Your heart, which is a lot like the water main of your anatomical house, provides the nutrients you need to live. In your body, your heart pumps blood to every part in your body – …

Most people think about their breath at three points in their lives: when it stinks; when it’s in imminent danger; and when it’s heavy (after a workout). In our body’s ventilation system, our lungs involuntarily …

Your Digestion: the anatomy
The digestive pipeline primarily has one way in and one way out ‐ though it also has many, many other smaller entrances and exit’s that help deliver nutrients throughout the body.
Mouth ‐ …

Your Bones, Joints and Muscles
Together, bones, joints, and muscles make up the human machine of movement. Your skeletal system gives you the shape that allows you to stand up straight, and it protects your internal …

The full name ‘diabetes mellitus’ derives from the Greek word ‘diabetes’ meaning siphon – to pass through – and  ‘mellitus’  – the Latin for honeyed or sweet. This is because not only is excess sugar …

Merely an absence of disease does not necessarily mean that you are healthy. It’s true that sometimes diseases strike us when we least expect it even when we do everything right as far as staying …

Your endocrine system : a system of glands throughout your body that release essential hormones to keep your body fine-tuned to function well – and comfortably. Most of these hormones do grandma’s work; they …

Stress factors

The symptoms of simple back pain often occur suddenly and can be triggered by a particular movement, but the causes may have been building for some time.
Some of the most common causes of stress …

What is high blood pressure?
High blood pressure (HBP) or hypertension means high pressure (tension) in the arteries. Arteries are vessels that carry blood from the pumping heart to all the tissues and organs of the …