Triglycerides are essential for moving fat about in the body. But let them get out of control and you could be looking at heart disease, stroke and even death.
Cholesterol in the blood comes from two sources – the food you eat, and the cholesterol your liver produces. In a word – cholesterol is essential for life.
The classic image associated with hypothermia is that of the shipwreck survivor in arctic seas, or the outdoor sportsman caught in a blizzard. But it is a sad fact that people, particularly the elderly and the very young, can suffer hypothermia even in urban environments.
Water conducts heat 25 times more efficiently than air. Fall into a very cold lake and you body’s reaction could kill you in less than a minute.
Tapeworms are parasitic flatworms that live in the digestive tract of humans and other animals and can achieve lengths of up to ten metres.
Intestinal worms are parasites. They live inside us and they feed off us. And no, they don’t just eat the food we eat, they feed off our bodies too.
Getting a tan down on the beach is the goal of many during summer, but that bronzed body may come at a deadly cost.
Tanning is the body’s defense against a form of radiation which, in the case of melanoma, can have potentially deadly effects.
We’ve all experienced it at some time or other – the bloated abdomen, the headaches, the fatigue, the discomfort… that scourge of the modern lifestyle – constipation.