Know Your Part When Disaster Strikes. Many people feel there is little preparation that they personally can do to prepare for a wildfire threatening their home. Most feel that it is up to the fire fighters to make or break that day for them. Not So! Ok depending on where you live it may be difficult to clear flammable materials from around the house sufficient to stop a wild blaze, but there are still personal steps you can take to survive the day. Y rather than worry about what is still inside.

Are You Watching Your Blood Pressure? High blood pressure, or hypertension, refers to the force of blood pushing against your artery walls. High blood pressure is a concern because it can lead to heart disease. Hypertension is the leading cause of stroke and a major cause of heart attack. People have high blood pressure. This goes to show that watching your blood pressure as you continue to age is extremely important! .

Encouraging healthy lifestyles in girls and women. Girls and women come in many varieties and all are beautiful.

WHAT IF EVERYTHING RAN ON GAS? If you have not yet watch the above video please do so. I am not trying to advertise for Nissan or anything but I do like the point they exagerate in this video. Si todavía no has mirado el vídeo antes mencionado haga así por favor. Yo no trato de anunciar para Nissan ni para nada pero quieren el punto ellos exagerate en este vídeo.

8220;I believe that it is possible to stay healthy into ripe old age and to prevent, stabilise and even perhaps to reverse, many of the chronic degenerative diseases. Underpinning all my research and advice is this simple fact. Given the right nutrition and lifestyle, our bodies have amazing powers of self-healing and regeneration. Their recommendations have often been based on out-of-date science and influenced by people with business interests in their messages.

My personal journey with managing PCOS and raising awareness. This is due to the high insulin levels that have been associated with PCOS which increase the risk for high cholesterol, high blood pressure and atherosclerosis. All of these conditions can increase the risk for heart attack and stroke. Having PCOS can put you .

Be the change you wish to see in the world. A couple weeks ago, Allura Garis, the Youth Engagement Coordinator over at Natural High. Asked me to write a back-to-school post about rising above peer pressure by pledging and choosing your natural high. Why would someone choose a natural high and reject alcohol and drugs when it seems like everyone else around him or her is doing just the opposite? Protests Against the Ringling Brothers in Salt Lake City, UT.

The chemical processes of substance abuse on the brain, and why we become addicted. So, why is a drug as ridiculous as this one still finding itself a place among the drug-seeking community? .

Women Turn Pain into Power. By not being able to protect their women, their authority is undermined and their honor destroyed. As Nicolas Kristof points out in Half The Sky,. Rape becomes a tool of war in conservative societies precisely because female sexuality is so sacred. So this is me screaming. Screaming to make some sort of difference.

Posted by janaem under Research. A big question for researchers is how much genetics has to do with risk for arthritis. More and more they are believing and finding evidence that genetics are involved with the diagnosis of certain types of arthritis. Some types have more evidence than others. Posted by janaem under Statistics. As a public health graduate, I love the CDC website.