Counteract the disease during the rainy season
Disease September 21st, 2009
ARE you ready to face the rainy season this year? What kind of preparation and anticipation you deal with the rainy season? Remember, the rainy season just is not identical with the floods, but also disease. There are several diseases that often occur during this season, including sinusitis, flu, dengue fever, and diarrhea. Here are some tips to avoid disease that often haunt you during the rainy season.
Prevent Sinusitis
- diligent in washing hands. This simple action proved effective for reducing the risk of contracting respiratory diseases. As far as possible avoid contact with those who were exposed to a cold cough.
- When you use air conditioning, clean frequently penyaringnya to dust, mold, and various things that may trigger allergies can be reduced. Likewise, the carpet and sofa.
- Eating food and warm drinks, especially the four healthy menu five perfect.
- Avoid smoking and try to breathe the air in the morning while exercising.
- Wear a raincoat or an umbrella when it rains. Use masks when in pollution-prone areas.
Prevent Flu
- Rest enough. Get plenty of rest will strengthen the immune system.
- Wash your hands. Washing your hands is very important to avoid infection. Some of the flu virus spreads through direct contact. So, wash your hands frequently with soap and, if possible, with warm water.
- Avoid contact with the patient. Flu virus also spread through the air and saliva. Therefore, avoiding close range encounter with flu patients.
- Eat foods with nutrient-balanced. Consumption of foods containing phytochemicals. Phytochemicals are natural chemicals in plants that have given vitamins in foods. This type of substance found in fruits and vegetables fresh green, red and dark yellow.
- Exercise regularly. yourself to exercise. No need to exercise. What is important to regularly, such as jogging or moderate exercise.
- Do not smoke. Heavy smokers more vulnerable to flu. Cigarette smoke can cause the respiratory system dry, making it easier to have a virus.
- Drink plenty of water. Water serves up toxins in the body. Adults need eight glasses of water a day.
- Prevent dengue fever. Tub or water reservoirs should be covered to prevent mosquitoes lay their eggs on the spot and drained at least twice a week, so that the mosquito eggs hatch into larvae do not.
- Kill mosquitoes with insect repellent before going to sleep, or you can use rubbing mosquito.
- Keep neatness. Do not hang clothes. Better to fold it, because clothes can be hung hiding place Aedes aegypti mosquito. Clean every day table and drawers in your room. Dispose of paper not used for a dirty desk drawer and unkempt nest can also be a mosquito.
- Abatisasi. abate powder is sprinkled on the places where the water reservoir. Abatisasi be repeated every 2-3 months. Abate is not harmful to humans. Abatisasi only in places where stagnant water, such as bathtubs, flower vase, and a small ditch. Do not sprinkle abate the water flowing. Abate also well spread to places that are difficult water drained or cleaned.
Prevent Diarrhea
- Familiarize yourself to maintain hygiene by washing hands and feet after traveling.
- Wear footwear to prevent the spread and entry of dirt or parasites through the skin.
- Do not buy food at any place.
- Clean the gutters, especially clogged, remove the garbage in its place.
- Expand vitamins and nutritional intake to maintain body condition.
- Provide oralit always at home.
Optimistic Attitude Boost Immune System
Health Tips September 15th, 2009
The task of the immune system or immune system is to prevent the entry of disease carrying microorganisms into the body and when to have are entered. A study shows, an optimistic attitude will enhance the ability of our immune system.
Although the results of studies conducted a number of experts from the University of Kentucky, United States, it does not show directly how a positive outlook makes us healthier, but it reinforces previous studies that found a link between illness and a person’s attitude.
Previously, scientists have learned that each person’s immune system can be affected by his attitude. And, when someone is influenced sense of optimism, the body’s immune system will be stronger.
From 2001 to 2005, Professor Suzanne C Segerstrom, a psychologist from the University of Kentucky, along with his team conducted a survey to 124 students majoring in law at the first level. The respondents were asked to answer questions about their optimism level would succeed in the majors.
The respondents were also given an injection of an antigen that would make the immune system to react in the form of small bumps on the skin. The bigger the lump, stronger immune system reaction. The researchers found that the immune system response is stronger in students who have a strong optimism. On the contrary, weakened immune system to those who tend to have a pessimistic nature.
“When people feel more optimistic, they also feel more happy, happy, and the factors associated with increased immunity,” Segerstrom said.
However, Segerstrom reminded that the effects of optimism on the immune system may be limited, since there are many factors that cause fluctuations in the human immune system.
Vegetable Diet Healthy Menu
Diet Tips September 15th, 2009
Vegetables rich in benefits still be their choice to implement a healthy lifestyle. Besides cheap, vegetables can also be enjoyed with a variety of ways pemasakannya processed fairly easy.
Vegetables is the name given to the staple food consumed by humans, but not included in the category of fruits, nuts, and spices. Vegetables is also a benefits-rich foods, especially for health because it contains a complete nutrition.
As skin specialists from the Central Hospital of the Army (Army Hospital) CKM Col. Gatot Subroto Dr. Hanny Suwandhani SpKK FX in Singapore that had spread diet high low trend.
A diet high low diet using low which means less consumption of carbohydrates, which means lots of high protein, and dietary patterns that regulate eating.
“Low someone recommend a diet high for many to consume vegetables that had had a good effect for skin health,” said Hanny, who also served as Head of the Department of Skin and Sex Disease Gatot Subroto Army Hospital.
Various types and colors enhance the appearance of vegetables ready for consumption. In addition to good health, vegetables are also beneficial to prolong life. Take the example of broccoli. Green vegetable with an umbrella-like shape of this rise is an interesting type of vegetable in a vegetable display and which can extend the life of man.
