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Facts about Heart
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• Monday, December 21st, 2009

Heart is often referred to as the center of life. So, we should always try to maintain good health as important organs in our bodies. Then we should understand the important facts about heart.

1. When the body is cold, heart keep warm
When we were in the cold area, our body will automatically drain the blood from the legs and arms toward the vital organs – including heart-to keep the temperature remain normal. That is why feet and hands are cold. This broke the theory that people who have fingers and feet cold, means having a bad blood circulation and heart problems.

2. Rarely socialize about heart attacks trigger
Heart attack patients who rarely socialize had more prone to depression. In fact, the stress flow can trigger hormones that make the heart work harder, until finally stopped beating. It suggested that heart patients be closer again with friends or family. Support from loved ones was very significant, and can help them to be more calm and strong through life.

3. Shock can make the heart want to “fall out”
Not only because of shock, a shock event that is also contributing. This is related to the existence of the aorta, the main channel where blood flows into the arm, neck, and brain, which is located at the top of the heart. When startled, scared, or nervous, we feel the heart beat very fast and seemed about to burst from my chest.

4. The heart forms of each person vary
The heart forms of tall and thin people tend to be longer and slender. While in the fat body, the shape can vary. Location of the heart was not in the right or left side of our chest, like a lot of people understood until now. Our heart lies in the middle of the chest.

If until now doctor always your put his stethoscope on the left side of our chest when he check the heart, it’s because the left ventricle of the heart is bigger and feels the pulse, rather than one on the right.

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Soda Drinks Addictions
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• Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Do you always drink soda for lunch? Was in the refrigerator at home there are always 1-2 cans of soda? Do you feel something is missing if you don’t drink soda every day? If you often say yes, there are bad habits that you should stop!

Soft drinks become the world’s second drink people favored. Although recently sales of soft drinks in the United States experienced a slight decrease doesn’t mean the soda drink is not popular anymore. You should refer to these important facts about sodas.

Soda: Only Liquid calories

Each can or bottle of sweet carbonated drinks provide only a supply of hundreds of calories but not the substance of important nutrients. In fact, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, soda is the only largest source of calories in the American menu, representing 7% of all caloric needs.

Soda is also base of some health problems, many studies found that soda related to obesity. For example, research on school children in Massachusetts found that each additional daily sugary drink to children will make obesity increased by 60%.

‘Research sponsored by the beverage industry finds no link between soda and obesity in children. Research funded by the other parties to get different results, ‘said David Katz, MD, a professor of public health practice at the Yale School of Medicine.

Soda is often associated with many health problems. Many studies have found that soda can increase the risk of diabetes. Everybody knows soda can damage tooth enamel. Also, some research found that soda can increase the risk of osteoporosis by cutting off milk in the menu. Caffeine can affect the absorption of calcium.

Issue of osteoporosis is a problem for adults and teenagers, who tend to drink lots of soda.

‘The time to reach the bone density in a very short life, and during that time the girl child should drink plenty of milk and reduce the soda, but the opposite happened’, said Alison Field, Dsc, professor at Harvard Medical School and researcher in child obesity case children, adults and women.

Is it safe to Switch to Diet Soda?

Research on this is less clear. A study published in the journal Circulation in January 2008 found that people who drink diet soda once a day risk 34% higher in the face of the metabolic syndrome that includes the health problems of overweight, increases in blood sugar that triggers diabetes.

In addition to animal studies also found that diet soda can lead addicted to sweet foods. Perhaps this makes sense. “We have a’ sweet tooth ‘, not’ sugar tooth ‘. Candy to give food to the ‘sweet tooth’ and more candy will continue to be acquired was less” Katz explained.

However, Barry Popkin, PhD a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, noted that research on human soda doesn’t include the type of food eaten by the type of soda drinkers of soda drinkers who eat healthy foods and soda drinker type remained eating junk food. This last mentioned is they who are at risk of metabolic syndrome.

Avoiding Drink Soda

If you know that the sweet soda doesn’t bring benefits, how you can avoid fizzy drinks?

If it was not a marathon runner, should not have to drink soda very large calories. Some of these things you can try.

* Try changing slowly sweet soda with a diet. ‘Not very satisfying, but to avoid obesity, you should drink diet soda.

* Reduce gradually; instead of soft drinks (or diet soda) every day with alternative beverages. The best is water. Drinking water is healthier. Biologically our bodies need plenty of water. From a series of studies proved that there is an extra metabolic effect of drinking water.

* If you want something that is the flavor, try a flavored mineral water that is free of calories.

* If you want caffeine, it’s better to drink tea or coffee with a little sugar.

* You don’t need to throw a soda at all. ‘If you really want to, could be limited but not eliminated altogether necessary, you can’t keep going,’ Field suggested.

