How Showing Compassion for Animals Can Improve Your Health

Compassion can help broaden our perspective and redirect our focus way from ourselves. Compassion might boost our sense of well-being by increasing a feeling of connection to others. Social connection helps us recover from illness more quickly, strengthens our immune and even increase our lifespan. People...

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Eight Common Signs of Gluten Intolerance

Gluten (from Latin gluten, "glue") is a mixture of proteins found in wheat and related grains, including barley and rye. Gluten gives elasticity to dough, helping it rise and keep its shape and often gives the final product a chewy texture. Gluten contains hundreds of proteins, which have low biological...

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Moderate coffee drinking may be linked to reduced risk of death

Coffee cultivation first took place in Ethiopia. The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking appears in the middle of the 15th century in the Sufi shrines of Yemen. In the Horn of Africa and Yemen, coffee was used in local religious ceremonies. As these ceremonies conflicted with the beliefs of...

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Hardison gets most extensive face transplant ever

Patrick Hardison, a volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck. More than two dozen face transplants have been performed worldwide since the first one in France in 2005. Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, who led the surgical team that did Hardison's transplant and recently wrote a review of the field, said Hardison's...

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Massages Benefit for Your Body and Mind

Massage involves working and acting on the body with pressure – structured, unstructured, stationary, or moving – tension, motion, or vibration, done manually or with mechanical aids. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearm, feet, or a massage device. Massage can promote...

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Causes of Low Self Esteem in Teenagers

Acne is a common skin condition prevalent among adolescents, but may occur to any age group as well. The study from Canada stated that acnes cause negative effects on an individual's perception of one's self. It may result to lack of self-confidence, depression, and low self-esteem. Acne can take...

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How to Take Care of Your Eyes While Working On the Computer

   The eye is a slightly asymmetrical globe, about an inch in diameter. The front part of the eye (the part you see in the mirror) includes:• The iris (the pigmented part)• The cornea (a clear dome over the iris)• The pupil (the black circular opening in the iris that lets light in)• The...

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