Saturday, January 31, 2009

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Healthy living with the Organic Food

There are no people who do not want to live healthy. With the regular pattern of life and avoid stress, it can be fulfilled. One thing that is a remarkable selection of food. What food that can be spelled properly, can support up to a pattern of life is healthy. Type of organic food is a solution at this time.

Until now many people still wonder about organic food. Many also define as the fresh food without chemicals and pesticides. However, many also consider the type of food is the food special people 'mad' to return to nature. Apart from all that, it must be recognized type of food is good to reduce the negative effects of various toxic chemicals and pesticides.

The term organic food is not entirely based on the object is food. However, concerning how the process of food production and processing. So there is kind of true belief food produced without using chemicals toxic.

Until now we can not be separated entirely from the chemical and pesticide residues. For example land still contains chemicals because the use of urea fertilizer. Or air and water pollution are also to provide at least. This is because not all farmers use the Indonesian agricultural ecological system - consider the health and environmental rules.
So, what can a strong reason to choose the submission of this type of food।

The reason is

Hippocrates, a modern health knowledge, let the food be your medicine and let medicine be your food. Hippocrates thought now dug back as the basis why we should choose the food.

The reason for that is the problem of the future. Next generation we should not accept the negative consequences of what we do now. The results prove that the last study of children exposed to four times more than the effect of pesticides adults.
Up to now have recorded at least eight types of pesticides in food that can cause cancer। Selection of non-food chemicals and residues of pesticides at this time will bring important influence on health generations to come।
Also this issue we are concerned with the willingness to protect the water quality. As we know, two-thirds of our bodies contain water. Water also fulfill a two-thirds fill the earth. Water is essential for human life. But, until now most of ground water is estimated to have been soiled by pesticides.

Already there are 38 countries that water pollution levels exceed the threshold limit, and strange means more than half of the country's population drink unclean water line.

Another reason is energy savings. Most people now use modern agricultural fuel oil. To reach 12 percent of the total consumed by the sector. Means a lot of energy needed to produce chemical fertilizers rather than to cultivate and harvest crops.

In health, pesticides that can also cause cancer. Nearly 1.4 million cases of cancer in the world are caused by this material. Also appeared to give the influence of pesticides on birth defects, nerve damage and genetic mutation.

Selecting this means that the food we also help farmers viability. In health care, agricultural workers should be threatened when using pesticides. This is because the use of pesticide regulation in developing countries have not yet ensure the safety use. Until now estimated at one million farmers have poisoned pesticides per year. Some types of banned pesticides are used in the country that the U.S. still produced and exported to developing countries is.
Benefits

Choosing organic food is when viewed in terms of nutrition, the diet contains womb better with food than non-organic. So that the logic means more to help the process of growth and repair the body when experiencing problems.

"Food is also this type also appeared more sparingly," so the word Mother Bibong Widyarti D, one of the user this type of food. This can be possible because this type of food longer topical, until the rice is not much that is not removed, continue strengthen.

So, it is not harmful if we decide to use this type of food products as an alternative food in our family home. Fortunately the production process is the savings rate and reduce damage to the environment of the earth that we love.

Friday, January 30, 2009

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Aspects of health

Physical health

Physical fitness is good body health, and is the result of regular exercise, proper diet and nutrition, and proper rest for physical recovery.

A strong indicator of the health of localized population is their height|weight, which generally increases with improved nutrition and health care. This is also influenced by the standard of living and quality of life. Genetics also plays a major role in people's height. The study of human growth, its regulators, and implications is known as Auxology.

Main article: Mental health

Mental health refers to an individual's emotional and psychological well-being. Merriam-Webster defines mental health as "A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life."

According to the World Health Organization, there is no single "official" definition of mental health. Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how "mental health" is defined. In general, most experts agree that "mental health" and "mental illness" are not opposites. In other words, the absence of a recognized mental disorder is not necessarily an indicator of sound mental health.

One way to think about mental health is by looking at how effectively and successfully a person functions. Feeling capable and competent; being able to handle normal levels of stress, maintain satisfying relationships, and lead an independent life; and being able to "bounce back," or recover from difficult situations, are all signs of mental health.

A combination of physical, emotional, social and most importantly mental well-being is necessary to achieve overall health.

The LaLonde report suggested that there are four general determinants of health including human biology, environment, lifestyle, and healthcare services.[3] Thus, health is maintained and improved not only through the advancement and application of health science, but also through the efforts and intelligent lifestyle choices of the individual and society.


