Fighting Back the Phobia

A phobia is an anxiety or a extreme feeling of fear when you are in a certain situation or if u see a particular “trigger”. Phobias can be rational like a germphobia or they can be irrational like Arachibutyrophobia: being afraid of peanut butter sticking to the top of your mouth.

 Millions of people in the world have phobias; a somewhat common phobia is arachnophobia, which is the fear of spiders. Most people only feel afraid if they are in that situation but with some it can take over their life, but not to worry there are loads of ways to get rid of a phobia.

Talking to your GP about this you can tell them and they can refer you to Cognitive behavioural therapy. This is a therapy were you can discuss what you are afraid of and try to ration it out. If the phobia comes from a stressful event it will most likely go away after the therapy. You can also be put on anti-depressants; not because you are depressed but because it can take away the anxiety.

By Tanya Kuzmich

Spotting Early Osteoporosis

Recent test have proven new theories and reasons for bone structure loss, these test were aimed at astronauts that need to heed into space. This is because with the microgravity in space it is very hard for your bones to stay healthy, and that weightlessness triggers boneless.

This has shown doctors that with ordinary peoples bone loss can be triggered very easily as well. Prolonged bed rest can cause osteoporosis and now after finding out this information scientists can spot the early symptoms using scans that will detect for osteoporosis if a fracture occurs.

Dr Nicola Peel of the National Osteoporosis Society in the UK said: "It is always exciting to see new techniques being developed with the potential to increase our understanding of the evolution and mechanism of bone disease.

"This approach of using calcium isotopes is very interesting and appears to have potential to detect very early changes of bone loss.

"This could therefore have a future role in the clinical evaluation of patients."

By Tanya Kuzmich

Childhood Obesity: a growing concern

Children in the modern age are getting increasingly unhealthy. With the likes of computer games and electronic devices being brought into the world children choose to play indoors than play outside. This results in children becoming unfit and this causes a lot of problems to their health and there daily life.

More that ¾ of children are not getting their proper share of one hour exercise; this includes 17% of boys and 16% of girls. It is a shock that the number is that large because people should all know about the joys of exercise. It is good for you and it massively improves your health.

Childhood obesity can cause type 2 diabetes later on in life because it can develop in adulthood: now an alarming amount of teenagers develop it in there early years. This is something very important and needs to be tackled as some as possible. Try to make sure that the people around you are healthy and encourage everyone to live a healthy life.

By Tanya Kuzmich