Inflammation is a significant underlying contributor to many common chronic diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease and insulin resistance, the Institute for Biomedical Research Barcelona reports. Maintaining a healthy body weight, liming tobacco exposure and exercising can combat inflammation.

If you have diabetes, you know the importance of maintaining stable blood glucose levels -- and that certain foods can trigger spikes or help keep them stable. The main ingredient in hummus is chickpea, also called garbanzo bean.

With time and gravity, your eyes appear less youthful and vibrant. Crow's feet form, dark circles develop, eyelids droop and under eye hollows appear. You can opt for invasive orbital rim implants or purchase a number of costly products claiming to reduce these issues.

Alkaline phosphatase is an enzyme that can be found in many of the body’s tissues, but its highest concentration is inside bone and liver cells and in the bile ducts.

Vitamins play a key part in staying healthy -- and your skin is no exception. As the main ingredient in retinol, Vitamin A has a pivotal role in skin health by clearing out clogged pores, smoothing the skin tone and boosting collagen production to reduce the appearance of fine lines.

Pulmonary nodules are round spots less than 3 cm in diameter, or a little over 1 inch. Seen in the lungs on chest X-rays or CT scans, pulmonary nodules appear on around one in 500 X-rays, the University of Rochester reports.

Tegretol is a brand name of carbamazepine. It is a medication used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy. Doctors have also found that it helps to relieve neurological pain, resulting from trigeminal neuralgia.

A chest cold, also called bronchitis, often occurs when an upper respiratory infection such as the common cold spreads to the airways of the lungs. Invasion by Streptococcus pneumonia or Haemophilus influenza may follow and complicate the initial viral infection.

There are a number of symptoms that are associated with a hot flash. The initial symptom is a feeling of pressure in the head as the hot flash begins (in some patients this is called an aura as it signals an impending hot flash). The term "hot flash"

Poor circulation to the legs and feet can develop from unhealthy lifestyle habits, vascular disease or traumatic injury. Medications, lifestyle changes and surgery are remedies used to improve blood flow in the legs and feet. Severe cases of poor circulation may or may not be amenable to surgical intervention.

Intestinal worms are parasites, deriving their nutrition from the human gut. Three types of worms can infest the human intestine: roundworms, tapeworms and flukes. The various species within these groups can live in different parts of the intestines, causing differing symptom patterns.

In a healthy adult, each of the 20 to 30 trillion red blood cells in the bloodstream contains more than 250 million molecules of hemoglobin. This vital, iron-containing protein transports oxygen to the body tissues. An abnormally low hemoglobin level results in anemia.