Do You Want to Die Young? Start the Passive Lifestyle!

May20
2011 Leave a Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

Whatever your profession, you should not be lazy to move. Not only because you’ll feel less fit, it also would threaten your life. Yes, your life is threatened due to lazy to move, you potentially have high blood pressure.

Various technological advances enjoyed by people today do tend to make human beings can do things more easily, even without having to move. Unfortunately, not many people realize that such a lifestyle can lead to high blood pressure or hypertension.

More unfortunately, many people underestimate the hypertension because they think it’s as common diseases. In fact, hypertension is a malignant disease because hypertension is a major cause of heart attacks, kidney failure, stroke, and died young. Wow … pretty awful, right?

Indeed, the influence of laziness to move to the emergence of hypertension does not appear immediately. You could just feel after several years later, when suddenly the doctor says you are subject to hypertension. At that time you will be surprised because previously you did not feel any symptoms. Yes, that is, because hypertension is a disease that has no specific symptoms. That is why hypertension is often referred to as the silent disease.

According to research led by Mercedes Carnethon from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, United States, those who are less physically active have a higher risk of hypertension 20 years later. Research published in the journal Hypertension was conducted on 4618 women and men aged 18-30 who undergo long-term research on cardiovascular disease. In conclusion: a third of cases of hypertension can be prevented by increasing physical activity. This conclusion was made either on the basis of answers to the treadmill test and interview.

Well, how about you? Do you want to die young? If that is what you want, please welcome the arrival of hypertension by enjoying minimal motion lifestyle. But, if the opposite is what you want, you have to throw away sloth to move physically. Leave a passive lifestyle from your routine.

By physically active, your heart will be stronger so that high blood pressure can be controlled. This is because the heart can pump more blood with less effort. Keep in mind, the more light work of the heart to pump blood, will be less and less pressure on the artery. []

Posted in Hypertension, Lifestyle - Tagged blood, disease, heart, research, silent disease, technology, United States

Benefits of Potato for Health and Beauty

May16
2011 1 Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

No need to doubt, potato is very popular. Various foods made from this plant. Many people like to eat potato because it tastes delicious. But not many people know what its usefulness to the health and beauty.

Potato has simple form and tends to be less attractive. But not so with efficacy. From potato, a lot of positive things we can get. We can use potato to get rid of pimples, boils remove the heads, smooth the skin, smoothing the palm of the hand, and others.

To get rid of pimples, prepare a potato tuber. Clean, peel and thinly slice about 3 millimeters per piece. Wash your face and paste the potato slices on the acne. Let the slices dry and remain attached until the color changed to gray. Do this every night before bed.

Facial skin can be smoothed by potato. Wash, peel, grate, and crush the potato until soft. Spread evenly on the skin of the face that has been cleaned first with water. Wait till one hour, then wash your face.

Patches on the skin can also be cleaned with potato. For this purpose, you can make potato juice. Prepare a potato tuber, water, and one tablespoon of honey. Clean, peel, chop potato tuber into small pieces, then crush them in a juicer with a little water. Enter the honey, then drink that juice at once. In order spots on the skin to be lost, drink one glass per day for several days.

To smooth the palms of the hands, prepare a potato tuber and one lemon. Wash potato thoroughly, peel, then grate it until creamed. Rub repeatedly in the palm of the hand. Do not move it from the palm of the hand before 20-30 minutes. Split lemon in half and rub on your palms until clean.

The next benefit of the potato is to eliminate pain in the head. Take a potato tuber. Clean, peel, and grate and crush it until soft. Then paste it on the boil. Let it dry. If necessary, attach more grated potatoes until the boil disappear.

Posted in Skin Care, Treatment - Tagged facial care, food, foods, how to, skin care, skin health

Rice Eaters are more Superior than Bread Eaters

May12
2011 Leave a Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

People who eat rice often feel inferior to people who eat bread. This sense of inferiority is caused by their views on rice and bread. They considered that the bread is more prestigious than rice. However, now they can be proud, because a study in Korea showed that rice eaters have advantages in terms of health than the bread-eaters.

That research on rice eaters and bread eaters was conducted by the Korea Food Research Institute. The researchers revealed the fact that the student which eat rice can perform activities outside of almost 50 percent longer than people who eat bread.

