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Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Keep Your Children from Drugs


As a parent, do not ever think, the little old elementary school do not know anything about these illicit goods. So, if you have a kindergarten or elementary school age children (approximately 5-11 years), does not mean you are free from this problem. Indeed, the best time to introduce the dangers of drugs is at an early age.

According to Priscilla Fabiola, M. Psi, a child psychologist from Jagadnita Consulting, now the influence of drugs is so great, especially from the immediate environment, such as friends. Before you realize, information about drugs could be reached the child.

The best time to teach drug in children, we recommend that when children under the age of 12 years. Such knowledge is useful to prepare the child entered the transition period toward adolescent children.

repay the dangers of drug abuse information to the kindergarten and elementary school age children. Do not underestimate the absorption of information into their brains. Febi explain, no matter how little knowledge gained, they are able to absorb them. However, for more striking in children, no matter how its delivery should be based on age.

In children aged 2-3 years
How to provide information on play symbol. For children this age, inanimate objects could talk. The pattern of their symbolic thinking. For example, if you want to teach not to snack at random, you can demonstrate a hawker who is talking, like, "Do not eat me, yes, the future can give you a stomach ache. When it hurts, it would not be playing with my friends. "So, teach it should be while playing.

Kindergarten age (4 or 5 years)
You can begin to teach children not to speak or receive free offers of any kind from strangers who met at school or elsewhere. Teach your child to yell when the stranger insisted. It's also growing assertiveness and assertive in her.

Children aged 6-9
You can invite children to talk about a certain street or a dangerous drug, which could make him sick, unable to concentrate learn or play.

Talk about drugs in the medicine cabinet in your home. Tell them that drugs are dangerous if not used properly. Explain, that the drugs were purchased from prescription, and should follow the instructions and dosage from the doctor. This method teaches children not to consume drugs carelessly.

Age 9 years and over
You can create newspaper clippings, which contains the writings and drawings about the dangers of drugs. They've been able to visually understand the explanation, but should be shown pictures of scary do not like skulls, but it's best to show the dangers of drugs. For example, images of drug users who can not learn, play, or not to school anymore.
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Detection of cavities Own


Appeal for dental health check once every 6 months to the dentist, is often touted. Surprisingly, many people are actually mengubris this recommendation. Just enter the left ear, right ear out.

In fact, who does not realize is another danger behind cavities. Dara Rosenberg, Head of the Department of Dental and Oral Health at St. Barnabas Hospital, New York, USA, reveal cavities are left in place too long can cause the focus of infection. A chronic infection in one tooth that already exist in a long time, so that could lead to disturbances in other body parts, such as heart, kidney and eye.

Quite scary, is not it? To prevent this, start caring for teeth that are not easily perforated and porous. Actually, what are the causes of cavities, and how to detect early?

Cause:
- The remains of food left behind and stuck to the teeth by changing the sugar is fermented into organic acids, and if neglected for too long, acid to develop into bacteria that contribute to undermine the tooth.

-Starting from the formation of plaque. When the dental hygiene overlooked, can form plaque on tooth surfaces with ease. Plaque which accumulates resulting in calcification process and cause cavities. Tartar attached to the tooth will become a gathering place for bacteria, which can damage teeth and gum tissue.

Detecting own cavities.
-Explore around the teeth with the tongue. In this way, in fact, may indicate the existence of holes in the teeth. Unfortunately, when it felt the tongue, can be signs of cavities large enough. Often, this situation occurred on molar teeth.

-Often feel pain in the tooth, when eating sweet, sour, or cold temperature, can be a signal you have cavities. To ensure a quick hole in the tooth is checked by a dentist.

-If you experience frequent migrein or stiffness in the neck continuously, and does not heal, you'll want to check the teeth, is there a hole in it. If there is, lest the cavities that the culprits. The condition also can be used as signals worsening of cavities.

Do not brush your teeth immediately after eating!
Brushing your teeth before sleep is very important. Because, during sleep, there is no activity, so the faster the decomposition process occurs. The trick was to be seen. For the bottom teeth brushing movements directed upwards. In contrast, upper teeth directed downward. The goal so that the remaining food that slipped in between the teeth will be clean wasted.

However, Rosenberg warned, do not immediately brush your teeth after every meal. Why? After the meal, fermented food scraps in the form of acidic compounds and create acid atmosphere environment around the teeth. In a few minutes earlier will increase acidity.

When brushing your teeth at the time of the degree of acidity in the mouth is still at critical levels, it can trigger decaltification (loss of calcium salts) on tooth enamel, which allegedly could accelerate tooth decay. So, should postpone brushing teeth immediately after eating, at least about 20-30 minutes after eating.
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Child Obesity is Diabetes Potential


Parents who have obese children seem to need to know the latest research on obesity. Medical science in the United States suggests diabetes is not only potentially affect adults but teens who are overweight. They are potentially exposed to the same disease.

