Menstrual cramps (or dysmenorrhea) is quite a common health condition and every three of four women regularly suffer from an extreme discomfort and pains in abdominal area before and during their menstrual period. Some women experience only mild cramps and relatively soft pains, but sometimes the pains are severe and the woman can hardly do something else but using a powerful painkiller. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes insomnia can turn into a real problem, especially in hot weathers like the ones we are experiencing this summer. Insomnia is linked to difficulties with falling and remaining asleep for 6-7 hours, and too hot weather, along with many other factors (stresses, worries, bad eating and sleeping habits, increased caffeine consumption, hormonal changes, PMS, too much of noise and light, and many others), can affect our sleep quality to a great extent. Read the rest of this entry »

Rose is a sacred flower for many nations of the world, an eternal symbol of beauty and love. Red and yellow, pink and white,  roses look very pretty and have a delicate fragrance. In addition, roses and their products offer a series of therapeutic benefits and valuable properties. Rose water is among the most common products received by distillation from rose petals, and it is used in medicine, cosmetics, culinary and so on. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite all the efforts of doctors and social health care enthusiasts, the rates of overweight and obesity are still very high. That is why nutritionists and medical scientists are going on with their lab experiments and scientific work in order to find out what other ways can help us eat less and be more fit. Read the rest of this entry »

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is a very common weed which grows in valleys and lawns throughout Europe and North America. It received its name after a Latin expression “a tooth of lion” as a reference to jagged edges of the leaves of this plant. Despite being considered weed, dandelion root and leaves have been used for centuries for their nutritional and medicinal properties. Read the rest of this entry »

Breast cancer is one of the most common and aggressive types of cancer, and according to the statistics, about 16% of total number of deaths from cancer are accounted to this one. Scientists and medical specialists around the world are urgently looking for effective solutions and remedies for breast cancer, and recently one of the researches ended up with promising positive results. A group of scientists from Texas AgriLife Research Lab found out that extracts of peaches and plums can destroy breast cancer cells. Read the rest of this entry »