Health
Do You Know if You Suffer from Compulsive Onychophagy?
Onychophagy is the compulsive habit that suffers a person when biting his/her nails. This practice can cause a series of different kinds of complications. These lead to having problems in the dentition, deformation of the cuticle, formation of warts...
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Beauty Treatments According to Your Age
It is important to highlight in this particular case, just as happens with make-up, beauty treatments are carried out according to age.The skin is exposed to different elements when it is 20, 30, 40 or 50 years old, making...
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Tattoo Artists’ Best Canvas: Your Skin
The most ancient evidence of a tattoo was found in the Chinchorro culture, on the coast of Chile. From this civilization, some tattoos -dating from 2000 BC- have been found. For example, one of them consists of a thin...
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Getting Ready for an Organ Transplant
There are many steps you need to take to prepare for a kidney transplant. First, you must have an evaluation by a transplant center to decide if you are ready for a kidney transplant. If the evaluation teams decide...
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Donating Hair Is Donating Hope
Hair donation is born of kind hearts. This alternative is given to take all women who go through a painful disease such as cancer, and have lost their hair in the meantime of the fight against it.It is also...
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Vaping in Costa Rica: All You Need to Know
If you are a fan of vaping that is traveling to Costa Rica for the first time, you definitely want to know whether you are allowed to vape while there. Like most countries, Costa Rica prohibits smoking in public places
Culture & Lifestyle
We, “Ticos”, Are Pure Life!
We have adopted a therapy called “Shiatsu” (from the Japanese “shi” -finger- and “atsu” -pressure on body’s zones-), which consists of pressing with fingers and hands in certain points and regions of the body. This pressure serves to work...
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Exposure to Sun: Benefits of Beaches for Your Health
Our country is a place with a lot of beaches, in which Naranjo and Santa Teresa beaches stand out. These are some of the best beaches that are, also, the most visited by tourists. Here, in Costa Rica, you...
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Learn More about the “Gray Rape”
Casual sex, misinterpreted signs of drugs and alcohol, etc... Everyone plays a role on this confusing form of sexual assault.Here we bring you what you should know about something that some call “gray rape”. A gray rape occurs...
Health
More Electronic Devices, Less Time for Studying
Family environment significantly affects the sedentary lifestyle of young people. Those who dedicate less time to educational activities turn out to be the ones with more screens in their bedrooms. Like those who have a greater number of electronic...
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651-Smart Travel Hacks that Actually Work
Traveling can definitely be one of the greatest joys life has to offer but it can also be stressful....