From the results of eleven studies found children with diabetes had attacked children under age. Eleven children are still stricken with diabetes and need more insulin to remove the dependence on diabetes pills. Previous studies indicate the potential for very large diabetic attack adults.

D. Thomas Inge, a pediatric surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as reported by AP, Monday, December 29, 2008 said in a study of children found the same potential. However, Inge said, further research should be conducted openly to eliminate excess weight in order to observe the way care is much more likely to type-2 diabetes.

Further discussion will be conducted in January next. The number of people with diabetes in children increased after the diagnosis of disease associated with overweight previously rare in children. "This threat to the younger generation, really horrible," said Dr. Larry Deeb former President of the American Diabetes Association.

According to him, children are potentially overweight diabetics who require regular treatment and surgery if detected immediately.

Studies conducted on children aged 14 to 21 years old and weigh an average of 250 to 403 pounds. They were given insulin and diabetes pills. Research conducted in different hospitals, in research that they are given treatment by pass the stomach so that the stomach becomes small.

Compared to more than 67 other obese children with diabetes who get perwatan in Cincinnati Childre, their blood sugar can be controlled by way of medical diet. After one year they can lose weight from an average of 72 to 218 pounds after it alive with normal weight. For the ten children of whom can be cured of diabetes and drug dependency is also lost. As for who did not perform maintenance on the basis of research then the sugar content will increase.

Of those patients with diabetes of whom are also due to hereditary factors. Three years before the child is still overweight and dependent on insulin. "Description of diabetes will infect other children more," he said, adding if they indicated faster, diabetes in children will be easily handled.
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Control your Cholesterol, Enjoy Life!


Cholesterol is not all bad. This type of cholesterol is divided based on high density lipoprotein (HDL), which works 'hunt' cholesterol and make blood flow clean and smooth, and low density lipoprotein (LDL). LDL is often referred to as bad cholesterol. Elevated LDL levels will accumulate along blood vessels, causing narrowing and blockages.

As a result, the heart pumps blood that difficulties arise in the chest pain and headaches. Worse, it can cause sudden heart attack. Levels of bad cholesterol can also be higher than the increase in triglycerides (a fat in the blood that can damage arteries). To work around this, diet and exercise program that really could be a strategy worth telling dilakoni.

Being overweight can indeed indicate a high level of cholesterol in the body. But, you need to know, body lean or ideal does not mean free from high cholesterol. Irregular pattern of life is a major cause of high cholesterol. Such as smoking, too much high-fat foods, no exercise, and stress, mean the most likely exposed to high cholesterol. Women smoke have HDL levels of almost 14% lower than those who do not smoke.

The point is, no need to wait for ages to grow if you do not want to live burdened with cholesterol problems. The following are some strategies that can help lower bad cholesterol.

Choose unsaturated fats
All dairy products (full cream) as well as processed products, low-fat red meat, poultry skin, coconut milk, and butter contains saturated fats that act to increase levels of LDL. The American Heart Association recommends restriction of saturated fat intake per person, and it ranged between 7-10% of total daily calories (14-20 grams of a person who consumed 1,800 calories).

Therefore, to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, get used to eating unsaturated fats can lower LDL and raise HDL. Or, at least, to stabilize the levels of cholesterol. Sources of monounsaturated fats are olives, olive oil, canola oil, nuts such as walnuts and almonds, and avocados. While the sources of polyunsaturated fats are fish and vegetable oils.

Avoid Trans Fats
The term is aimed at trans fats, unsaturated fats that have undergone the process of hydrogenation (process used to make vegetable oil or other products more durable) so that it becomes saturated fat. These fats are found mainly in food packaging, such as crackers, cereals, baked goods, frozen foods, until the fried fast food. Therefore, beware if the product packaging papers listed partially hydrogenated (partially hydrogenated).

Measuring Cholesterol Levels
For those of you who are aged over 20 years, every five years or so should do blood tests to measure the amount of cholesterol. To obtain accurate results, you should not eat for 12 hours before the examination. Here are the results of normal cholesterol levels.
- LDL
Good: Less than 130 mg / dl
Better: Less than 100 mg / dl
To reach the normal limits
Reduce eat: saturated fats, trans fats, high-cholesterol diet.
Expand eat: Monounsaturated fats (avocados, and omega 3, such as fish).
Do: Losing weight.

