How Does Blood Clot?
Overview Blood clotting, also called blood coagulation, occurs in reaction to a wound to halt the flow of blood. This happens so that blood loss will stop and also so that the wound will be closed and no bacteria or…
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Preventing Hair Loss
You can help your hair to grow thicker and stronger simply by being sure to get enough vitamins. Hair loss is often a result of not getting enough of the B Vitamin supplements. These supplements are important for hair growth….
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How to Stop Relatives from Meddling in your Personal Affairs
Stopping meddlers takes assertiveness, practice setting boundaries, and understanding the dynamics of family systems. Families operate along a continuum of behaviors ranging from over involvement, to under involvement. The fancy words for this are known as enmeshed families, or disengaged…
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Treatment Options for Hair Loss in Men
All of us lose 35 – 40 hairs everyday: the result of the three natural phases of hair growth. The first phase of hair growth is called the Anagen or Growth Phase in which a new hair is produced. Ninety…
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Protecting Kids from Irresponsible Relatives
Irresponsible relatives come in many forms, both intentional and unwitting. How can parents encourage family unity, while protecting their children from relatives’ recklessness? 1) Deliberate Doters Grandparents and others love to shower little ones with gifts, flattery, and attention. How…
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Causes of Hair Loss
As i was reading the other reviews i found out that i should write my points and my ideas of hair loss.Damage by excessive hair treatments such as perms , colours , blowdrying and hair straightening . Many of these…
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Step Families Making it Work
“You are dating a man that has three kids!” I heard that saying from several people in my family, and I was fully aware of that. The man I was dating was also divorced, and had custody of those three…
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How to Deal with Conflicts in a Blended Family
Divorce statistics are higher than ever before and continue to rise. Many of the marriages that break down and come to an end do so after adding children to their union. When the divorce is over, most people will eventually…
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How to Build a Relationship with your Step Children
Can Being Too Involved Bite You in the Butt? When my husband (then fiance’) and I moved in together prior to marriage (oh the shame!), I felt that although he spent time with his children and provided for them financially,…
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How to Handle it when a Parent Puts you second after Remarriage
How to handle it when a parent puts you second after remarriage First of all, feel free to express yourself to your parents about how you feel. Your mother or father may not be be aware that they are putting…
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Blending Families
Had I known in my early twenties that I would someday be a step-mother, I might have run the other way, screaming. Did I purposely set out to meet and fall in love with a previously married man with a…
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Balding Men can have Great Styles too
Merely mentioning the words “hair styling” to anyone with a full head of locks can bring dozens of ideas on how to embellish his looks. But, to the man with a bald pate, the phrase sounds rather ridiculous; how in…
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Parenting Requires a Standard Duty of Care Owed Boy and Girl Step or Natural Children
Blended families are families that include one parent with children from a previous marriage and another parent also with children from a previous marriage. Parent-child relationships are status relationships at law based on fiduciary or trust responsibilities. Legally a…
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How to Prevent Hair Loss in Men
I am twenty five years old and over the past few years I have noticed a peninsula forming on my forehead. For those of you who are not up to date on your geographical jargon, a peninsula is a land…
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Tips on being a Great Stepparent
Becoming a stepparent is not always the easiest process. However, it can ultimately be a very rewarding one. You can find closeness and love with a stepchild that is equal to that of a biological child. Any great stepparent will…
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Building a Relationship with a Step Child
I came across this topic and thought to myself, now here’s something I can talk about. I am a mother of three teenagers. A year ago I started dating a man who has a 3 year old son. I have…
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Chemotherapy and Hair Loss
Chemotherapy’s side effects are numerous, and hair loss is often one of the most lamented problems that comes up during the course of treatment. You can maintain a positive outlook, though! It seems difficult, but take note of the following…
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How to be a Good Step Dad
Being a father is a difficult enough in its own right. Primarily you want the best for your children, and are willing to make sacrifices in order to provide the best. Furthermore, the constant worrying of whether you’re doing the…
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Reasons to Include your Children in your Wedding
Reasons to Include Your Own Children in Your Wedding A wedding is joyful ritual that invites friends and family to witness a commitment between two people and the family they raise. What better a time to include children who are…
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Causes of Hair Loss
Hair loss can be a dreadful experience. It often happens to men more than women and on the whole men seem able to cope with hair loss better than women. It is not fair to generalise though and it depends on…
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What to do about Hair Loss
Natural Remedies for Hair Loss Hair Loss in both men and women can be very depressing and a cause of great concern. It is very rightly believed that healthy and beautiful hair enhance one’s beauty, especially among females. Since ages,…
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Shared Custody
Divorce hurts everyone. In some families there are more hurt feelings than in others, but overall, when parents divorce it changes everyone’s lives. Sharing custody can be the best thing that you can do in a bad situation. Divorce sometimes…
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Dealing with Step Kids in Blended Families
Today your chances of being a step parent at some point in your life is a high probability. Unless you can assure that your marriage will last for a life-time, that your spouse will never die or leave you, you…
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What is Common Baldness
Typically, an adult has five million hairs on their body, one hundred thousand of which are found on the head. It is common to shed one hundred hairs a day. As a rule, hair grows fastest between the ages of…
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Hairsense Hair Loss Alopecia Male Pattern Baldness Baldness Hairloss Menthogen
It’s on your computer keyboard. It’s on your pillow. It’s in and around your sink trap. It’s on your shoulders. It’s inside your helmet, hat or headgear. It’s just about everywhere but where it’s meant to be. ‘It’ of course…
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Trials and Tribulations in Blending Families
Blended families should be treated as you would a regular family. All should have the same values, rules and treatments. Children, especially, need to see that this new blended family is being viewed as if it was or is their…
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The Recipe for Blended Family Bliss
Is shaken not stirred a recipe for a blended family? Yes, there are going to be times you are shaken as well as painfully stirred by emotions within the concoction that is a blended family. Having successfully navigated and survived…
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Causes of Excessive Hair Loss in Women
Your hair grows about one centimeter per month. At any one time, ninety percent of your hair grows and ten percent is in its resting phase. After the resting phase, which takes about three to four months, the hair falls…
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Favoring your Child over your Spouses
Children look to us for guidance, comfort and protection. It is a natural reaction to want to make your own child feel comfortable and secure in their new environment. Bringing together two families is a big decision, not to mention…
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Stress Hair Loss Telogen Effluvium Alopecia Areata
“I’m so stressed out, I’m losing my hair!” said a friend going through trials with her teenage children. Stress really can make one loose their hair and they even have a name for this type of hair loss called Telogen…
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Celebrating Holidays in a Blended Family
Celebrating holidays can be challenging once a divorce and remarriage has taken place. Depending on what kind of custody arrangements exist and what kind of relationship the adults have will determine how creative you need to be. When you have…
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