The conclusion was obtained after the researchers measured how long they can do the exercise after eating rice or bread. As a result, the rice eaters could move out on average 456 seconds (with an error margin of 58.3 seconds), while the bread eaters could move out on average 311 seconds of work (with a margin of error of 41.9 seconds).

Not only that. The researchers also examined how the rice and bread affect blood cholesterol levels. In conclusion, eating rice is also more effective in reducing cholesterol. The conclusion was obtained by researchers after they conducted a study of the hamsters who suffered from hyperlipidemia. Levels of fat and cholesterol of hamsters became lower after they were fed rice. []

Posted in Eating - Tagged energy, exercise, healthy, research

Avoid Breast Cancer, Set Your Birth Interval

May10
2011 Leave a Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

The age factor may make married couples do not consider the birth interval. They may want to immediately have a second child even if their first child has not reached a year old. The desire is usually based on the consideration that the wife of three years later entered the age which is not ideal to have the baby.

Childbearing it should be done before the wife reaches old age. But, keep in mind, the birth interval should still be considered, because if the spacing of the first and second births is less than 12 months, the mother would be potentially affected by breast cancer. A study done Cancer Research UK show that women with birth spacing of less than 12 months have an increased risk of breast cancer is five times greater than women who have given birth spacing of three years or more.

A study published in the British Journal of Cancer was conducted on 29,488 women in Finland. The women were divided into several groups: those suffering from advanced tumors, a specific type of breast cancer, have at least five children, and aged under 50 years old. After that, they were subdivided into smaller groups so that positive results might be found in one sub-group.

The result, said Josephine Querido, of Cancer Research UK researchers, women with birth spacing of less than 12 months can not be automatically sentenced to breast cancer. “But they have a higher risk,” Querido said.

Interrelation of hormones thought to be factors that cause increased risk. However, it is only one reason. More causes, the researchers said, still must be confirmed with further testing. []

Posted in Aging, Research - Tagged breast cancer, cancer, disease, pregnancy, research

Rise and Fall of Sexual Arousal on Pregnant Women

May07
2011 Leave a Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

It’s no secret, there is increased sexual arousal on women pregnant. Unfortunately, many pregnant women bury that desire due to fear of fetal damage, fetal infection, or miscarriage. If you’re a woman pregnant and felt the same thing, now is the time you throw away those concerns. (Read: Is Sex Safe for Pregnant Women?) So, if you want to do it, just do it, do not hesitate.

Perhaps you are wondering, “Why in a time of sexual excitement I was so high but so low at other times?” The simple answer to that question is sexual arousal in pregnant women is up and down (volatile), depending on how old your pregnancy.

In the first trimester, sexual desire usually decreases. This is understandable, because pregnant women experience morning sickness, vomiting, weakness, and lazy. All desire to have sex weakened by fatigue, nausea, and hormonal fluctuations.

Sexual desire is usually to increase again in the second trimester. This occurs because the drainage of blood to the sexual organs and the breasts increases. The body also has accepted the conditions of pregnancy, so pregnant women can enjoy the activities more freely than in the first trimester. The body feels more comfortable because of morning sickness and any discomfort usually been much reduced. The content was not too big and not too burdensome.

In the third trimester, libido decreased again because of a sense of comfort has been much reduced. In this phase, pregnant women experience soreness in the hip and back. Nausea began to emerge again, more shortness of breath (due to a large fetus urgent chest and stomach), and body weight increases rapidly.

But not all pregnant women experience decreased libido in the third trimester. Is that abnormal? Not at all. It is perfectly normal, especially if you enjoy the pregnancy. So, if you want to have sex in the third trimester, just do it. []

Posted in Lifestyle, Pregnancy

Is Sex Safe for Pregnant Women?

May03
2011 1 Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

Is it true that intercourse during pregnancy can damage the fetus? Is it true that the womb will be infected? Is it true that the pregnancy will end in miscarriage?

Those three questions often haunt the women who are pregnant to the point that they do not dare to have sex with her husband. In fact, sex is necessary for life satisfaction. Sex makes us feel needed, wanted, and foster a sense of security in ourselves.

