Family Planning: The Unmet Need

Family planning is the method of controlling the number of children in the family and spacing in between intervals of births either naturally or through the use of artificial contraceptives. There are said to be a number of methods or techniques that can be used towards this, however, the rise in the number of population, especially in poor countries is still high. This concern can also cause an impact on a woman’s reproductive health, and well-being. Unmet need for family planning refers to those of women who are fertile and sexually active but are not utilizing any method of contraception, and would also report that they do not want to conceive any more or want to delay the next child.

Ebola: 10 Things To Know About The Virus Disease

Alarming news has struck everyone this week about an outbreak of a viral disease in West Africa. According to World Health Organization (WHO), the disease has been spreading faster than efforts to control it. 

The virus disease kills 90% of those infected and. However, based on the reported number of lives lost which shows that failure to contain it could be catastrophic, as stated by WHO head Dr. Margaret Chan, the virus disease could be stopped if well managed.

What are the things we need to know about this virus disease? Let’s start first with this list of ten important facts.

Breastfeeding: 10 Reasons Why It Is Important

Breastfeeding is known as one of the first decisions a mother has to make. She has to know how to feed her baby to achieve healthy growth and development. During a baby or an infant’s early stage of development, it is advised that lactation should be observed adherently rather than having the baby feed on bottles or milk formulas.

The breast milk of a mother who has just given birth contains “colostrum” that consists of antibodies and nutrients a newborn baby needs as an early form of the body's health defence. Colostrum, the sticky yellowish substance produced at the end of pregnancy, is also recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the perfect food for the newborn, and feeding should be initiated within the first hour after birth.¹

Breastfeeding: The Dilemma In Public

While some mothers prefer not to breastfeed at all, others have been having a dilemma on breastfeeding in a public place, well, for some obvious reasons such as; having the public's raising eyebrows and critique eyes glaring at them for exposing something private out in the open like they are committing a crime or something. Maybe they just have not heard of the saying that breastfeeding is best for babies, even in public. 

5 Diabetes Facts The Good-to-Know Ones

Diabetes or Diabetes Mellitus DM has been a global epidemic basically due to people’s diet, and inactive lifestyle. DM happens when the human organ, the pancreas, is unable to produce any or enough insulin (a hormone responsible for controlling glucose in the body), or the body’s cells are not responding properly to the insulin produced. Know more about his disease with these 5 facts about diabetes.

Diabetes: Not that kind of sweetness you would long for

There are people who adorably consume sweets a lot they are labelled as having a “sweet tooth”. With this, some people might scold them saying they might get diabetic because of sugar rush and stuff. Do you really think this is the case? What really causes diabetes and what makes a person diabetic? Is eating too much sweets really lead to the disease? Get the answers on frequently asked questions about diabetes here, and know why there is totally nothing sweet about it.

Smoking, Smokers, and the Harmed

Smoking is one of those vices that are really too easy for some people to get influenced in doing yet too difficult for most to stop doing. If smoking cessation is not alarming enough, the harm that it brings about to the people around a smoker is just too insufferable. What is worse is that a smoker might not even be aware of how he affects surrounding innocents, or worst is that he knows, but still pretends that he does not and still goes on belching like a pollutant automobile. The bottom point here is, smoking is not healthy, and this post will tell you the reasons why. 

Oh, caffeine! The effects and humor it brings

Ever wonder why most people never forget their cup of coffee, they can’t even go a day without it? I’m sure that you are also aware of the “you can sleep when you’re dead” kind of mentality.

This post might explain things a bit. There are said to be a number of effects to human health and mentality in taking caffeine. Caffeine intake has been one of the topics that have been continuously researched for further understanding of its positive and negative effects on the human body. It is very important to know these things since caffeine consumption nowadays is skyrocketing. Caffeine is found in coffee, tea, soda, energy drinks, and more, well furthermore, a huge percentage of adults have been addicted, well, hooked to this. That is why this might really tickle your fancy.

Queries on Chlamydial Infection

Here is a brief overview on the most common bacterial STI in humans.

Promiscuous individuals be warned, there are a number of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) out there for you to most probably harvest if you are not being a bit smart enough to be safe or let’s say shift to celibacy. Hence, individuals who are sexually active and have multiple sex partners are especially at risk for this disease. Moving on, one of these STIs is the so called Chlamydia, also known as “the clam”, or “gooey stuff”. The latter actually originated from the cloudy mucus or watery discharges from the genitals of infected people.

How Well Do You Know Syphilis?

Know a lot more about one of the most common STDs worldwide.

Syphilis is the third most common sexually transmitted disease (STD), caused by treponema pallidum. It is known to be a multi-organ system disease. Its other names are "pox", "lues", or "bad blood disease". Its incubation period is usually10-70 days with an average of 21 days; of course this is after contact. Disease transmission is acquired through having sexual contact, and/or through blood transmission. It could also be congenital in such cases of placental transmission which happens after 5 months of gestation. But in reported cases, sexual transmission is still rather rampant.

Chocolate High with Coffee

Good news for chocolate and coffee lovers out 

there! 

              Are you the type of person who splurges much on chocolates? Do you spoil yourself by always granting your cravings for Cadburry ad Hershey’s kisses? Are you even drinking coffee while reading this? Well, if yes, then you sure do love yourself so much. You are not only satisfying your cravings but also defending your health.

How do you peel?

Ways to save your skin by avoiding a raw peel.

I live in a tropical country where it’s sunny almost every day of the entire year. I have got to tell, there is nothing more excruciatingly painful than a sun burn, especially when you are peeling. Most people might say that they are used to high temperatures, well if you came from deep way down let’s say Satan’s lair, then maybe you are used to be exposed under the blazing heat. It is not healthy and would be extremely harmful to your skin’s health. Anyone can get sunburn from the merciless sun’s rays, added by the fact that the Earth is suffering from “global warming”. The weather nowadays is crazy. It gets very hot during the day; you might even ponder on applying an SPF100 everyday if possible.

I've Been There: The Chickenpox Horror

Haven't had the shingles yet? You have got to read this!

It was the worst time of my dermatologically devirginized skin! It started somewhere around October of 2008. It was near the final term at school and the disease forced me to be absent for almost 3 weeks.