Dizziness is not a disease, but a symptom of another condition. While it’s usually not serious and is often temporary, it helps to know what’s causing the problem. And by knowing what cause it you may know how to deal with it. The University of Michigan Health System lists these common causes of dizziness:

* An infection or other condition affecting the inner ear.
* Low blood sugar.
* Fatigue, stress or fever.
* Dehydration.
* Anemia.
* An injury to the head.
* A heart or circulatory condition.
* Stroke.
* A side effect of certain drugs or medications.

via medicinenet

A new study shows that in most jobs, obese employees take up to five more sick days each year this usually happen with women rather then men. The findings come from Cornell University researcher John Cawley, PhD, and colleagues, who analyzed U.S. data collected from 2000 to 2004 in a federal survey. In the survey, a nationally representative sample of Americans reported their weights, heights, and days of work missed due to illness or injury. Read more

Many teens deal with shyness, especially in their puberty period as their bodies change and they begin to feel more self-conscious. The Nemours Foundation offers these simple tips for how to overcoming shyness:

* Try being more open around people you already know, and practice conversing, making eye contact and asking questions.
* Smile, it will help build your confidence.
* If you need to make a call, give a speech or have a conversation that you are nervous about, write it down and rehearse it first. Read more

New studies by the Italian found that cooking vegetables may not reduce all of the nutrients in those veggies.

The University of Parma’s Nicoletta Pellegrini, PhD, and colleagues use freshly harvested vegetables such as carrots, zucchini, and broccoli at a local market. In their lab, the scientists measured levels of various antioxidants in the raw vegetables. Then they boiled, steamed, or fried the vegetables. Lastly, they measured antioxidant levels in the cooked vegetables. Read more

Ever since the 1930s, when researchers have speculated that our national appetite for salt is one reason asthma leaves more and more of us breathless. Thanks to recent study by Tim Mickleborough, Ph.D., a physiologist at Indiana University’s Department of Kinesiology, we are closer to knowing how the mechanism.

Mickleborough and his colleagues started with 24 young men and women with exercise-induced asthma. Half of them, twelve were put on a low-salt diet that allowed them no more than 3,750 mg of salt per day (that’s mean 1,600 mg sodium, salt being 40 percent sodium). The other half were put on a high-salt diet: they ate the same foods as the first group plus a daily capsule containing 10,000 mg of extra salt. The low-salt group were given placebo capsules. Government guidelines recommend no more than 2,300 mg of sodium per day about 1 teaspoon salt. Read more