Stroke, Penyebab Kematian Tertinggi

Dulu, banyak orang meninggal karena penyakit jantung. Penyakit yang tidak menular (PTM) ini pun dikenal sebagai pembunuh nomor satu di Indonesia. Kini, penyakit tidak menular yang menyebabkan kematian terbanyak adalah penyakit stroke. Diduga, gejala dan tanda-tanda penyakit jantung lebih mudah disadari masyarakat ketimbang stroke. "Tanpa banyak diketahui gejalanya, tiba-tiba orang bisa menjadi stroke," ujar spesialis syaraf dari PacHealth@ThePlaza dr Pukovisa Prawiroharjo saat ditemui dalam acara How to Boost Your Brain Power Through Exercise di Jakarta, Kamis (27/9/2012) lalu. Stroke adalah penyakit yang ditandai dengan kematian jaringan otak. Penyakit ini bisa terjadi akibat berkurangnya aliran darah dan oksigen ke otak karena adanya sumbatan, penyempitan, atau pecahnya pembuluh darah. Pukovisa mengatakan, sekarang ini stroke tidak hanya menyerang kelompok usia 55 - 64 tahun. Orang yang relatif lebih muda pun rentan stroke. Penyakit ini menyerang orang usia 18 tahun dengan persentase 1,7 orang dari 1.000 orang. Data Riskesdas 2007 menyebutkan, angka kematian akibat PTM meningkat dari 41,7% pada tahun 1995 menjadi 49,9% pada tahun 2001 dan 59,5% pada tahun 2007. Penyebab kematian tertinggi dari seluruh penyebab kematian adalah stroke (15,4%), disusul hipertensi, diabetes, kanker, dan penyakit paru obstruktif kronis. Di perkotaan, kematian akibat stroke pada kelompok usia 45-54 tahun sebesar 15,9%, sedangkan di perdesaan sebesar 11,5%. Hal tersebut menunjukkan stroke menyerang usia produktif. "Jadi, stroke itu bukan hanya penyakit orang tua saja. Buktinya, orang yang lebih muda pun bisa kena. Kenapa bisa begitu? Ini karena aliran darahnya ke otak terganggu yang disebabkan gaya hidup seperti merokok, makan tidak sehat, diet tidak sehat serta kurang istirahat," ujarnya. Pukovisa menambahkan, stroke memang lebih sulit dikenali karena itu orang disarankan untuk rajin melakukan cek otak dan jantungnya. Di samping itu, lanjutnya, agar menjaga aliran darah lancar sampai ke otak maka seseorang wajib menjaga pola makan, gaya hidup, serta rajin berolahraga.

Make sleep 9 hours Weight Down

Several studies have revealed that sleep deprivation can lead to obesity. Due to lack of sleep is associated with decreased levels of leptin (a hormone that controls body weight and metabolism) and increased levels of ghrelin (which plays a role in increasing appetite). Conversely, if you want to slim down you should sleep more and more regularly. The problem is, how much sleep do we need so that our weight to be down?
A study of 1088 pairs of twins found several genes that are associated with obesity, and observe how it relates to the pattern of sleep. These genes affect how the body uses energy, how fat is stored in the body, a feeling of fullness after eating, and how quickly sugar is used.
From these observations are found, the less time you sleep, these genes affect the body more and more. Genetic influences on body mass index turns two times greater in people who sleep less than seven hours, compared to nine hours of sleep a night.
"The results show that sleep deprivation lead to a more permissive environment for the expression of genes related to obesity. Or maybe sleep longer it protects against stress-related gene expression in obesity," said Dr. Nathaniel Watson, leader of the study.
The results of this study he was only an introduction, but it could indicate that the weight loss will be most effective when the genetic influences on obesity reduced by sleeping longer.
For those of you who are always busy intercepted, this method may be quite difficult, because sleep seven hours may be a luxury for you. But if you are trying to lose weight by way of lazy, so the results of this study worth a try.