A major environmental factor is water quality, especially for the health of infants and children in developing countries.[4]

Studies show that in developed countries, the lack of neighborhood recreational space that includes the natural environment leads to lower levels of neighborhood satisfaction and higher levels of obesity; therefore, lower overall well being.[5] Therefore, the positive psychological benefits of natural space in urban neighborhoods should be taken into account in public policy and land use.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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Healthy Living Tips and Tricks

Healthy living

It seems that everyone is concerned with healthy living these days. This is a good thing; it is important to be concerned with your health and to look for better strategies to improve your life. On the other hand, it also seems like everyone has a quick solution for healthy living, for a hefty fee of course. It seems at times that you can’t turn on the television or open a magazine without seeing a celebrity or doctor trying to get you to buy their new book detailing the latest miracle diet that will change your life, whether it is fresh ground wheat grass or a daily tin of Brazil nuts. The reality is that these diets are unnecessary. Healthy living is available to everyone, and does not depend on buying the latest diet book or the most expensive vitamins. All that you need to do is to start making healthy decisions.

How to eat healthy

The most important facet of your life that you need to change as you move towards healthy living is to start eating nutritious foods. Do not try to follow a trendy diet, just eat a balanced diet of nutritious foods. When you eat well, you lower your risk of many health problems such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, certain kinds of cancer and osteoporosis. You will also give yourself more energy, allowing you to enjoy life again.

The most important group of foods, and the one that is most often the cause of poor diets, is fruit and vegetables. There is nothing particularly innovative about this advice; everyone knows that you need to eat your fruit and vegetables. The main problem is that so few people actually consume the seven to ten daily servings of fruits and vegetables they are supposed to have each day. And when they do eat fruit and vegetables, it is in forms that include added sugar, salt or fat.

The food group that we all eat too much of is meat. Try to limit your meat intake, and emphasize meat alternatives for your protein needs. While you definitely need meat or an alternative for the protein, most people eat far too much from this food group. You will be surprised at how little is actually required to get you through the day.

Get active

Once you have started eating well, it is time to go out and get some physical activity! Now, this does not mean that you have to incorporate a rigorous physical workout into your daily routine. Just including small amounts of physical activity in your life will make a difference. So take the stairs instead of the escalator, or walk to the corner store instead of driving four blocks. Start slowly and incorporate more physical activity into your life, and you will be amazed at how quickly the results will add up.

Have fun

The final component of healthy living is to have a healthy mind. Build up a strong peer group who will give you the social support you need to be truly happy. This will reduce your stress, which will only lead to a healthier body.

Steve Dolan is a triathete who lives a healthy lifestyle. Find out how you can too at Health and Vitality and for more fitness information try Fitness andHealth

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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Benefits white water for the body

Water is the source of life for all creatures. There would not be able to survive in the absence of water, and never the benefit of many more. Special to the human body, the white water has 4 main functions, namely: 1. Keep-alive organ in the body. 2. To ensure that the blood and lymph in the body volume and have enough thickness. 3. To set the temperature of the body. 4. Drinking water in the amount will be enough to encourage disposal of toxic or toxin in the body through sweat, urine and respiration. According to dr. Sukarliono compass in the Cyber Media, the water is good water that does not smell and does not contain pollutant such as heavy metals and substances such as chemical or kaporit Tawas.
The criteria are found in the drinking water in the packaging, but must also be careful, because not all drinking water in the sterile packaging of various bacteria and viruses.

The benefits of the other white water that is as natural healing, to the diet (drink a glass of white water every 11 kg of excess body weight, for example, the body of 160 cm high, less 110, the ideal body weight 50 kg, so that excess body weight is around 75 kg, so drinking water must be as much as 2 cup white), to refresh the body and many more others.

Specialties water will never run out of time along peeled. So, we are all obliged to drink water every day. Yes I can drink at least 8 glasses per day .. OK buddy all.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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Diet Right: Cut Calories, Not Nutrition

Get the nutrients you need when dieting

Embarking on a weight-loss diet can be a challenge as you exchange old habits for a new eating routine. As you shift your eating patterns, don’t let vital nutrients slip through the cracks. Cutting back doesn’t have to mean a nutritional nosedive. Remember to seek a doctor’s advice prior to kicking off your diet.

Don't skimp on fat

Many diets encourage decreasing fat consumption. By all means avoid saturated fat, but say yes—in moderation—to poly- and mono-unsaturated fats—the good guys. Fat helps with the absorption of fat-soluble vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and vitamin K. It’s also a concentrated source of energy, and the essential fatty acids in fat are vital for many important body functions. Reach for foods rich in omega-3—an essential polyunsaturated fat. Good sources are linseed and its oil; walnuts; oily fish such as salmon, mackerel, and tuna; and hemp oil.

Fill up on fibre

To curb hunger between meals, bulk up on high-fibre foods such as fruits, vegetables, pulses, and whole grains. Fibre gives you a feeling of fullness and slows digestion. When food moves slowly through the digestive system, blood-sugar levels remain on an even keel.

