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The Effects that Happens When You Lose The Weight

August 21st, 2011 admin
Weight Loss Effetcs

The Effects that Happens When You Lose Weight. Weight-loss program will have implications for the physiological. There are at least four effects that are often experienced by people today lose weight. Sometimes people feel fantastic when I discovered his weight is reduced, but there is also a feeling miserable or commonly referred to as weight-loss backlash due to physiological and psychological side effects.

1. Remove toxins
Based on research published in the International Journal of Obesity, environmental pollution is trapped in the fat cells are released into the bloodstream when a person’s weight is reduced. The experts said the condition is the same as releasing toxins from the body.

2. Feeling lethargic and irritable
If someone is eating foods low in calories and not eating fruits rich in antioxidants, it will increase the feeling lethargic, weak, headaches and irritability that commonly arise during weight loss.

3. Hunger hormone will increase
When people lose weight then the levels of hunger hormone (Ghrelin) will increase. An effective strategy is to have a regular eating schedule so that helps train the body to regulate appetite, eating foods with vegetable fat and rich in fiber which helps to feel full longer and get enough sleep.

4. Have a high emotional level
When starting a healthy eating program, will usually experience a high emotional content that can make someone give up easily if you do not have a strong determination. Changes is difficult, but keep thinking about the reasons why you should do this.

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Bad Habits for Health

August 8th, 2011 admin
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bad habits

bad habits

Bad Habits for Health. Favorite activity can make you happier, but not as if the hobby is an activity such as eating junk food, working until late at night and interact with the media. Not only affects the physical health but also the mental condition will also experience interference. It may cause some syndromes.

Research carried out Rotheram-Borus shows, consumption of fast food intake can provide about 1,000 calories more than he should. While excessive exposure to media, either by reading magazines, tabloids and catalogs as well as the use of cell phones, computers and gadgets, can make a normal interaction with others on the wane. Plus, to meet both these needs, people tend to work long hours and willing to be a commuter in order to get a larger income.

In order to better quality of life is worth returning to the tradition of eating at home. Consider your food intake, choose healthy foods, and keep unhealthy foods from your refrigerator. In addition, you also need to balance life by reducing overtime and spend more time to those nearby and families.

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Foods for Eye Care

July 19th, 2011 admin
Foods for Eye Care

Foods for Eye Care

Food for the Eye Care. You can intake this ten types of food every day. Adjust your diet, and give attention to the eye by keeping the intake of nutrients.

1. Carrots
Carrots are rich in beta carotene. Beta carotene is converted by the body into vitamin A which plays an important role for the eyes. Carrots can also help the body to release free radicals.

2. Avocado
Avocados are nutrient dense proven. These foods are also good for the eyes. Moreover, avocados contain more lutein than any other fruit. Lutein is important for preventing macular degeneration (a decrease in visual acuity) and cataracts. Avocados are also an important source of nutrients for the eye such as vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and vitamin E.

3. Broccoli
This vegetable is rich in vitamins and nutrients needed eye, such as vitamin C, calcium, lutein, zeaxanthin, and sulforaphane. Apparently the greens are not only able to prevent breast cancer and as an antioxidant. Entering the broccoli in the daily menu can also nourish the eyes.

4. Eggs
Eggs are rich in nutrients for eye health care, such as vitamin A, zinc, lutein, lecithin, B12, vitamin D, and cysteine. Besides it can meet the daily intake of protein, eggs are also good nourish your eyes.

5. Spinach
Vitamin A is good for the eyes can also be obtained from spinach. Beside rich in vitamin A, spinach also contains nutrients that are good for the eyes such as lutein and zeaxathin.

6. Cabbage
Vegetables that one is not recommended for ulcer patients because of high gas content. But to treat the eye, cabbage well and contain the same nutrients as spinach.

7. Tomatoes
Tomatoes are good for skin health, but also have many benefits for the eyes. Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C and lycopene, two nutrients that are vital to the eye.

