1 Vitamin B6 helps to reduce pain and is found in high concentrations in bananas, lentils, chickpeas, oatmeal, lean beef, and chicken breast. 2  Zinc has been shown to reduce premenstrual pain and bloating and is found in oysters, red meat, and poultry. 3  Magnesium deficiency can worsen menstrual cramps.
The Perseid meteor shower, one of the brighter meteor showers of the year, occurs every year between July 17 and August 24. The shower tends to peak around August 9-13. The best time to view the Perseids, and most other meteor showers, is when the sky is the darkest.
A meteor streaking across the sky during the Perseid meteor shower early on Wednesday morning near Kraljevine, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A harmonic convergence of cosmic dust, lunar phase and fair weather on Wednesday is shaping up to make the Perseid meteor shower this year the most spectacular since at least 2008.