Heavy Metals Can Damage Brain

educational toy which many in the market was not safe for children. Various types of educational toys for children from 2-5 years of heavy metals such as lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), and chromium (Cr).
Research Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) with the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia (UI Faculty) found four different heavy metals from the paint used on the toys. Sunardi, UI Faculty researchers in the lab, said the heavy metals can damage the brain, causing paralysis, reduced intelligence, kidney damage, and cancer.
"The impact of heavy metals in children depends on the amount of heavy metals into the body," said Sunardi, Wednesday (25/1), in YLKI Jakarta.
Noor Jehan, YLKI researcher, said the study focused on the presence or absence of heavy metal content in children's toys. The reason, the content of heavy metals could potentially get into the child's body through the mouth as easy peeling paint.
"If only the views of the dermal absorption of heavy metals, heavy metals contained in educational toys still meet the Indonesian National Standard (SNI). However, there is potential for heavy metals ingested through the paint stuck to the hands of children, "said Jehan.
He took 21 examples of children's educational toys that are sold in malls, markets and shopping centers in the five areas of Jakarta. Toys that include abacus, wooden trains, gauge blocks, block houses, and puzzles.
As a result, only one kind of toys do not contain heavy metals. "I do not know that toys come from inside or outside the country because disguised the name and country of origin," said Sunardi.
Said Jehan, educational toys containing heavy metals are made at home and abroad. "There are no guarantees. Toys imported or local, expensive or cheap, both contain heavy metals. In toys labeled non-toxic (non-toxic) there was heavy metal, "he said.
Sunardi states, in addition to children's toys, which also need to watch out for are crayons used by the children to color. The dye needs to be examined on its contents as crayons crayon wrappers are open. Dye attached to the hands of children can be swallowed

Revealing the content of Arsenic in Rice

Rice is the staple food for people in many countries. But you know, if the rice is consumed every day it has the potential to contain arsenic which is highly toxic substances that harm the body.
The experts had been aware of rice as the main source of dietary arsenic. However, the results of recent studies in the U.S. Consumer Reports found that arsenic in different types of rice products. Encourage the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately set a safe level of arsenic in rice. FDA found arsenic levels exceed more than 60 rice products.
That interest, contained arsenic in rice is not because the toxic chemicals produced by the plant, but from the natural processes that cause these toxic elements accumulated from when rice is planted and grown. Then how arsenic, a toxic element often used to kill political opponents in the Middle Ages, can be contained in the rice?
Toxins can come from man-made and synthetic sources. Arsenic is a metalloid shimmery gray in the form of a naturally occurring element in the earth's crust. Then make their own way into the soil and contaminate ground water through weathering processes.
Arsenic is an element found in nature and in man-made products including pesticides. Low levels of arsenic found in soil, water and air. This element is taken up by plants as they grow, hence the beginning of the entry of arsenic into the body through the food we eat.
This element can change the working system of communication within cells and reduces the body's ability to work. In the end result of various diseases in the body such as diabetes, vascular disease and lung cancer, skin cancer, bladder cancer and heart disease.
Arsenic can be contained in vegetables, whole grains, fruits and seafood. According to the FDA, rice is a food that contains the highest levels of arsenic, and then followed by vegetables.
However, these elements also have uses for the industry such as is used for the manufacture of pesticides and wood preservatives. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states of inorganic arsenic can survive in the soil for over 45 years.
In the U.S. in some states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas found rising levels of arsenic in rice. This is possible because the area has a long history as a place of cultivation of cotton, where the industry is widely used insecticides.
Substance is absorbed into the ground, resulting in decades of land contains an element arsenic. Another thing that may cause the arsenic content in the farm fertilizer from chicken manure which they feed containing arsenic.
FDA is conducting a survey on arsenic content in rice does not have enough information to recommend that consumers change their consumption of rice. But both the FDA and Consumer Reports recommends that consumers eat more varied food intake and not just depend on rice alone.

Effects Stop Smoking in a Minute Counts

Most of the people know the danger posed from a cigarette. However, eliminating the smoking habit is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand. To be able to stop smoking should be based on the desire, determination and commitment of the person concerned. Not infrequently, every time you change your habits to stop smoking, your body will create a reaction.

Side effects of quitting smoking include a variety of symptoms such as mental and physical. But if you are able to survive and be able to change their smoking habits, will be many positive effects that you can. This is the effect of quitting smoking gradually from the start within minutes to a count of the year:

* 20 minutes: Nicotine can increase blood pressure and heart rate, leading to an increased risk of heart attack. If within 20 minutes you are able to quit smoking, heart rate and blood pressure will go down as normal.

