Years ago, if you would tell a person that you would want to have a six pack, then they would have told you to go to the liquor store. But then today, it seems like one of our top priorities is to improve and tone our body. Having that rock like chiseled stomach is not just for men, because now more and more women think that getting six pack abs is a sign of extreme fitness. One the most noticeable example of a celebrity who has sexy abs is Geri Halliwell. But she didn't get this just...

How to Make Herbal Oils and Salves

Herbal oils and salves are easy, fun and inexpensive to make. They are much safer and better for you than commercial medications because there are no artificial chemicals in them to harm you or your environment.

Depending on what herbs you use in your  herbal oils and salves they can relieve pain, are antiseptic and moisturizing and they can repel insects. Use them to treat minor cuts, rashes, insect bites and stings, burns and...

Sciatic Nerve Pain or sciatica is the inflammation of the sciatic nerve. Pain and tenderness along the nerve going through the leg and thigh are the common symptoms that are felt. Pain usually begins from the lower back radiating through the pelvis, buttocks up to the back of the leg. Depending on the origin, sciatic nerve pain can be felt even up to the toes; one will surely wish for immediate sciatic nerve pain relief. The intensity of the nerve pain can vary from mild to severe which...

If you think one of your pierced ears may be infected, tell your mom or dad. An infected earlobe may be swollen, red, warm, and painful, and it may ooze fluid called pus. Don't wait for it to get better by itself because the infection may spread and make you sick.

The skin in the ear canal grows like the finger nails -- from deeper layers outwards -- transporting debris to the exterior, where it falls off. Ear wax or cerumen, composed of glandular secretions plus dead skin,...

Although exercise is important in keeping your body fit and your heart healthy, it may not be the best way to help you lose weight fast. If you want to see the numbers on a weighing scale go down fast, you better start lessening the number of calories that you eat.

Since cravings for unhealthy foods such as pastries, chocolate bars and tons of ice cream are heard to fight, you better find a way to curb or control your appetite if you want to eat less. Fortunately for dieters...

Nano filtration uses a series of thin-film membrane elements engineered for use with fouling-prone brackish water applications. Normally nano filters is designed to utilize an three-layer membrane, of which a proprietry middle layer creates extreme smoothness. Good quality membrane are superior than standard polyamide spiral wound membrane elements for desalination of difficult feed water sources. High quality membranes enables lower fouling, reduced overall energy usage, increased...

So, you want to lose 10 pounds in a week without any exercise and you are wondering if such a thing is even possible? It is possible, but you'll still have to do a few things. On the subject of exercise, they aren't necessary to lose weight, but working out can increase the speed at which you drop weight, and over all it's highly recommended that you do some kind of exercise when trying to lose weight. Both to speed it up but also to make sure that you lose fat and not muscles. But the...

Asthma is a constant inflammatory ailment of the respiratory structure that is recognized by attacks of wheezing, restriction in the chest and smallness of breathing. Although the signs are the same but type of asthma varies. Some of these are Child onset asthma, adult onset asthma, exercise onset asthma, cough onset asthma, working asthma, nocturnal asthma.

Many of the long term remedies given for asthma really act as cold preventatives and reduce catarrhal infection,...

There are numerous disadvantages of reverse osmosis. We can quibble over functionality and intended purpose, but, "does reverse osmosis make water safe to drink" is the real question.

The Advantages of Reverse Osmosis

Before we jump headfirst into the many disadvantages of reverse osmosis, we should take a moment to reflect on its strength. Desalination. If you want to drink from the ocean, reverse osmosis is really your only stop.

The...

Breast Augmentation / Breast Enlargement

The field of cosmetic plastic surgery is a dynamic branch of medicine which continues to grow through modern innovation, technique and researches; this is because of the endless desire for physical perfection by man. Breast Augmentation for example, is now one of most frequently performed cosmetic plastic procedure in the world. The interest for breast enhancement by patients and surgeons alike, continue to evolve as newer methods with...