Your Medical Stop ← A weblog on medical related topics

Help Our Aging Parents To Stay Healthy And Active

May

2013

As people age, they begin to lose muscle mass and strength. This unfortunate reality leaves older people less able to perform many tasks of daily life. Eventually, this leads to a lower quality of life for many people. Fortunately, well-documented studies have proven that resistance strength training can reverse this loss of muscle mass to ...

Cosmetics Cause Breast Cancer?

May

2013

When it comes to beauty products, the effects of the ingredients they contain are more than just skin deep.In fact, shampoos, makeup, lotions, perfumes and other cosmetics for sale today can contain ingredients linked to breast cancer, infertility, birth defects and other serious health problems. That’s why the Breast Cancer Fund is a leader in ...

Are you suffering from Orthorexia Nervosa..?

May

2013

Did someone say there’s no such thing as too healthy ? Well, they are wrong. In the book Health Food Junkies, Dr Steven Bratman says, “For some people, eating ‘correctly’ has become an equally harmful preoccupation, one that causes them to adopt progressively more rigid diets that not only eliminate crucial nutrients and food groups, ...

Why Antibiotics Aren’t a Cure-All

May

2013

Overuse and misuse of antibiotics is a public health concern.Parents expect almost miraculous cures when they take their sick child to the doctor. Why? The introduction of penicillin, the first really effective antibiotic 70 years ago, was a wonder drug that worked overnight.