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TIPS FOR HEALTHY SKIN
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Chronic pain : Medication Decisions Chronic pain can limit your quality of life and lead to additional, serious health problems. Finding effective treatment is important — as is balancing pain relief with your safety. Chronic pain is a serious health condition. Like any long-term health problem, the condition often leads to complications beyond your physical symptoms, such as new or worsened depression, anxiety and difficulty sleeping. Chronic pain can make it more difficult to keep up at work, manage tasks at home and attend social gatherings, leading to problems in your relationships and financial instability. Some research suggests that the more severe your pain, the more serious these problems. Image Source : chronicpain,newlifeoutlook.com The  serious consequences of chronic pain make finding effective treatment a critical goal. Unfortunately, this process is complex and uniquely personal. What works for one person's chronic low back pain may not offer any relief...
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HOW TO MAKE FITNESS A HABIT
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How Hormones Affect Our Health You might think you control your own behaviour. Actually, much of the time, your hormones do. Even the tiniest swing in hormones, can have a dramatic impact on the body and affect your behaviour, metabolism, sleep, mood, immune system, puberty, sexual experience, and how you eat, grow, hate, love, and think. Every cell has markers that direct hormone signals to precisely where they need to go, she says - but hormones rarely work alone, and a dip in the amount of one hormone interferes with other hormones in a domino effect. Image Source : shendeti.com 1. Obesity reduces testosterone If you lose weight, you'll help boost your testosterone levels, the male sex hormone that plays a key role in the development of male reproductive tissues such as the testes and prostate, as well as promoting increased muscle and bone mass, and the growth of body hair. Image Source : sara gottfried 2. Hormones produced by being overweight make you ea...
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Changing trends to treat the illness The lifestyle diseases are found mainly in teens and middle aged people. Fatty Liver has Been increasing by and by . Despite increase in such diseases, majority of the people are still not aware of the risks and don’t undergo treatment on time. Fatty liver can progress into cirrhosis and Liver cancer, if not diagnosed and treated on time. another disease commonly found is irritable bowel syndrome. It has a direct relationship with stress which people have. People may have loose stools or increased frequency of motion after taking food or when they are about to travel or go to a function. It can be treated with medication and occasional counseling.  Image Source : forbes india For the most part, health is a fairly uncomplaining creature. It keeps us alive through all that we put it through, knowingly and unknowingly. When it does complain however, it has many voices, many diseases, many causes - some individual, some collective, some si...
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Government initiatives towards public health New agenda of public health is to develop and make changes in environment and society. The role of the government in influencing population health is not limited within the health sector but also by various sectors outside the health systems. Contribution to health of a population also derives from social determinants of health like living conditions, nutrition, safe drinking water, sanitation, education, early child development and social security measure s. Image Source : deccan chronicle.com  Making public health a shared value across the various sectors is a politically challenging strategy, but such collective action is crucial. The causes of health inequalities lie in the social, economic and political mechanisms that lead to social stratification according to income, education, occupation, gender and race or ethnicity. Public health is concerned with disease prevention and control at the population level, through org...
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Health insurance : changing face of health treatment   Among all the changes, the most important change for the consumer will be the availability of a wider range of health insurance products. The health insurance industry in India, while growing rapidly offers very rudimentary products even today. It is still dominated by basic indemnity-based reimbursement for hospitalization products. Image Source : Business Insurance Insurers will be able to provide customers with more nuanced and efficient customer experience from being able to help customers when it matters the most at the time of illness to even helping customers take care of their health rather than just settle their claims.  Among all the changes, the most important change for the consumer will be the availability of a wider range of health insurance products. There is increasing demand from consumers for specific products to cover certain specific illnesses or for certain specific features depending on ...