* 8 hours: Do not smoke for 8 hours, would make the levels of nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in the blood is reduced, this also led to reduced risk of heart attack. Oxygen in your blood will also increase to normal.

* 24 hours: You may have the risk of heart attack decreases. All carbon monoxide and nicotine leaves the body. Nerve endings begin to re-grow your lead to improvements in the ability of sense of smell and taste.

* 48 hours: This is the hard part, because in 48 hours you will experience bad side effects such as abdominal pain, vomiting and also the possibility of hypothermia. But will you get other benefits, including lowering the risk of lung damage and lung cancer.

* 72 hours: Bronchial tubes begin to relax and breathe easier.

* After 2 weeks: Lung function increases up to 30% so that blood circulation increases. Walking becomes easier. But it can also cause withdrawal symptoms such as irritability, headaches, and anxiety, which is why antidepressant drugs work well in stopping smoking.

* Between 1-9 months: Cilia in the lungs begin to function properly by cleansing the lungs of mucus, thus reducing the risk of infection.

* After 1 year: Your risk of suffering from smoking-related illnesses such as heart attack will be reduced by half compared to when a year ago.

* After 10 years: Risk of heart attack and lung cancer as someone who has never smoked. Similarly, the risk of other diseases such as cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, cervix, and pancreas will also decrease.

Vegetables to Avoid

Vegetables are basically healthy to eat. But with processed or how to cook an unhealthy, nutrient loss in vegetables or vegetables actually contain sweeteners and preservatives.

It is important to know the processed vegetables that you should avoid, as reported from the following Healthmeup.com. Obviously, for
You avoid unhealthy eating vegetables.

1. Vegetable chips
There are several chips vegetable products on the market. It was indeed much more enjoyable. But you need to know if the chips are mixed with many oils and spices and salt. Natural nutrients contained in it are likely to be reduced much, even disappear.
2. Vegetables with high-calorie salad dressing
Servings of vegetables in the salad menu is usually the only fresh vegetables mixed with boiled or raw. Still very high nutritional value. But also be aware of salad dressing. Usually the salad dressing made ​​from heavy cream fat, such as
mayonnaise or cream cheese. We recommend that you select based salad dressings with olive oil and lemon juice.
3. Canned vegetable soup
Canned vegetables you can easily get at the supermarket. In terms of time, it is more efficient and practical. But, do not eat them too often. That's because the content of salt, artificial sweetener flavor to the canned vegetables tend to be high.

Beware Not Rational Use of sedatives

Benzodiazepine class of drugs known as sedative society is the most popular drug in the world. Since the discovery of its kind Chlordiazepoxide was first named by Leo Sternbach (1908-2005) in 1957 and continued with the discovery of Diazepam, a drug of this class become an amazing phenomenon in the medical community.

Ability which began as a sedative (in character to make bed) and hypnotics and then moved into the indications for something else. Currently, there are so many types of benzodiazepine in the market with different brands of both the patent and generic. Several types of well-known is diazepam, alprazolam, Estazolam, nitrazepam, lorazepam, Clobazam. Each type is distinguished by the nature of benzodiazepine farmakokinetiknya.

Usefulness benzodiazepine currently primarily to the cause of illness associated with psychiatric and non psychiatric disorders such as insomnia, relieve anxiety, treatment Delirium Tremens, sedation before surgery process, to eliminate the seizures of epilepsy and also in muscle spasm. Its effective immediately and make a lot of doctors use these drugs as well as a mixture for the treatment of patients with gastric disorders which is essentially functional (psychosomatic symptoms) and patients of heart problems that worried.

In 1996 the World Health Organization WHO issued a substance dependence program handles one of which is "Rational Use of benzodiazepine". This is because it turns out in everyday practice, although most of the benzodiazepine class anticemas is indicated for patients with psychiatric disorders, in fact most of the benzodiazepine class of drugs that wear these are general practitioners and non-specialist psychiatric doctor.

Research carried out Wood, Katz and Winger as published in the grip of this WHO says 80 percent of the benzodiazepine class of drugs prescribed by general practitioners and is the second most prescribed drug after drug for the heart and blood vessels.

Unfortunately, this use is much that is not rational and violates the rules of the handle-grip that has been decided jointly by the agencies of health and mental health organizations in the world.

