“Everyone thinks I’m flirting”: Girls about cold allergies

LIFE IN A WIDE LAND WHERE IS COLD AT LEAST SIX A YEAR requires special endurance – and if there are no problems with central heating and adequate clothing these days, then not everyone’s skin is cold tolerant. We asked several heroines with a hypersensitivity to cold about how it manifests itself, and asked immunologists to explain if […]

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Don’t be afraid: 7 facts about antidepressants

It just so happened that we are used to treating depression as a kind of bliss: there is nothing for a person to do, so he has become limp, it would be better to do something useful. Meanwhile, doctors have long recognized depression as a disease that requires treatment, since it not only adversely affects […]

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There is nothing to be afraid of: 10 antibiotic myths that interfere with treatment

WITHOUT ANTIBIOTICS , IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE MODERN MEDICINE , and they themselves have gone far ahead of penicillin, invented almost a hundred years ago. Today they are able to fight superbugs and treat uncomplicated appendicitis , and they are trying to get them from the most unexpected sources – be it soil , an anthill , the blood of a Komodo dragon or the milk of a platypus . The endless […]

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Question to an expert: Can I drink while exercising?

We are used to searching online for ANSWERS TO MOST OF THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE ASKED US . In the new series of materials, we ask just such questions: burning, unexpected or common – to professionals in various fields.  Recently, the founder of the ballet studio, Alina Zvereva, talked about how she made the space for students comfortable – including […]

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Checklist: 11 Signs You Have Eating Problems

Anyone can face an eating disorder these days, and this is no joke: according to statistics , as a result of such disorders, one person dies every hour. These conditions include not only anorexia nervosa and bulimia, but also “binge” overeating, diabulimia (a disorder in which people with diabetes refuse insulin to lose weight), dieting or detox systems; at the same time, the […]

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10 unethical psychological experiments from the history of science

FOR DISCOVERY OR DEVELOPMENT, SCIENTISTS ARE GOING TO THE MOST AMAZING EXPERIMENTS : For example, they are trying to determine the genre of a film by the composition of the air in the theater or they are inventing bacterial batteries . But there is little that compares in complexity to even the most seemingly unsophisticated psychological experiment. The behavior of the human psyche is difficult to predict, […]

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Checklist: 12 Signs It ‘s Time to Change Your Therapist

ON THE WAY TO PSYCHOTHERAPY CARE, there are many obstacles: after overcoming your own fears, prejudices and stereotypes, you still have to choose a psychotherapist you can trust. We’ve already talked about what to look for when looking for a professional, and now we have compiled a list of signs that it might be time to turn to someone else.      Lack of […]

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Type 2 diabetes-a non-communicable epidemic of the XXI century

Every 10th inhabitant of the Earth today has diabetes, but half of the patients do not yet know about their disease. Every minute on earth, another case of diabetes is detected and every minute two people die from its complications. The rapid spread of the incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in the world has acquired […]

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“Fat-burning” additives do not work: it is impossible to enter into the body a substance that is capable of breaking down fat molecules in adipose tissue and removing them

When they talk about speeding up the metabolism, it is usually suggested to do it either with the help of certain foods, or by changing eating habits – for example, switching to fractional meals. The idea of ​​the latter is that a large number of meals “accelerates” the metabolism, since more energy is spent on its […]

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“Woman’s suit”: Why athletes still wear uncomfortable clothes

THIS WEEK TENNIS PLAYER ALIZE CORNE , without leaving the court, changed her jersey during the US Open match – and, to her surprise, received a warning from the referee . He, in turn, followed a long-standing rule, which the United States Tennis Association thought of canceling after the incident. This case once again reminds that women’s sports still remain monstrously […]

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