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Hello and welcome to another issue of YDzine.

This month regular readers will notice we have made the newsletter more compact.

If you wish to read the longer version of the stories simply click on the ‘read more’ links at the end of each story.

Enjoy the festive season and have a safe new year!

YourDiagnosis SexualHealth

www.YourSexualDiagnosis.com is an computerized symptom analysis specifically for problems “down there”. Users remain completely anonymous while answering questions about their sexual health issues.

YourNetDoctor Goes Live

A new website joins the YourDiagnosis.com stable.

Called YourNetDoctor, this website lets users ask a Doctor a question. Unlike YourDiagnosis which uses a computerized system to evaluate your complete set of symptoms,

YourNetDoctor allows you to just come out and ask the Doctor a question about an area you need help to understand. Its one of the most private and easy ways you can contact a qualified doctor.

www.younetdoctor.com

What’s Your Cholesterol?

Are you one of the people who thinks, “I’ll worry about my cholesterol when I get older”. It’s important to know your cholesterol at any age, because research is finding that beginnings of artery disease can start even during childhood.

A study at the University at Buffalo in New York found signs of thickening in the coronary arteries of children as young as 7years old.

According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, high cholesterol is a leading cause of heart attacks and strokes.

You have probably heard about the importance of regular exercise and not eating too much fatty food which can help reduce cholesterol levels.

Even if you do these things and you are in your 20’s its still worth popping a long for a quick test just to make sure.

Starve a Fever, Feed a Cold?

Or is it feed a fever, starve a cold? At least that rhymes better! The point is neither of them is a good idea.

This old wives tale is based on the belief that food acts like fuel to your temperature.

The thinking is if you have caught a chill, you need to fan the flames, but if you have a fever, you need to remove the fuel to lower the blaze.

When your body is fighting infection, it needs a normal healthy diet, plenty of liquid, and rest.

Kiwifruit a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

There is something in kiwifruit which creates an anti-platelet effect although it is believed it worked in a different way to low doses of aspirin, a popular means of thinning the blood to reduce the risk of clots. Besides these new findings it is well know that kiwifruit are rich in healthy vitamins.

A NewZeland based kiwifruit company Zespri which supplied the kiwfruit for the study claimed kiwifruit contain twice as much vitamin C than an orange.

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