Can Smart Phones and Other Electronic Devices Damage Your Hearing?

It is a controversy out there as smart phones and electronic devices get more popular. Can they damage your hearing? What you need to realize is if you’re going to listen to your smart phone or electronic devices like iPods and iPads, make sure that you keep them at various levels that are good for your ears. Now, the best and simplest way to tell this is if someone else sitting next to you can hear the smart phone or electronic device, it’s on too loud. You have to protect yourselves in the long run. It’s a relatively new phenomenon, and it is one that we’re going to have to watch very closely.

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Addressing Pain During Sex

This is an embarrassing one, not one that many people want to talk about, but pain during sexual activity can actually be a very problematic experience for both partners involved.  When you are talking about this, the number one thing you can do to deal with it is not pain medicine, it's not therapy, it's not any specific treatment.  It’s communication.  The first step is you have to talk with your partner about the problem and let them know there are difficulties.  Then it can be dealt with medically. 

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Eating Disorders Can Go Unnoticed

Eating disorders are often portrayed as dramatic problems that are impossible to miss, leading to disastrous outcomes.  There is no doubt that there are many cases like this, but in most cases, eating disorders go unnoticed for prolonged periods of time.  Both anorexia and bulimia can be hidden until there are large changes in body weight and muscle wasting.  In fact, in the case of bulimia where a person binges and then purges themselves of food, it can be totally missed.  A major point to understand about eating disorders is that they are psychological problems.  They're not necessarily all about weight.  There is a distorted body image that takes control and it can affect behavior, but the important thing to realize here is that each case is individual and we need to get help, sometimes at the psychiatric level.

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Causes of Breast Tenderness

Breast tenderness is certainly an issue that plagues women, but it plagues them at different times of the month than others on a typical basis.  Normally, what we find is breast tenderness is worse as we approach the menstrual cycle.  That period of time right before the menstrual cycle is when the breasts can be more tender, especially for women who suffer from fibrocystic changes.  These are lumpy breasts that actually can become more problematic at that time.  Breast tenderness also can be averted in many cases with hormonal support and also staying away from caffeine.  

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A Discussion about Spider Bites

Spiders frighten most of us, probably because of the images from the movies, but spider bites are more common than you might think.  With 30,000 species of spiders, there are more than 50,000 exposures each year in the U.S.  The most common spiders that attack are recluse spiders.  Most of the bites occur in the early morning whenever bed linens, bed clothes, or other garments squeeze the female spider between fabric and the victim's skin.  These bites cluster, they often lead to ulcers, and they can take weeks to heal.

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Controlling Type One Diabetes

Type One Diabetes used to be called Juvenile Diabetes. The condition occurs early in life, and it’s a result of the pancreas not making enough insulin to control the blood sugar. It’s extremely important to control the blood sugar with insulin. If this isn’t the case, there can be both short and long-term effects. This is easier said than done, because it’s important to find the correct dosage of insulin, as well as encouraging a person to take the medicine faithfully. That’s why a new study is so interesting. Researchers at the Nemours Clinic looked at this, and they found that clearly, controlling it with insulin is critical.

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Why are Women More Likely to Suffer From Depression?

Studies have shown that women are more likely to suffer from clinical depression. When women are down in the dumps, they often think they should snap out of it, but it’s not that easy. Depression is on the rise in women. Women are two to three times more likely than men to experience the problems of depression. It’s a serious health threat, and at times when women are supposed to be happiest, during and after pregnancy, that’s a time when depression can really rear its ugly head. You have to realize, this is a risk, and think about it, and get help.

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