Some things that often occur under the use of benzodiazepines are:

a. The use of benzodiazepines for acute cases of mild anxiety. This actually does not require treatment with a benzodiazepine class drug.

b. The use of benzodiazepines for insomnia cases in a long time more than 4 weeks. As a grip, the benzodiazepine class of drugs should not be used for more than 4 weeks.

c. The use of benzodiazepines on the condition that does not require all this treatment, but only in mild cases.

d. Use of benzodiazepines in the elderly are often too high dosage and duration and the selection of species that are less precise. This could pose a risk of falls in the elderly, confusion and respiratory distress.

Another thing to consider in the use of this drug is its potential to experience the effects of dependence, tolerance and withdrawal reactions when not in use anymore. A lot of controversy about what is a dependence in terms of medical. Many experts are saying things and different opinions about this.

Some say that the dependency associated with rising doses (tolerance) so if there is no tolerance means no dependence. But one thing that needs to be underlined is the potential for dependence and withdrawal symptoms on the use of benzodiazepines is associated with duration of use. So the longer use of this class of drugs the greater the potential for experiencing dependency and withdrawal reactions.

wise in using this drug benzodiazepine class of any kind. benzodiazepine prescribing one class that is alprazolam a very large, either by your GP or a specialist. Not to mention this drug can be obtained free of illegal drug markets or rogue pharmacies.

There have been many victims of this substance dependence is to use these drugs for decades. I myself have patients who come because they want to recover from its dependence on this drug at a dose of 6 milligrams per day (think of the commonly prescribed dose daily alone is usually not more than 1 milligram). I hope, doctors and patients increasingly wise in using this drug.

4 Foods This Powerful Banish Insomnia

IF you experience symptoms of insomnia? Perhaps the influence of food into the cause. Before insomnia makes you disturbed at night, just four food / create this. Guaranteed, you sleep too soundly made.

Affairs do not just eat to meet the needs of the stomach, but also nutrition and health. Food can affect the growth of one's nutrition as well as affect health, such as sleep patterns. Are you including those stricken with insomnia. If yes, the Times of India provide food spills that could be a reference.

Salmon

Healthy fats in these fish (docosahexaenoic acid or DHA) can increase levels of the hormone melatonin, which could help you sleep easy.

Bean

Beans and nuts to provide intake, good for B vitamins, including B6, B12 and folic acid all of which can help the body regulate sleep cycles and more relaxed with the serotonin contained therein. In fact, research shows that increasing vitamin B can help people who have symptoms of insomnia.
Low-fat yogurt

Yogurt is a good source of fat and rich in calcium and magnesium, and minerals. This is a substance that is essential to support you to sleep quickly and help you sleep better schedule.
Spinach

Dark leafy vegetables are a great source of iron. This is a nutrient that can help protect you from trouble sleeping and anxiety syndrome that often attacks the mind, causing the eyes hard shut.

Gay men 'more vulnerable to high rates of cancer than men straight'

Homosexual men are more likely to have had cancer than heterosexual men, a US study has suggested.

The study of more than 120,000 people in California has led to calls for more specialist support.

Lesbians and bisexual women also had poorer health after cancer than heterosexuals, according to research published in the journal Cancer.

Cancer Research UK said more research was needed as the reasons for any difference were unclear.

In the 2001, 2003 and 2005 California Health Interview surveys, a total of 3,690 men and 7,252 women said they had been diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives.

Out of the 122,345 people interviewed, 1,493 men and 918 women described themselves as gay, while 1,116 women said they were bisexual.

Gay men were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with cancer as straight men and, on average, it happened a decade earlier.

There was no such link in women.

Survival or risk?

The survey interviews "survivors" so is not a true representation of the number of cancer cases.

Some patients will have died before the survey and others would have been too ill to take part.

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It could be down to better survival or higher rates of cancer among gay men”

Jessica Harris Cancer Research UK

Dr Ulrike Boehmer, from the Boston University School of Public Health, said it was not possible to conclude "gay men have a higher risk of cancer" because the underlying reasons for the higher incidence could be more complicated.

Further research would be needed to determine if homosexual men were actually getting more tumours or had greater survival rates, she said.

The authors speculate that the difference in the numbers of cancer survivors could be down to the higher rate of anal cancer in homosexual men or HIV infection, which has been linked to cancer.

Jason Warriner, clinical director for HIV and sexual health at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "We know that HIV can cause certain types of cancer, and that gay men are at a greater risk of HIV than straight men.

