, is a common medical condition that affects 10 million to 15 million people each year, notes the Merck Manual Home Health Handbook. Characterized by pain or pressure between the eyes and around the forehead and nose, the condition can last weeks or months.
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Flu shots contain deactivated, or killed, flu viruses. For the 2010-2011 flu season, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, recommends that everyone over the age of 6 months be vaccinated against the flu.
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High blood pressure increases your risk for heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular disease. Blood pressure management is critical if you have diabetes since it also increases your risk for diabetes complications.
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Author Andrew Biel notes in "The Trail Guides to the Body", that a pivot joint allows one bone to rotate around another. The first and second cervical vertebrae pivot to allow neck movement from side to side, and the ulna and radius in the forearm pivot from side to side, as well.
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, a nebulizer changes liquid medicine into fine droplets (in aerosol or mist form). These machines are available in a portable variety or powered by compressed air and plugged into an electrical outlet.
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Warts, also known as verrucas, are a common skin problem, especially on the hands and feet. Warts develop due to an infection of a strain of the human papillomavirus, or HPV. Once infected, the virus alters the growth of skin cells on your body, causing them to grow abnormally into the form of a wart.
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Flaxseed oil capsules are a vegetarian source of omega-3 fatty acids. Unlike animal sources of this nutrient, however, flaxseed oil contains a type omega-3 fatty acid called alpha-linolenic acid. Your body must first convert ALA into eicosapentaenoic acid, or EPA, and docosahexaenoic acid, or DPA.
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