I have always had a love of quotes by famous people. Whenever I read books I’m always underlining quotes which I can come back to later. I collect all kinds of quotations and sayings from notable people! Here’s some famous health quotes about being healthy, staying fit and the benefits of wellness.

• The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
  Mark Twain
• Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
  Denis Diderot
• Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
  Aldous Huxley
• It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
  Mahatma Gandhi
• Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
  Thomas Jefferson
• The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.
  John Redman Coxe

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Know of a great health and fitness blog? I plan to collect and update this list as I find new health weblogs or when new blogs are submitted. The health blogs are listed alphabetically and I’ll try to check on them from time to time to make sure they’re still being updated and worth visiting.

Send your health blog to me (woopidoo at gmail dot com) and I’ll add it to the blog list below if I like it.

• Dr. Pullen – An almost daily health blog by doctor Pullen who is a family physician practicing in Puyallup, WA, USA. Informative posts for getting healthy and staying well.
• Dr. Weil’s Blog – If you have read Dr. Weil’s books or listened to his audiobooks and like his ideas, you’ll also enjoy his daily blog. Filled with health news and tips on keeping healthy, with an alternative slant.
• Men’s Health Blog – Entertaining list of health & fitness blogs for men which looks at topics like erectile dysfunction, working out, exercising, building muscle, losing your belly and other manly topics.
• New York Times Health Blog – The health and wellness blog from the NY Times looks at news on keeping healthy and getting fit.
• Wall Street Journal Health Blog – The WSJ health blog looks at pharmaceutical companies in the news, health discoveries, fitness tips and new developments in the health industry.
• WebMD Blogs – List of all the health blogs on the WebMD website. Include blogs by experts on cholesterol, diabeties, diets, weight loss, healthy living, erectile dysfunction, health insurance, food, healthy cooking, breastfeeding, fitness, drugs, medicines and much.

The list of health and wellness blogs will grow over time

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This is one of the problems that make us difficult to breathe and eat or drink anything. This problem generally occurs along with common cold. The throat may be red and hurt. When we already have the problem of tonsils then they create more problem when you eat or drink some cold items or during the winter season due to climate. The tonsils forms lumps on each side of the throat and become very painful and we can also get fever when suffering from this problem.

There are some temporary treatment tips that can reduce the hardness of this problem but they are permanent and can show again when climate changes to cold or when we drink or eat cold items. The permanent treatment is tonsillectomy through which can completely remove them.

• Temporary treatment methods:
• Gargle with warm water with some salt in that water.
• Take Paracetamol tablet for fever and pain.
• If the problem continues with fever for more days then it might be a danger sign of rheumatic fever and this treated through penicillin.
• If the child has tonsils very often then take the medical help.

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The moment we feel hungry, we start eating some or the other food. It’s the reason why basically person strives and struggles all the day in office in spite of dislike over job. In this scheduled life of job we prefer for one or the other junk food and prefer to skip our meals. This risky options will left us with few or more health issues. Among all problems, digestive system is the basic issue which we come up. We can find many statements regarding digestive system and acidic problems. But among all very few consists accurate information and rest will be just myths. We are going to have brief idea over the digestive system and acidic problem and also the myths which are going around us over it.

 Acid Reflux:

Acid Reflux is a burning sensation in the stomach which occurs due to the chronic regurgitation of the acids of stomach with the other liquids of esophagus. It generally occurs when the value called LES gets relaxed or gets closed at esophagus, then the acids of stomach gets mix up with the  liquids of esophagus and leads to irritation or burning sensation.

Myths of Acid Reflux:

Tolerable  Acid Reflux:

Acid reflux mostly knocks the door when we prefer for a delicious, spicy food. Many of us assume that having a delightful food is more than the burning stomach. Our temptation makes us to take risk without considering the acid floods going to be held in oesophagus.  

This can be cleared with a proper counter, but there are around 15percent of people who always neglect the condition and faces new issues of stomach. On continues attack of acid reflux can tends to damage of oesophagus.