“Broccoli contains antioxidants, rich in minerals, and beneficial to maintain blood sugar levels and prolong life,” Psychologists call Vania Wibisono SPSI.
For processing, in addition to boiling, pan-fried broccoli can also, then added with a practical flavor. Like the menu dried chilli stir-fry broccoli. Although the use of chili, taste is not too spicy. Dry chilli is only used to complete the taste.
There is also a menu made from vegetable you like most Indonesian families, ie kale. Vegetables that have a slippery leaf-shaped arrowhead and 5-6 inches long that is plants that have stems with leaves spread apart and the straightening rod in the base of the leaf. From stem to the leaves, watercress, all can be eaten.
Cooking is often used as an ingredient watercress is plecing sauteed watercress and kale. Plecing watercress is typical Indonesian food from Lombok.
Plecing watercress watercress which consists of boiled and served in a state of cold and fresh, equipped chili sauce shrimp paste, tomatoes, sprouts, peanuts, and lime.
In addition there are pumpkins or vegetables that are waluh food rich in vitamin A and C, minerals, and carbohydrates. Pona Java bika cake can be a good choice for dessert. Pumpkin basic materials. This cake shaped mud cake.
“Pumpkin yellow became the raw material bika Pona Java can be replaced with sweet potatoes or red sweet potato,” said Celebrity chef, Farah Quinn, who has taken cooking classes at the World Pastry Championships in Arizona,
Nano robot Capable Browse Blood vessels
Health News September 9th, 2009
- A U.S. scientist has developed a robotic nano-sized particles (nanometers> -9 rank 10 meters) that are able to surf on the patient’s blood until the tumors in which the robot can provide treatment that can stop the cancer gene activity. This discovery is reported in the scientific journal Nature on Sunday (21 / 3).
This discovery led to a new approach called RNA (ribonucleic acid) interference, or RNAi. Chemicals RNA serves as an important messenger functions in the growth process of the disease.
Dozens of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies such as Alnylam, Merck, Pfizer, Novartis, and Roche was busy looking for ways to manipulate the RNA to contain the genes that produce proteins that cause disease played a role in cancer, blindness, or AIDS. The difficulty is how to do treatment at the right target in the body.
The team from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena are using nanotechnology to create a robot that wrapped superkecil for transferrin protein or molecule of nerve endings as the entrance to the various types of tumors. “This is the first study managed to get in there and show their mechanisms of action,” said Mark Davis, professor of chemical engineering who led the team.
Davis and his team’s approach is that when particles find and enter cancer cells, they divide, releasing small RNA that intervenes to block the genes that produce proteins called cancer growers ribonucleotide reductase.
In experiments with various types of tumor patients, the team that provides four times the dose for 21 days with an IV for 30 minutes. Examples of tumors from three melanoma patients showed that nano particles can enter into tumor cells and they can cripple ribonucleotide reductase. The results will be held in the meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, June
Prevent Throat Cancer, Oral Sex Stop!
Cancer September 9th, 2009
ORAL sex becomes attractive option for couples making love positions saturated with monotony. Unfortunately, not a few of them know oral sex harmful for health. One of them causes throat cancer.
According to national statistics, most Americans have about oral sex experience. These data obtained from the research for 10 years the American people’s behavior.
Uncle Sam in the country, found more than half of teenagers and about 90 percent of adults aged 25 to 44 years had oral sex with the opposite sex. These data obtained from the survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2002.
However, did you know that oral sex behavior can also cause throat cancer. “Yes, you can be contracted throat cancer from oral sex habits,” said Otis Brawley, MD, American Cancer Society Chief Medical Officer, who quoted from WebMD okezone, Tuesday (23/3/2010).
Brawley explains, this disease is caused by the HPV virus that can be transmitted from one person to another through sexual contact, including oral sex behavior.
The study also found that some types of cancer that was in the middle of the throat and tonsils can be caused by a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) specific. HPV is the biggest cause, but HPV does not always cause cancer. If you are not exposed to HPV as oral sex, then you do not risk getting cancer.
Brawley said the link between HPV and throat cancer began in the era of the 1980s and early 1990s. The researchers saw an increase of this type of cancer among people who are not as risky, such as throat cancer increased in people aged 40 years who did not smoke or drink. Whereas in the decade before, the cancer is usually found in parents who smoke and drink a lot.
In the 2000s, researchers used DNA tests to find the HPV type 16 on all new cancers. Brawley, sexual activity is clearly having a big hand in it.
Furthermore, one study published in “The New England Journal of Medicine” in 2007 showed the risk of throat cancer is very large in people who likes to perform oral sex. Oropharyngeal cancer, or known by the name of the mouth and throat cancers found in people who likes to perform oral sex with a sexual partner who is different.
DNA labeling in 16 types of HPV, most often found in cancer patients who have more oral sex partners.
“Not knowing how many people infected with HPV infection in the throat through oral sex, or how many of those affected by cancer of the mouth and throat,” said Brawley.
Nevertheless, continued Brawley, men and women are equally at risk of HPV infection in their mouths and throats.
“It does not discriminate against gender. The people who I thought would be very unlikely to get this cancer, even the first population has this problem, “said Brawley.
The largest population affected by the mouth and throat cancer are heterosexual men aged 40 to 50.
“You know, after all oropharyngeal cancers caused by HPV is more easily treated than those caused by other factors, such as smoking and drinking,” said Brawley.
Expanding the use of HPV vaccine could be one approach to the development of this type of cancer.
“I’m not sure that we have enough studies to draw a conclusion that this is a reason to vaccinate HPV in boys,” Brawley added.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the HPV vaccine for boys aged 9 to 16 years. However, this action is only to help prevent genital warts in children and adolescents, not the way to reduce HPV infection due to oral sex behavior of their
