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Natural Ways to Stop Worrying
Most of the people are unhealthy due to unrelenting stress. Stress hormones that increases continuously into our system by boosting heart beat and by speed up in the breathing, which leads to suppress our immense system, disturb our sleep and trigger inflammation and which plays into chronic diseases such as gastrointestinal problems, arthritis, type 2 diabetes and heart diseases.
To reduce the unhealthy effects of life one has to decide to deal with a positive thinking that he\she are really not worried. So by taking positive steps to lessen the fears of being worried and controlling them slightly can reduce exaggerated worry, tension, headaches, fatigue and sweating.
Expert found the medicine for this by using herbs which are natural ways of stop worrying. A Rhodiola is a Siberian Herb which helps body to normalize its response to stress and to feel relaxed. Other group of herbs is Asian and American ginseng, licorice, …
Health Benefits in Drinking Water
Drinking eight glasses of water per day is essential for human being. There are many benefits of drinking water. By drinking large amount of water helps the kidneys to flush more toxins from the body and also tends to reduce the filtering ability of the kidney.
Doctors examined that drinking more water can reduce headache of a person. In small study it is found that, a participants who drank more water experienced fewer headache than the participants did not take large amount of water
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Water is an ideal aid for weight maintenance, creating sense of fullness which leads to healthy life. Doctor’s suggest that intake of water prior to meal can reduce the calories.
In certain cases, drinking a lot of water may actually be harmful. Dr. Goldfarb, found a case of a woman who drank water continuously and very rapidly for several minutes and developed swelling of the brain and died later.
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Heart Disease Due To Deficiency of Vitamin-D
A new study suggests that, there is a chance of heart disease due to Vitamin D deficiency. Diet alone is not sufficient to get all the Vitamin D levels. In winter season body doesn’t get sufficient Vitamin D levels as there is a lack of sunlight and body needs sufficient sunlight to produce Vitamin D.
The researchers found that deficiency in Vitamin D leads to heart disease, high blood pressure and the chance of metabolic syndrome. The study found that rate of heart disease or deaths may be 30% to 50% more to the people who spend more time indoors with lack of sunlight.
By taking the treatment of vitamin D2 or D3, may decrease the risk of severe heart disease or death for the range of body with 30-60 mg/ml of vitamin D. Test for vitamin D deficiency is made to the people who are experiencing the problem of joint …
Impact of Junk Food
A survey, found that junk-food diet can damage health and can potentially shorten life. The young people of UK are unaware of the serious damage of health due to junk foods.
The British Heart Foundation poll, founded that 73% of age between 8 to 15 are prone to put on weight, develop tooth problems and get spots on their bodies and most of them unaware of junk foods and within short period they may end their life’s.
It is predicted that 2/3 rd of the people can become overweight and obese person by 2050.Todays 11 years old, can became overweight and obese and it is feared that today’s children may be the first generation who live shorter lives than their parents.
BHF survey, of 1,100 children, found that 56% people confidently predict that they will live at the age of 80, and 11% believe that they will live more than 100 years.
Ryan Bolton, …
Low Death Rates for Cancer in US
Annual report released on Tuesday, by American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and other groups says that, there is a decline in death rates and cancer incidence for the people of US for the fist time ever.
The Annual Report says that, decline in death rates and cancer incidence is due to the real progress made in early detection, prevention and treatments. But still the report indicates that of particular concern, lung cancer incidence, death rates, for the people increased in 18 states, but fell only one in California. And there are wide variations at the state and regional levels.
Lung Cancer is due to Tobacco Use and it should be Controlled Overall cancer incidence fell by 0.8 percent per year. It is observed that men and women per year, reductions are 1.8 percent and 0.6 percent respectively. Dr. Julie Gerberding says that “Unfortunately, tobacco use continues to plague our …
Obese People Need High Protein
Overweight and obese people need high protein meals in their daily routine diet which help to burn more fat. Australian researchers found that overweight men and women burn more fat when they ate high protein composition and also research suggest that, high protein diet helps people who have heavy body, can reduce their weight more easily than the people with low levels of their body fat.
In recent survey, it is found that 18 adults(around the age of 40 in that 8 people are overweight and 6 people are normal weight and 4 are obese people) who took meal of high proteins tested their metabolism for 3 days. In the 8 hours after meal, the researchers found that over weight and obese people burned more fat compared to the normal weight people.
We get rich- protein diet from lean meat, eggs, low-fat dairy, bread and vegetables have carbohydrate sources along with …
Active Life For a Kids
The research has said physical activity is a active life for ten-year growing kids the activity involves learning to play games that involve kicking, catching and throwing a ball” This study has shown that motor skills have an impact on later activity and fitness,” Lisa Barnett, an Australian public health specialist, Sydney University, who carried out the research said. They compared groups of children who developed different skills at the age of 10.
One group is good at hopping, side galloping and vertical jumping – so-called “movement skills”. Another group developed proficiency at kicking, catching and throwing a ball – these are called “object control” skills.
Barnett found that 10-year-olds who were good at object control skills were more fit when they reached age 16, than others.
These children as they grew up is more good at sports that require these skills, as well as other activities such as …
Paris bans smoking in Café
A law forbidding smoking in bars, cafes, and restaurants went full blast in Paris, France after the 11 month grace period. This is to continue the last year’s campaign against smoking in schools, hospitals, offices, airports and other public places.
Closed chambers however were built so as to accommodate smokers. A fine of $93 for the smokers and $198 for the venue and establishments will be imposed upon seeing anyone lighting a cigar in the public places.