Last priority to liquids enriching acid reflux:

Liquids like tea, coffee, alcohol or orange juices ruptures the acids of oesophagus and enriches the acid reflux making it to an intolerable burning sensation in stomach. Though there is no scientific evidence of this reaction. So if you find the issue when you find outs the reactions in stomach just after drinking any above mentioned liquids, then it’s better to come out of the habit of taking them.

 Frequent medication is unsafe:

Many of us generally face the problem of acidity for which we frequently take the medication. There are cases where doctors also forcibly make us to consume the medication. But a frequent intake can lead to the lifelong solution for acidity. Effected persons have to intake throughout their life span which is not an accurate solution. Its rid is to consume the spice free food. To know more about the effective and permanent solution, it’s better to have a correct conversation about it.

Prefer Milk and Mint instead of spicy food:

Most of us prefer for spicy food which is the root cause for burning out the acids of oesophagus rather than having the mild food. It’s better to prefer milk and mint which can sooth the burning stomach and oesophagus.

All over it is very clear that acid reflux can be cleared only when we don’t prefer spicy food, regular intake of medication and liquids rising the burning of stomach.

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Body’s most unusual and most flexible muscle in the body is the tongue which makes us to speak, chew, gallop and sense the taste. It allows the control and manipulation of food and speaks. This enriches food digestion and speaks flow.  On observation we can find the tongue in to different shapes. What could be the reason which makes only tongue to change its shape when it’s not possible with other muscles? The composition of skeletal muscle fiber enriches your life with flow of sweet and hard accent oriented talk. Let’s find what makes your tongue to speak, taste and digests your food.

Things makes to Fulfill tongue’s Diverse Responsibilities:

Its Role in Food digestion: Tongue plays the role of molding and chewing the food in mouth along with the cheeks. This enriches the digestive process in quite easy way. This is the reason for suggesting chewing the food for at least 10times.

Tongue is the most musical fiber that gets lace with in a surrounded skeletal bone perceiving the secured organs. This peripheral sense organ has the sensation towards heat, cold, pain and pressure.

Beneath the Tongue:

The symmetrical structure of tongue and muscles have two halves got divided by medium septum. Its composition is of extrinsic and intrinsic muscles. Each plays a different role and is initiated at different locations of body.

Extrinsic Muscle:

The very long extrinsic muscle is root is from somewhere in deep of the body, connects to the bone of the surrounding mouth and provides the movements to it. The stylaglosus, palatoglousus makes its movement where as geniglossus enriches the depression and thirstiness.

This extrinsic got laced with the jaw bone called hyoid bone for supporting the tongue, styloid processes and temporal lobes.  Its u shaped structure hyoid bone suspends the styloid processes with the help of ligaments and muscles.

Intrinsic Muscle:

These intrinsic muscles originate from the tongue and it’s the cause of tongue flexibility like contracting and expanding in different shapes. Intrinsic includes longitudinalis inferior, transverses linguae, verticalis linguae, longitudinalis superior which plays the keen role in speech process.

Mucous Membrane:

Mucous membrane is a double layered cover over the tongue which prevents the entering of intruders like microbes, pathogens in to the digestive system. Its covers the muscle mass and fat of tongue and secrets the mucus and keeps the mouth and food always moist.

Taste buds:

The taste which we sense while eating makes us feel different moments (tasty, spicy, sweet, hot, etc). Its due to the taste buds around the tongue which are named as papillae. This makes the actual friction between the tongue and food.

Small structured taste buds fixed in the papillae are made up of basal and supporting cells which maintain 50 gustatory receptor cells which are simulated by the chemical solutions.

Speech Instrument:

Tongue is the most vital speech instrument for the human body. The world of phonetics is generated just because of speech ability. There are vowels which specially needs the help of tongue, any of its malfunctioning can leads to the issues in speech.

A small flexible tongue have big role in human for interaction, finding the tastes of cusisine.

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