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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Body Fat Percentage & Hydration
Overview Dieters may be underestimating the role water plays in weight loss. Drinking water can crank up the metabolism to burn more fat and keep you energized for workouts, both of which can lower your body fat percentage, according to…
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Causes of Water in the Lungs
Your body is composed of more than 60 percent water, and your lungs are made up of close to 90 percent water, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Water in the lungs, a condition called pulmonary edema, refers to too…
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How to tell your Kids you are going on a Date
Many single parents face the challenge of telling their children that they are going on a date. The parent should never feel guilty about this choice. Even though their children are the number one priority to them, parents still need…
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Doctor Baldness Hair Growth Onion White Black Patch
I’m not sure that doctors will find a permanent cure for hair loss. They’re advice would probably be that you have to stop being so stressed out. Problem is how can you not be stressed when you are? I know…
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Glutamine and Muscle Growth
Overview Glutamine, also known as L-Glutamine, is one of the 20 amino acids located in the human body. Because the body is capable of producing glutamine, not needing to obtain it from diet or supplementation sources, it’s classified as a…
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How to Buy a new Suit
A suit is often looked at as a fashion statement. It can allow you to look slick, smart and sophisticated and it does not necessarily have to cost you all of your money to purchase one. Suits are not limited…
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The Impact of Online Dating on Traditional Courtship
The Internet has had a profound affect on nearly every aspect of our lives. Courtship and dating have been changed forever by the advent on online dating services. In the days before the Internet’s pervasive hold on our lives people…
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Use Caution with Online Dating Sites – No
Job applicants are notorious for stretching the truth on their resumes, but they’re models of virtue compared to some of the people who participate in online dating sites. This is not to say that everyone who joins a dating site…
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Normal Blood Pressure and Pulse Rate
Overview Blood pressure and pulse rate give your doctor important information about your health. Blood pressure represents the amount of force applied to the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood through the body. Pulse rate represents the…
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Assessing Interracial Relationships
This continues to be a hot topic, it was for my generation, seems to be for the generation that proceeded it and probably will be for the children of the generation proceeding my generation. I used to have really strong…
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Best Winter Boots for Women
If you live in New England a good pair of winter boots is an essential item for any woman. No matter where you work or what style of shoes you prefer when there is snow and ice on the ground…
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About Chapped Lips
Overview Chapped lips can be annoying and unsightly. They affect everyone, from babies to the elderly, and can have a variety of causes, but most people complain about chapping during the cold, dry months of winter. Fortunately, chapped lips are…
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Retro Style Dresses
I have been on a constant quest for over a decade now – to find gorgeous retro style dresses that hail from the glamor days of the 1940s and 1950s. This is not as easy as it sounds, and I…
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Types of Heart Bypass Surgery
Heart bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass surgery or CABG, is performed to bypass or re-route the flow of blood around an artery that’s clogged. The arteries leading to the heart can become clogged due to atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis…
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How to Make an Online Dating Profile
I don’t think there’s an Internet dating site that I haven’t scoured through, looking for someone that appears to be mostly sane, socially acceptable, and – in a perfect world – gainfully employed. I’ve experimented with dozens of profile pictures,…
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What Is a Plug-In Hybrid Car?
Overview A hybrid vehicle has both an electric motor and a gasoline-powered engine. It runs on electric power at lower speeds, but at higher speeds–or when the batteries get low–the gas engine kicks in to provide more power and to…
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Federal National Age Sexual Consent Teens – Yes
Yes. With age comes certain privileges and rights: At 18 you can vote, move out of mom and dad’s house, get married, see an “R” rated movie, enlist in the army and buy cigarettes; at 21 you can buy alcohol;…
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What Are the Side Effects of Arnica Montana?
Arnica montana is an herb that can be used as an ointment, salve, cream, liniment or tincture. It has been used to to decrease inflammation, alleviate muscle aches, heal wounds and for injuries such as bruises and sprains. If you…
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Hot Stone Massage Instructions
Overview Hot stone massage therapy is believed to have originated as long as 5,000 years ago with practitioners who used stones warmed by the sun. Smooth basalt is most often used, but other types of hot massage stones are available….
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What Are the Benefits of Aluminum Recycling?
There are both environmental and economic benefits of recycling aluminum. Metals like aluminum can be recycled again and used to make products such as beverage cans, auto parts and appliances. Even though more aluminum is recycled than other metal waste…
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Normal Range of Blood Oxygen Level
Overview Our bodies receive oxygen from the air we breath. In our lungs, this oxygen moves across thin membranes and enters the bloodstream. Oxygen is bound to special molecules on red blood cells called hemoglobin, which let it travel in…
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Assessing Interracial Relationships
Interracial relationships are always a difficult topic to discuss for fear of offending people but I want to try as its something of importance. Our society is more integrated now than it ever was and the state of affairs looks…
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Pure Honey Nutrition
Overview Honey comes from flower nectar and consists mostly of simple sugars, such as fructose and glucose. It’s approximately as sweet as table sugar and may serve as a sugar substitute in many baked goods. The taste of pure honey…
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Do certain Swimsuit Colors Attrack Sharks
You’re planning your next beach vacation and looking forward to wearing your hot pink bikini that you look so good in. Or perhaps your mother-in-law will be there too so you need to tone it down a little. Maybe you…
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What Are the Early Symptoms of Bone Cancer?
May 7, 2015 Diseases & Health Conditions
The bones provide structural support to the body, and allow for muscle contraction. Bone growth and development is a tightly regulated balance between new bone growth and old bone resorption, which is carried out by two classes of cells. Osteoblasts…
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How to Successfully Date a Coworker
Dating a coworker is a relatively straightforward process. Just because people work in the same environment does not mean the roles of dating have changed. This means that both partners must be emotionally and physically attracted to each other, and…
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Lower Abdominal Cable Exercises
The rectus abdominis is the muscle that runs from the chest to the pubis. This long muscle covers the front of the upper and lower torso. The best way to train the lower section of this muscle is by constantly…
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Information on the Acai Berry
Overview The acai berry is a fruit of great mystique in the United States. Acai accolades first trickled in on national TV, where the small Brazilian berry was touted as a powerful antioxidant on celebrity shows hosted by Oprah Winfrey…
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Online Dating
A Night in the Day of a Serial Online Dater It is Friday night and I am bored, again. I know I need to go to the gym, I need to go grocery shopping, I need to do anything except…
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How to Add 1920s Fashions to your Modern Wardrobe
Recalling the 1920’s brings to mind flappers, jazz, silent films, and Prohibition. It was a fun age, where a woman was suddenly allowed to openly flaunt her sex appeal, and makeup was finally available to the masses. It’s not practical…
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