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People usually get confused on how to tell if a person has a cold or flu. It is also a common misperception that colds are in season during winter. But studies revealed that people are more prone to colds during the summer and spring seasons.

It is a common knowledge, and everybody believes that exposure to cold and cold water can make a person catch cold. The truth is that exposure to cold temperature is not accountable for someone who catch a cold or a flu. The reason behind it is that when a person experiences either of the two, he or she feels cold or chilled, so the misconception may be derived from that. Aside from that, cold air at times may cause runny noses, and not necessarily only during a cold. Some of the known causes of cold are having a slightly depressed immune system, malnutrition and not having enough sleep.

People who get sick on vacation are actually experiencing “leisure sickness”. In a research, it found out that when a person is busy, the body is likewise active. When at rest, the body’s defenses are also at rest. A research conducted at Netherlands arrived at the conclusion that workaholics are most likely to catch cold during vacation.

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Yup, you’re reading it right. Losing the belly fat will help a person find ease in troubled breathing. That is according to French researchers. Excess fat on the abdomen can weaken lung function, and will also make a long list of disorders in the body.

Abdominal obesity has been associated with hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, all when combined are known as metabolic syndrome.

The French researchers have studied the health conditions of approximately 120,000 people in France. They weighed up the demographic background, history of smoking, consumption of alcohol, and the lung function with the measurement of their obesity known as body mass index and other gauges of their body metabolism.

Dr. Natalie Leone of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research stated that they had made findings that revealed the positive independent connection between the metabolic syndrome and weakening of lung functions. Dr. Leone wrote the research process and findings in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

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In a study that covers approximately 5,700 American adults it arrived with the findings that those who suffer from chronic pain, aside from arthritis, are four times more prone to try suicide.

According to the researchers of University of Michigan Ann Arbor, head pain and pain from various parts of the body are associated to suicidal thoughts and actions. Men and women with recurrent or severe headaches were two times more likely to try or conceive a suicidal plan.

Among the controlled subjects with three or more chronic pains, 14 percent revealed that they had thought of trying to do suicide, while an estimated 6 percent of the subjects reported an actual suicide.

Pain is defined as a typical sensory experience that may be characterized as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm. The International Association for the Study of Pain defined pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage”.

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