Specialists classify 2 types of diabetes: (1) so called juvenile diabetes, the condition when a human body produces too little (or completely stops producing) insulin, which is necessary for converting body sugar into energy; (2) more common condition, when a human body develops resistance to insulin effects or low sensitivity to it, and these defective [...]
Stresses and continuous emotional tension are a big problem of modern people, and developing good stress management skills is very important for everyone. Today’s psychologists, psychiatric therapists and other experts recommend a great variety of special techniques to lower the effects of stress and coping models. In particular, such tactics as positive thinking, eating a [...]
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Stress is a reaction of our body on some extreme conditions, connected with possible danger, threat, problem, bad news, and so on. There are acute (short-term) stresses and chronic (lasting) stresses. Acute stresses are sudden stresses which cause a rapid response and certain changes in our body. Chronic stresses are continuous conditions, which usually result [...]
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As a rule, specialists connect breast cancer with certain hormonal misbalances in female body, which can be caused by such factors as interruption of pregnancy (especially the first one) or irregularities in sexual life of a woman. Many doctors underline that in order not to develop breast cancer it is necessary to avoid abortions, because [...]
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Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer which occurs mostly in women, but sometimes can be diagnosed also in men. American medical specialists estimated that in 2007 about 178,000 American women could potentially have developed breast cancer (Mayo Clinic). Currently, doctors diagnose more than 30 various types of this disease. The [...]
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Sleep disorders are the conditions when a person can not fall asleep or when sleeping patterns of a person are distorted. Nowadays, a lot of people have such sleep disorders as chronic insomnia, sleep apnea, the syndrome of restless legs, and many others. Insomnia is one of the prevailing sleep disorders in our times, which [...]
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