Healthy articles

Skin picking disorder … Not very nice, but it happens more than we think apparently. Patients who suffer from excoriation tend to pick, scrap or dig into their own skin over and over, making lesions.

Women who are planning to get pregnant have the benefit of preparing they can take folic acid, eat more healthily, get fit and quit smoking.

Some new moms fall in love with their new baby the moment she is first placed on their abdomen. Others take a little longer to bond with their babies.

Since nobody has the same amount of time, money or confidence on their hands, we'll look into some advantages and downsides of both, home and studio yoga practice.

Do your kids spend more time inside playing computer games than they spend being physically active? Motivating them to exercise improves their health. We bring you some easy and interesting yoga poses you can easily incorporate into your children's lives.

Every Russian grandmother knows about gentian, the bitter herb that can settle your stomach. Modern science, much of it from Russia, has found many other applications for this versatile medicinal herb.

For some of these people, they also develop trichophagia, where they then eat the hair they have pulled out. As well as patches of baldness, those with this syndrome develop a trichobezoar, which is a hairball that lodges in the stomach.

Fatty liver disease, also known as nonalcoholic hepatosteatosis, is a disease one-quarter of the entire population of the earth has but very few people have ever heard of. It is a major reason for liver transplantation and cause of heart to heart disease.

Today's children are increasingly being raised on a diet of "safety first". Safety is good, but has common sense gone right out the window? What is helicopter parenting really doing to our kids?

Ashwagandha, the ancient Ayurvedic herb also known by its scientific name Withania somniferans, has been used for thousands of years to treat anxiety and insomnia. Recent science confirms how well it works.