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Really Healthy Food
If you really want to get healthier, follow these recommendations and get ready to feel a blitz of stamina like never before:LOOK FOR VARIETY!Getting all of the nutrients you need is easy if you eat a variety of foods....
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Low Carb Intake Reduces Risks of Death
A study published by The Lancet revealed that a diet based on a moderate intake of fats, fruit and vegetables is associated with low risks of death. The research also revealed that having a low carbohydrate intake plays an...
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Eggshells’ Benefits
One of the most probable things that your mother had ever mentioned to you is that eggs could provide many benefits for your health, besides being an important affordable food. But, did you know the eggshells’ benefits?After reading this,...
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Rest is: More than necessary?
If you think that by sleeping only you will have the consequence of feeling exhausted, you are not right.To stay up late is something that we must avoid at all costs because it is a powerful enemy that can...
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New System Seeks to Regulate Tobacco Trafficking
Tobacco trade and illegal trafficking will be regulated with a traceability system. For this reason, the Costa Rican authorities are rushing to apply this regulation method.Nydia Amador, vice-president of Renata and the Alcoholism and pharmadependency Institute pointed out that...
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Eight Hospitals Provided with HIV Drugs
A total of 40,500 tablets of Efavirenz 600 mg for HIV patients were alteady distributed by the Costa Rican Department of Social Security in 8 hospitals to counteract the current deficit of medications.In the country, 4,480 patients need this...
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Sex, Youth and Consciousness.
Sexual intercourse is becoming more and more early in young people.All parents like to think that their children, whether male or female, will always behave appropriately and responsibly and will not have any kind of sexual intercourse before they...
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“Humans Can’t Live Longer than 116 years” – Study Found
Dutch researchers found out that the age limit for humans is 115,7 years for women and 114,1 years for men, despite the improvement of the quality of life lately.Scientists of Tilbur University located in Roterdam analyzed the information on...
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Chef Daniel Vargas: A “Tico” Passionate for Haute Cuisine and Soccer
There are moments in life in which one decides to change, to take the direction towards what we are passionate about what is good for us. That happened to the Costa Rican chef Daniel Vargas when one day he...
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Heart Failure: A More Lethal Disease Than Cancer
Although it is considered less dangerous than cancer, cardiac failure is practically an unknown condition for everybody and old men are the most vulnerable.Cardiologist Maria Mercedes Resk pointed out that it is a condition that affects the entire body...
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Stopping Ageism in Costa Rica
The concept of ageism was coined in 1969 by Dr. Robert Butler, an American gerontologist and the first director...