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With nearly 230,000 babies being born to teen moms in 2015 alone, the chances of your teen becoming pregnant one day may be higher than you think. Getting the news that your teen is pregnant can be overwhelming, but it’s important to do anything you can to give her the support that she needs. Your […]

Many people make the mistake of assuming that alcoholism is something that can be battled with sheer will, but that isn’t always the case. There are many alcoholics who want nothing more than to stop drinking, but have a difficult time because of the way that the alcohol affects their brain. Their brain craves the […]

Dysphagia refers to swallowing disorders that range from mild to severe and make eating and drinking difficult. It is estimated that approximately ten-million Americans are diagnosed with dysphagia each year, so the first component to realize is that people are not alone in their struggles to adjust to living with it. There are support groups […]

It can be unpleasant and sometimes dangerous for seniors to feel chilly. Seniors are susceptible to both extreme heat and cold than younger adults. During the winter season, this puts them at high risk for catching hypothermia, a known serious fatal condition. Seniors don’t have to be exposed to below-freezing temperatures that can determine developing […]

Oxygen is drawn into the body from the atmosphere by breathing. Each lung is inundated by an estimate of 300 million alveoli, which are cocooned by numerous blood capillaries. Alveolar walls and capillary walls are extremely thin, this makes them permeable, therefore, oxygen passing into the alveoli immediately diffuses into the blood capillaries – the […]

It is so hard to bring a distinction between water and life, as these two are synonymous. But again, not any water can be synonymous to life, as there is strong evidence indicating that hard water has lots of potential hazards to human life. And it is on this premise that you find so many […]