8. Sunflower seeds
Sunflower seeds contain selenium, a nutrient that can prevent cataracts and eye health in general.

9. Garlic
Garlic contains selenium and other nutrients that are good for the eyes, such as vitamin C and quercetin. Despite the sharp scent, garlic has many benefits for the organ, not only effective in preventing stroke for example.

10. Salmon
Omega 3 contained in the real salmon is also good for eye health. Salmon also contains folic acid, vitamin D, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and vitamin A.

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Exercise That Can Be Done at the Office Desk

July 13th, 2011 admin
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exercise at office

Exercise that can be done at the Office Desk for your health and to avoid any syndrome. Most people claim to not have time to exercise. Though there are always opportunities to move and create a workout anywhere including around the desk. The most common complaints expressed office workers are busy working so have less time for exercise. If time is known as the biggest obstacle to exercise, then as much as possible create the sidelines of sporting activity.

Here are five exercises that can be done in the office but still effective and enjoyable:

1. Office chair squat
Start with standing upright with shoulders back and lift your toes slightly lifted upwards with the heel still touches the floor. While keeping your back perfectly straight, lower your buttocks up to 1 inch (2.54 cm) approached the chair and hold this position for 10 seconds. This simple exercise can be one of the effective movement to strengthen the body. But remember to keep the knee is not too close to the toes to the knee joint is not stressed, and buttocks muscles should be who first raised when trying to back up.

2. Press Desk
This exercise will strengthen the upper and middle body. The position of the body stood a few inches away from the table, and create a position such as push-ups stood up and lean your upper body forward with his elbows are at a 90 degree angle and his hand stuck to the table. Hold that position while advancing one knee in turn followed by 5 push ups. Repeat up to 3-4 repetitions.

3. Business flight
These exercises target the body part is usually irritated when working at the table, especially the hamstrings and mid-back. Begin by standing and bending forward while standing on one foot with the hips as the center, and the other leg is pulled back so the chest position parallel to the floor. Hold this position for 3 seconds then return to starting position. Perform this exercise for 1 minute before switching to other leg and repeat.

4. Victory
Use this exercise to help align and activate the body’s center as well as the muscles that are important for body posture. Start with a perfect sitting position, breathing, lengthen or straighten the spine with the legs slightly parted. Hold this position chest leaning forward with your arms straight up as if to push the object on the head.

5. Office hip hiker
This exercise can give a little help on the lower back. Begin by sitting up straight, then lift one foot like a tiptoe and then return to starting position and repeat for other side. Then do the movement with your hips shake from side to side for 30 seconds.

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Note the Calories from Drinks When On Diet

June 25th, 2011 admin
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calories

Note the calories from drinks when on diet should be a consideration. When on a diet usually people focus more counting calories from food, but drinks also contain calories consumed. To note that the calorie intake from beverages. Beverages are generally consumed during the diet and often contain calories is the milk and fruit juice, but many people do not realize the calorie content of the drink.

Although milk and juice have many important nutrients and become part of a healthy diet, but both have calories as well as from food. As a general rule, adults should not drink more than 118 mL of juice per day and for the milk of 473-710 mL. And a better selection of drinks is water.

If the stomach is not quite full, so snacks of fruit and vegetables fresher for helping with. Fruits and vegetables will be much more filling than juice and contain fewer calories. In addition to a diet program can be run successfully and healthy, then there are 5 strategies that can be done as follows:

1. Has a strong commitment
To lose weight takes time, effort and commitment of a lifetime. To make sure that you are ready to make some permanent changes and manage them well.

2. Find motivation from within
In order for a diet that could be successful it must be done to please yourself. Therefore find a strong motivation from within that drives you to keep running the program.

3. Make realistic goals
Make a realistic goal in losing weight is about 0.5 to 1 kg per week. If targets are too high and could not be accomplished demoralized that can derail a diet program.

4. Enjoy healthy foods consumed
One way to reduce calorie intake is by eating more plant foods. Try not to release the flavor of the food so as not to lose your appetite and still enjoy healthy food that is consumed.

