55 Ways to be Healthier and Happier Now

1. Do something nice for someone. 2. Affirm that you are a wonderful, beautiful person. 3. Breathe in the invigorating scent of natural peppermint oil. 4. Brush and floss your teeth. 5. Chew your food well. 6. Choose comfortable shoes over heels that...

8 Natural Beauty Savers

While we turn to our bathrooms and dressers for our daily beauty fix, most of what we need can be found in our pantry shelves. While you probably won’t substitute your entire beauty regimen, these are some natural beauty savers to keep at home for healthier...

3 Vinegar Uses for the Hair

Aside from being a kitchen essential and a worker of small miracles in the bathroom, vinegar is also a dynamo in the beauty department. Applied externally, vinegar has long been used to make hair silky and lustrous. And contrary to intuition, it doesn’t...

British tourist with a torn aorta was revived

British tourist who came to Fethiye with his wife and son for a holiday suffered a traumatic aortic rupture, and was taken to Antalya An-Deva Life Heart Hospital with an air ambulance to have an operation. 53-year-old Kevin Killengray who works at Telecom...

Not medicine but a light sweet

For many of us, pekmez is no different than any cough syrup you might pick up at the pharmacy and, for younger generations in Turkey, it is what their mothers make them drink with milk when they are sick or is something they take by the teaspoon to grow...

Some mistakes we make when storing medicine

Did you know that not storing medicine properly can have serious repercussions? For example, you should not store medicine in your refrigerator, while dissolved effervescent tablets should not be used after more than two weeks. Not paying attention to...

7 Subtle Signs That You’re Healthy

1. Relatively Clear, Copious Urine If you’re peeing a few times a day and it’s pale yellow—not cloudy, dark, or super-concentrated—that means that you’re adequately hydrated and your kidneys are healthy. Completely colorless urine, however,...

How to get that shiny mane you’ve always wanted

Stress, illnesses, childbirth and certain medication can all take a temporary toll on your hair, causing it to thin and fall out. Muscular tension due to stress can affect our scalps and result in our hair follicles not feeding adequately off of our blood...

10 Ways to Clean with Lemon

Naturally Clean with Lemon Forget the cleaning products under your sink. You probably have a very powerful one right in your fridge: Lemon, which adds such welcome zest to food and cocktails, is also a mild but highly effective cleaning agent. What makes...

Pain Cures You Can Find in Your Kitchen

Make muscle pain a memory with ginger When Danish researchers asked achy people to jazz up their diets with ginger, it eased muscle and joint pain, swelling and stiffness for up to 63 percent of them within two months. Experts credit ginger’s potent...