According to dental experts, using alcohol-free mouthwash after brushing and flossing is an excellent third step in your daily oral care routine. New Dentyl Active alcohol-free mouthwash is recommended by dental professionals, gives visible results and is clinically proven to help prevent bad breath for up to 18 hours. Dentyl Active has an anti-bacterial action [...]
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Complete women
Painful periods affect many women and for some women the discomfort makes it difficult to perform normal every day activities. Painful menstruation is one of the leading causes of days off work and school for women in their teens and twenties. Here are a few tips that could relieve some of the discomfort Use a [...]
What’s new – Slow-Mag smaller sizes
Slow-Mag® is the number one selling magnesium supplement in South Africa1, and has become an essential supplement for those suffering from cramps and physically active people. It also offers support to those going through periods of physical and mental stress. In response to market demand, Merck South Africa has launched pocket-sized Slow-Mag® Capsules and Slow-Mag® [...]
Nutrition for Optimal Digestive Health
Introduction Digestive health can change over your lifetime, depending how healthy your overall habits are, your age and your genetic make-up. Understanding how to maintain you digestive health is not only empowering to know for your day to day comfort, but can reduce your overall risk for lifestyle diseases. This article discusses how the digestive [...]
Antioxidants-Free Radical Scavengers
The terms ‘antioxidant’ and ‘free radical’ are used prolifically with reference to supplements, health foods and fresh produce, but how many people actually know what they mean? By definition, the prefix ‘anti’ indicates that antioxidants work in opposition to the effects of oxidation. And by-products of this oxidation process are commonly known as free radicals. [...]
Glaucoma – leading cause of irreversable blindness
Glaucoma is the world’s leading cause of irreversible blindness, yet few sufferers are aware that they have the disease. What makes this condition difficult to detect is the lack of any early warning signs or symptoms. Once the first visible symptoms occur, there is already serious damage done to the eyes’ optic nerves. Glaucoma definition [...]
Childhood Immunisation
Vaccination is one of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine. No other medical intervention has done more to save lives and improve the quality of life. Because of vaccination, smallpox is no longer seen and polio is heading towards eradication. No wonder vaccination is considered a modern miracle. Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system to [...]
Hair Colourants
Henna was first used as a hair colourant around 3 500BC and the use of hair colour has increased so much that nowadays just about everybody does it. The motivation to colour is to enhance the natural colour of a person’s hair, change the colour to your liking or to hide the grey hairs that [...]
Blackheads & Acne
The skin, as the largest of all the body organs, weighs about 2,7kg and forms a protective barrier against infections. It plays an important role in maintaining a constant body temperature. Besides all the functions of the skin, it also plays an important role in our physical appearance and attractiveness! Blackheads and other disorders of [...]
Depression
Depression is a very common, debilitating, life-threatening and often chronic medical disease. Research has shown that 15% of severely depressed people will ultimately commit suicide. Depression is classified as a mood disorder Mood disorders are defined by the presence of mood episodes (which can either be major depressive, manic, mixed, hypomanic mood episodes).These mood episodes [...]
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