It is in fact great to have good and fresh views in our desktops when we open it. I found some nice gardening wallpapers online at fine gardening, a collection of plants and herbs even lovely photos of flowers for the eyes to feast upon. I am using one now, it is a magnolia flower.

Do you know why the lovely carpels of Magnolia flowers are tough? It is their defense mechanism, to avoid damage by eating and crawling beetles. This flowering tree genus is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol. Magnolias are used as Chinese medicine for 5,000 years to fight cancer, heart disease and dementia? The bark, which is aromatic, contains magnolol and honokiol, two polyphenolic compounds that have…

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What’s in your air? We all grasp for air but unfortunately the air that we breathe is polluted or of poor quality especially in highly industrialized areas, and even inside our houses. We might not be aware but the contaminants in the air are slowly building up inside our bodies, and are not good for our health. The home is our safest place to be that is why it is important to have indoor air purifiers to clean the air that we breathe. Do air purifiers really work? Of course with today’s technology we can decontaminate and reduce the microbes in the air through modern innovations for indoor air quality for homes, hospitals, offices and all other closed spaces. Try…

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Rhinoplasty. I have been looking into this surgical procedure just like when we want something we would go for the best from an intense research. My cousin who is living in Saudi has undergone Rhinoplasty. Maybe she just wanted to improve her cute looks, especially her nose, that when we met her at home, she was even more beautiful. And she is proud of it. It makes her feel better and confident in herself, the Rhinoplasty improved her self-esteem. Nose surgery, also known as Rhinoplasty or reshaping the nose, is a surgical procedure that improves the appearance and proportion of our nose, enhancing facial harmony and self-confidence. But it is not all about that. Actually Rhinoplasty is also done as…

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Crying is much better than keeping the emotional stressor to be bottled up inside. It is a form or release, to let everything out, that is why it feels good after a good cry, but not always. Sometimes the aftermath is a monster headache. Why do we feel intense headache after a hard cry? Don’t ask me why I cried to come up with this post, but the head felt like it would explode. There’s not much medical info about it but the most plausible reason is that: when crying,

The pulse and heart rate increase, your breathing quickens, you take breaths often in large grasps and hold it in between. Thus the oxygen level in our blood is reduced,…

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Did you watch the olympics Sunday? I had for a short time and most of it was on the women’s marathon, unfortunately, I was not able to watch Constantina Tomescu-Dita of Romania cross the finish line, I was just assuming she won because of the great lead she had over the pack. At 38, Tomescu-Dita is the oldest Olympic women’s marathon champion now, and because of her age I wanted her to win, yeah, but with her experience, she is the best already. One thing though I noticed she had something from her hips that she sniffed, (I missed where she got the first one). Commentators said about ‘carbohydrate’ thing at first, later a “smelling salt”. I was curious to…

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Fat hen or henbane? These are both plants; fat hen is perfectly edible, “You can use the leaves in salads like spinach, make tea and eat the roots,” said Mr Worrall Thompson; while “henbane is a very toxic plant and should never be eaten”, an urgent warning issued by Healthy & Organic Living magazine’s website.

Henbane – Hyoscyamus niger – has sticky serrated leaves, yellow, funnel-shaped flowers and a stale scent.

The weed’s name has Anglo-Saxon origins – meaning killer of hens – and it can cause drowsiness, hallucinations and disorientation in humans. Larger quantities can cause a loss of consciousness, seizures, trembling of the limbs and, in extreme cases, death. “Henbane is associated with lots of mythical tales – it’s said…

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It is not just for good hygeine and pleasing personality, but brushing teeth and keeping the gums healthy helps the heart. Patients with bad gums, and other bacteria associated with peridontitis may have increase risk of developing cardiovascular disease according to Peridontology.

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Almost two months ago my father-in-law gave me a clipping he cut from his daily paper. It was about a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines who was born with severely clubbed feet (club foot is a birth defect where the foot is twisted in, inverted and down, thus the person with clubfeet appear to be walking on the sides of their feet or on their ankles.) and complicated by another birth defect that involves the incomplete development of the spinal cord or its coverings called spina bifida. He thought I might be interested since it is news about “home”. And indeed I was, and I thanked him. That same girl, Jingle Luis, took her first unaided steps Wednesday, July 2 in…

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If you want to add some protein to you meal, you can: Add chopped chicken/…

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