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4 Ways to Control Your Appetite
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• Friday, December 18th, 2009

Lots of advice about diet, however, one undeniable fact, we always eat too much. Now, at least two-thirds of American adults have the obesity. In average, the weight of men and women body now increasing about 8 kg (18 pounds) than the average man in the 1970s. In the meantime, part of the brain that regulates hunger, the hypothalamus has not evolved since 30 years ago. So, it was clear that this related to our intake. In order not to increase again, you can try to do the following things to control your appetite.

1. Give hunger “rating”
Before you chew or put something in his mouth, gave ratings of how you feel in your stomach on a scale of 1 to 5. Score 1 for very hungry and score 5 for satiety. When you reach the score rating 4-5, that’s mean it doesn’t came from physical and you don’t need to eat. So you need to find out more what makes you want to eat. The most common reasons for eating while on the score rating 4-5 because of boredom or stress. Way to overcome such as by conducting activities that don’t relate to the activities of eating, for example, mingle with friends, a walk, or reading.

2. Think about what you eat
External stimuli are often disturbing when we were eating. These disturbances often make us eat without thinking how much we eat. An experiment had been done that subjects eat soup from a bowl that was given filler pipe on the bottom. During their dinner, keep the bowl filled with soup from the bottom without their knowledge. The result, they are able to eat foods 73 percent more than those who ate from regular bowls. This means: eating enough needed attention, planning, and the ability to hold back.

3. Alert triggers
The End of overeating, theorized that we eat when not hungry because the combination of fat, sugar, and salt contained in the snack is difficult for us to reject. The more food we eat, the more dopamine (the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure) that produced our brains, the more we consume. Over time, the mere sight or smell of certain foods, it is enough to make your brain active part of our satisfaction.

For that, it suggested to choose snacks that don’t pass processing and not much fat, sugar, and salt. Plan to eat meals and snacks away from time. Avoid trigger situations (if your home is through the bakery, choose another route), or imagine the actual food is not good for you with the unpleasant images (eg, associate ice cream with a fat stack).

4. Foods with content
People are not too BASED on the number of calories / create to indicate they are full. In contrast, humans are more often stuffed with a view indicating the number or amount of food in front of them, do some tricks to your body. Choose foods that contain lots of water, such as vegetables, fruits, and clear soup.

Protein and fiber can also help a person achieve satiety without overeating. Foods such as salmon, chicken breast, nonfat yogurt, low-fat cheese, vegetables, oatmeal, peas, and chicken-vegetable soup can be an option.

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Control Your Hunger
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• Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Hunger sometimes make you panic, so you ate in large quantities and quickly. And this hunger can actually make you eat more than you need. How to control hunger so had no bad effect for health?

Hunger is closely associated with blood sugar levels. If you eat regular meals each day then the sugar levels will tend to be stable ground. However, if you’re hungry all day, the heavy hunger come and need foods as soon as possible.

“Blood sugar will drop dramatically after 4 hours without eating,” says Valerie Berkowitz, MS, RD, nutrition director at the Center for Balanced Health in New York City as quoted by Men’s Health America. With severe hunger, must be sought cakes, food court, a cold sweet drinks or fast food outlets. They can raise blood sugar levels in a short time.

The problem is the increase in blood sugar triggers the pancreas work harder to release insulin. This insulin in decrease blood sugar levels and provide signal to the body to store fat. In most people insulin tend to be excessive to move blood sugar levels. “It make effects, then people will be forced to go hungry and eat more,” so clearly Berkowitz.

The most effective way to control blood sugar levels is to avoid foods processed with sugar added, like soda, fruit juice, crisps and sweets. Should reduce or limit these foods. Reduce all types of foods that contain flour. For example rice, pasta, bread, noodles, potatoes and all flour-based foods. Although we know those are good food, had vitamins and fiber. Limit your intake of 30-40 grams of carbohydrates for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and 10-20 grams for a snack.

In addition, follow these three practical ways:

* Eat regularly, at least once every 3 hours. Eat smaller meals before feeling hungry.

* Eat fat and protein each meal (likes meat, cheese, eggs, and fishes). This will slow the processing carbohydrates that could trigger an increase in blood sugar.

* Eat whole grains. We have sold a lot of different cakes and bread made from whole grain Try to buy pasta, rice and bread made from whole grains. Whole grains contain fiber that can lower blood sugar levels.

* To practice it is not difficult. Eat regularly enough and don’t let hungry lasted too long.

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Drink Water for Slim Body
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• Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

You must have heard the advice to drink 8 glasses of water a day so that no shortage of body fluids. Drink water or even eat fruits that contain water such as melon, watermelon, and the like can provide health benefits is very large, including preventing fatigue. But perhaps the most important benefits for the stomach if you drink enough water is the water can help maintain water balance and water storage in the body. Water also helps prevent constipation, which can cause bloating.

