Sneezing is a reflex or attempt to get rid of something that gets in your nose, such as germs, dust or pollen. As a result of a signal from the respiratory center in your brain (the medulla oblongata), air comes up from your lungs. The air quickly moves through your nose to clear it, making [...]
People sleeping sometimes make a hoarse noise. This is snoring. It is caused by the vocal cords and the soft palate in the back of of the throat vibrating as the sleeping person breathes. It happens most often when the mouth is open because the nasal passages are blocked.
Specialty insoles can close the gap between a shoe’s design and your unique anatomy. You should definitely customize your shoes with over-the-counter replacement insoles if you have any tendency toward shinsplints, arch strain, heel pain, or even knee strain. The flimsy inserts in your new shoes can lose their cushioning capabilities after 50 miles, [...]
Full-blown diabetes is easy to spot: frequent, uncontrollable urges to urinate; virtually unquenchable thirst; numbness in your hands and feet. But the symptoms leading up to the full-blown disease are easily ignored. And ignorance isn’t bliss; it’s amputation—or death. Here are the top 4 silent alarms:
Ever wondered why you’re getting nightmares? You will get a different answer from almost everyone you ask. Parents can get nightmares, if their children were using drugs or because their kid are stealing, or maybe just because they hang out with the wrong people. Here are some general ideas. Nightmares are related to care and [...]
You haven’t slept or slept too little for a couple of nights? Then it’s time to recharge yourself… but if you haven’t slept for 3 days, it doesn’t mean you have to sleep 3 times longer then what you have missed. Too bad, it doesn’t work like that.
Humans are the only mammals which are able to cry and produce treas at a emotional stimulus. Till today the science can’t give an explanation why there are tears if we have pain and feeling sad. Some anthropologists believed it’s a initially defense mechanism for panic situations: the eyes will be cleaned and as [...]
Ever wondered how food manufacturers know how many calories their food have. A few years go, the answer is simple. The product will be burnt. The heat from that is measured and there you have it: the total of calories! Two problems though.Not all products can be burnt (diet coke anyone?), also the measuring [...]
 Theonian looks at the split views of Asians raised in the West. Though not all her own views, she has drawn on the experience of other people around her to try and categorize our beliefs. I am English I live in England, I vote in England. My friends are English. I have an office [...]