"Another factor potentially having an impact is Human Papilloma Virus, which can lead to anal cancer in gay men.

"The government currently runs a national vaccination programme for young girls, but we think recent figures on oral and anal cancers justify taking another look at whether the programme should be extended to include boys."

Jessica Harris, senior health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "There is already evidence of some health inequalities as a result of sexuality, for example, smoking rates are higher in homosexual men and women than in heterosexual people.

"In this Californian survey, gay men were more likely than straight men to say they had been diagnosed with cancer, but it's not clear from this study why this might be.

"It could be down to better survival or higher rates of cancer among gay men and we'd need larger studies that take both of these factors into account to find out."

Psychological health

Looking at the health of patients who survived cancer also showed differences based on sexual orientation.

Lesbian and bisexual women were more than twice as likely as heterosexual women to say they were in "fair or poor health".

This effect did not appear in men.

Dr Boehmer said: "One common explanation for why lesbian and bisexual women report worse health compared to heterosexual women is minority stress [which] suggests lesbian and bisexual women have worse health, including psychological health due to their experiences of discrimination, prejudice, and violence."

She called for more services to "improve the well-being of lesbian and bisexual cancer survivors" and for programs which "focus on primary cancer prevention and early cancer detection" in homosexual men.

Body Signs Need Supplements

Lack of vitamin will cause problems if it occurs in the long term. If this vitamin deficiency lasts long enough, there will be a deficiency disease. Simple example in cases of vitamin C deficiency are bleeding gums.

Many of us are actually located near the boundary line of vitamin B12 deficiency. Examples of this vitamin deficiency disease is anemia which can be detected through a simple blood test. Before anemia occurs, vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause depression, confusion and other symptoms of mental illness.

Here are the signs you are in a borderline vitamin deficiencies:

- Rarely eat vegetables and fresh fruit, although both of these natural foods are the best sources of vitamins and minerals.

- In a time long enough to experience severe stress or fatigue due often delicate work. In times of stress, our bodies are deficient in vitamin. This is exacerbated by unhealthy eating patterns. Vitamin deficiency became more severe.

- Pain has just bronchitis or surgery. At times like this we tend to lose appetite. In these circumstances we need extra vitamins and minerals for a healthy back.

- Suffering from chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies can cause more severe disease. People with asthma tend to lack magnesium, whereas people with diabetes tend to be deficient in vitamin C.

Chronic diseases alter the workings of the body absorb and use vitamins and minerals. So the extra needs of the supplement.

- Pregnant and lactating women. In the state of pregnancy and breastfeeding, mothers need extra vitamins and minerals to be divided into a baby.

- Suffering from depression. When depressed, we tend not to eat well. This can worsen depression because of vitamin and mineral deficiencies can cause depression.

- Smoking. Because of this unhealthy habit of robbing all our intake of vitamins, especially vitamin C.

Vitamins of the Best Food Equipment

Vitamins are a good friend's body for a variety of functions. Even if only in small amounts, but vitamin with minerals each have specific functions and are included in the main nutrients the body needs.

Vitamin is an organic molecule that is necessary for the body metabolism and normal growth. This vitamin can not be produced by the body and must be met from outside the body or through food.

Lately, more and more sold food additives or food supplement and vitamins. There is a liquid, tablet, or capsule. Reasons of practicality and indiscriminate eating patterns is the reason many people in urban areas to take these supplements.

However, for us to meet the body's vitamin naturally, from fruits and vegetables.

If we take vitamin supplements, vitamin content was alone. Better fruits or vegetables because it also contained vitamins and minerals, fiber, fluids, and other important fitokemikal.

Also from vitamin supplements, especially if high doses could increase the risk of excess body vitamins. You see, it could be our body is actually just a specific vitamin deficiency. If we take supplements complex, we will also get the vitamins that may not be needed by the body.

Water-soluble vitamins, like vitamin B and C, also can not be stored in large quantities in the body. Excess of this vitamin will be issued via the urine. Thus be redundant if we consume water-soluble vitamins in high doses.

four ways to prevent heart disease

Heart disease is the most sadistic killer. Every year, tens of millions of people worldwide die from this disease and there are millions of people convicted as new carriers. Unfortunately, most people do not know that heart disease is preventable through diet and natural settings.

