Teeth Basics

Given the importance of teeth in the consumption of food, teeth are also essential in helping people speak coherently and clearly, ascribing teeth as an important part of any human being’s body.

When talking about looks, teeth are pretty much also given a lot of emphasis, given how bright smiles are natural come-ons which anyone would smile to.

As such, keeping teeth well and healthy remains to be a top priority for anyone.

When talking about properly taking care of one’s teeth, what better way is there than in getting some solid understanding over teeth – some “teeth basics”, if you will.

In an effort to help you take better care of your teeth, here are some “teeth basics” for you to peruse.

The Growth Phase

As human beings grow, teeth also grow, defined by phases. First would be the rise of 20 primary teeth, which are typically referred to as “milk teeth”.

At four months in the womb, a baby would already start developing his or her milk teeth, formed inside a baby’s mouth.

Typically the lower front central primary teeth are first to come out, coming out within the first seven months after a baby is born. Molars, known as primary molars, would then follow, typically sometime in the first 12 to 16 months since a baby’s birth.

Primary canines would then follow after the eruption of primary molars, some time within the first 16 to 20 months, with the second set of primary molars coming out within the first 20 to 30 months.

All in all, a child gets to have all of his or her milk teeth by two to three years old.

Permanent Teeth

Permanent teeth typically start coming out by around six years of age, with molars being the first to come out.

Hidden under the surface of gums, the first permanent teeth set would move upwards, with the roots of the primary teeth being resorbed after they fall out. By six to eight years of age, front teeth would begin to erupt, and by the time a child reaches twelve years old, he or she would probably have all of his or her permanent teeth.

“Wisdom teeth” typically come out somewhere after a child reaches 18 years old, thus its “wisdom” moniker, linked with 18 years old being an age of maturity.

Given that after the milk teeth phase permanent teeth are what would follow, emphasis on keeping permanent teeth healthy should be a top priority since losing them would mean that they are lost for good.

Regular brushing and flossing helps reduce the onset of cavities and periodontal disease, along with taking necessary precautions (such as gum guards for those active in contact sports) in ensuring that teeth are safe are also important.

Also regular trips to the dentist helps ensure that your teeth are at their healthiest and at their best in form.

10 Wacky Facts about your Nails

1. Nails and hair do not keep on growing after death contrary to what is often stated as fact. The truth is that the body dehydrates after death, resulting in an appearance of hair and nails that seem to grow.
2. Finger nails grow faster than toe nails. Finger nails grow at the approximate rate of a half an inch every 100 days. If you bite your nails down to the flesh it takes at least a month to re-grow!
3. Nails on longer fingers grow faster than nails on short fingers. Nails also grow faster on your dominant hand. So if you must bite your nails, concentrate on the middle finger of your right hand – if you are right handed.
4. Massaging your finger tips will stimulate nail growth. So does typing on a keyboard.
5. Nails grow much faster during pregnancy.
6. Dry nails are mostly the result of not drinking enough. Unfortunately only water helps.
7. A man’s nails grow faster than a woman’s. This does not make a man superior.
8. Nails grow faster in warm sunny climates than in cold dark places. If you must bite your nails, move to Southern California.
9. The older you are, the slower your nails grow.
10. People biting nails do this out of habit. There is no medical cure. The only way to stop nail biting is to break the habit!

Top 10 Facts About Sweat

It’s time to accept that sweating is just an everyday part of our lives. Humans sweat, animals sweat, and even celebrities sweat. Here are just some fun tidbits about this sometimes unpleasant human function.

1. Men sweat 40% more than women. Sorry, guys, it’s the truth. Why the unfairness? Women are just better able to regulate the amount of water they lose.

2. The normal human being sweats around 278 gallons each year. This is said to be enough to fill up the gas tank of three mid-size SUVs. Maybe sweat should be the next alternative fuel.

