If you’re waking up sore and achy every morning and your mattress is new, you may need to re-evaluate how you’re sleeping, says Scott D. Boden, M.D., director of the Emory Spine Center in Atlanta. Lying flat on your back forces your spine into an unnatural position, which can strain your muscles, joints, and nerves. “Your spine isn’t meant to be straight,” he says. “It has three natural curves: one in your lower back, one in the middle of your back, and one near your neck.” His advice:
Lie on your side in the fetal position with your knees bent and a pillow tucked between your legs. This will take the most stress off your back.
- Sleeping on your back may be putting stress on your spine.
- If you must sleep on your back, prop a big, fluffy pillow under your knees to reduce the pressure on the sciatic nerve in your lower back.
- Use a small pillow or a rolled-up towel under your neck as long as it doesn’t push your chin too far forward.
- Don’t sleep on your stomach. Sleeping facedown can exaggerate the arch at the base of your spine and cause strain. Our advice? Sew or tape a tennis ball to the front of your nightgown or nightshirt. We guarantee your stomach-sleeping days will be over.
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Vegetarianism is the fastest growing trend in the developed world. Here are 21 reasons why you should think about turning green too.
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- Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down your fat consumption. Modern farm animals are deliberately fattened up to increase profits. Eating fatty meat increases your chances of having a heart attack or developing cancer.
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- Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour.
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- There are millions of cases of food poisoning recorded every year. The vast majority are caused by eating meat.
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- Meat contains absolutely nothing – no proteins, vitamins or minerals – that the human body cannot obtain perfectly happily from a vegetarian diet. Read more…
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DEFINITIONS
Bile is a pile of stone crystals in the gallbladder or in the bile duct. Stones found in the gallbladder is called cholelitiasis, while stones in the bile ducts called koledokolitiasis.
CAUSE
Gallstones were more common in women and risk factors are:
- Elderly
- Obesity (Obesity)
- High-fat diet
- Heredity.
The major components of gallstones is cholesterol, a small portion of other forms of calcium salt. Bile contains large amounts of cholesterol that usually remains as a liquid. If the bile becomes saturated because of cholesterol, so cholesterol can become insoluble and precipitate out to form bile.
Most gallstones form inside the gallbladder and the majority of stones in the bile ducts from the gallbladder. Gallstones can form inside the bile duct if the bile experiencing backflow due to narrowing of the canal or after the removal of gall bladder. Read more…
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If you’re waking up sore and achy every morning and your mattress is new, you may need to re-evaluate how you’re sleeping, says Scott D. Boden, M.D., director of the Emory Spine Center in Atlanta. Lying flat on your back forces your spine into an unnatural position, which can strain your muscles, joints, and nerves. “Your spine isn’t meant to be straight,” he says. “It has three natural curves: one in your lower back, one in the middle of your back, and one near your neck.” His advice:
