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Cold sores are caused by the herpes simplex virus, a common and infectious virus which is usually contacted during childhood and hides in the nerve ganglia near where your cold sore usually appears. The virus can remain dormant for months or years without reappearing, until your body becomes unbalanced. Your natural body defenses keep the virus in check until your defenses drop because you may feel tired, upset or stressed; you resistance is lowered, you have a fever, overexposure to the sun or wind, or maybe you are menstruating, and suddenly you feel that familiar tingling sensation. This is when the virus is moving down your nerve fibers to the skin surface. Now you feel the tingling, itching, perhaps burning or drying sensations, lasting a few hours or a few days, to be followed by redness and swelling at the cold sore site; the virus is reproducing. Next is the appearance of clusters of small blisters that are painfully sensitive, followed by all the blisters joining to become one large open, weeping sore. This is the most painful and most contagious stage...

Ralph Waldo Emerson said: For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. I love this quote and imagine this idea synonymous with my mother s favorite saying, Bloom where you re planted. This has become her token saying and usual answer to my constant query: How will I know if I am following the perfect path for me. I guess I ve often wondered why, if I could live anywhere in the world London, Singapore, Manhattan I continue to have a romance with my small upstate hometown. The answer, after contemplating both motherly and transcendental wisdom, is simple: it holds me at the roots. No, I don t believe that it s necessarily your bloodline that forms your roots. Nor do I believe that it s a particular place or community. It is a place in your heart that speaks to you, and when you are there you know you re home. In my case, it is my genealogy I think of, however. Simply stated: It s the reason I stand where I am, right now. To be here, my great-grandmother lived for days in the bottom of a rickety old wooden boat. She left behind her family, her...

Yummy foods are usually tasty and loved by people of all ages. Though not all, majority of these yummy foods may actually pose some threats to our health. Here are 9 so called junk foods that are yummy yet high in calories and low in nutritional content; they do contain fats, especially trans fats. Cookies and candy The more the fat content, the more likely the cookie will contain trans fat. A typical chocolate chip cookie could contain nearly 0.5 g of trans fats. Breakfast food Apart from oats and Weetabix, most commercial brands of cereals contain trans fat. Fast food French fries are no doubt tasty for many people yet they are the worst offenders. A medium-size fries contains as high as 14 g of trans fat if it is fried in shortening or partially hydrogenated oils. Baked goods The fluffy texture and melt-in-mouth taste are mainly created by using a lot of trans fats. For example, 1 doughnut can provide about 5 g of trans fats and almost 5 g of saturated fat; cream-filled cookies have about 2 g of trans fat each. Chips and crackers Chips and crackers are crunchy...