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  • Varenicline: A Miracle For Smokers Or Simply Another False Hope?
    Smokers have many incentives to quit smoking. The health risk of smoking is bigger today then at any other point in history. It seems that with each passing year more is known about cigarettes and the health problems that stem from them. The problem is not a lack of motivation or incentive on the smoker’s part, but it is quite simply a hard addiction. There have been many stop-smoking aids that have been released in the last 15 years. Some of these include the Nicorette gum a...
  • Rubbing Away Your Stretch Marks
    Many people have to deal with striae in their lives, though they’ve probably never heard the term. Instead, most folks know them by their more common name: stretch marks. Stretch marks occur whenever we increase our body mass faster than our skin can accommodate.

    Our skin has a certain amount of elasticity, which allows for movement and growth without constantly developing stretch marks. However, when our rate of growth exceeds the level of elasticity in our skin, stretch ...
  • Using Lasers In Beauty Treatments
    The word laser brings to mind images of science fiction spaceship fights, and other futuristic harmful uses. Lasers, however, are much more frequently used to help people rather than to harm them. The use of lasers in beauty treatments is a relatively new development, but their precise targeting and many different levels of strength make lasers an ideal tool in cosmetic procedures.

    One of the first ways that lasers were used in beauty treatments was in laser hair removal. ...
  • Vitiligo Treatment Options
    Vitiligo is a skin condition affecting the body's production of melanin in the skin, which causes white patches of skin on the body. There is no known cure for vitiligo, but the symptoms may be treated using various methods.

    One treatment for vitiligo involves photo therapy, or treatment using light. With this method, ultraviolet rays are used to stimulate the body's melanocytes, which are the cells that produce melanin.

    Another treatment involves grafting healthy skin ...
  • Analysis Of Alternative Health Treatments
    Are you considering an alternative health treatment? Buying a nutritional supplement? Need hard facts on the effectiveness of a therapy?

    When evaluating an alternative therapy, as with conventional therapies, there are two basic factors you want to look at: Benefits and Cost.

    The benefits can be hard to sleuth out. Many treatments are buried under so much hype, marketing material or legend that it's hard to figure out the real benefits. Here are several ways to find out...

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