HEALTH

Everyone wants to be healthy, but how exactly to achieve this is a question to which are dedicated countless books, wisdom quotes, articles in magazines and websites, disputes, scandals, theories and fantastic amounts of money. But even if sometimes you feel not only lost in the sea of information (is alcohol in moderate amounts beneficial or is any drop of it harmful? why do you suffer from a high blood pressure while you are still 30 and your weight is okay?), but also that modern medicine is underperforming, then stop and have a thorough thought. Is this really so?

Constant staring at the screens of smartphones, computers and TV, polluted air, driving, age, tobacco smoke, air conditioning: modern life abounds with factors provoking the appearance of the "dry eye" syndrome. The artificial tear eye-drops are the most common way for treatment of the condition, but by far not all drops are created equal. In some the effect diminishes after a long period of treatment or leaves you with the feeling that your eyes are drier than before the product's use.

It doesn't matter whether you are pregnant for the first or the third time: the joy of caring inside yourself a new life is the same, and so are the dreams about the future. The fears about the health of your unborn child are the same, as well as is your desire to give him or her the best long before he or she is introduced to the world.

Heart is the first functioning organ formed in the human embryo – it appears at the fourth week after conception and from then on, it never ceases to beat, marking each step and each important event of the life of its owner. We cannot live without a heart – it makes us blood to flow in our veins, delivering oxygen to each part of organism, taking away the carbon dioxide produced by the life processes. People have felt how important heart long ago, in the past when words like oxygen and carbon dioxide were still not coined.

Having beautiful smile is one of nature's great gifts – it makes its owner to appear better, cleaner and more confident to the others. For centuries, white healthy smile was the privilege of people with good genes.

Having a pet is one of the great joys of life. Be it a dog, a cat, a parrot, a guinea pig or something else, it becomes equal member of the family or a beloved and needed companion in the single household. Their antics, quirks and peculiarities make us smile and we are eager to share these with our friends and relatives. Their presence soothes in dark times and the trust and unconditional love we see in their eyes are sometimes enough to lift our mood. They grow up with us, they teach our children care and responsibility, they forge strong memories in our lives.

Arthritis, broken bones and deep cuts, heavy traumas in a range of situations: in our lives no one is insured that he wouldn't end up at the office of a specialist in orthopaedics and traumatology. Dangers lurk everywhere: from the fact that we are getting older and this affects our musculoskeletal system, to an accident where you find yourself at the wrong time on the wrong place, to the seemingly harmless, but actually deeply consequential work in front of a computer.