While there is no quick fix for lowering blood pressure, a variety of medications can reduce hypertension in relatively short order. The article will stress the importance of improving lifestyle habits with the long-term goal of eliminating medications.

Vinegar has many health benefits with some minor side effects. While side effects usually occur in harsher vinegars like while distilled vinegar or apple cider vinegar, they can also occur in mild vinegars like balsamic and red wine.

Many times your doctor will order a blood test and it will require that you fast before taking it. These could be, for example, a fasting glucose test to determine if you are a diabetic or it could be a test to measure cholesterol level. Eating or drinking can change the results of these tests and produce false positive or negative results. The amount of time you have to fast varies as does what you are not allowed to have, depending on the reason for the fast.

Skin tags are small growths of skin that can appear anywhere on the human body (and on animal bodies too). The growth is painless and essentially just an extra patch of skin. However, depending on where the skin tag is located, it can be a cosmetic issue and may be something you would like removed. Instead of paying for an expensive doctor visit you can actually remove the tag with nail polish.

Thrush mouth is a fungal (yeast) infection on the lining of your mouth. Symptoms are white lesions, resembling cottage cheese, on your tongue and cheeks that may be painful and bleed. It can be caused by steroids weakening your immune system, antibiotics or birth-control pills disrupting your body’s natural balance, or other immune system-weakening diseases.