Your skin is the largest organ that serves as a protective layer and performs essential tasks for your body.  The health of your skin is essential not only for your looks but for your overall health.  Its appearance is determined by your diet, lifestyle, and environmental factors.  Your skin  cells
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Bees collect pollen from plants and mix it with a small dose of secretion from their salivary glands, or with nectar.  The pollen is then placed on their back or their hind legs.   When the bee returns to the hive, it packs the pollen in honeycomb cells.  The surface of the collected pollen is
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Seasonal allergies, often called hay fever, are symptoms that occur during specific times of the year.  You may experience allergies because of how your  immune system responds to the particles that are present in the air.   It could be that you react to tree pollen when tree pollination occurs. 
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It seems that many people are feeling fatigued and have low energy.  Much of this has to do with the quality of food you eat and the condition of your digestive tract.  The worse your  digestion is, the less you can assimilate nutrients.  This nutrient deficiency, along with exposure to toxins, can
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You need a healthy brain for memory, learning, mental energy, and mood.  A healthy brain will also help prevent mental health issues and other brain disorders.  Even though most of your brain cells were formed in the womb and during infancy, new research suggests that you can regenerate your brain
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Every winter, there is a surge in the number of colds, flues, and other viruses circulating in the population.  Helping your body prepare for exposure to a virus is a smart, and a relatively easy thing, to do.  At the most basic level, it means avoiding anything that will cause your body to spend
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Many people fear that memory loss and confusion are a natural part of getting older.  Forgetting things can be a normal part of life, but severe loss of normal brain function may not have to be part of aging.  Dementia describes a group of symptoms that are caused by changes in the way the brain
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Cataracts are a common eye condition that typically develops after the age of 55, however, they may affect people younger than that, including infants and children.  A cataract is an eye condition that is characterized by a clouding of the normally clear lens of your eyes.  If your eyes are healthy,
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There many different reasons why you might crave sugar.   Sugar cravings can be triggered by blood sugar imbalances that are caused by a poor diet or large periods of time without eating.  You may crave sugar for emotional reasons or because of  an unhealthy gut microbiome.  Or is may be a large
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Having healthy stomach acid levels is important for digestion because it helps break the food down so that you absorb the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.  It is also your first line of defense against bacteria that may make it's way into your food.   Your stomach can handle the strong acid
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