Café owners however were worried about their businesses and said that some people will loose their jobs because the establishment’s sales will decline.
HIV +ve mom finally gets kid’s custody
A woman whose nine-years-old daughter was taken from her by a lower court and given in stead to her in-laws who threw her out because she had contracted HIV from her husband won custody of the girl after a Jaiur court ruled in her favour on Friday.
The woman was married in 1995 and contracted HIV from her soldier husband. When he died in 2003, her in-laws threw her out because she was HIV positive and refused to let the toddler go with her Hoping that the legal system would be less blinkered than her community and peers, she filed an application in an additional civil judge’s court seeking custody of her daughter. That, however, ws not to be. On september 17, civil judge and judicial magistrate Madhusudan Roy observed that she should not be given custody since she was HIV-positive.
“As the woman herself is HIV-positive, she will beunable to look …
Medicine helpline in need of help
A consumer helpline that needs help! That seems to be the case with the consumer helpline for medicines launched in October last year with much fanfare. Announced as an initiative for the “common man” by Union minister for the chemicals Ram Vilas Paswan, whose ministry controls pharmaceutical prices, the ‘medicine price helpline’ was supposed to provide information on essential drugs if a consumer called up a phone number 95124-39898080 (in Delhi) or 0124-39898080 (any where in the country). The 24×7 medicine at the initiative of the ministry of NGO, Consumer Voice, to answer queries related to the MRP (maximum retail price) of medicines, so that a uniform price is charged for a particular across the country.
The helpline was also setup to give information to consumers on availability and exact price of the medicines sold by chemist stores in the market, and to prevent them from being overcharged, particularly for people …
‘Shocked’ Hc rejects couple’s sex test plea
Affluent Couple Wanted To ‘Balance” Their Family
Sex selection is not only against the spirit of the Indian Constitution, it insults and humiliates womanhood. It violates a woman’s right to life. This is perhaps the greatest argument in favour of the ban on pr-natal sex determination tests in India,” said the Bombay High Court on Thursday as it threw out a petition pleading that affluent couples with same sex children be allowed to conduct such tests to “balance their families.”
The judgment came from a division Bench comprising CJ swatanter Kumar and Justice Ranjana Desai but was written by the latter who is among the few women judges in the High Court.
The judgment rejected the challenge to the constitutional validity of the provisions of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act which banned pre-natal diagnostic tests to verify the sex of unborn child.
The pettion was field by a …
How ‘an eye for an eye’ has turned noble
Many organs can be retrieved with in hours after death and transplanted
The Tamil proverb: ‘Yanai irundalum ayiram pon, irandalum ayiram pon’values the elephant as worth a thoushan gold pieces when alive (working for us) and just as worth in death (the tusk of ivory and other parts). I was reminded of this saying as we celebrate the Eye Donation Fortnight during august 25th september 8.
The fortnight brings home the point that we humans too have value, at least physiological, whether alive or dead.
The Moghul King Babar is reported to have beseeched Allah to take his life, if need be, in order to save his son Humayun from a near-fatal illnesss.
Such sacrfice regularly happens every so often these days when we hear of people donating blood, and even a kidney, part of their lungs, liver of pancreas to save othres.
The human body turns out to be useful to others even after …
Brain scans pinpoint how chocohilics are hooked
Chocoholics really do have chocolate on the brain. Their grey matter reacts differently when they see or taste chocolate than people who do not crave the food.
British researchers used brain scans to investigate subconscious reactions to the confection and found that the pleasure centres of chocolate lovers’ brains lit up more strongly in response to the food than those who are less partial.
Viewing pictures
There may also be some truth in calling the love of chocolate an addiction in some people. When cravers viewed pictures of chocolate this activated regions of the brain known to be involved in habit-forming behaviours and drug addiction.
Edmund Rolls and Ciara McCabe at the experimental psychology department at Oxford University U.K., used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of eight chocoholics and eight non-cravers. All the volunteers were women. The technique reveals where activity is happening in the brain.
The volunteers were presented first with …
Poor awareness about bone ailments
Besides the high prevalence of osteoarthritis, women have a high incidence of slipped disk and rheumatoid arthrits. Migraine disorders seem to be an almost exclusively women’s ailment with very low prevalence among men.
Prevalence of various ailments in general seems higher among woman. But certain diseases like Hepatitis-B, end -stage renal disease and oral cancer are mostly male diseases with comparatively very low incidence among woman.
Hypothyroidism, on the other hand, is an exclusively female ailment. Asurprise finding is that depression is widely prevalent cutting across gender and age groups.
When it comes to awareness about ailments, diabetes tops the list followed by HIV and various cancers, definitely heartening news for those involved in awarness campaingns for HIV and breast cancer. Yet, what is worrying is the rather low awareness level about the widely prevalent bone ailments, migraine disorders, depression and hypothyroidism.
No matter what the disease, the …
Heart attack victims do worse on drug stents
Patients given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly five times more likely to die six months to two years laterthan those with bare metal forms of the arterial scaffolding, research showed on Tuesday.
The finding, from a two year analysis of 2300 patients in 14 countries, fuels the debate over the safety of so -called drug-eluting stents, made by the likes of Boston Seientific and Johnson & Johnson. Doctors at the European Society of Cordiology said the finding showed the need to be very selective about giving drug stents to the right patients. Gabriel Steg of the Hospital Bichat-Claude Bernard in paris followed the fate of patients who were given stents tiny wire meshtubes used to prop open clogged heart arteries following a ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, the most deadly kind of heart attack.
For the first six months, those on drug …
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