There are so many cases when doctors make mistakes. Among all other cases, is this one, where a three-year-old boy had an excruciating stomach pain for moths. When his parents took him to the doctor, he was only prescribed with some painkillers in order to help him ease the pain. After some period of time, he was not getting better, so his parents took him to the local hospital for treatment. The doctors there recommended an x-ray, and once the results came out, it became clear what was causing the boy’s agony. Even the doctors were shocked.
After the boy went through a harsh stomach pain for months, and after the parents realized that the prvious doctor made a mistake by just giving him painkillers, the boy was taken to Metro Hospital in Faridabad, India. There, the doctors perforemed an x-ray on the little boy’s stomach and what came out, was shocking both to the doctors as to the parents. The agonizing pain the boy went through, was due to a metal clump of objects that were stuck in his stomach.
Eventhough we need the lights on the streets when it’s dark outside, there are negative effects that affect our overall health.
During the night, the natural darkness contributes to rest and rejuvenation, as well as the body’s ability to create and regulate specific important hormones. This is all disrupted by the lights that contribute to the “light pollution”.
We are all brushing our theeth when we wake up in the morning, but maybe we are not aware of the fact that we leave another deposit of potentially dangerous compounds and plastics in our mouth.
It’s not like we wake up in the morning and decide to increase our daily intake of toxic materials. We might already have enough, depending on how much is our city polluted. We simply do the basic thing which is brushing our theeth.
Chicken pox is a common infection that appears at some point in our life. This is a story about a woman whose son fell ill and got a chicken pox. She went thorugh an experience that almost every parent goes through.
Like every mother, concerned about her son’s health, she counsulted a doctor, who presribed him a medicine. This medicine is regularly given during the fight against measles. She started applying the treatment to her son because she trusted the doctor. However, the doctor made a huge and unforgivable mistake in this case.
One of the oldest consumed crops in the world are Chickpeas, also known as garbanzo. Nowadays, they are used across nearly every continent. Not only chickpeas have been a part of certain traditional diets for over 7,500 years, some of the healthiest populations living around the world are still including them in their every day life. Beside soybean, chickpeas is the next most widely grown and eaten bean in the world.
Chickpeas are abundant in vitamins, minerals and proteins, so as a result, they are used to treat wide range of health problems. They will help you for boosting digestion, increase satiety, keeps the blood sugar levels stable, increase the protection against diseases etc.
The journal Environmental Health Perspectives on May 1, published an editorial saying that boxes and household dust contain industriacl chemicals that harm the environment and our health.
Environmental scientist strongly warn about this serious problem. The editorial “The Madrid Statement” has been signed by 200 scientist from 38 countries, because it requires restriction on chemicals called PFACs and their alternatives without any thorough testing on their safety.
Nowadays, many people suffer from heart disease, mostly because of an unhealthy lifestyle. As a result, millions of people are told by the doctors to take an aspirin tablet on daily basis to prevent heart disease. However, according to a recent study, a specific segment of the population may be putting themselves at risk by taking this popular painkiller each day.
The scientist at Harvard University conducted a study on almost 40,000 women over 10 years, and they found out that many of them carry a specific gene that helps protect against heart problems naturally.
We all love eating strawberries, but are they safe for our health?
Even 90% of strawberries are produced in California, and most of the crops are loaded with toxic chemicals. Chloropicrin have been applied to strawberries, but its use increased even more in recent years as an alternative to methyl bromide. US EPA in 2008, reapproved chloropicrin as safe for use in agricultural settings and that both consumers and growers can have benefits from it.