Archive for August, 2009


Beetroot Juice for Increased Stamina

Before you go for that energy drink or some other caffeinated beverage, or even a carb loaded meal, before you want to complete a high endurance and stamina project like running a marathon, you may want to instead consider trying beetroot juice to increase your stamina.  The reason is that it actually makes you use [...]

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Do We Think Better When Sun is Out?

There has been a lot of medically gathered study data that shows that sunlight affects our mood greatly.  There has even been a mood disorder called SAD or seasonal affective disorder, that has been diagnosed as being a depression and apathy that is due to the lack of sunlight some of us experience during the [...]

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Biotin, Hair Growth and Nail Growth

For stronger fingernails, there’s a nutritional supplement that you can take to stop the splitting, chipping and peeling.  That supplement is biotin, which is a B complex vitamin.  Our nails are made of keratin and biotin should increase your nail thickness up to 25 percent.  A dose of 300 micrograms of biotin per day should [...]

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Are Redheads More Sensitive to Pain?

There has been a sort of urban legend out there in the medical community for years that those with red hair are harder to sedate and administer pain relieving anesthesia to, or that they don’t react as well to it, and still feel pain even after a normal dosage of anesthesia is given.  So many [...]

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Shampoo Without Sulfates Better for Hair?

If you are conscious of the look and feel and the health of your hair, then you may have seen some shampoos either in your salon, your local market, or your independent natural foods market, that say they are “sulfate free” or do not use sulfates or harsh chemicals in their shampoo.  You see, there [...]

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