5. Stay active in sports
One key to losing weight is to burn calories to reduce fat accumulation in the body. For that find favorite sport and try to make variations not to get bored. Besides losing weight, exercise is also beneficial to health.

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Gastritis (Upper Abdominal Syndrome)

June 7th, 2011 admin
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gastritis

Sometimes when in a state of distress, we feel a stomach ache. The emergence of disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and become quite frequently complained of health problems in society. Diseases that arise in the gastrointestinal tract, other than due to organic factors (structural abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract, infection) was 40-60% is a functional syndrome. Patients may experience indigestion, although the causes and mechanisms of the disorder is certainly not known for certain, but the disorder is influenced by psychological factors. gastritis (upper abdominal syndrome) is a syndrome of functional gastrointestinal disorders such.

Upper gastrointestinal disorders that are generally known as a disease “ulcer” is a gastrointestinal disorder that is often complained. Besides caused by organic factors such as the existence of injury / inflammation of the upper gastrointestinal tract (stomach), this disorder is also associated with underlying psychological factors. This disorder is characterized among others by the presence of pain and / or a feeling of fullness in the epigastrium (pit of the stomach), right or left under the arch ribs.

The pain is burning or vague, not infrequently spread, its intensity was moderate in intensity because of food or immediately after meals, had nothing to do with certain events. Other symptoms that arise include swallowing disorders, burp, pirosis (feel burning and taste sour or bitter), nausea and vomiting, bloating (meteorismus), and others.

Gastritis patients usually show a fairly significant change in the attitude of depression. Often people blame the environment or food, but it turns out with the diet (food) also did not reduce the pain. They have dreams to be treated, pampered, and to have the desired object, so they are hard to find the satisfaction she needed. Delicate balance that is easy to be collapsed can be seen when patients have complaints of the gastrointestinal tract and apparent dependence on the object of the spoil.

But people are afraid depends on the people who control and dependence is felt as an insult. The fear of dependence, and humiliation cause aggressive attitude towards them, which can provide satisfaction. The emergence of depression in patients with gastritis because they evade aggression that arises so as not to lose the object to spoil, and this creates a feeling of guilt (guild) who perceived themselves as something very bad.

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Women prone to Broken Heart Syndrome

June 3rd, 2011 admin
Broken Heart

Broken Heart

Women prone to broken heart syndrome. This syndrome is usually more often experienced by women who are experiencing a stressful or sad events, such as loss of spouse, which temporarily weakened heart muscle and blood vessels can not respond normally Syndrome was originally known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy, but now there are some terms indicate this condition such as stress cardiomyipathy or apical balloon syndrome.

Broken heart syndrome usually occurs after a person especially women experiencing a stressful or sad events, such as loss of a spouse, a frightening medical diagnosis, lost a lot of money or psychological factors such as stress. But until now the exact cause is not known with certainty.

Symptoms that arise are usually similar to a heart attack such as chest pain, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat and weak. But there is no blockage in the coronary arteries and no damage is permanent, so patients will recover within several weeks. This is the condition which distinguishes it from a heart attack.

Generally there are no guidelines in dealing with a broken heart syndrome. Care provided is similar to a heart attack until doctors get the right diagnosis. Most patients will remain in hospital until cured.

Women who experienced a broken heart syndrome have blood vessels that do not work optimally because of the stress hormone response that it receives. Blood vessels should be widened to allow more blood flow to the heart. But when a person experiences a stressful thing, shock or stress, the blood vessels become limited, thereby reducing the blood supply to the heart.

The researchers revealed the abnormal blood vessel responses to stress can contribute to triggering a broken heart syndrome. Until now there is no therapy that can prevent the occurrence of broken heart syndrome, but one thing that matters is someone should be able to manage stress in their lives well enough to reduce potential damage to the heart of stress hormones.

