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Hoodia gordonii, a succulent plant, is found in Angola, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. The San Bushmen who roam around their habitats in the Kalahari Desert have many uses for the plant. One of its uses was as an appetite suppressant. The San people found it useful while hunting in the desert for days together. Though this was known to the outside world for some time, it was only in 1997 that South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) began to investigate and patented its extract which they named as P57. The rights to exclusive use of P57 … Continue Reading

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) noted that there were ten million surgical and non-invasive treatments performed within the US during the past year. From the millions of treatments carried out, 85% have been non-surgical. The data reveal that operative procedures decreased in the last year by more than 17%, still, minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures actually expanded by 1%.

Exactly why is this the circumstance?

Certainly with a better consumer conscious mind-set, people seem to be waiting and holding off on the face lift or tummy-tuck until they are safer about buying. However the second attributable point may be that presently … Continue Reading

Like it or not, some health crises require medication. The question is, just how safe are your prescription pills? Your physician prescribes them and they are Food and Drug Administration approved. But are they safe? Studies show that you may not be as safe as you would like to be! Not even aspirin is 100% safe. Whether you realize it or not, whenever you take a drug, you are weighing the potential benefits against the possibility that the medicine can hurt you.

For one example, Celebrex is a prescription pill prescribed for arthritis. When information was released in August 2001 … Continue Reading

There are some wonderful natural ways to cure depression. And one of the best ways to cure depression, whether natural or not, must be with homeopathy. Homeopathic treatment works by finding the cause of your depression and then effectively dealing with that. Anxiety depression is actually characterized by all sorts of irregularities and erratic behavior from the person who is suffering from it, this is usuallu due to certain stress triggers that may tend to easily cause a person undue jitters and stress. Also, a lot of people who tend to get easily nervous over stressful activities are actually prone … Continue Reading

For most people, even today, the word alcoholic still carries a lot of shame. It suggests a damaged person, somebody who is different from the rest of society, who has a different psychological or genetic makeup and therefore can’t drink. It is very difficult for most people to admit that they are different in any way from everyone else; it is even more difficult if that difference carries with it a sense of shame.

Consider how difficult it is to admit being different, if that means having to give up something that most people enjoy without any problem. Drugs are very … Continue Reading