3. In some Micronesian cultures, sweat is thought of as a warrior’s essence. To drink such an essence, is considered a great honor. It’s a good thing American culture hasn’t picked up on this “great honor.”

4. Did you know that cows sweat through their noses? It’s true. Dairy farmers often have to spray off their cows in order to cool them down in the summer. They say a comfortable cow is an economical cow. Does this work for mother’s-in-law? …kidding

5. Your feet have over 250,000 sweat glands. That’s a lot. The sweat from your feet is actually odorless. It’s the bacteria that thrive in the dark, humid, oxygen deprived shoes that create “stinky feet.”

6. Tom Cruise admitted to not bathing for weeks while he was filming “The Outsiders” in order to truly get into his character. Talk about taking your job seriously. Other cast members claimed that Tom plain “stunk.”

7. Hippo’s sweat is red. Scientists have found that the red pigment in the hippo’s sweat not only acts as a protection from the sun, but also helps kill the bacteria that grow on their exteriors.

8. The saying “sweating like a pig” is actually pointless in describing your sweaty state. Pigs don’t sweat that well or that much. They have to bathe in mud to cool their bodies down. The saying is thought to have come from the way pigs actually smell, instead of how they sweat. I think it comes from the guy at the gym who literally showers his “essence” on the treadmill and walks away without wiping up. Can you be more piggy?

9. During his life, King Louis XII of France only took two baths. This might seem a little extreme, but back then, not bathing was a sign of prestige. When people began to stink, they tried to cover up with perfumes, oils, and spices. Now days, prestige is a little dog in a purse and plastic surgery. Both stink in my opinion…just sayin.

10. The mistresses of King Henri IV of France said he “smelled like a carrion.” (A carrion is a rotting animal carcass.) Although he changed his shirt every day, he refused to bathe or cover up the smell with cologne. When his second wife, Marie de Medicis, met her future husband, she fainted from his sweaty stench.

10 tips for a healthy lifestyle

1. Let it beet

It sounds bizarre, but beetroot could be a secret weapon against high blood pressure. The condition is a major cause of heart disease and stroke, but many people aren't aware they have it as it has no symptoms. Now, researchers from Barts and the London School of Medicine say drinking 500ml of beetroot juice could dramatically reduce blood pressure after just one hour. So drink up the pink stuff.

2. Think outside the box

Us lazy Brits will spend 17 years of our lives on the sofa, with seven years of that devoted to watching TV. Next time you hear yourself say, "I haven't got time to go to the gym" or you opt for ready meals because you're too busy to cook fresh food, think about switching off the box and doing something healthy instead.

3. don't take the biscuit

It may be a good idea to steer clear of the biscuit tin before you go shopping. A team from the University of Singapore recently discovered that the smell of chocolate chip cookies could make women splurge on unnecessary clothes when they hit the shops. The smell activates the part of your brain that wants instant gratification, although that's no excuse for maxing out your credit cards.

4 . Embracing good health

Giving your partner a hug doesn't just warm the heart, it can protect it too. A study by the University of North Carolina in 2005 found that hugging your other half for 20 seconds could lower blood pressure and reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol. High levels of cortisol have been linked to heart disease and other conditions such as diabetes.

5. Pouring salt on the wound

We eat around 9.5g of salt a day, but the Government wants us to cut this to no more than 6g, as high levels of salt can push up your blood pressure, raising your risk of cardiovascular conditions. Many food labels only list salt as sodium however, but you can do a simple sum to work out their real salt content; just multiply by 2.5. So 0.8g of sodium becomes 2g of salt.

6. Sunny side up

Get outside in the sunshine for a natural boost. The sun's rays on the skin help your body produce vitamin D, which has been shown to fight heart disease, depression, osteoporosis and even some types of cancer. There's not a lot of sun around at this time of year, so make the most of it when it does appear!

7. One is the magic number

One of the largest studies into diet and cancer – the Europe-wide EPIC study – found that eating just one extra portion of fruit and vegetables a day could cut your risk of dying early from any cause by 20 per cent.

