3 Reasons to Take a Home Cholesterol Tes...

“Cholesterol” – the word these days brings to mind only negative associations. Yet cholesterol is needed to live, and a significant proportion of the cholesterol present in our bodies is manufactured by the liver in a perfectly functional fashion. Cholesterol is not always a scary bag of potato chips. Cholesterol is a fatty substance, a certain amount of which is required for hormone production and support of other cells. However, excessive cholesterol in the system can cause various ailments that may surprise you if you have not had your cholesterol...

7 Things You May Not Know About Your Hai...

Changing your haircut can change the way you look or add something new to your personality. Although there are about a million things you can do to your hair, the hair itself, in its color and texture, remains constant and is determined by your genes. Cells known as melanocytes that exist under the epidermis produce the melanin that finally decides the color of your hair. Here are 7 other facts about hair that you might find interesting. 1. The whole human body with the exception of the soles of the feet, palms, lips and mucous membranes are covered with hair. The growth,...

Answering Some Hair Drug Test Questions

You’ve just gotten back from the barber with a new look.  Your hair is gone – all gone.  Now the question is, you can’t be hair drug tested if you have no hair, can you? Well, actually, you CAN still be hair drug tested.  It just depends if the person getting the test got the right test for you. Any test produced by HairConfirm will accept body hair submissions.  Body hair grows more slowly than hair on your head, so the timeframe represented by a body hair submission is about one year.  That also means that it does not have the same starting point...

7 Things You Should Do To Protect Agains...

AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, as we all know today is caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). The moment one is infected with HIV the human body starts to fight the infection by producing specific antibodies. The HIV/AIDS tests that are performed in laboratories or the home HIV test looks for these antibodies to detect the presence of HIV in the system. While not everyone who is infected with HIV may start to show any symptoms, it is a known fact that the HIV/AIDS virus tires and weakens the immune system over time. Other viruses, fungi and bacteria...

5 Quick Facts about the Hair Follicle Dr...

Think fast! What do you want to know about hair drug testing? 1. It goes back 90 days. The standard detection period for hair drug testing is set by the lab. This goes for businesses sending in employees to be tested, and consumers sending in samples from their home hair drug test kits. Both labs used by Home Health Testing go back 90 days. 2. Yes, it works. Studies have shown that compared to urine drug testing, hair drug testing finds between 4 to 8 times the amount of users, in part because the detection period is so much longer. 3. It won’t make you bald.. ...

From Tricycles to Triglycerides: Kids W...

Childhood obesity is on everybody’s radar these days.  It is a pet issue of Michelle Obama’s, for example, and the subject of great concern for public health officials.  How did our lifestyles become so destructive to our children?  One alarming fact from Wikipedia – a study has shown that “Eating at fast food restaurants is very common among young people with 75% of 7th to 12th grade students consuming fast food in a given week.”  Wow! According to NPR, 20 percent of teenagers have high cholesterol.  The National Cholesterol Education...