Tag-Archive for ◊ Immune system ◊

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• Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Water is a vital mineral for the human body. What are the functions of water for the body ? Here are 10 important functions of water according dr.Tan Shot, Yen, M. Hum, medical doctor.

- Water prevents DNA damage and repairs more efficiently.

- Water increases the efficiency of the immune system in the bone marrow, including against cancer.

- Water is the main solvent of all foods, vitamins, and minerals; used to break down these materials and metabolism and assimilation.

- Water gives energy to the food, so that food particles could provide energy during the digestive process.

- The water used as conductor of all substances in the body.

- Water increases the efficiency of red blood cells to capture oxygen in the lungs.

- Air cleaning toxic waste from different parts of the body and took it to the liver and kidneys to be excreted.

- Water is the main lubricant in the joint cells and helps prevent arthritis and back pain.

- Water cooling system is important for the body (through sweat) and heating the body (electrical).

- Water helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.

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• Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Is your body vulnerable to disease? It could be as many germs are there in the body and bad habits are hard to break.

Usually there are many factors that causes the body easily infestation of disease germs, among them are bad habits that you live. Although they seem trivial but can be fatal to your health.

It’s good to stop bad habit. What bad habits that can cause disease? Here they are:

1. Not washing hands after using the toilet.

Maybe you’ve heard if the ‘sterile urine’ because you think it does not need to wash their hands after urination. While it is true but you still have to wash your hands thoroughly.

There are other activities such as wiping, rinsing, and touched the door handle – all of that can cause cross contamination of germs that make the body vulnerable to illness.

2. Trying food samples in grocery stores.

For the same reason, you don’t want to touch and even eat food that may have touch by other hands that not necessarily clean. Because it you shouldn’t put your hand into a bowl or jar of food samples offered at stores or supermarkets.

3. Covering a cough with your hands.

Most people cover coughs with both hands. If you tend to do this, try to do it any other way. When you cough or cover with arm right angle and not your hands. This way more polite also helps protect other people who have weak immune systems from disease germs are spread when you cough.

4. Frequent eye rubbing

Try to think that both your eyes as something sacred and untouchable. Train yourself to not touch it with your fingers and don’t mess with scrub or eye makeup, at least until you wash your hands first. Once you touch the eyes with dirty hands, then you immediately distribute all kinds of harmful bacteria and various viruses, which can cause serious infections and disturbing.

5. Touched and licked ordinary pets.

Make sure you always wash your hands every time you touch and close with your pet it. Because the saliva or feces of animals released were not only repugnant but also carry harmful bacteria such as MRSA can be transmitted to you.

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• Sunday, January 17th, 2010

In extreme weather conditions such as uncertain today, many people get a sore throat and flu. The air is very hot and sometimes suddenly become cool that make the immune system is weak and prone to sore throats. Here are some simple steps to care for sick throat:

1. Add fluid intake
Liquids useful help snot so thin and easy to clean.

2. Gargle salt water
Mix a half teaspoon of salt into a glass of warm water, use it to rinse. Do not swallow. This is useful to relieve sore throat and clear mucus.

3. Honey and lemon
Mix honey and lemon into a glass of hot water. Let cool before drinking. Honey useful to relieve sore throat and lemon helps reduce mucus.

4. Throat lozenge
It not just a throat lozenge, candy is also beneficial because it usually encourages saliva production. Saliva will wash and clean your throat.

5. Aroma therapy
Essential oil was used to kill germs. Put the essential oils into the furnace to clean the room from the seeds of disease. You can also sleep more soundly because of the smell of therapy.

6. Avoid smoke and other air pollutants
Cigarettes will only aggravate the sore throat. Stop smoking and avoid smoke from anywhere.

7. Fast talk
Sore throat affect your vocal chords. Talk just exacerbates the pain, while you’ll lose votes.

8. Do not spread your disease
If you do not feel well get permission not entered office. So you do not share the disease with office colleagues.

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• Friday, January 15th, 2010

Your immune system is weak? Check these signs
- Need much sugar
The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition say, 5 hours after we have 100 grams of sugar, the ability of white blood cells fight germs will come down drastically. One hundred grams of sugar is equivalent to three medium cans of soda.

- The body weight is heavier
The fact found that the swine flu victims have the same characteristics, that body mass index over 40. Being overweight can cause imbalances hormonal, inflammation, and disrupt the body’s ability to fight infection.

- Nasal Cavity is too dry
Clogged nose is very disturbing. But, if our nasal cavity is too dry, it is also not good, because mucus in the nose is useful to “trap” and clean incoming viruses. If there’s no mucus in the nose, it gave access for germs to attack our body’s defenses.

- Not enough drink
There’s a reason why doctors are always pushing us a lot to drink when sick. The body needs lots of water to remove toxins. The need to drink for every person is different, depending on the condition of the body and their respective activities. To know whether we had enough to drink or not is to see the color of urine. A good urine color is clear or pale clear yellow.

- Prolonged stress
No coincidence that we get flu when the work in the office is piling up. American Psychological Association reported that long-term stress can weaken our immune response. “If we stress during the flu, symptoms can be sure that we will experience will be even worse,” said Philip Thierno.

- Not feel well often
Typically, adults get flu about 2-3 times a year. If we are experiencing more than this, it can be ascertained the condition of the body is at a low level and should be followed up immediately with rest and nutritious food.