Vitamins for vigour

Exercise goes hand in hand with dieting and will help you reach your weight-loss goals more quickly. Don’t fall prey to low energy levels due to your lower calorie intake. Pack your diet full of B vitamins, which assist in many bodily functions, from energy production to regulating metabolism to overseeing thyroid and adrenal function. Include the following B-vitamin foods in your diet: whole grains, beans, eggs, yoghurt, green leafy vegetables, almonds, avocados, poultry, broccoli, brewer’s yeast, organ meats (like liver), nuts, and fish. Calcium: the powerhouse mineral

Recent studies have linked calcium intake to weight loss. Whether or not further studies bear this out, calcium remains a critical nutrient, especially for women. Calcium is vital to the formation and growth of the bones and teeth and helps to prevent osteoporosis, among its other roles. Get your calcium from green leafy vegetables, tofu, tinned salmon, and dairy products.

Lesser-known minerals are also hard at work keeping your body healthy and running at top speed. Trace mineral chromium assists in stabilizing blood-sugar levels and is found in brewer’s yeast, egg yolks, beef, hard cheeses, liver, and whole-grain breads. Zinc supports protein synthesis and is essential to the formation of insulin. Zinc sources include Brazil nuts, shellfish, eggs, and lean meats. Manganese helps regulate cholesterol metabolism and blood glucose and is found in wheat germ, spinach, split peas, nuts, and porridge.

Monday, January 26, 2009

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10 Bad Habits that damage the brain

Human brain consists of more than 100 billion nerve of each associated with a 10 thousand other nerve. Imagine, with the complexity of the brain like that, then you must love your brain enough to avoid the bad habits that often consider the trifling. The brain is the body's vital organs, which is the central nerve system control center. Manage and coordinate the brain most of the movement, behavior and body functions such as homeostasis tap the heart, blood pressure, body fluid balance and body temperature. The brain is also responsible for functions such as introduction, emotional. memory, motor learning, and all other forms of learning. Truly, a task that is very complex and many.

Then, 10 Avoid bad habits below if you still want your brain to work properly.

  1. How Not Breakfast
    Many people assume that such breakfast. But do not consume anything in the morning cause the decrease in blood sugar. This result in a lack of input of nutrients in the brain eventually ended in the brain slowdown. The best breakfast in the morning is not a heavy food such as fried rice special, but enough water white glass of juice and fresh fruit. Concise and useful to the body!
  2. eating too much
    Too many meals increase brain vessel that usually lead to the decrease of the mental strength. So eat in a normal portion. try to learn how to refrain from eating before you stop glut.
  3. Smoking
    If you have a parking lot of bad effects, everyone surely already know. And there's one more bad effects of cigarettes that was here. Smoking appeared to result in very egregious in the brain! Imagine, the human brain can shrink long run and eventually lost its function as a function-object diligent suck smoke it. Surefire in the elderly even when still young though, we are prone alzheimer (alzheimer disease is senile).
  4. Too Many consume sugar
    Feed too much sugar will inhibit absorption of protein and nutrition so that the body of nutrition and lack of development of the brain is interrupted. Therefore, reducing the consumption of sweet foods your favorites.
  5. The brain is the body to absorb most of the air. Too long in the environment with air pollution makes the brain does not work efficiently.
  6. Poor Sleep
    Sleep gives the brain the opportunity to rest. Sleep often neglect to make the brain cells to be dead tired. But most also do not sleep because it can make you become a sluggard slow. Should sleep 6-8 hours a day to be healthy and in shape.
  7. Covering the head when temporarily Bedroom
    Sleeping with the head covered is a bad habit that is very dangerous because the carbon dioxide produced during sleep, so concentrated tercemar brain. Do not wonder if the long run become brain damaged.
  8. Lack of brain Stimulation
    Thinking is the best way to train the brain work. Less thinking will make the brain shrink and ultimately does not work optimally. Diligent reading, listening to music and play (chess, scrabble, etc.) to make your brain active and creative think.
  9. Think Too Hard When body sick
    Working hard or learn when conditions are not fit the body also does not create severe brain effective. Already know are not healthy, it is total rest and you do not forsir brain.
  10. Rarely Talk
    Intellectual conversations usually take effect on the brain work. So do not too proud to be withdrawn. Chat quality is very good for your health.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

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Athletic Performance

Reach the peak of athletic performance. Take your game to the next level by learning some fitness essentials. According to research or other evidence, the following self-care steps may be helpful:

  • Eat more carbs
  • Supply the body with efficient energy fuel found in grains, starchy vegetables, fruits, low-fat dairy products, and carbohydrate-replacement drinks
  • Get enough water and electrolytes
  • Water is crucial for all sports activities—electrolytes are only important for extreme endurance exercise
  • Check out creatine monohydrate
  • Take 15 to 20 grams a day of this supplement for five or six days to improve performance of high-intensity, short-duration exercise (like sprinting) or sports with alternating low- and high-intensity efforts
  • Take a multivitamin
  • When your diet isn’t enough, extra vitamins and minerals will help your body get the nutrition it needs for exercise
  • Try vitamin C
  • Take 400 mg a day for a few days before and after intense exercise to reduce pain and speed muscle strength recovery

