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Scoliosis is a situation that affects the spine. This can happen to children, teenagers and adults. The spine bends, causing compression of one side of the body. In scoliosis there is a rotation of the spine, in which the individual vertebrae bones twist around the long axis of the spine. Scoliosis affects girls more than boys, but the exact cause of scoliosis is unknown.

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Although the winter season is beautiful and loved by many, it can really make our life difficult. For example, the temperatures are so cold you could get frostbite if you do not rug up. The sidewalks can get so icy you can easily slip. The low humidity during winter causes many beauty mishaps, like uncontrollable static and dry skin, but there are certain things you can do to help make your skin more comfortable.

• Keep water lukewarm, not hot, as hot water robs skin of moisture causing dry skin, so it's best to shower in lukewarm water.
• Moisturize after showers or hand washing: Moisturizer is the key to soft, supple skin in winter. Whenever 'oil' is mentioned with 'skin' in the same sentence, people tend to cringe, but in winter, this can be a good thing. Because water and oil don't mix, the oil forms a protective layer over the skin and moisturizes better than moisturizers called lotions or creams. Pat your dry skin instead of rubbing with your towel before application. Keep moisturizer and facial water on your desk at work and use them with interval. 

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Metabolism is the process developing energy from the consumed food. Metabolism is the rate at which your body uses energy, or, burns calories. Your resting metabolism measures the number of calories required to keep your body functioning. Even while we sleep our metabolism is working. Your body is using up energy to keep running to make your heart beat, your kidneys function, and so on. To get a general idea of what your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) , multiply your weight by 10. If you weight 150 pounds then your BMR = 150 x 10 kcal/lb = 1,500 kcals (kcals stands for the number calorie burned).

1. Extreme fasting
2. Excessive dieting
3. Physical ailment
4. Lack of physical exercise
5. Skipping meals
6. Poor sleeping habits
7. Too much gap between meals
8. Eating too many foods that are loaded with sugar 
9. Hypothyroidism may be also a cause of slow metabolism. This happens when the thyroid gland produces too little of the hormone thyroxine. This may be result in weight gain, slow body processing including a slow heart rate and fatigue.

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Are you looking for an all-natural way to enhance and moisten your skin? Want to decrease excess water weight from your body in a matter of hours? Then a body wrap might be exactly what you are looking for. Originally a body wrap was a treatment where bandages or plastic wrap was tightly wrapped around the body to cause quick weight loss through vasodilatation.

These days a body wrap is more likely to be treatment where you're slathered with a body mask made of algae, seaweed, mud, clay, lotion or cream, depending on the treatment, then wrapped for 20 minutes to keep you warm. Later the product is rinsed off. The body wrap usually ends with application of lotion. This treatment is sometimes called a body cocoon or body mask.

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So what are Varicose Veins and what we can do to reduce their severity?

Lets first look at veins. Veins are blood vessels that return deoxygenated blood from the outer parts of the body back to the heart and lungs. When veins become abnormally thick, full of twists or even enlarged, they are called varicose veins.

• The thickened, twisting or dilated parts of the vein are called varicosities.
• Varicose veins can form anywhere in the body, but they are most often located in the legs.
• In the United States, about 19% of men and 36% of women have varicose veins.
• Varicose veins tend to be inherited and become more prominent as the person ages.

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