Electronic cigarettes: how to help kids quit

Generally touted as a “harmless pleasure,” electronic cigarettes are very successful among teenagers, partly because the many flavors available make them seem very smart. But recent studies indicate that this way of smoking also carries risks and quitting is not as easy as one might believe, especially for teens. In fact, the nicotine they contain is addictive, and most pharmacological supports to break the habit are not suitable for the under-18s. A’
analysis of the problem
and possible solutions.

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Are you protecting your eyes?

Sight is the most valuable asset. And those who suffer from common vision disorders, such as myopia or presbyopia, or the annoying and increasingly common dry eye syndrome know that

Sports injuries: how to avoid them

Despite recurring rains and unpredictable temperature changes, with the arrival of warm weather almost all of us feel a renewed urge to exercise in the gym, pool and, most importantly,

Inadequate nutrition?

A proper diet that is complete in terms of the nutritional components of foods, with the right levels of sugars, and based on non-harmful products will ensure proper daily energy.

Weather enemy of joints: how to react

In the middle of winter, after months of thunderstorms incessant and flooding that seriously damaged many parts of Italy, suffer some new-onset joint pain or see worsening of the symptoms

Cancers: what are the established risk factors?

Tumors in recent years are talked about a lot: both because, Unfortunately, they are diseases that affect millions of people; both because, fortunately, biomedical research makes continuous progress in the

What our body is trying to tell us.

Our body sends us constant signals. Here’s how to be sure we are interpreting them and reacting correctly.

Knowing body language to communicate better

A gesture is worth a thousand words. Often, this wise popular saying also applies when it comes to communicating with other people, sometimes even without our knowledge and not always

Mask, so many problems…

In all cases, there is no shortage of those inconveniences caused by wearing a mask such as more difficult verbal communication, or coping with annoying condensation that clouds the lenses

Itchy eyes

Doctors and teachers once recommended to children that the eyes should not be crinkled with the hands but rather with the elbows, to emphasize the concept that theeye should be

Anti Covid-19 thermoscanner

It is one of the items that came to the fore as a result of the Covid 19 outbreak, the remote thermoscanner, this kind of thermometer in the shape of

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