Drink eight glasses of water a day is just the basic guidelines for most people because it really needs liquids every person varies according to the intensity of activity and body size. But eight is a pretty good amount for a healthy body. All liquids (drinking water and foods that contain water) that comes into our body, calculated as total fluid intake. But keep in mind that not all good fluids support the belly flattening program that you do.

For starters, we recommend drinking water combined with lemons, and ginger so that was not boring. Selection variations in drinking water here are not just giving a different taste, but also health benefits for the body. For example, ginger can soothe and reduce Glycaemix Index or the glycemic index (IG) in the body. With a low glycemic index, it will be slower in the fox food into sugar and produce insulin response. And lower the body’s insulin response, the accumulation of fat can be reduced.

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Fight fat with green tea
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• Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Slimming drinks

Reduce excess fat and live healthier with a sip of green tea fragrance. Do you want to?

Every woman would dream of the ideal body shape and free from fat. Make our dreams come true by getting regular exercise and intake of healthy menus. Optimize results of our diets by drinking 4 cups of green tea every day. Experts believe, appropriate fluid intake can help to smooth our slimming program.

Information about the efficacy of antioxidant ingredients in green tea can reduce the risk of cancer and the clogging of blood vessels would have to know all of us. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition revealed that green tea benefits the other, namely as a weapon to combat the problem of fat in the body. The key is the content type of polyphenol substances called catechins. The experts from Tomonori Nagao of Health Care Products Research Laboratories in Tokyo, believes catechins which act as reducing fat and cholesterol levels.

Best dose: for extremely obese people who took a 5 cups of green tea a day can help reduce the calories up to 70-80 per day. For moderate doses, we just eat 4 cups a day.

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Against Weight Rising
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• Monday, December 14th, 2009

As we get older, the elastic waist becomes a problem for us. As a result we keep away from the weights and buying clothes ritual became an unpleasant activity.

Weight gain at age 40 years and over is normal. The reason, hormonal changes make very easy to accumulate fat in the body. But in fact, hormonal only changes our bodies up 1-2.5 kilos.
What makes our weight continue to rise is our not healthy lifestyle and rarely exercise?

So what can we do?
Hold this key 3, mind, muscle, and mouth.
Mind
Use the mind to control the stress. Hormonal changes also affect our emotional stability. Choose the size, quality, and frequency of nutrient-rich meal. When we talk about the adequacy of nutrition for the elderly, the diet should consist more of wheat, fruits, vegetables, plus protein, we must also remember numbers of daily calories we need.
We are 40-50 years old, needs 1500-1600 calories a day if we do sports. While for men aged, the required calories per day is 1800-2000.

Muscle
In order not accumulate in fat-free, we must do sports. Physical activity is not only reduced the fat in the body but also strengthens our bones. Ideally, the percentage of body fat in older women is 22-27 per cent and 18-25 percent of daily caloric needs for men.

Mouth
As for the rules of eating, we should eat every 3 or 4 hours. That way, we will not overeat because too hungry for too long.

But remember, do not eat too late. For the night we eat, the more the body has little time to process into energy.

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Make Your 15 Minutes Visits to Doctor Effective
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• Thursday, December 03rd, 2009

Now, people stay in a doctor’s exam room no more than 15 minutes. Well, those 15 minutes becomes more valuable, so you should prepare some questions
Before visiting the doctor
1. Prepare short questions about your medical condition. For simplicity, you can write on a piece of paper.
2. Help your doctor help you. Tell all what you feel. When did the symptoms begin to be felt? So have you ever had the same experience in connection with that.
3. Make time table so you can see if there a relationship between symptoms and date with everything that triggers the emergence of an attack.

In the waiting room
1. While waiting for your turn, repeat a few key questions about your health then, especially the reason you visited at that time.
2. Relax and breathe regularly.

In the examination room
1. Greet your doctor with a smile. Generally, patients rarely ask doctor conditions at that time. But actually, these friendly conversations can make a doctor’s examination cooperatively.
2. State the purpose or reason for your visit and let the doctor know the expectations you want from the meeting.
3. If you have more than one reason to visit, let your doctor know the second reason could be related or no.
4. Discuss questions that you want to ask. Do not be shy to read the questions that you have written earlier, in case you forgot a few questions to ask. Your doctor will appreciate your curiosity.
5. Ask for an explanation from the doctor for any procedure or medication given to you as a whole.
6. You can write some answers from the doctors, the things you want to remember. This can save you time to call the doctor the next day.
7. Do not be shy to ask about your personal problems, such as sexual problems or other problems, because it will provide useful information that helps you to be able to give better attention.
8. If there are words that are not understood, it could not hurt to ask what it means.
9. Listen to the doctor with a good explanation. Let him know that you are very enthusiastic about this explanation.
10. Ask your doctor if you have to do inspections. Or is there a medical test you have to do regarding your medical condition is.

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