Fear of the women came because they believe that sex during pregnancy can damage the fetus, causing infection of the womb, and cause a miscarriage. Really? Not at all. Medical science views of sex during pregnancy, if carried out properly, is safe.

Why is it safe? First, sex can not damage the fetus because the fetus is well protected inside the amniotic sac. Please note, the amniotic fluid serves as a good vibration damping so that movement of uterine contractions during intercourse or during orgasm will muffled and does not interfere with the fetus. What about ejaculation, does it make sperm to reach the fetus? No, because the membranes protect the fetus. The penis will not be able to touch the fetus.

Second, sex while pregnant will not make the womb become infected. This is because the cervical mucus that is enclosed by a strong fortress to prevent bacterial infection.

Third, sex during pregnancy will cause miscarriage is a myth. Because, in fact, the fair sex was never proven to be the cause of miscarriage. Miscarriage (early miscarriage) usually associated with chromosomal abnormalities or other problems experienced by the developing fetus, not because of what you do or not do.

Sometimes an orgasm is also believed to cause miscarriage. This assumption true? No. Orgasm indeed can trigger uterine contractions. But, remember, this is a different contraction with contraction before the time of delivery. Studies also have shown that orgasm does not trigger premature delivery. []

Posted in Pregnancy

Eating Banana Can Help You Lose Weight

Apr30
2011 1 Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

If you’re in a slimming program, it’s good for you to eat banana. Banana is an ideal food for the program because it contains vitamins and high in fiber but has a fat content and low calorific value.

The high fiber in bananas will make you feel full longer. This is one key to the success you lose weight, because you do not need to eat too much on the next meal time. Your body needs fiber about 25 grams daily. You can meet these needs by eating about 6 bananas because of a large banana contains 4 grams of fiber.

The next key to success is the low glycemic index on the banana. Foods that have a low glycemic index carbohydrates that slowly releases into the body. That’s why eating bananas can help you lose weight.

Please note, glycemic index is a ranking of how quickly carbohydrates from foods is released into the body. The lower the index glikemiks, the slower release of carbohydrates into the body. According to the Glycemic Index Foundation website’s, the banana glycemic index is 51 (numbers above 70 are considered high, while below 55 categorized as low). This low glycemic index can help prevent a decrease or increase blood sugar levels.

The ability of bananas to help weight loss is also determined by low levels of fat and protein content slightly. According to Discovery Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Nutrient Database, a large banana has a fat content of less than half a gram. So, it is clear that you do not need to fear eating some bananas as it will not make your body accumulate fat.

The low amount of calories in a banana may make you wonder about the adequacy of calories your body needs. But don not worry. According to USDA data, a banana with a length of 7 to 8 inches, on average, contains about 105 calories. This means you can meet the needs of calories every day (about 2,000 calories) by eating some bananas.

Even so, experts do not recommend to you to make banana as a main food ingredient in slimming programs. Eating banana, they said, should be done regularly, but quite simply as a small part of the slimming program. []

Posted in Lifestyle, Weight Loss

Do not Start your Day without Breakfast

Apr27
2011 Leave a Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

Do not underestimate the breakfast because breakfast is important. In fact, you are advised not to delay breakfast because it can make your body hard to get the intake of nutrients and vitamins that are recommended.

If you are a worker who is required to maximize the brain works, then breakfast is something you must do. Why? According to experts, the only fuel needed brain is glucose. You will feel tired and dizzy when you’re short on brain glucose. Unfortunately, when you wake up in the morning, glucose (which together with glycogen becomes the source of most of the energy) has been depleted by the activities of the previous day. Therefore, you should have breakfast to get the glucose you need.

Research conducted by experts from the University of Wales Swansea proves that breakfast can improve the ability of the brain. This can be seen from the records obtained scores of students who always breakfast every day. They have scored 22 percent higher than other students who did not breakfast.

Other research on breakfast has been conducted at Harvard University. The research proved that breakfast could maintain body weight and slimming the body. In fact, according to research, people who regularly eat breakfast have a tendency to 50 percent for not obese than those who do not have the habit of breakfast. (Read: Breakfast Can Lose Weight and Streamline Body).

Other research about breakfast also shows that healthy women who ate a bowl of cereal plus milk in the morning have bad LDL cholesterol in lower levels than those who skipped breakfast for two weeks. []

Posted in Eating, Nutrient, Research

Generic Drugs More Popular in U.S.

