You eat a burger and drink lemonade. Your digestive process breaks the proteins, fats and carbohydrates into smaller components that can be absorbed in the blood. Waste products end up in the blood too. Can you imagine what your blood would be like if there were no filters? 6 Facts about Kidneys Luckily, there are kidneys. Kidneys are one...
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Vigilance is the watchword for caregivers of people with insulin-dependent diabetes. What do you need to know when illness strikes? Energy The body requires more energy when it is sick. That energy fuels the immune system’s fight against infection. People who are sick are often not interested in eating. With type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent...
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Stating the obvious: cancer takes an enormous toll on the sick individual and their family. Being stretched financially and every other way-emotionally, physically, spiritually and everything in between-may make the idea of a vacation a low priority. Yet downtime is important. But what if the vacation were free? There are organizations that have made it...
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What is the Macula? The retina is the back of the eye, the part of the eye which turns light into electrical signals that travel through the optic nerve to the brain. The macula is a place on the retina which provides sharpness and visual acuity. It is the most sensitive part of the retina. As many as 10 million people in the US have been affected by...
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“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”~Aesop Research on Giving People who donate a kidney to complete strangers are called extraordinary altruists. They’ve been the subject of recent research by Abigail Marsh of Georgetown University. Her research looked at extraordinary altruists’ brains, specifically the amygdala....
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