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What Helps Keep the Skin & Eyes Healthy?

Though your skin and eyes serve different functions, they are similar in that they are both sensory organs that are exposed to ultraviolet radiation and its potentially damaging effects. Certain common nutrients can keep both your skin and your eyes stay healthy and resilient to everyday stresses. These nutrients may be found in some of the foods you might already eat on a regular basis or in foods you may wish to add to your diet.

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How to Strengthen Feet Insteps

The instep is the arched part of your foot that starts at the base of your toes and ends at your heel. This area of the foot contains numerous bones arranged in a series of three arches. Strengthening the insteps requires stren...

Dilated Eyes When Exercising

Assuming you're not exercising in the dark, some other factor is at play if your pupils are dilated during a workout. Dilated pupils should be low on your list of worries unless they're accompanied by other symptoms, but taking...

Eyelid Flickering & Potassium Iodine

As a food supplement, the tablets serve as sources of the essential minerals potassium and iodine. The potassium and iodine in the tablets have an effect on your eyes and eyelids and could potentially help reduce eyelid flicker...

Spinal Lacerations & Yoga

A spinal cord laceration is a type of spinal injury that occurs as a result of traumatic external forces, such as a wound or whiplash injury. The spinal cord plays a crucial role in the relaying of information between your orga...

Corneal Laceration & Swimming

Corneal lacerations are a type of eye injury that occur when your cornea becomes scratched. Although it’s possible to receive a corneal laceration while swimming, most cases occur as a result of contact with dry foreign o...

Strange Sensations in the Left Arm After Taking B12

Most people get more than enough vitamin B-12 in their diets. It’s found in animal-derived foods, such as milk, yogurt, cheese, beef, eggs and fish, and in most fortified breakfast cereals. But there’s always the po...

Do Digestive Enzymes Help Dry Eyes?

Dry eyes are a fairly common affliction resulting from the eye’s inability to produce adequate moisture. Although digestive enzymes are not usually obviously considered to be directly related to dry eyes or dry eyes treat...

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