These recommendations are not comprehensive and are not intended to replace the advice of your doctor or chemist. Continue reading the full athletic performance article for more in-depth, fully-referenced information on medicines, vitamins, herbs, and dietary and lifestyle changes that may be helpful.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

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Meaning Healthy

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Healthy? A word full of meaning that simple. Healthy is longed for every human in the world. Maybe we are not aware of the importance of health conditions in the body and our bodies in shape. But what if our bodies are not fit or do not feel well? Which is in the mind we want is healthy fast. Health is an invaluable treasure that the price for the whole organism, especially humans. Pour money and property will not have meaning if we are not always in a state of health. A lot of money is not always guarantee our bodies healthy, even at this time is often proportionate straight between money and a lot of disease. Why? Source of most major diseases and often found from the "center". What is the "center", is a "center" here is the navel or the Java language "udel". Behind the navel it digestion. Tools digestive functions to process the incoming food from the mouth. If the tool into the digestion of food that we are not good, the result of digestion, we also will produce output that is not good. Currently, food is very diverse species and type. From a valuable $ 00.1 / 2 worth of food to the thousands and even hundreds of thousands of rupiah per share of food. From the very low-calorie and high calorie. Available from the net to gross once. Cholesterol from the low to the high cholesterol and others. Our bodies will provide feedback that pro-beda2 for various types of food, there is a normal course, there is a weak, so there is a head of "head-head" and so forth. This is likely to spur the emergence of disease in the future. Why does this happen? and why he's effects can vary between the one with the other? The endurance of the human body with the other one is also different, the same thing with its own during the time I have blood pressure that tends to always high. In fact, the last condition of the body are not well measured 160/110. It is the head just a little dizzy. For some people with blood pressure as it can not be built. In fact the human body resistance can be built and established by our own body. Many of the bodies we can create more powerful, the most easily and often made the suggestion of doctors is SPORTS. No doubt, that sports are very important for our bodies, in addition to making body in shape, can also issue a poisons in the body which issued through our sweat. In addition to the sports in fact there is another way that at this time is often discussed the start of the magnetic therapy.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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Circumcision may cut risk of AIDS and HPV

WASHINGTON - Three studies published on Wednesday add to evidence that circumcision can protect men from the deadly AIDS virus and human papillomavirus, the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women.

The reports in the Journal of Infectious Diseases are likely to add to the debate over whether men -- and newborn boys -- should be circumcised to protect their health and perhaps the health of their future sexual partners.

Dr. Bertran Auvert of the University of Versailles in France and colleagues in South Africa tested more than 1,200 men visiting a clinic in South Africa,

They found under 15 percent of the circumcised men and 22 percent of the uncircumcised men were infected with HPV, which is the main cause of cervical cancer and genital warts.

"This finding explains why women with circumcised partners are at a lower risk of cervical cancer than other women," they wrote in their report.

A second paper looking at U.S. men had less clear-cut results, but Carrie Nielson of Oregon Health & Science University and colleagues said they found some indication that circumcision might protect men.

The circumcised men were about half as likely to have HPV as uncircumcised men, after adjustment for other differences between the two groups.

Preventing AIDS
In the third report, Lee Warner of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues tested African-American men in Baltimore and found 10 percent of those at high risk of infection with HIV who were circumcised had the virus, compared to 22 percent of those who were not.

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Circumcision
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"Circumcision was associated with substantially reduced HIV risk in patients with known HIV exposure, suggesting that results of other studies demonstrating reduced HIV risk for circumcision among heterosexual men likely can be generalized to the U.S. context," they wrote.

Studies supporting circumcision to reduce HIV transmission had all been done in Africa and U.S. studies were less clear.

Dr. Ronald Gray of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and colleagues said they found the reports encouraging.

"In the United States, circumcision is less common among African American and Hispanic men, who are also the subgroups most at risk of HIV," they wrote in a commentary.

"Thus, circumcision may afford an additional means of protection from HIV in these at-risk minorities."

But they noted that the American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend routine circumcision for newborns.

"As a consequence of this AAP decision, Medicaid does not cover circumcision costs, and this is particularly disadvantageous for poorer African American and Hispanic boys who, as adults, may face high HIV exposure risk," Gray and colleagues wrote.

"It is also noteworthy that circumcision rates have been declining in the U.S., possibly because of lack of Medicaid coverage."

Medicaid is the state-federal health insurance program for the poor and disabled.

Thirty-three million people globally are infected with AIDS, which has no cure and no vaccine. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world, with 20 million people in the United States infected. It causes cervical cancer, which kills 300,000 women globally every year.

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