- HDL
Good: 40 mg / dl or more
Better: 60 mg / dl or more
To reach the normal limits
Reduce meal: carbs and sugar and processed products.
Expand eat: Monounsaturated fats (avocados, and omega 3, such as fish).
Do: Exercise, not smoking, and lower weight.

- Triglicerin
Good: Less than 150 mg / dl
To reach the normal limits
Reduce meal: carbs and sugar and processed products, coconut milk, oil, and high fat foods (peanuts).
Do: Losing weight.
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Myths About Male Impotence


Many myths that developed around male impotence. You and your partner should be able to distinguish between fact and myth. Here are some myths that circulated among the men. It is time, you both know the facts.

- Myth: 'A real man' never impotent
Fact: All men aged over 30 have experienced impotence at least once in his life. It describes more than 150 million men worldwide have experienced impotence. The possibility that number will increase to 300 million or more.

Impotence or erectile dysfunction is the inability of a man's ability to maintain erection during lovemaking. Impotence is not related to the problem of libido, inability to ejaculate and reach orgasm.

- Myth: Impotence related psychological problems
Fact: Impotence associated psychological problems percentage is less than 20 percent. Diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and prostate cancer is the most common cause of impotence. Stress, and loss of confidence is a secondary factor causes of impotence.

- Myth: Impotence is a part of aging
Fact: Although the impotence experienced by many aged men, but on average are experiencing impotesi that have diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. So, why is not the age but the specific disease.

- Myth: Impotence is not no cure
Fact: In the world of medicine is not yet found a drug that can cure impotence permanently. However, many therapies that can be followed by impotence. And, the result is, quite effective. So do not just take the drug, but must be accompanied by therapy. Oral treatment is also growing like Viagra, treatment through injections and vacuum pumps.

- Myth: Impotence is only a problem guy
Fact: Impotence is not just men's issues. As a couple, the woman should also help overcome the problem of impotence. Start of treatment to accompany the couple to restore his confidence.

- Myth: Men know all about sex
Fact: Many opinions are circulating a man always know things related to sex. However, clinical studies revealed that impotence can occur because of lack of information related to 'mechanism' sex. The misconception that many men there is always talk about explicit sex. Though many men are also difficult to talk about it, so the lack of information about sex.
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Genetic tests, is it necessary?


Each person inherits one gene from the father and one gene from his mother's side. If both genes are relegated to the children is a normal gene, then the child will be normal. If a gene that normally obtained while one gene is a gene that sick again, then the child will live a normal life (do not show symptoms of illness), but he became the bearer of ill nature, because it can reduce the pain of genes to their offspring's future. That man is called a gene carrier sick. Whereas if the child inherited two genes that sick, then he will suffer from a disease called hereditary disease.

Now, Linda Nicholson, MS, MC, Consultant genetics of children's Hospital, Alfred I. DuPont, USA, revealed by genetic tests is not an impossible thing for you and your husband (or future husband), to detect early whether your child will later suffer from a disease that is derived from you or your spouse.

Disease that can be derived through genes, such as thalassemia, Down syndrome, hemophilia, muscular disorders, and congenital hypothyroidism. Surely, you will do everything for chronic diseases is not suffered by the little guy. Because of that, find out how below.

Who needs genetic testing?
- You are in a family there are people with thalassemia, hemophilia, and other hereditary diseases as mentioned earlier.
- You've had a miscarriage as much as 2 times or more.
- You will plan to have children over the age of 35 years.

When to test?
Should the examination be done before the couple married. However, in couples who are married and want to have children, or add the child, is also good if genetic testing for prevention. In addition to adults, genetic tests can also be performed in infants and fetuses that were conceived mother.

How to test
Generally, tests are done by taking blood samples and examine you or your partner to identify the genes sick. For thalassemia disease and hemophilia, detection can be performed at least 10 weeks old fetus. Examined is the DNA of fetal placental samples. Meanwhile, when the fetus has been aged a minimum of 16 weeks, examined DNA from amniotic fluid samples.

Chromosomal abnormalities of Down syndrome disease was detected in infants or fetuses by taking blood from the baby's umbilical cord or placenta tissue samples, or from amniotic fluid. Examination of the fetus carried the pregnancy aged between 10 to 16 weeks.

What if a positive test result?
If that is you and your partner tested, and the result is one (you or your partner) were known to be carriers of the gene while the only pain is normal, then your offspring safe against hereditary disease. At worst, your child's future is just as sick gene carriers.

However, if you and your spouse were both tested positive as carriers of the gene was sick, the doctor will usually hand over the decision to you both, whether the future will have children or not. Because, chances are your child's future offspring will suffer from the disease is 25 percent, 50 percent will become sick gene carriers, 25 percent will be normal (healthy).
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