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Brenda Stoke's Articles in General Health

  • 10 Fun Projects for Your Kids Using the Computer and Printer
    So often we think of the computer and printer as office tools meant for work and work alone. You may use it to make a budget, a grocery list or manage your finances, but the thought of doing something fun with your office equipment may never cross your mind.
  • 10 Ways to Make Use of Your Printer
    Printers are very useful tools. You can do a wide variety of things with them, including everyday tasks like printing out a shopping list or creating a spreadsheet of your finances. However, the printer is one of those tools people tend to short change.
  • Top 10 Photo Editing Software for Family Photo Organization
    With digital cameras and at-home photo printers there’s a huge demand for photo editing software that helps families keep those vacation photos organized without a huge learning curve.
  • When Printers Hit Your Inbox: Funny (Or Frightening!) E-mail Printer Ink Chains
    So you know those annoying e-mails you get sometimes? They say something along the lines of “Send this to five people in five minutes or else you’ll have bad luck for life.” You know the ones that you usually delete? Well, sometimes, those e-mail chain letters can be kind of funny. Or they’ll make you stop and say,
  • Keeping Your Heart Healthy: 10 Ways to Lower Cholesterol
    High cholesterol is one of those things millions of people face each and every day. It is partly due to genetics, partly due to a bad diet and partly due to lifestyle. While everyone’s cholesterol problems may not be the same, there is one thing that is universal: it can be helped. You can improve your cholesterol and ensure a long healthy life with a healthy heart. Once you jump on the healthy heart bandwagon, you need to commit yourself to it or else it will never work for you.
  • Signs & Symptoms of a Urinary Tract Infection
    Many people think of urinary tract infections as bladder infections. While this is sometimes the case, the bladder is only one part of the urinary tract. The infection could be located in the bladder, urethra, ureters or kidneys. The general rule of thumb is that the higher up the urinary tract the infection is, the more serious it is. So, a kidney infection is much more serious than a urethral one. But that does not mean infections of the lower urinary tract are any less painful.
  • Signs and Symptoms of HIV and AIDS
    The major problem with relying on symptoms to detect HIV or AIDS is that sometimes these conditions show no sign of their presence at all. You may feel and look great and still be HIV positive. Now that is a scary fact. And the reality is, you may be passing on the disease to others without even realizing it.
  • Signs and Symptoms of Vitamin B6 Deficiency
    Vitamin B6 is vital to normal body function as it is involved in starting reactions involving substances called amino acids. It is a real team player as well. When processed in combination with vitamin B12 and folic acid, B6 can help prevent and fight heart disease as it can help to process homocysteine, a substance often associated with various cardiovascular problems.
  • Signs and Symptoms of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
    Vitamin B12 is responsible for much in the body and never is that more apparent than when you become B12 deficient. It is vitally important in the process of DNA synthesis and even has a role in neurological function. In order for the body to process B12 properly, you need to have several organs functioning in perfect harmony including the pancreas, stomach, small intestine and intrinsic factor.
  • Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Prevention, Testing and Treatment
    A Vitamin B12 deficiency can really be quite serious. A lot of people don’t even know of this condition, which is a considerable problem if people want to prevent it! However, there is one group of individuals that should be especially cautious when it comes to this sort of lack: vegans.
  • All About Citrullinemia: How to Test For It and What You Can Do
    While citrulline is a necessary component of the human body that helps to process ammonia in the urea cycle, some people have conditions that make processing the amino acid a real problem. Citrullinemia is a genetic disorder that is inherited from your parents. The disorder is caused by a lack of an enzyme that is necessary in order to process and remove nitrogen from the body.
  • All about Cholesterol Testing
    While cholesterol is one of those substances that everybody needs, too much of it can cause heart disease. And get this: one out of every two people will die of heart disease. If that is not a wake up call, I do not know what is!