For some, feeling a growing mass of stress weighing on their shoulders may actually be the result of poor social skills, a new study finds.

Herbal colon cleansers are increasingly popular and many people believe botanical herbs are both harmless and extremely beneficial to support colon health conditions. In some cases, this is absolutely correct. Many herbs are healthful to the body. Unfortunately, some herbs are not. The National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine has reported a number of dangerous, life threatening consequences that have resulted from taking laxatives containing herbal ingredients. Three common herbal colon cleanser and laxative ingredients in particular, psyllium, cascara sagrada, and senna, may present very serious health risks and major medical complications such as hepatitis and liver failure.

The Indian capital, New Delhi has declared a medical emergency as smog continue to blanket the densely populated city. Since Tuesday, India has recorded air quality readings in excess of 960. This is as World Health Organization (WHO) caps air purity at 25 with any reading beyond it considered unsafe.

A situation that has cut off many necessary daily activities to the 18 million plus residents as visibility and breathing in the heavily polluted air is hard. According to a report by Cable news network (CNN), a government minister in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Mahesh Sharma has blamed the unusually high pollution levels on a lack of wind and change in humidity levels.

Against a backdrop of online criticism on the slow pace of reaction, the government has introduced a host of measures to un-choke the city. It began will a closure of all schools, ban of crop burning in Delhi and surrounding states, vehicle emissions limited to only public transport and now a total on the entry of trucks and construction activities.

American news outlet, New York times in an article 'In India, Air So Dirty Your Head Hurts' says, most people feel nauseated all day, like from a never-ending case of car sickness. It further adds that the air tastes smoky and irritates the throat, and in some neighborhoods, it smells like paint.

Like any other 10-month-old, Luis Manuel Gonzales babbles and touches anything within reach. But he stands out in a stunning and perhaps life-threatening way: he weighs 28 kilos (62 pounds).

He might need medical treatment costing a fortune, but his father earns a little over $200 a month. And doctors do not yet know why young Luis Manuel is so huge.

Mexico leads the world in childhood obesity and diabetes, and Gonzales is an extreme example of this unwelcome distinction.

At birth he weighed 3.5 kilos, about the same as his brother Mario, who is almost three but is now dwarfed by his baby brother.

At two months of age, Luis weighed 10 kilos. Over the next eight months he gained a staggering 18 kilos.

"I thought it was because I had good breast milk," said his mother, 24-year-old Isabel Pantoja, speaking in the unpainted cement home where the family lives in Tecoman, in the Pacific coast state of Colima.

His parents created a Facebook page and opened a bank account for people to donate money for Luis Manuel's medical care.

They take turns pushing him to the hospital in a decrepit stroller for daily blood tests.

It hurts to watch the nurses search among the rolls of fat on his arms for a vein, said his father, Mario Gonzales.

California has banned farmers from using certain pesticides near schools and day care centers under a new rule announced Tuesday that regulators said is among the toughest in the U.S.

Under the new rule, California farmers will be prohibited from spraying pesticides within a quarter mile (0.4 kilometers) of public K-12 schools and licensed daycare centers from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the school week, the state Department of Pesticide Regulation said in a statement.

The new regulations take effect Jan. 1 and apply to crop dusters flying over fields, air blasters spraying orchards and fumigants along with most dust and powder pesticides that could be blown onto school grounds by the wind.

The New York Times is now confirming that Natural News has been right all along about the real cause of mumps outbreaks in America. In a bombshell article entitled, "Mumps Makes a Comeback, Even Among the Vaccinated," the NYT admits that vaccinated children are spreading mumps.

Most of the recent cases occurred in outbreaks, including a large one in Arkansas, rather than as a sporadic here-a-case, there-a-case disease. And most of the outbreaks were among people 18 to 22 years old, most of whom had had the requisite two doses of mumps vaccine in childhood. "We are seeing it in a young and highly vaccinated population," Dr. Routh said.

At least 143 people have died and 2,000 have been infected since the outbreak began in early August.

Nine surrounding African countries were previously told to brace for the disease.

They include South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania Kenya, Ethiopia, Comoros, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion.

If you've been toying with the idea of intermittent fasting, there are plenty of good reasons to give it a try.

The diet, which involves alternating long periods of fasting with regular eating, has a proven track record for weight loss. But that's not all. More and more, research is showing that intermittent fasting can have positive effects throughout the body.

How exactly does it work? There are a few different types of fasting diets out there. Time-restricted eating involves fasting for a period of 12 to 16 hours each day, like stopping eating completely at 6 PM and not eating again until 10 AM the next morning. (Here's what happened when one woman tried this intermittent fasting method for a week.) The other, 5:2 fasting, involves eating 500 calories for two non-consecutive days of the week and eating normally for the rest of the week.

Experts can't say for sure which style of intermittent fasting yields the biggest benefits. So if you're considering giving it a try, pick the fasting type that seems like it would work best for your lifestyle. Then, get ready to reap the rewards-from your head to your toes.

A recent article in the New York Times about a study published last month in The Lancet, perhaps the most prestigious medical journal in the world, is no doubt creating a stir in the conventional-cardiology world. The headline was "Unbelievable": Heart Stents Fail to Ease Chest Pain. The study was actually the second of two very interesting studies published by The Lancet, both of which seriously challenge core beliefs and practices in modern cardiology. It was conducted in England, where, for the first time, the authors compared the chest pain of patients who had stents placed compared to those who had a dummy procedure, in which catheters were inserted but stents were not placed.

Studies ⁽¹⁾ have already shown that stents and bypasses don't prevent future heart attacks or increase longevity. To the shock of many cardiologists who commented on the study, there was no difference in outcome of those who had the stent compared with those who had the dummy procedure. This result means the final claim made by stent proponents - symptom control - also turns out to be untrue. At this point, it is hard to understand the rationale for the use of stents in any condition except, possibly, in the acute treatment of an ongoing heart attack involving the proximal part of the left anterior descending coronary artery, which, cardiologists say, improves the outcome.

While many cardiologists expressed surprise and even dismay at the results, for those of you who have followed my writings on the cause and treatment of angina and heart attacks, this finding will come as no surprise. Many factors other than lesions in the coronary arteries lead people to suffer from heart disease. Until cardiologists learn to look at the imbalance in the autonomic nervous system, the microcirculation and the build-up of lactic acid in the heart cells, no resolution of our heart-disease epidemic will be found. Unfortunately, a safe and effective medicine that addresses these factors, strophanthus/ouabain, is sadly overlooked and forgotten in conventional cardiology circles

Sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing all over the globe. Public health departments report staggering increases in cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis with more than 2 million cases recorded in 2016. Gonorrhea is reaching antibiotic-resistant superbug status, chlamydia is evolving into new strains and oral HPV cases among men have surpassed cases of HPV caused cervical cancer.

On this episode of The Health and Wellness Show we'll take a look at the precipitous rise in STDs and its correlation to pornography, dating apps, the hookup culture and the general moral degradation of society. Is the spread of STDs just a symptom of the collapse of civilization?

And stay tuned at the end of the show where Zoya's Pet Health Segment will lighten the mood with interesting facts about octopuses.

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