Health Creator

This series takes a candid look at the advertising being crammed onto your television screens and into your heads. Is it really good advertising, or just wasting a commercial break? Reader suggestions are always welcome.

I would like to kick off the series by discussing everybody’s favorite advertisements, erectile dysfunction pills (or simply ED for those of you who prefer it).

We see a myriad of crotch-centric ads these days, from getting your genital herpes under control, to naturally enhancing your maleness, to the ever popular pill-based sexual stimuli that have become their own branch of the market - you’ve seen the competing ads for Cialis, Levitra, Viagra, and Enzyte repeatedly, I’m sure.

I could discuss the fact that these ads (especially Levitra) mention how ED is often a side effect of high blood pressure and/or Type II diabetes. They don’t, of course, mention that if you just stayed in respectable shape, you could have a great chance of avoiding those illnesses, and consequently avoid the scourge of ED.

Read More: I Don’t Buy It: Viagra Commercials

Researchers have shown just 45 minutes of relaxing music before bedtime can make for a restful night. People who listened to about 45 minutes of relaxing music before going to bed reported a 35% percent improvement “including better and longer night-time sleep and less dysfunction during the day” over those who did not.

Researchers have shown just 45 minutes of relaxing music before bedtime can make for a restful night.

The Taiwanese researchers studied the sleeping patterns of 60 elderly people with sleep problems.

They told the Journal of Advanced Nursing, how the technique was easy to learn and lacked the side-effects of other treatments.

The study participants were either given a choice of music to listen to before going to sleep or nothing at all.

The music group were able to choose from six tapes that featured soft, slow music - around 60-80 beats per minute - such as jazz, folk or orchestral pieces.

Listening to music caused physical changes that aided restful sleep, including a lower heart and respiratory rate, the researchers found.

Read more: Listen to music to help you sleep

Which Color Tortilla Chip Is Healthiest?
A new study shows blue ’s best when it comes to packing the most nutrition into a taco shell or bowl of tortilla chips.
Read more: Which Color Tortilla Chip Is Healthiest?

Top 9 Fitness Myths — Busted!
Think you know the facts about getting fit? You may be surprised to learn how many are really fiction. Fitness Myth No. 6: If you’re not working up a sweat, you’re not working hard enough.
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Fact or Fiction?: Antiperspirants Give You Alzheimers
For some, the thought of abandoning antiperspirants gives them the cold sweats. For others, it’s the thought of using them. Underarm antiperspirants guard against odor and wetness, but could the aluminum-based compounds that reduce sweat actually cause Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer? (Scientific American Takes a Look)
Read more: Fact or Fiction?: Antiperspirants Give You Alzheimers

Breast implants linked with suicide in study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who get cosmetic breast implants are nearly three times as likely to commit suicide as other women, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
Read more: Breast implants linked with suicide in study

Girl dies of brain tumor after doctors tell her ‘headaches are just stress’
[A woman who had complained to her GP of severe headaches for almost a year collapsed and died of an undiagnosed brain tumour. Jennifer Bell, 22, had been told she was suffering from stress but after months of illness had finally been referred to a neurologist. But on July 3 last year- only three days before her appointment, she collapsed at home.]
Read more: Girl dies of brain tumor after doctors tell her ‘headaches are just stress’

The 10 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
Want to do your body a world of good? It’s as easy as expanding your grocery list.
Read more: The 10 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating

Court Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that patients with terminal illnesses do not have a constitutional right to use medicines that have not yet won regulatory approval. The 8-to-2 decision by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit came in a closely watched…
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By Malcolm Moorhouse, depressionsite4you.com

Depression can affect the working ability, family and social life of a person. This is why we should never try to ignore or hide depression. It is important to be aware of the symptoms, the causes and what possibilities we have to try and prevent it in our lives.

Each of us has had a depressing sad moment at some point in our lives. Depression is a normal human reaction associated with bereavement, pressures of life or maybe the break up of a relationship. Sometimes the feeling of sadness passes but sometimes it doesn’t, if it becomes more persistent it can lead to depression. Diseases of the nervous system are very serious and that is why it is important not to ignore depression and to get proper help when we realize there is a problem.

Listed below are some symptoms of depression:

* Feeling sad
* Loss of energy
* Loosing hope in life
* Not finding pleasure doing the things you used to love
* Can’t concentrate
* Always crying
* Sleeping a lot
* Can’t sleep
* Loss of appetite

What causes depression? This is a complicated question because there isn’t a single cause for depression. This is a complex disease that can appear as a result of multiple causes. Depression can also be transmitted among people that are close to each other, by influence.

There is proof that people suffering from depression suffer brain changes. There is also evidence that illustrates how depression can also be genetic. Children can be affected by parents who suffer from. Also it seems that parents whose children suffer from chronic depression are more likely to be affected themselves by this illness.

To prevent depression we have to know ourselves very well. Treatable depression can be hard to prevent once we are already down in the dumps. The best method to avoid another crisis after a chronic depression is to keep our eyes open for its symptoms and its causes. If we feel we are loosing control then getting professional help would be the right direction to take.

Sent By Gabriel Adams, Depression Causes and Treatment

Depression is an illness of the mind. It is where neurotransmitters in the brain are not balanced out. There is no way to overcome this illness without treatment and it can be serious and in some cases harmful.

Some of the symptoms of depression include:

- Feeling sad and upset a lot of the time.

- Thinking about the bad things in life and what has went wrong with your life.

- You feel like you’re always weighing other people down and holding them back from having a good time.

- You have physical pain over different parts of your body that has no medical cause.

Depression affects many people of this world and probably affects you or someone close to you. The good thing about it being so common is how easy it is to find a cure. Some of the cures for depression include:

- Medication. Medication includes different types of medicines which help to fight the symptoms of depression. They fall under three main categories.

1. Tricyclics (example: Norpramin)
2. SSRI (example: Prozac)
3. MAOI (example: Nardil)
4. St. Johns’ Wort has also been proven effective in curing depression. This is an all natural herbal cure which some people prefer to medication.

Acupuncture has also been tried to help treat depression patients.

Changing the way you feel about yourself. While this seems like it wouldn’t work one of the best ways to fight this disease is to look at life with a positive attitude. What this means is to mentally tell yourself to stop sulking around and to think of all the good things that life has brought you.

Depression can be caused by abuse, bad feelings, and mental expectations that you can’t meet. Verbal and mental abuse seems to be some of the leading causes of depression. Some scientists believe that depression is a way of the patient asking to be treated better by the people around them. Studies suggest that depression works, in a way to achieve that goal.

If you have depression it’s best you seek immediate advice about how to treat your disease. Remember, if not taken seriously it can cause harmful long term effects.