Alex Ellorde - Articles

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Metabolism: Processing the Fuel for the Body
This article is about metabolism. It discusses how metabolism affects a person’s weight. Everybody has a different basal metabolic rate, it depends on a person’s age, gender, height, body mass, environment, diet, and the amount of stress they have. Exercising helps increase metabolism by using energy during and after exercise, and also by increasing a person’s muscle mass. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 13/11/2007 | Health
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Plastic Surgery: Where Science Meets Art
Modern plastic surgery has its origins in World War I, when a man called Sir Harold Delf Gillies, known as the father of plastic surgery, pioneered many of the techniques being used on patients today. He stressed the need to achieve aesthetically pleasing results along with restoring the lost function to patients undergoing reconstructive surgery. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 13/11/2007 | Health
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Proper Consultation and Dosage: Making Sleeping Pills Safe
Long-term studies on the effects of sleeping pills don’t show encouraging results. In fact the one major conclusion from all studies is that insomniacs are better off without sleeping pills than they are with them. One study alone that surveyed over 2,000,000 people, found that chronic use of sleeping pills are as deadly as cigarette smoking. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 24/10/2007 | Health
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The Mane Attraction
Some people experience hair loss excessively. This condition can affect men, women and children. This article includes a number of things that can cause excessive hair loss. It also includes treatments and options for people experiencing thinning hair. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 14/10/2007 | Health
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Weight Loss Pills: More Harm Than Good
This article talks about how society is shaping the ideal women of today. Being slim and sexy is considered beautiful, so women who think they are larger than life opt foe an easy way out, which is by the use of weight loss pills. These pills are available anywhere and is considered very convenient. But almost all these pills have more side effects than making #the person lose weight. a healthier alternative to staying fit would be having a regular balanced diet and physical exercise. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 12/10/2007 | Health
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Five Steps to Freedom From Worries
The article is about the heavy burden caused by worry, stress, and anxiety. Most people actually feel the stress and anxiety of dealing with relationship and financial issues, career challenges, and other matters that elicit fear, tension, and insecurity. The article also cites a number of ways or steps that should be taken by a person to overcome worry. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 09/10/2007 | Home and Family
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Cracked by Crack: the Side Effects of Cocaine Withdrawal and Abuse
Cocaine, both in the common form and the more refined “crack” form, can cause a wide range of side effects on the body. Some of these symptoms are aggravated by withdrawal from the drug, while others manifest only once the drug is being removed from the system. The effects are both mental and physical, with things like panic, insomnia, coughing, and nasal congestion being commonly cited problems during the detoxification process. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 04/10/2007 | Health
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No Shortcuts to Health and Weight Loss
The article is about the importance of losing weight and the dangers of being overweight or obese. The article also tackles the various health risks of being overweight and the various methods employed to lose the extra pounds --- from exercises, to diets, to the use of diet pills. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 04/10/2007 | Health
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When the Quest for the Best Body Turns Worst
Women living in a culture focused on dieting and weight loss are more prone to develop eating disorders which are detrimental in one's health. Having an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted body image can lead to extreme behaviors and serious medical conditions, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 02/10/2007 | Health
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Keeping Sexual Relationships Healthy and Safe
Many young people are not comfortable talking to their parents about having sexual relationships. It is important that you have a trusted adult or health care provider to discuss all your concerns and worries. Times like these can be very confusing to most young people that is why it is always good to have someone to talk to in order to arrive at a good decision. Read
By: Alex Ellorde | 02/10/2007 | Health