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Drink green tea to protect your heart!

Green tea can do wonders for your heart, or so says the latest research. It can act as a great tonic for your heart. Green tea contains antioxidants, flavonoids and catechins, which help in maintaining a healthy blood pressure. These substances are supposed to make the arteries more flexible and relaxed.

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Chromotherapy: Treating diseases through colors!

Chromotherapy is a technique in which diseases are treated using different colors. It is based on the principle that lack of colors lead to various diseases in the human body. During this therapy lights of different colors are applied to the body parts. It is an attempt to restore the body’s balance through colors. We can [...]

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Don’t stand in the sun for too long!

The heat in our body is generated by the basal metabolic activity and lost by evaporation (through sweating), conduction, convection (through dilatation of blood vessels) and radiation. The center for controlling our body temperatures is in an area called hypothalamus in the brain. Our core temperature is maintained at 37 degree centigrade with a [...]

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Smoking can kill you!

‘Smoking is injurious to health’. You must have heard that phrase innumerable times. You must have also read the same on cigarette packs! But have you really wondered as to why and how smoking can kill you? How the smoke affects the different organs of the body? What is the actual pathology and how one [...]

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