As you age, your skin on your face, chin and neck begins to change. One of the most noticeable changes is often happening below you face, right under your chin. Fat deposits and sagging skin under your chin can make you look older and heavier in the face, especially when it creates the appearance of…
You care meticulously for your facial skin, allowing you to look years younger than your actual age. However, your face is not the only place that can belie your real age. Your hands are exposed to the elements as much if not more than your face and can began show signs of age. Your hands…
One of the most popular plastic surgery procedures is breast augmentation. Whether the procedure is used to create larger, fuller breasts, or help reshape or lift breasts as they begin to age, a breast augmentation can make a noted difference in your appearance. However, even though thousands of these surgeries are done every week, it…
You can’t stop time from moving on, often leave the signs of the years on your face. While growing older is inevitable, you don’t have to live with many of the lines and wrinkles that begin to appear around your eyes, mouth and on your forehead. There are simple cosmetic procedures that can help your…
A specialized area of holistic or natural medicine is nutritional genomics or nutrigenomics. This treatment or therapy option focuses on how genes are affected by diet and certain nutrients. Some people may have genetic markers that make them at higher risk for certain diseases and health issues that are affected by the foods they eat.…
Washing your face is simple, right? After all, you have been doing it since you were a little kid. Or maybe it’s not simple for you at all. You have been told or led to believe that you needed a complex routine to properly clean your facial skin and keep it free from acne and…
Everyone has goals they want to achieve when the New Year rolls around. One common goal is to look good and be healthy. What better way to achieve this goal than to take care of your skin? While many people focus on their bodies when making New Year’s resolutions, why not start with the area…
While most people have heard of mammography for early breast cancer detection, there are new innovations available in the radiology field, including elastography. While mammograms can detect many lesions, cysts and tumors, they may miss some smaller masses. Also, there are differences in the makeup of benign and malignant tumors that cannot always be seen…
If you have decided you are ready to become a mother, congratulations! It is an exciting prospect and a new stage in your life. While there are plenty of decisions to make once you become pregnant about your health care and delivery, you should be focusing now on being healthy and ready for pregnancy. Here…
As part of your well-being care as a woman, pap smears are part of your annual exams. Starting in your twenties or when you become sexually active, it should be part of your health routine to receive a pap smear as part of your gynecological exam to scan for early signs of cervix cancer. This…
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