In our daily life, we all are exposed to many stresses. We have reasons to worry about how we build our relationships with the ones around us, about our own performance at work or the performance of our kids in school, about the things we feel and the things we need to decide on, and many other important issues. Destructive effects of stresses, especially chronic stresses on our overall health are well known. Stresses cause psychological disorders and affect our appearance, they increase our risks for cardiovascular diseases and all the diseases linked to hormonal shifts. Stresses are very often linked to imbalanced nutrition, appetite loss and digestive disorders, which sometimes can be very serious. Chronic stress should be considered the factor that is the same harmful as environmental pollution, improper nutrition or a lack of physical activities. Read the rest of this entry »

Plenty is said about all those health risks and possible damage linked to passive smoking, but for many people it can still be a surprise to learn that passive smoking is not less, and sometimes even more harmful to our health than actual tobacco smoking. Passive smoking, or being in a close proximity to those who are smoking tobacco and breathing in the fumes, is a serious factor that increases out risks of cardiovascular diseases including coronary heart disease, various circulatory system problems like varicose veins, breast cancer, lung cancer, nose, ear and throat infections, asthma, a great variety of allergic reactions, skin problems like brittle skin or dermatitis, and many other unwanted health conditions. Unfortunately, a huge number of people in modern world are smokers, and for the rest of us in order to avoid exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke we need to stay in special smoke-free zones in public areas. However, not every public place or workplace can offer us this opportunity. Read the rest of this entry »

Smoking is considered the most common and one of the most destructive bad habits, and millions of people around the world are currently fighting for their lives and trying to get quit smoking help. Lately, the number of deaths caused by smoking has been firmly increasing, and it is estimated that currently this terrible habit kills about 3 million people a year. Moreover, specialists say warn us that provided the tendency remains, by the year 2020 the world is going to witness the death of 10 million people every year due to inability to find an effective help to quite smoking and get rid of this habit. In modern world, smoking is a leading cause of premature death, and many people in their 40s or 50s lose their life after being diagnosed with lung cancer, throat cancer, a heart attack and other smoking-related serious health conditions. Bad effects of smoking are very serious, and fortunately, more and more people are trying to quit after learning about the health risks linked to smoking. Read the rest of this entry »

I guess, no need to mention all the negative effects and serious health risks linked to obesity in men and women. Plenty is said and written on this issue. Obesity is something that causes fatal diseases and takes lives of millions of people around the world every year, and most of those deaths are actually premature ones. An effective weight management is a key to a longer life, but still for most of us, our modern lifestyle and nutrition habits are too hard to break in order to support a healthy body mass. Unfortunately, more and more young men and women have extremely high body mass, especially those young people who live in developed countries and have quite high social level and education level. And, unfortunately, in our times obesity in men and women has become a sort of epidemic, which has no fast and effective cure for now. Read the rest of this entry »

The risks and potential health dangers linked to consuming soft and fizzy drinks are quite serious. Many experts warn us about the fact that drinking carbonated beverages, commercially produced fruit juices, other soft drinks is linked to unnecessary increase in our sugar and calorie intake, this way increasing our risks for weight gain, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and other common health conditions. Lately, the findings of a study by Osaka University were published, suggesting that those women who drink fizzy or soft drinks every day are at higher risks of an ischemic stroke. The published information is actually scary: by drinking a glass of carbonated drink or commercial bottled fruit juice a day, women rise their chances to suffer from a stroke by 83 per cent! Check out the details about this interesting study in this article. Read the rest of this entry »

The list of bad effects of smoking is really very impressive but still millions of people around the world can not quit this bad habit. First of all, smoking is linked to very high risk of lung cancer which is currently the second most common type of cancer in the UK and takes over 41,500 people’s lives every year. According to Cancer Research magazine, every 9 of 10 cases of lung cancer is caused by heavy smoking. Other common bad effects of smoking include high risk of vascular problems like varicose veins, pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, infertility in both men and women. Finally, getting no proper quit smoking help and being unable to give up this terrible habit before the age of 40 can end up with very serious consequences for women. According to the findings of Oxford University scientists, women aged 40+ who can not stop smoking are exposed to very high risk of premature death and usually live a 10-year shorter life. Read the rest of this entry »