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Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (MAS) on Baby

June 2nd, 2011 admin

Meconium Aspiration Syndrome

Meconium Aspiration Syndrome

Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (MAS) on Baby will experience respiratory distress. Babies with MAS has trouble breathing, it will be a series of measures to cope with the baby‘s condition, such as by doing the cleaning of the respiratory tract and oxygen delivery. In a very severe condition, the baby may need a ventilator and monitoring in the NICU. Music therapy may support the baby recover on NICU.

No need to force the normal delivery. Natural or normal childbirth for many mothers are ideal. However, if the circumference of your pelvis is too small while the size of the baby is big enough, offer to give birth via cesarean section from your obstetrician should be considered. It’s for the safety of the baby for the birth process can be ascertained quickly running as planned, and minimize the occurrence of a long labor and risk of complications.

In fact, the equipment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in a number of maternity hospitals in big cities, not fully able to support the handling of cases of meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS). Therefore, if your pregnancy is overdue, or your obstetrician advised not to push yourself a natural childbirth, childbirth Caesar is wise choice.

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome

May 31st, 2011 admin

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable Bowel Syndrome / IBS is a condition that is relatively common among people aged 20 years and over. This is one of the most frequently diagnosed symptoms but the problem is people tend not to want to talk about it. Irritation Bowel Syndrome is characterized by frequent abdominal cramps, bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and constipation. This has caused much suffering and discomfort but will never cause the condition worse because it does not cause permanent damage to the patient.

Although there is a general pattern for most patients, still are the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome vary from patient to patient. Some may experience single symptoms such as constipation. Although so many people complain without cramping or pressure or slightly accompanied by expulsion of faeces. These people are experiencing along with the intestinal mucus spending them as well. Mucus is a form of lubricant that helps moisten the digestive tract to facilitate spending on materials that have been digested.

Some patients, on the other hand, have diarrhea, which is marked by the release of liquid feces and often uncontrollable. But some have constipation and diarrhea. However, the cessation of symptoms does not mean cessation of the syndrome. Many people find it more difficult to cope with irritable bowel syndrome after a few months since the syndrome to subside.

While many cases of this syndrome are routinely reported worldwide, there are still unknown cause to determine the appropriate treatment. Many researchers agree that this may have a relationship with the colon or large intestine is highly reactive to stress and certain food elements. Still others claim that this is largely influenced by the efficiency of the immune system.

People with this condition are known to have motility or bowel movements are not regular. This is referred to as spasmodic but other patients showed temporary stops bowel movements. IBS is often associated with bacterial infection found in the digestive tract. The researchers observed that people who already has particularly gastroenteritis have greater likelihood of IBS will also be developed.

In addition, it was found that IBS will heighten the vulnerability of anxiety and stress re-aggravate the condition. Similarly, many symptoms of IBS cause depression and anxiety. Other patients are projected to have a relationship with irritable bowel syndrome and celiac disease, namely the inability of someone to digest gluten. Gluten is a substance found in wheat, and flour that basically help in the coagulation of bread. Patients with celiac disease have immune systems that respond to gluten by damaging the small intestine. The existence of celiac disease along with IBS can be checked through blood tests.

However, for female patients, the findings indicate that many symptoms worsen during their menstrual period. Basically this is a ‘suspected cause of’ the general of the internal bowel movement. Group of scientific and medical communities are continually working on resolving the causes that make a decent treatment options to help alleviate the patient’s condition.

However, people have been practicing on a few things to help provide temporary treatment for irritable bowel syndrome. Many do this by avoiding foods that commonly cause symptoms reappear. Many activities are also advised to be avoided to limit the emergence of symptoms. Including a big meal, caffeine from tea, cola and chocolate, not drinking alcohol, and avoid wheat-based products.

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10 Types of Strange Diseases, Syndromes and Disorder

May 30th, 2011 admin

There are 10 Types of strange diseases, syndromes and disorder for human. In this world it spread many diseases, syndromes or disorders. Some of them, very unusual and strange. Most diseases and syndromes are caused by psychological factors. Diseases, syndromes and disorders may be suffered by relatives and friends. By knowing the disease and this syndrome, we can suggest to them to make a treatment or consultation.

