The distinctions between eating disorders can be confusing. While anorexia and bulimia may have some issues in common, other factors make them distinct. For parents, understanding the differences can be crucial, as early detection and proper treatment significantly improve the chances a child will recover. Following is information to help distinguish between the two.

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Anorexia is more common in teenagers, while bulimia is more often seen in women in their...

Whether man is on the nature-conquering spree or the nature is on the spree of subduing the humanity? Who is the master and who's whose servant? Technology or man? Can the push-button comforts provide relief to all your miseries? Have you conquered all the diseases, identified all the viruses so that you can ravel in a state of perfect health? Then why do you have these symptoms, which your doctor has identified as bird flu?

You have been giving something to the dear birds,...

Want to use aerobic exercise to keep healthy? So did I, and so do I! But when I first came upon the idea of aerobic exercise the only option was jogging, although I think ‘aerobics' or really aerobic dancing was just coming in. Not for me. So I joined the band of people who went around jogging up and down the road.

I learned that you needed to exercise every other day from the original exponents of the idea of aerobic exercise, and so that's what I did. I used to be...

Great progress began in 1870 in the hybridizing of the canna lily by a combination of genetic materials from the wild canna species that had been collected from around the world, leading to the production of the 'Madame Crozy' cultivar. A great interest developed in canna lilies as a colorful garden plant that previously had been grown chiefly for the fast growing, tropical foliage, since the wild canna blooms were mostly small and uninteresting. The stockpile of collected, canna wild...

Vertigo is a condition where you experience dizziness with a change in the normal environment. Sometimes feeling a movement in space too is a sign of vertigo. However, it is not the case that all types of dizziness is vertigo; but certainly all vertigo is dizziness.

The true form of vertigo is a severe form of dizziness that results in movement hallucination. Such people suffer from a peripheral vestibular disorder like benign positional vertigo. These conditions in turn lead...

Very few historical records exist on ancient blueberry culture in the Greek and Roman empires. Those cultures did use parts of the blueberry plants and fruit to eat or to treat ailments. The size and flavor of native blueberry plants was extremely variable, and the USDA, modern, extensive research and development of choice selections was judged on a basis of taste, yield of plants, aroma, small berry seeds, and the lasting quality of the fresh berries increased the popularity of this...

Imagine that you could stay feeling young and feeling happy - naturally. Would you want to know how? Of course you would.

In today's youth obsessed society, many women go to extraordinary measures to keep signs of ageing at bay, from swathing the skin in expensive creams and luxurious potions, enduring painful injections such as botox and restylane and even going under the dreaded scalpel and spending so much valuable time recovering from sometimes rather dangerous...

If you want to be an effective leader, then you must exercise great personal leadership skills first.

Since I use photography to more effectively communicate concepts in my leadership skills training speaking programs, let me give you a photography analogy…

If you asked me what accessory I value beyond all others, what do you think I would say?

It's not going to be a flashgun, a certain type of film, or spare batteries. While these things are...

School violence affects parents of most teenagers. One of the factors that cause violent behavior among teenagers is TV viewing. There are various TV shows on both foreign and local channels that a teen wants to watch. However, not all are good for them.
The numbers of teens, who listen to violent music, watch violent movies and TV shows, and play violent video games are increasing day by day. All of these media may serve as factors that affect teenagers and cause them violent...

After a little research it is apparent that nobody really knows where the saying that you need to drink 8 cups of water per day comes from. Some people trace it back to a study in the 1980's, and other people claim that doctors starting telling people that amount because it was a good goal, but didn't have any scientific research to back it up with.

Either way, the point is clear, water does wonders for your body, and your brain. Water is well known to cleanse your body of...