Does Your Son Have Man Boobs?

Do you have a teenage son with man boobs? It's amazing how hormones can wreck your kid's self-esteem.
This is condition is incredibly distressing for a young man. There is a ton of information on the internet about this information and some of it is quite bogus. For instance when I started looking for how to fix this I kept seeing all these humiliating ads about herbs for mambos. Just so you guys and moms out there know –there is not a single herb or supplement that you can take that will help you lose this excess breast tissue!
The fastest way to get rid of this problem is to just go to the doctor and him why your son might these inappropriate feminine characteristics in the first place. Most of the time the problem is caused by some kind of hormone imbalance. Usually there is too much testosterone being produced and this in turn produces a compensating amount of estrogen to be produced as well. The doctor may prescribe hormones to try and help reduce the tissue that is growing in the chest area. Teenage boys are most certainly the most vulnerable to all of this.
However as you may have guessed taking hormones may not be the quickest way to get rid of growing man breasts. The human body needs time to heal. The very quickest way to lose man breasts probably is to get prescribed hormones but they won't produce a miracle. No amount of wishful thinking by buying into bogus solutions is going to do it either. Basically you can conclude that when it comes to how to lose man breasts fast there is no quick way to do it.
Doctors say that aerobic exercise can . It is the fastest way to increase the metabolism and work off any calorie excesses that might be causing eextra chest fat on ythe r rib cage.
Your doctor may recommend certain medications or hormone injections to try and encourage the breasts to disappear alone. However the main treatment for male boobs is to get on a diet that encourages physical fitness and to lose weight through working out.
You should also not expect there to be miracles overnight. It means getting your kid up off the couch. It is important that you work let him work out at his own pace and be patient. Working out too much may even make the problem worse by stimulating unnecessary hormonal activity. Be practical and persistent and the weight will come right off and with it the excess chest fat.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Flu

There is a lot of information out there about the plague but we forget that during this time of year other flus exist as well. There are so many types that it can get confusing. I thought you moms out there might appreciate this primer on the flu bug itself.
In terms of classification of the various different types of virus that we have so far isolated, influenza is what is known as an RNA virus, meaning that the virus itself is primarily made up of different variations of ribonucleic acid. Because there are different forms of RNA at the ‘core' of the influenza virus, there are three different classifications:
• Influenza virus A;
• Influenza virus B;
• Influenza virus C.
Influenza virus A is the one that causes the most severe disease as it is an extremely virulent human pathogen. A huge variety of influenza virus A strains are naturally hosted by wild aquatic birds, and the genus is subdivided into many different individual strains, with all known flu pandemics having been caused by a variation of the influenza virus A genus.
Each variation of the virus A genus is identified by its reaction to antibodies, and many variations are seen more than once in a slightly modified form.
For example, the H1N1 ‘swine flu' variety that was first identified in early 2009 was in fact a variation of the same strain as that which caused the infamous Spanish flu outbreak in 1918 that was notable for killing millions of otherwise healthy young adults all over the world. The Asian flu pandemic that originated in China in 1956 was H2N2, whereas the Hong Kong flu pandemic of the late 1960s was the H3N2 strain of the virus A genus.
Unlike the virus A genus, influenza virus B is almost exclusively limited to humans, meaning that there is no relationship between the infection and birds and pigs as there is with the virus A genus. Because there is little inter-reaction between the flu viruses carried by humans and other creatures, virus B influenza very rarely evolves or mutates, meaning that most people develop a degree of immunity to this particular form of influenza at a relatively young age.
Influenza virus C does however have the ability to cross from humans to animals (and vice versa), specifically to and from dogs and pigs. Consequently, virus C variants can cause serious illness and also local epidemics, although the only influenza genus that is known to have the ability to become a pandemic are variations of the A genus.
For reasons that are not fully understood, the most common forms of flu tend to be seasonal, with most people suffering ‘ordinary' seasonal influenza during the winter months. Despite what you may have heard this type of flu is actually more virulent than other forms, including the bird flu!!!

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