1. Trichotillomania:
Is an impulse control disorder. Patients with this disorder are encouraged to pluck the hair on her own. For example, the hair on the head, nose or feet. The disorder is caused by abnormalities of serotonin and dopamine in the brain. Patients with this disorder do not realize what they are doing so, these disorders can be reduced by behavioral training (Habit Reversal Training).

2. Cotard’s Syndrome:
Patients with this syndrome often felt that he had died or basically not created in this world. Patients with this syndrome also can just feel that he was losing blood or organs in the body. Cotard’s syndrome is one of a rare neuropsychiatric disorder. Several studies have shown that this syndrome may arise due to suffering from depression. This syndrome is named after the inventor namely, Jules Cotard. In 1880, Jules Cotard highlight the case of one patient, who deny some members of his body (for example, he admitted that he did not recognize the body which is called by hand) and claimed that he did not need to eat.

3. Kleptomania:
This disease arises due to abnormalities of serotonin in the brain. Patients with this disease are generally female. Patients with this disease difficult to control yourself not to take the goods have other people or from the store. But this disease can be distinguished from ordinary thieves because she took goods are goods that are not valuable, such as paper clips, wipes, safety pins, etc., this disorder can be treated by Cognitive-behavioral therapy.

4. Stendhal Syndrome:
This disease causes sufferers experience headaches, heart palpitations and hallucinations when viewing art objects (especially the nice and big). The name of this disease is taken from the name of a French writer in the 19th century. In his book “Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio”, Stendhal reveals his experience when viewing objects of art in Florence. This disease was first studied by the Italian psychiatrist, Graziella Magherini, in 1979. He studied 100 people of foreign tourists who experience symptoms similar to Stendhal while visiting Florence.

5. Exploding Head Syndrome:
Patients with this disorder feel the emergence of a loud noise or explosion from inside his head. These feelings can lead to fear or makes sufferers lose consciousness. This disease affects more women. Although its cause is unknown, the disease is thought to arise due to stress and fatigue.

6. Capgras Delusion:
This disease causes the sufferer to feel that some members of his family have been replaced by others who resemble them. These symptoms are common in patients with schizophrenia, drug users, former patients stokes or people who have suffered brain injury. This disease makes people reluctant to get along with family members who are suspected. The disease was first observed by Joseph Capgras and Reboul-Lachaux in 1923.

7. Pica:
The disease is encouraging sufferers to eat things that are generally not considered to be food such as soil, stones, chalk, paper, matches, etc.. People with pica are also encouraged to consume materials that are still raw food makers such as flour, raw onions, etc.. Some experts suspect that, Pica caused by the deficiency of certain minerals, however, this allegation can not be proven strong.

8. Genital retraction syndrome:
This syndrome causes the sufferer into a panic. Men with this disease feel that his penis shrank and eventually disappeared due to entry into the hip. Women with this syndrome will feel that her breasts shrank and gradually became flat. Some people even feel that he has become a victim of witchcraft or sorcery.

9.Stockholm syndrome:
This syndrome usually suffered by victims hostage. Instead of revenge against the perpetrator, the victim actually be loyal to the perpetrator. The experience of emotional bond with the perpetrator and often tried to protect the perpetrator of the attack apparatus. This syndrome is also often suffered by victims of rape, kidnapping or child victims of sexual violence. This syndrome was first observed on the victim hostage in a bank in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1973. After six days of captivity, the victim turned instead to defend the perpetrator.

10.Jerusalem Syndrome:
This syndrome is one type of religious psychosis that appeared after visiting Jerusalem. Patients with this syndrome feels that he is a prophet sent by god. As a result, they try to preach their teachings are claimed to come from god. They often accuse others as sinners who should do the conversion with their guidance. This syndrome usually appears after a few weeks left Jerusalem.

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