Dr. Vanta is an alternative health care expert, author, and medical writer. In her practice and medical writing, she focuses primarily on nutrition and natural therapies.

It's vital to protect ourselves from the sun's rays. Everyone knows about sunscreen, but have you heard of sun&#x2d;protective clothing?

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portrait of an authentic, modern Egyptian woman

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CDC National Center for Environmental Health

Skin Cancer Foundation

Nike

Cureus

Wellness is associated with your lifestyle. Wellness depends on many factors, such as proper weight control, good nutrition, avoiding risk factors such as alcohol abuse and smoking and exercise. People who manage their lifestyle are more productive, healthier and have fewer workplace absences.

Since lifestyle is the leading factor determining your general health, it is important to set healthy goals and have control over your life. The choices you make have a huge influence on your wellness; therefore consistent self-care is vital. While medicine can cure the disease, the wellness lifestyle encourages you to take responsibility for your life.

Wellness is not an absence of diseases. It is an approach developed to achieve the balance between social and emotional functioning. Wellness is a process through which you start making choices towards a healthier lifestyle.

Wellness is a positive approach to life, which emphasizes the importance of the mind and spirit. A wellness-oriented lifestyle means that everything you feel, say and do has an impact on your health.

Lifestyle

Whether you're looking for the finest superfood or you're curious about the benefits of that starfruit you just picked up at the market, Facty has the details. From the best exercises to get fit fast to the real facts on the latest fad diet, we have the answers to your questions.

Wellness

Fluoride is a naturally&#x2d;occurring mineral in soil, water, air, plants. Though too much can cause problems, fluoride has a lot of potential benefits.

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University of Hawai'i

Mount Sinai

Cancer causes and control

Environmental Health

Materials

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Journal of International Society of Preventative and Community Dentistry

International Journal of Nanomedicine

Breastfeeding doesn't always feel intuitive. Guidelines and advice, and watching your baby's cues, can help identify the best fit for both of you.

New mom watches as baby breastfeeds

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Newborn baby boy sucking milk from mothers breast. Portrait of mom and breastfeeding baby.

Mother breastfeeding baby in living room

Mother sitting on chair and breastfeeding daughter (12-17 months)

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Mother caressing her newborn sleeping baby

A baby boy being fed by his father

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Newborn baby girl breast feeding in mothers arms.

Female pediatrician talks with mother of newborn baby

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and Environmental Public Health

National Institutes of Health

Mayo Clinic

Pediatrics

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<div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6eqqa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6eqqa-0-0"><span data-text="true">Your baby might feel fragile in your arms, but don't feel intimidated. </span></span><span class="hardreadability"><span data-offset-key="6eqqa-1-0"><span data-text="true"> Facty Health can be your safe and accessible space to ask the questions you might be too embarrassed to ask your mom</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="6eqqa-2-0"><span data-text="true">. There is no reason you should feel embarrassed, but sometimes you might not want to call up a friend. We get it. </span></span></div>
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Family

Family is important. We grow up in them and dream of starting our own. Whether we want two and a half kids and a Golden Retriever or no kids and a condo in Spain, those ideas start brewing early and are bound to change and grow over time.

But creating and managing a household, whatever its makeup, is no easy feat! That's why Facty is here — to provide you with some tips and ideas for getting everything out of your family, whether it's big or small, nuclear or unique, biological or hand-selected. From preparing for a new baby to making the most of retirement, we can help!


Baby

Foods, medications, supplements, herbs, and some health conditions can change the color of breast milk. In many cases, it's not cause for concern.

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Bottles with breast milk on the background of mother holding in her hands and breastfeeding baby. Maternity and baby care.

It's important that you follow these steps

Making daily notes

Unrecognizable mom tests the temperature of a baby bottle

Mother giving breast milk to his newborn

Young mother breastfeeding her little baby boy

Mom breastfeeding a baby boy

Essential Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Breastfeeding Medicine

Biomedical and Environmental Mass Spectrometry

American Family Physician

Drugs.com

During your baby's one&#x2d;month checkup, the doctor will take measurements, perform a head&#x2d;to&#x2d;toe exam, and ask questions about sleep, mood, and more.

Doctor weighing baby

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Mother holding her baby hand

Newborn child crying

Sleeping newborn baby

Close Up Of Loving Mother Feeding Newborn Baby Son With Bottle At Home

A baby in a diaper at the age of two months and a stack of diapers. How to choose baby diapers

Doctor with laptop and woman in doctor's office holding baby

Premature Newborn Fraternal Twin Snuggles Up on Father After Birth

New mom holding cute nappy baby in arms

Doctor examining baby with stethoscope in the hospital.healthcare and medicine

Medline Plus

Sleep Foundation

Understanding when teething will occur and the timeline for new teeth can help parents deal with this trying milestone.

The first two teeth of the infant that the parent must help to keep the mouth clean.

Baby chewing a teething toy

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Laughter of a child

Young Boy Having Fun In Garden Chasing And Bursting Bubbles

Happy childhood

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Baby chewing on teething ring

Mixed race little patient showing her perfect toothy smile while sitting dentists chair

Female patient with acute toothache at doctor appointment with X-ray image

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American Dental Association

Everyone has an opinion about the best way to raise children — regardless of whether or not they have their own! How do you sort through all the noise to find out what you really need to worry about and what you can leave up to chance and intuition?<br>Facty Family is here to help. From what toe-walking means to the best board games to play with your kids, we present you with the details you need to make informed decisions. In the end, it all comes down to what's best for your children, and our articles always on call to offer suggestions, ideas, and assistance.

