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In addition to shoes, bag is women’s best friend everyday. On average the women always carry a bag to go to a variety of occasions. Bag faithfully follows wherever the owner’s travelling by bringing variety of items. The daily commute from home, car, office to public toilets the bag will always be taken along.

But did you know that secretly your bag can store and cause some kinds of disease?

Look at some of these to avoid the source of disease that can be caused by your handbag.
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A new research in Finland showed that cases of insomnia can be decreased and patients with insomnia are more likely to die sooner than people with healthy sleep patterns.

According to Finnish media reported, the research is the first linking insomnia with risk of death.

Research was conducted by the Institute of Occupational Health in collaboration with University of Helsinki and the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare.
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Your tooth pain when eating ice cream or hot soup? It was a sign that you have sensitive teeth.

The easiest way to get out of a sense of pain that strikes every time you eat hot meal or cold drinks is avoid the trigger. But much better if you visit your dentist to find the cause.

Sensitive teeth can be caused by many things, so treatment will vary among patients. Help your dentist by providing information about the sense of pain. Whether it’s a pain, a short stabbing, or constant? Does the pain spread to the face or neck, or just into your jaw?
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During exercise, the body needs adequate nutrition as a ‘fuel’ to create energy. This energy will be lost during exercise.

This condition should be handled by consuming a healthy diet to replenish lost body energy. If the body’s energy loss is too long, it can cause muscle spasms and even muscle catabolism.

So, what food should be consumed after exercise? Here are five best foods you can consume after workout.

Chest of Chicken and Mixed Vegetables
100 grams of chicken breast without skin and bone contains approximately 29 grams of protein that are useful to help the recovery and development of muscles after exercise, while the combination of vegetables contain different vitamins and minerals that are useful to improve your endurance.
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Nowadays, having a slim stomach is no longer just a dream. So for those of you who intend to flatten the stomach, there are three things that can help. Requirement is, do optimally and ensure lean stomach becomes your own

Choose the appropriate food
Choose foods that are healthy and rich in good fats.
Eat avocados. Good fat in this fruit will help get rid of the fat from your tummy.

Eat chocolate. Look for chocolate that contains 70 percent of cocoa for maximum results.
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If previously there had ever been research mentioning that calcium can help people lose weight, it seems it doesn’t apply to adolescents. New research denies it.

“10 recent years of research indicated that calcium will bind fat and take out some of the fat so the body will not absorb it,” said Connie Weaver, a professor of nutrition at Purdue University.

“We showed that it didn’t happen,” she added as reported by FoxNews.
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Stress and hair loss is often called a causal relationship. Many people assume, stress can make hair loss or otherwise.

But is it like that?

Daniel K. Hall-Flavin, MD, psychiatrist from Mayo Clinic said, stress and hair loss does have relation to one another. Daniel explained there are three causes of hair loss condition that is associated with high levels of stress. These three conditions that need to know are: Continue reading …

Diabetes type 2 usually occurs due to increased blood sugar in the body. Increased blood sugar level is independent of insulin resistance that occurs. Both diabetes type 2 and insulin resistance can cause other health problems, such as blindness, obesity, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and even stroke.

Recently, the results are quite impressive about the benefit of chromium picolinate in the control of diabetes was reported by the American Diabetes Association. In this study stated that the use of chromium picolinate in patients with diabetes showed significant results, i.e. helps lower blood sugar levels in people. Continue reading …

Chromium picolinate is a new generation of chromium that is more easily absorbed by the body. Chromium plays an important role in metabolism and the use of carbohydrates, synthesis of fatty acids, cholesterol and protein. Chromium also plays a major role in maintaining the normal function of the hormone insulin in the metabolic process.
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Pregnant women without realizing it puts the health of her unborn child by drinking coffee from cafe, the researchers warned.

An analysis from espresso served at 20 coffee shops in U.K., found a large variation in the amount of caffeine they contain. In fact, it can be up to six times higher than normal amount of a cup of coffee.

Previous research suggested that pregnant women consume no more than 200 mg of caffeine per day. Concern of about birth defects, premature birth, and abortion becomes the reason. This is usually equivalent to four cups of coffee, each of which contains 50 mg of caffeine.
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