8. Holding back the years

Add 14 years to your life by following four very easy principles; don't smoke, take regular exercise, drink sensibly and eat five portions of fruit and veg a day. These simple steps can have a huge impact on your life expectancy, say scientists from Cambridge University. If you only manage one thing, give up smoking as the study found this had the biggest impact on your health.

9. A step in the right direction

Previously, experts thought taking 10,000 steps a day was enough to control your weight, but a world-wide study has just established that women up to the age of 40 and men up to 50 need 12,000 steps a day to help shift that middle jiggle. Invest in a pedometer to make sure you're hitting your target.

10. Laughter is the best medicine

Become a glass-half-full person! Studies have found that those with a positive attitude suffer less from conditions such as heart disease. Find something to laugh at every day to give your feel-good hormones a boost.

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Bladder Stone Symtoms

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In some cases, bladder stones do not cause any symptoms. This is because they can be small enough to be passed out of the bladder during urination.

However, most people with bladder stones do experience symptoms because the stones either irritate the wall of the bladder or block the normal flow of urine out of the bladder.

Symptoms of bladder stones include:

• lower abdominal pain
• in men, pain in the penis and scrotum
• pain around the back, buttocks and hips, which can be made worse when moving or exercising (in both men and women)
• pain when urinating
• blood in your urine 
• intermittent (stop-start) urination
• needing to urinate more frequently than usual
• waking up during the night because you need to urinate
• difficulty beginning to urinate

Additional symptoms in children include:

• in boys, a persistent and often painful erection, that is unrelated to sexual desire (the medical term for this is priapism) 
• bedwetting 

When to seek medical advice

It is strongly recommended that you contact your GP if you experience any of the following symptoms:

• persistent abdominal pain
• a change in your normal pattern of urination
• blood in your urine

These symptoms are not necessarily the result of bladder stones but they will require further investigation.

Tips On Preventing Aids

Here's what everyone should know to protect themselves and others from infection with the AIDS virus (human immuno-deficiency virus, or HIV):
HIV is contagious, but not in the same way that measles or chicken pox or the common cold are contagious. It is a sexually transmitted, blood-borne disease that spreads from one person to another in the following ways:

By sexual intercourse between a man and a woman or between two men. The virus can be spread through vaginal, anal, or oral sex.
By sharing contaminated needles or "works" used to inject drugs.
By an infected woman to her baby during pregnancy or delivery, and possibly through breast feeding.
By transfusion of contaminated blood or blood components, although this risk has been sharply reduced by screening blood and blood donors and by new ways to process blood used to treat disorders such as hemophilia.
 


Many people infected with the AIDS virus have no symptoms and may look and feel completely well for many years. But these people can transmit the virus to others. And a person can become infected after just a single exposure to the virus.
The AIDS virus does NOT spread through casual social contact. In more than seven years of tracking and studying AIDS, scientists have found no evidence that HIV is spread casually through contact at school or on the job, by sharing meals or office equipment, or by handshakes or hugs with an infected person. There is no reason to avoid ordinary social contact with a person infected by HIV.

There is no risk of getting AIDS by giving blood; new equipment is used for each donor.

The AIDS virus is not spread by sexual intercourse between two people who maintain a sexual relationship exclusively with each other and who have not been previously infected.

The U.S. Public Health Service recommends that people take these precautions to reduce the risk of exposing themselves or others to the AIDS virus:

The best protection against sexually transmitted infection by the virus is, of course, to abstain from sex or to have a mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected person. Avoiding sex with people who have AIDS, people who have tested positive for the AIDS virus antibody, or people at risk of infection would also eliminate the risk of sexually transmitted infection.
Unless you're absolutely sure that your sex partner is not infected, avoid contact with his or her blood, semen, urine, feces, saliva, and vaginal secretions:
Use condoms, which will reduce (but not eliminate) the possibility of transmitting the virus.
Avoid sexual practices that may cause tears in the vagina, rectum or penis.
Avoid oral-genital contact without a condom.
Avoid open-mouthed, intimate kissing.
Do not have sex with multiple partners. The more partners you have, the greater your risk of infection
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Do not use illegal intravenous drugs. If you do, never share needles or syringes.
See Preventing AIDS for more tips.
If you think you may be infected, or if you have engaged in risky sexual or drug-related behavior:

