“Applied relaxation” is a powerful way to relieve stress, eases panic, and curbs anxieties. Applied relaxation refers to progressive muscle relaxation that involves the contraction of muscles in sequence, eventually relaxing all the main muscle groups in the body. Such relaxation method helps to serve the purpose of achieving a state of physical and mental calmness, which in turn helps ...
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The Advent of the Dandelion Plant As a Chinese Herb Medicinal Now Recognized by Western Medicine
Although Westerners commonly view dandelions as a type of weed, this plant has several beneficial effects on human health which western medicine has only begun exploring. Dandelion has been used for centuries both internally and externally by Asian cultures as a medicinal used for digestive disorders, appendicitis, and breast problems (such as inflammation or lack of milk flow). Now we ...
Read More »The Effects of Overpopulation on Our Environment
The rapid growth of our population now enters in the portal of social problem. It is now becoming as one of the predicaments that endangered our environment. If this dilemma cannot be given due attention then there is really a great probability that human existence and the natural surroundings will be devastated. While there is still time to prevent this ...
Read More »Peek: Developing Countries and Factory Animal Farming
Large-scale, industrial animal agriculture is a very profitable use of an under-developed nations’ lands. Nonetheless, few in the underdeveloped populace tend to share in agricultural commodity markets; historically, there are either subsistence farmers or large-scale corporations who often trade in international markets with little local benefit. Modern meat-growing methods increase natural resource use as well as cause environmental pollution. The ...
Read More »Factory Farms – Disease Affects to Humans & Environment
Increased Human Health Risks Humans have traditionally, and unsatisfactorily, been sentinels of low-grade infections in zoonotic livestock DZs; preventive measures, such as sampling and control strategies, may be curbed during intense agriculture (Agr) resulting in larger, sudden, human DZ outbreaks which shall also taint surrounding localities. Newly urbanized zones, forced migrations & refugee camps, where populations are in turmoil, intensify ...
Read More »Influenza – Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Influenza is commonly known as flu, it is an infectious disease of birds that can cause by RNA viruses. It is a contagious respiratory illness that is caused by influenza virus. Actually it is a viral infection that affects throat, nose, bronchi and in some cases it also affects lungs. Influenza is a serious disease and every year about 5%-20% ...
Read More »Vitamin Deficiency Diseases increase with monocropping
Loss of Food Security and Vitamin Stability Due to Industrial Agricultural Practices Human population growth and urbanization trends make industrial agricultural methods and monocropping (re-planting the same crop of circulating very few crops), very profitable; however, they negatively impact surrounding ecosystems and are of low quality. Sustenance agriculture is being replaced by the demand & profit of industrialized, factory methods ...
Read More »Note – Tastes for meat challenge food security
Threats From Flux in Nutrition Principles Due to Industrialization Historically, per-capita meat intake is increasing due to profit-driven international food industries, most of which are based in founding high-volume, high-calorie, inexpensive but low-quality diets. While there are gains in overall world health due to increased protein availability, these gains are offset by diseases resulting from excess meat consumption by an ...
Read More »The Benefits Of Nutrient Dense Fruits And Vegetables In A Healthy Diet
All fruits and vegetables are super foods. They are the most nutrient dense of the food groups, meaning they have very low calories for nutritional punch that they pack. They are high in fiber, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. They are low in fat and calories. They protect against a number of diseases, including cancer. Making fruit and vegetables the main ...
Read More »Risks of Disease due to Ecosystem Shifts
LACK OF CONTROL OR SENTINELS — Wildlife, bush-meat and subsistence livestock largely interact without veterinarian services, surveillance, or DZ transmission modeling in the developing world. More likely to propagate in areas where humanitarian deployments occur, these factors pose unknown infectious threats to aid workers and military assistance CLIMATIC CHANGES AND MIGRATIONS facilitate biotic shifts and evolutions in microbes and vectors; ...
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