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UN Int’l Day of Happiness
“Happiness may have different meanings for different people. But we can all agree that it means working to end conflict, poverty and other ...
Muscle Cramps, Spasms, and Pain – What’s The Difference?
Among muscle cramps, spasms and pain the only difference is the severity or degree of effect, extreme pain being the most severe.
Commonly, cra...
Heart Muscles Are the Heartbeat of Your Life
Heart Muscles ~ the Heartbeat of Your Life
The heart muscle continuously contracts and relaxes, pumping blood throughout the whole human b...
Calcium and Magnesium – Why Your Body Needs Both
Calcium
The human body needs a lot of calcium because it cannot manufacture any and it uses this mineral for structure and many health-rel...
Hall-of-Fame Football Player Endorsement
Brian “Porkchop” Golnick, AAA Football Hall of Fame inductee and long-time semi-pro player with the championship football team, the SoCal C...
Know Your Organs Beginning With the Liver
Know Your Organs Beginning With the Liver is the first of what will be a series of blog posts delving into the different organs of the huma...
Stressed Nerves
Stressed Nerves
What is “stress” any way? Webster’s defines it as,
“Force exerted upon a body… the intensity of such force… and mental or...
Play Sports and Avoid Muscle Cramps
Avoiding mid-performance crises
How to play sports and avoid muscle cramps is the question on every athlete’s and coach’s mind.
Athletes ...
Understanding Muscle Cramps
Not Understanding Muscle Cramps Makes Me Grumpy
What Are Muscle Cramps?
Understanding muscle cramps becomes important to me every time I ge...
Skin – Understanding Integumentary Systems
SKIN
Skin – Understanding Integumentary Systems includes knowing its definition:
“(from Latin, integumentum, a covering <integere, to...
Understanding Urinary Systems
“… And the Little Piggy Went ‘wee-wee-wee’ All the Way Home!”*
(* origin: This Little Pig Went to Market by Lilly Martin Spencer, 1857)
Understa...
Understanding Respiratory Systems
Oxygen-Carbon Dioxide Transit System
An understanding of respiratory systems helps you to understand what keeps you breathing. In the human scienc...