Seek counseling and a medical evaluation. Consider taking the AIDS antibody test, which would enable you to know your status and protect yourself or - if you are infected - your sex partner.
Do not use illegal intravenous drugs. If you do, never share needles or syringes.
Don't donate blood, plasma, body organs, other body tissues, or sperm.
If you area woman at increased risk, seriously consider delaying plans for pregnancy until more is known about AIDS and transmission of the AIDS virus. A pregnant woman infected with the AIDS virus has a 30 percent to 50 percent chance of passing the virus on to her unborn child. Women at increased risk of AIDS should take the antibody test before deciding to become pregnant.
For people who have received a positive result on the AIDS antibody test:

See a doctor. There are medical steps you can take to protect your health. Either avoid sex or tell your prospective sex partner of your AIDS test result and take the precautions listed above to protect him or her from infection.
Inform anyone whom you may have exposed to the AIDS virus - through sex or drug use - of their potential exposure, and encourage them to seek counseling and antibody testing.
Don't share toothbrushes, razors, or other items that could become contaminated with blood.
If you use drugs, enroll in a treatment program. Never share needles or other drug equipment.
Do not donate blood, plasma, sperm, or other body tissues or organs.
Tell your doctor, dentist, and eye doctor that you are infected with the AIDS virus so that proper precautions can be taken to protect you, them, and others.
Women with a positive antibody test should avoid pregnancy.
PERSONS AT INCREASED RISK OF AIDS

Men who have had sex with another man since 1977.
People who have shared needles when they inject drugs.
People with symptoms of AIDS or AIDS-related illnesses.
Male or female prostitutes and their partners.
Sex partners of people infected with the AIDS virus or at increased risk of infection.
People with hemophilia who have received clotting factor products.
Infants of high-risk or infected mothers.
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How To Create A First Aid Kits

In an emergency, you or someone you know may get cut, burned or suffer other injuries. Many injuries are not life threatening and don’t need immediate medical attention. However, knowing how to treat minor injuries can make a difference in an emergency. Consider taking a first aid class as well, but having the following things can help you stop bleeding and prevent infection.

First Aid Kit Essentials

• Two pairs of Latex, or other sterile gloves (if you are allergic to Latex).
• Sterile dressings to stop bleeding.
• Cleansing agent/soap and antibiotic towelettes to disinfect.
• Antibiotic ointment to prevent infection.
• Burn ointment to prevent infection.
• Adhesive bandages in a variety of sizes.
• Nonstick Sterile Pads: these are soft, super-absorbent pads that provide a good environment for wound healing. These are recommended for bleeding and draining wounds, burns, infections.
• Eye wash solution to flush the eyes or as general decontaminant.
• Thermometer.
• Ice pack.
• Prescription medications you take every day such as insulin, heart medicine and asthma inhalers. You should periodically rotate medicines to account for expiration dates.
• Prescribed medical supplies such as glucose and blood pressure monitoring equipment and supplies or a nebulizer machine.

Things That May Be Good to Have

• Cell phone
• Scissors
• Tweezers
• Tongue depressor blades
• Tube of petroleum jelly or other lubricant
• Blanket
• Water
• Ready to eat food
• Battery-operated radio and extra batteries
• Flashlight and extra batteries
• CPR Mask

Non-Prescription Drugs

• Pain and fever reducers, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen.
• Anti-itch medications, like Hydrocortizone cream.
• An antihistamine, like Benadryl, for allergic reactions.
• Laxative.

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