The experts from Europe who joined in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) in recent years to study the pattern and nutrient intake in 10 European countries. The research also develop ways or strategies to reduce risk of heart and blood vessel disease.
According to researcher and author of Your dietitian Healthy Weight Loss Plan, John Phillip, the results of various research shows that heart disease can be formed since the beginning of one's life and later developed into a deadly threat when they grow up. The good news is the risk of heart disease can be controlled and avoided by making simple changes in lifestyle and diet person.

EPIC Research published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that a change in diet can reduce the risk of heart attack up to 81 percent. By setting the right diet, the risk of inflammation can be reduced and blood pressure under control.

The experts stressed four important factors that one can do in order to avoid the risk of heart disease:

1. Reduce foods containing refined carbohydrates, sugar, and grains.
Processed foods have now become the main menu every day. In fact, these foods contain simple carbohydrates that easily processed into glucose, causing blood sugar increase in a short time. This is the trigger of insulin resistance and cause a thickening of the endothelial lining of coronary vessels. It is recommended to gradually reduce your intake of types of bread, pasta, rice, sugary foods, and all foods made from wheat or corn.

2. Limit the Omega-6 vegetable oils.

Vegetable oil or vegetable oil is relatively stable at room temperature and used in nearly all the roasting and processing of food to add flavor and make it more durable. According to experts, excessive consumption of vegetable oil can also trigger the release of chemicals that increase oxidative stress and trigger damage to the vascular system. But avoid the use of vegetable oils for cooking and limit eating fried foods.

3. Do not forget the Omega-3 fatty acids
Modern diets are almost never incorporate healthy foods that contain Omega-3 fatty acids, which in fact never been part of human diet for centuries. According to experts, the ideal ratio between fatty acid content of Omega-6 and Omega-3 in the 1:1 diet.
The experts also agree that most people in Europe today with a food consumption ratio of 20:1. As a result, this phenomenon causes an imbalance and trigger a systemic inflammation. Advice from the experts, enter the types of fish, like tuna, salmon, and sardines, nuts, and grains to balance the ratio of your fat intake or by taking supplements of fish oil.

4. Avoid oxidative stress

Normal activity of the body such as breathing, eating, and moving can generate free radicals that damage the genetic structure and cause bad cholesterol (LDL) oxidation. We can not prevent this process fully. However, we can mute it by way of fresh vegetables, fruits, berries of the species, and certain supplements to reduce the effects of free radicals on heart health and other organs.

Diet Success, Food Delicious Permanent Way

Losing weight and maintaining the body stay slim is not an easy task. Currently undergoing a strict diet, of course, must pay attention to diet. So is it possible to run a slimming program but also can still eat delicious meals your favorite? Consider the tips below.



1. One way to cut calories is by choosing to diet soda. Not only is this drink calorie 0, but also without the fat. You also can replace sugar in beverages by using sugar to the diet. And most importantly, drink lots of water. Our body can not survive without water. Drink eight glasses of water a day.

2. For those who like to snack, choose a type of low-calorie snacks. This type of food is also still feels good on the tongue.

3. Furthermore, the input of fruits and vegetables in your diet list. These types of healthy foods. So at dinner choose foods that contain vegetables.

4. Try to reproduce the foods you eat. Remember to determine the portion is very important in the diet. When eating meat portions specified in advance. Make it mandatory to eat 2-3 servings of vegetables. Substitute rice, wheat bread or brown rice. This method brings major changes in your diet plan.
5. In addition to a strict diet, you can still keep your diet and meet the desire of eating fast food. All you need to do is order a fast food with small portions and eat one serving hamburgers, no more than that.

Slender with Two Glasses of Water Before Eating

Forget the diet pills or expensive. The safest way and cheap and simple to lose weight is to drink two glasses of water before eating.

People who drank two glasses of water before eating, body weight decreased more than those who calculate the amount of calories. Although some drugs can cut the body's ability to absorb fat by making the brain feel full, water only fill the stomach.

Researchers from the United States comparing the diet with drinking water before eating and really pay attention to food intake and calories in his body. For three months, people who drank two glasses of water before eating, lost weight an average of 7 kg and 2 kg more than those without drinking water.

"Someone has to drink more water and reducing sugars. It is the simplest way to set weight loss, " said one researcher, Dr. Brenda Davy, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, as quoted by the Daily Mail.