Apr22
2011 Leave a Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

Generic drug is increasingly popular in America. In fact, according to a recent report released by IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, this type of drug becomes the most widely prescribed drugs during the year 2010.

American society’s love of generic drugs has existed since the last few years. In 2010, of about 4 billion prescriptions written by a doctor, 78 percent of them contain the prescription generic drugs, both branded drugs and non-branded drugs. These percentage shows an increase of 4 percent compared to prescribe generic drugs in 2009. Thus, it is no wonder, then, the market share of generic drugs continue to rise in the next five years.

Here is a list of the top 10 generic drugs most widely prescribed by doctors in America:

The first rank is occupied by hydrocodone (combined with acetaminophen). There were 131.2 million prescriptions using this medicine.

The second rank is occupied by Zocor (simvastatin). There were 94.1 million prescriptions using generic brands of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

The third rank is occupied by lisinopril (including those sold under the brand names Prinivil and Zestril). Blood pressure lowering drugs is capable of achieving 87.4 million prescriptions.

The ourth is occupied by generic brand of synthetic thyroid hormone Synthroid (levothyroxine sodium). There were 70.5 million prescriptions using this medicine.

The fifth rank is occupied by lowering drugs, blood pressure / angina generic brand Norvasc (amlodipine besylate). There were 57.2 million prescriptions with this drug.

The sixth rank is occupied by a generic brand of antacid drug Prilosec (omeprazole). There were 53.4 million prescriptions are taking this drug, not including sales as a free / otc.

The seventh rank is occupied by Azithromycin antibiotic (including those sold under the brand name and Zithromax Z-Pak). There were 52.6 million prescriptions written by doctors with this drug.

The eighth rank is occupied by Amoxicillin antibiotic. There are various pieces of brands included in this species. Total recipes that made by doctors reached 52.3 million prescriptions.

The ninth rank is occupied by the generic diabetes drug Glucophage (metformin). There were 48.3 million prescriptions written by doctors with this drug.

The tenth rank is placed by tension-lowering drug hydrochlorothiazide. Drugs of this type also has a variety of brands. There were 47.8 million prescriptions written by doctors with this drug. []

Posted in Medicine, News & Events

Exercising; Easy Way to Eliminate Stress

Apr19
2011 Leave a Comment

Written by Gilang Walker

Exhausting routine often makes people stress. But, do not worry. Exercise will make the stress away from you. Besides relieving stress, the exercise will nourish your body and make you feel happy. As a result, bad mood will disappear and you will feel excited again for the move. Exercise will also cause a calming effect as well when you’re soaking in warm water.

Why exercise can bring a sense of happiness? First, by exercising, you can divert your self-destructive thoughts. Keith Johnsgard, Ph.D. author of Conquering Depression and Anxiety through Exercise, said, exercise helps us to control ourselves so that bad behavior can be prevented.

Second, by exercising, your body will be warm. Therefore, white blood cell is triggered to release proteins that increase body temperature: pyrogen. Warmth is what, according to fitness experts, can eliminate the bad mood immediately. You should not take long in this case, because of jogging or walking for 15 minutes is enough to restore the mood.

Third, the sensation of warmth (including those arising from the exercise) is able to increase endorphins in the blood and change the circuits in the brain, especially those that control mood.

Fourth, exercise causes the body to pump the neurotransmitter serotonin, which will restore the mood. Tryptophan (an amino acid that can increase serotonin levels) would be encouraged to enter the brain. Exercise also increases levels of substance triggers a natural happiness, namely dopamine and neropinephrine. Therefore, it is natural if there is a mention that the exercising is a fun activity. []

Posted in Lifestyle, Treatment

Do You Want to Die Young? Start the Passive Lifestyle!

Benefits of Potato for Health and Beauty

Rice Eaters are more Superior than Bread Eaters

Avoid Breast Cancer, Set Your Birth Interval

Rise and Fall of Sexual Arousal on Pregnant Women

Is Sex Safe for Pregnant Women?

Eating Banana Can Help You Lose Weight

Do not Start your Day without Breakfast

Generic Drugs More Popular in U.S.

Exercising; Easy Way to Eliminate Stress

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