Children

Wax mallow is long used in Mexico and Central America as a food, dye, and in folk medicine. Studies suggest it has many potential medicinal benefits.

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Woman Measuring Her Blood Pressure

Love your body and it will love you back

Diabetes blood test

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Drop

Portarit of a handsome older man sitting on a sofa.

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Young woman scratching her arm while sitting on the sofa at home.

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

PLoS One

Chemistry and Biodiversity

Advances in Traditional Medicine

Supersets are considered one of the top ways to get good results from your strength workout.

Young muscular woman doing weighted lunge with dumbbells, with personal trainer motivating her.

HIIT or High Intensity Interval Training

Man using smartphone during workout at home. Online personal trainer or on mobile phone. Internet fitness class or video course. Taking a break. Lazy guy with cellphone while training.

Working on his biceps

Young woman training in the gym

Lunging is good for the legs

Strong woman bodybuilder

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Closeup young sporty woman fitness trainer do bodyweight squats practice squatting exercise with hands clasped bending forward keep fit in modern gym wooden floor healthy lifestyle concept copy space

Fit woman working out doing push ups at home.

Difficult doesn’t mean impossible!

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Ace Fitness

Benefits of Physical Activity

Fitness is a condition that helps people feel and do their best. Fitness helps our bodies perform what we need, whether it is enjoying a walk, doing household tasks or running a marathon. When you set your fitness goals, you should consider your skills, age, fitness level and health. When you start out slowly, you will slowly progress to the higher levels.

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Whether you are new to fitness or a fitness-guru, you should always start with a warm-up and end with a cool-down. A warm-up includes ten to fifteen minutes of low-intensity activity, such as jogging, walking, arm circles, trunk rotations or knee lifts. A cool-down includes ten minutes of low-level exercise, slow walking and stretching. As a rule of thumb, you should try to perform moderate intensity activity most days of the week, for example, do brisk walking.

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Fitness is available to anyone. Everyone can increase their level of fitness if they have motivation and willingness to adjust their lifestyle to their fitness goals.

Fitness

Work&#x2d;related injuries affect many people all around the world. Some injury types are more common than others, depending on one's job.

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Worker Climbing Up

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Damaged bumpers from car accident

Worker dropping boxes in shipping area

An industrial warehouse workplace safety topic. A manager discusses an issue about a forklift driver.

Workers' Compensation

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Safety in the workplace. Presentation with office workers.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety

United States Department of Labor

Conditions

"Condition" is a general term for particular abnormal diseases that negatively affect a part or all of the body. Conditions are not due to any external injury. Therefore, a broken bone does not classify as a condition, whereas Herpes, OCD, Shingles, and Ulcers do.

Medical conditions are classified by specific symptoms and signs. While each person's experiences can vary, there are consistent signs and symptoms that doctors will look for when diagnosing their patients. We always recommend that people seek a professional diagnosis. Afterward, supplement medical advice and opinion with accurate and easy to read information.

Most people only spend an average of a couple minutes with their doctor during a checkup. Oftentimes patients don't receive the fullest explanation of their diagnosis. Easily search through the vast amount of articles that Facty Health offers for ones that address your specific needs. From there, allow us to help you with those unanswered questions.

Injury

Data suggests the weight loss market is worth $72 billion. But how many of the supplements they recommend actually work?

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Coffee

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Garcinia gummi

Herbal medicine and herbs

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Grilled striploin steak

Bathroom scale, pills

BusinessWire

Obesity Reviews

Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

International Journal of Preventative Medicine

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Unhealthy habits have a serious impact on brain health, but making some simple lifestyle changes can have a big impact in the other direction!

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Depressed woman awake in the night

Tired frustrated exhausted businessman working from home online sitting at home office with laptop during quarantine and self isolation period at pandemic. Crisis management. Despair of market falling down.

Young drunk man sleeping on the table in a bar.

Young woman smoking cigarette

sad lonely young woman looking thoughtfully through window

Man in front of a blank monitor

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Young Asian businesswoman taking a break in urban park in the city. Enjoying the gentle breeze with her eyes closed, resting in the middle of a work day

Artificial brain model and hand

Frontiers in Psychology

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

The Lancet

The effects of tobacco smoke and nicotine on cognition and the brain

Harvard Health

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Journal of Applied Psychology

From chicken soup and honey to Epsom salt baths, there are plenty of at&#x2d;home options available to manage viruses like the cold and flu.

Woman tea ceremony pouring fresh brewed tea in glas cup and teapot

Preparing Chicken Noodles Soup with Fresh Vegetables

Senior woman prepping garlic

Cropped Hands Of Woman Cutting Ginger On Board In Kitchen At Home

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Woman pouring eucalyptus essential oil into bowl on wooden table

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Brindusa Vanta, MD

Written By Brindusa Vanta, MD

The Truth About Sun-Protective Clothing

Everything You Need To Know About Fluoride

How Often Should You Breastfeed?

What Do Different Colors of Breast Milk Mean?

What To Expect At Your Baby's One-Month Checkup

Teething Timeline From Baby to Adult

The Many Potential Benefits of Wax Mallow

Should You Add Supersets To Your Workout Routine?

The Most Common Work-Related Injuries

Weight Loss Supplements: Do They Work?

Habits That Hurt Brain Health

10 Home Remedies For Viral Infections

Diet vs Exercise: Which Matters Most?

What Is Exposure Therapy

What Is Pandemic Fatigue?

Health Benefits Of Cloves

The Many Potential Benefits of Fucoxanthin

Health Benefits of Kiwano

10 At-Home Ways to Increase Immunity

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