In a previous study, Dr. Brenda to find someone who drinks the water will eat 75 to 90 calories less. White water does have many benefits, one of which is to lose weight in a healthy manner. If your stomach is full of water, then the stomach will feel fuller and eat is also becoming fewer.

Lifetime Burden of Thalassemia

Thalassemia disease is not yet widely known to the public, as diabetes, heart disease, or stroke. In fact, these diseases include conditions requiring high maintenance costs, as well as non-curable.

thalassemia is a hereditary disease in which there are abnormalities or changes in hemoglobin that causes red blood cells are easily damaged. This is a genetic disease that can not be cured. Until now, the only treatment that can be done is through blood transfusion.

Based on the degree of disorder, thalassemia is divided into major and thalassemia minor (carriers of nature). Special thalassemia major, usually patients need blood transfusions and medical treatment carried throughout life.

In thalassemia major, signs and symptoms that generally appear several months after the birth of them pale and enlarged spleen. In addition, there are other symptoms, such as changes in face shape, skin blackened, stunted growth, and malnutrition / poor.

Transfusion works to help patients with thalassemia major for improving the supply of red blood cells. However, this transfusion effect also needs to get attention because the patient may be at risk from iron overload at the time of transfusion-borne.

Excess iron causes its own dangers for the patient's body because it can accumulate and damage their organs.

However, patients do not need to worry. The reason, iron overload can be mitigated by taking the drug sailor iron (neutralizes iron in the body).

In terms of cost, treatment of this disease is still quite high. The average cost of handling thalassemia every child in the world at 30,000 dollars per year. and this number outside costs if complications occur.

"Thalassemia can be minimized with the optimal screening and raise public awareness about the disease thalassemia and its aftermath.

Danger Bra Too Tight

Bra that has a wire underneath it to support breast appearance better. Breasts so go up and look fuller. However, it later emerged the notion that wired bras can cause breast cancer.

Horrendous news that emerged around 1995, the results of research Sidney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer in the United States, of 4700 women. In the book Dressed to Kill, the two scientists had stated, the use of a bra associated with the incidence of breast cancer.

Head of the epidemiology of reproductive and hormonal National Cancer Institute, Louise Brinton, stating that the opinion does not make sense. Over the past 30 years doing research in the field of cancer, he still found that the most common cancer associated with endogenous hormone levels.

Indeed there has been no scientific studies about the connection wired or sleeping habits bra bra, with the incidence of breast cancer, so do not worry.

Too Binding

Although later many other experts declared the results of research that is not true, until now there are many women who are concerned about wearing wired bra. In addition to risks associated with breast cancer that has not been proven false, wired bra can also cause another complaint if the use does not fit in the body or too tight binding the chest.

Bra is too tight according to a study by the British School of Osteopathy can suppress the bone and muscle, making it difficult to breathe. Special bra for sports can also cause breathing difficulties if used excessively or when not on exercise. That's because the sports bras are specially designed bras tighter than usual, to support the breasts remain in place when processing the body.

Impaired bowel movements and constipation can also occur, if we are too tight to wear a bra so that pressing the ribs.

If the bra is too tight binding of the body, can also lead to skin wounded, mainly due to the hooks on the rope in the back.

For those with large breasts, use a tight bra can cause problems in the area of ​​pectoral muscles in the chest. The user also can feel like a punctured or pinched in the area, and circulatory disorders can occur until the destruction of tissue in the breast.

Not a few women who deliberately wear a bra so tight, so that her breasts lifted and looked more toned and beautiful. This habit makes trapezius muscles connecting the neck and shoulders will be strong pressure, so that it can produce pain in the shoulder, neck, and back.

Studies conducted by Dr.. Edward Ryan, as noted in the Medical Journal of Australia found a link between back pain and the use of a bra that is too tight. In experiment two weeks, the women who complained of back pain is not advisable to wear a bra first, or replace it with a strapless bra (strapless). As a result, 79 percent of patients felt the pain was gone.

Not only wired bra, for those flat-chested and happy to choose a bra cup containing thick foam to show the illusion of "big boobs" also must be careful. Thick foam that makes the breast skin can not breathe, so it is more easily irritated or have other disorders.

So, actually wired bra stay safe when fit and comfortable in the body. Do not be too tight because of the breast and the muscles in our body will actually tortured.