A healthy blood pressure level can reduce your risk for many serious diseases and increase your longevity.
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Your Complete Guide to Being Well and Staying Healthy
Wellness
Back and Neck Care
Millions of Americans suffer from back pain every year. The reasons for the
pain are many, including bad posture, accidents, improper lifting, obesity,
and weak muscles. Practice prevention to minimize your risk for back
pain — get regular exercise, lose any excess weight, and learn good posture.
Outcome Improvement
Asthma Management
Are you all too familiar with the coughing and wheezing that remind you that you have asthma? Asthma can be a serious problem, but it doesn’t have to stop you in your tracks. With the help of your health care team, you can keep your asthma under control.
Your Family
Women's Health
Enjoy good health at every age: know your body and how it works, eat well and stay active, and follow a plan for disease prevention.
Health Tip of the Day
How Cigarettes Cause 'Smoker's Face'
Cigarette smoke and its component chemicals may damage your skin by:
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Causing elastin, the normally long, smooth and elastic fibers in skin, to thicken and break apart.
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Reducing blood circulation, thereby reducing oxygen supplies to the skin. This may reduce the body's ability to form collagen, the main structural component of the skin.
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Cutting estrogen levels in women, causing skin dryness and cracking.
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Reducing levels of vitamin A, causing premature wrinkling.
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Heating the skin.