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At your best friend's sleepover party last weekend, everyone pigged out on cheese pizza and ice cream. Then they flopped on their sleeping bags for a night of DVDs. You were having a great time, but after about an hour you started feeling awful.First...

At your best friend's sleepover party last weekend...

Hemophilia (say: hee-muh-fih-lee-uh) is a genetic disorder in which a person's blood does not clot properly. A person who has hemophilia has a tendency to bleed excessively. Think of the last time you had a cut or scrape. When the bleeding stops on i...

Hemophilia (say: hee-muh-fih-lee-uh) is a genetic ...

What do you think about when you hear the word coma (say: ko-muh)? Does it make you think of someone in a deep sleep, or the way you feel after eating too much Thanksgiving turkey? Does the word remind you of a TV soap opera, where it seems that at l...

What do you think about when you hear the word com...

Don't you love swimming in a cool, blue pool? Splashing around in that clear water, floating like a lily pad, swimming like a shark. But imagine if the water wasn't clear or clean. What if it was filled with leaves, dirt, hair, and drowned bugs? Yeee...

Don't you love swimming in a cool, blue pool? Spla...

You know how books have a table of contents that explains what's inside? Or maybe you have a toy that came with a diagram that identified each small piece.Nutrition labels are sort of like that. They tell you what's inside the food you're eating and ...

You know how books have a table of contents that e...

What Is Arthritis?You may have heard about arthritis (say: ar-thry-tis), which is a disease that causes swelling and pain in a person's joints.But isn't it something that only old people get?Actually, kids can get a kind of arthritis called juvenile ...

What Is Arthritis?You may have heard about arthrit...

Andrea is 12 years old and in the 6th grade. She likes to go swimming, play with her dog, and have friends over. She's been in three dance recitals, and she even received a standing ovation once. She's traveled to Canada and many places in the United...

Andrea is 12 years old and in the 6th grade. She l...

Your spine, or backbone, isn't completely straight. It curves slightly forward as it runs up your back. This gentle curve is normal, and it helps support your head and upper body.For someone with kyphosis, which is sometimes called roundback or hunch...

Your spine, or backbone, isn't completely straight...

Meningitis is a word you might hear on the news. That's because there are sometimes outbreaks of meningitis at schools or colleges — and it can be a serious illness. But many people recover completely after they have meningitis and there are ways to ...

Meningitis is a word you might hear on the news. T...

If you have a nut allergy, you need to talk to your doctor about what foods to avoid. Some people who are allergic to tree nuts (like almonds, cashews, and walnuts) are also allergic to coconut. But others are not.So talk to your doctor to see if coc...

If you have a nut allergy, you need to talk to you...

Bulimia Nervosa is not as well known as Anorexia. The two eating disorders are quite different although many sufferers can exhibit symptoms of both eating disorders, or even swing from one to the other. Bulimia sufferers are often of typical weight (...

Bulimia Nervosa is not as well known as Anorexia. ...

Eating disorders (EDs) could be likened to the dark side of dieting. Affecting predominantly women (but also many men), an eating disorder is far more than just a food and weight obsession. There are three main disorders: Binge eating disorder (compu...

Eating disorders (EDs) could be likened to the dar...

Gallstones occur when solid material (mostly cholesterol) builds up in the gall bladder and forms a hard lump (a stone). Gallstones often cause severe abdominal and lower back pain. The symptoms of Gallstones Some of the more commons symptoms of Gall...

Gallstones occur when solid material (mostly chole...

Diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus) is a condition where the body is unable to process glucose (a form of sugar). When you consume carbohydrates, they are digested, then absorbed into the bloodstream as glucose (also called blood sugar or blood glucose). Th...

Diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus) is a condition where ...

Nutrition for kids, children, pre-teens, and teenager is important - due to the significant amount of growing that is going on during this phase of their life. Getting Help For Your Overweight Child There are a number of excellent holistic programs o...

Nutrition for kids, children, pre-teens, and teena...

When pregnant you need to eat well - both in nutrition and volume. As a basic guideline, the following extra nutrients are advised: Extra Protein Lean meat, poultry, legumes, fish, low-fat dairy. Extra vitamin B1 Peanuts, whole grains, yeast extract...

When pregnant you need to eat well - both in nutri...

If you have diabetes you need to take particular care with your diet. An adult with Type 2 diabetes can gain some control over the condition with diet and exercise alone, but may also need medication (such as a diabetic pill or insulin injections). T...

If you have diabetes you need to take particular c...

Fad n.- A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze. Pick up any major women's magazine, and the chances are, the word "diet" or "lose weight" will appear somewhere on the cover. The context is usually how a c...

Fad n.- A fashion that is taken up with great enth...

I guess we all know that obesity is at epidemic levels. It's drummed into us from all angles. Isn't it strange that we have the biggest range of low-fat foods available but we keep getting fatter? Isn't somebody going to stand up and say "It hasn't w...

I guess we all know that obesity is at epidemic le...

The Glycemic Index (GI) measures the effect of foods on your blood sugar levels. Eating foods with a high glycemic index value will raise the blood sugar level more dramatically than foods with a low glycemic index value. Traditional thinking has tol...

The Glycemic Index (GI) measures the effect of foo...

Low carb diets have been around for a long time. They have recently become very popular. There has been plenty of celebrity 'endorsement' and media coverage. Low carb diets come with their fair share of controversy given that the diet plans go agains...

Low carb diets have been around for a long time. T...