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Bruises form when blood vessels break. The symptom can last for weeks but some home remedies might help speed the healing time.

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Your body is where you reside all of the time. Even when you're asleep, it's hard at work keeping you alive and well. Many of its functions are automatic like your breathing and your metabolism. Sometimes your body can start to break down or malfunction. Often these problems are environmental or genetic, but sometimes they are due to the lifestyle choices that we make.

Preventing these problems can be done by controlling your diet, exercising right, getting enough sleep, and easing up on your indulgences. You don't have to cut out everything indulgent, after all, happiness has some of the best health benefits of all. A healthy lifestyle can be the best preventative medicine. Though preventative care can help, your body can still present issues. Facty Health can be where you go to learn more about the particular issues that you are facing. Whether it is severe (like abscesses, tumors, or STIs) or non-severe (like nosebleeds, canker sores, or rashes), we have got information about it.

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Ailments

An "ailment" is a general term for minor to moderate physical illnesses, diseases, and disorders. In Facty Health, many different diagnoses fall under the ailment category. For example, acid reflux, eye disorders, skin problems, and GI problems, are considered an ailment.

In this category, you can discover natural home remedies for common symptoms. You will find that there is probably a miracle ingredient hiding in your pantry right now. Learn what foods to stay away from and which foods can help ease certain conditions. You can even learn to spot the early warning signs of some of the more severe diseases. Expect to find detailed and interesting information about the types of ailments, their symptoms, causes, and treatments.

If you have questions about a specific ailment or you just have a general curiosity for medicine, this would be a good place to start.

Body

If a person is having fewer than three bowel movements per week, they have constipation. Some home remedies can help minor cases.

Home Remedies for Constipation

Constipation occurs when bowel movements become tough or infrequent. Nearly everyone will experience constipation at one point or another. The frequency of a bowel movement will depend on each person. Most people will have one three times a day, while others have them only twice or three times a week. With things like this everyone has a different "normal", depending on their size and diet.

However, as a rule of thumb, you shouldn’t go more than three days without a bowel movement. Some of the causes of constipation include a lack of fiber, reduced water consumption, or not being active enough. If you have constipation, you may experience trouble passing a bowel movement and hard or small stools.

If you think you might be suffering from this, it is important to seek adequate treatment. First, you should increase your water intake by two extra glasses of water per day; secondly, you may eat fruits and vegetables rich in fiber to get things moving again.

Constipation

Gout is a chronic condition that occurs when elevated levels of uric acid cause joint pain. Home remedies can supplement medical therapies.

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<div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4s1vo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4s1vo-0-0"><span data-text="true">Gout is the elevated levels of uric acid in the blood gather and forms hard crystals in the joints. Many people with too much uric acid will not have severe symptoms. This is because it only affects 1-2% of the population. Men are at higher risk than women. Those most prone eat a lot of meat, drink a lot of beer, and are overweight. People who have experienced it once are likely to experience it again.</span></span></div>
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<div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cojcv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cojcv-0-0"><span data-text="true">If gout goes untreated, it can cause lasting harm to joints and tendons. Treatments include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), steroids, and colchicine. Once the acute attack gets treated, a person can begin to take preventative measures. Prevention through lifestyle changes is the most effective way of reducing your risk. Even after experiencing one attack, you can prevent future similar attacks. Weight loss and medication can lower uric acid levels in your body, therefore preventing gout.</span></span></div>
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Gout

A toothache can cause serious pain. Some people use over&#x2d;the&#x2d;counter medications or see a doctor, but home remedies can help relieve minor symptoms.

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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

Vitamin B12 is necessary for many functions. People who eat vegetarian or vegan diets or those with absorption issues are at risk of deficiency.

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Which nutrients your body will get and how much depends on your diet. Nutrients are chemical substances that help your body maintain tissues, make energy, regulate different processes, etc. Nutrition is the process of taking nutrients from various foods. There are six classes of nutrients: lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, water, minerals, and vitamins.

The third three classes are known as macronutrients because our bodies need them in large quantities. Lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins are unique because they are the only elements that provide the body with energy. Energy is measured in calories.

Water is also a nutrient that some scientists categorize as a macronutrient because our bodies need it in large quantities. Water is quickly lost through sweat and evaporation, so you need to fill up by drinking liquids and eating fruits, vegetables and other foods that contain water.

Consuming a healthy diet with vegetables, fruits, protein, and dairy ensures the body has enough nutrients to use.

Food

The foods you eat have a huge influence on your ability to enjoy life. One of the main effects of food is the feeling you get from eating a delicious meal. There are many different chemical substances in food, including macronutrients, micronutrients, water and dietary fiber. Macronutrients, for example, protein, are present in large amounts. Micronutrients are present in smaller quantities, for example, vitamins.

Food can also contain flavors, colors, active substances such as steroids, caffeine and salicylates, additives and natural toxins. Different characteristics of food depend on the presence of chemicals in them.
The chemical nature of food can be changed by preservation, storage and, of course, cooking. Moreover, food chemicals can interact with each other. For example, the way in which our bodies absorb carbohydrates depends on dietary fiber, even though our bodies don't absorb the fiber itself.

Which foods you eat have long-term effects on your health. Healthy foods help prevent some chronic diseases and decrease recovery periods from the disease.

Nutrition

Peppermint oil is popular as a fragrance in body lotions, soaps, and cosmetics, and it has a wide range of health benefits, as well.

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential because the body is not capable of producing them on its own. Omega-3s are an integral part of cell membranes and affect cell receptors in these membranes. They also help with hormone production and regulate blood clotting, contraction and relaxation of artery walls, and inflammation.

Jennifer Trimbee, RN

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