10 Reasons for Do Stretches
Fitness April 26th, 2010
Why should I stretch? Stiffness and tension in the muscles may occur not only because of sports. Can also occur because the posture is not good, also the stress and bad habits at the desk.
“The main benefit is the flexibility stretching,” said James Sutherlan from Balmain Sports Physiotherapy in Sydney, Australia. Also what else, huh?
This is the answer:
1. Keeping muscles supple and long for. Especially for people who get older, because aging causes the muscles and ligaments become shortened.
2. Relaxation. Stretching will relieve muscle tension and stiffness.
3. Flexibility while preventing shortage of age.
4. Reducing the damaged joints, which can result in reducing joint pain.
5. Making better posture and correct the imbalance in the body due to muscle rigidity.
6. Sleep better.
7. Improve energy and blood circulation.
8. Reducing the risk of injury by balancing the body.
9. Relieve muscle pain after exercise.
10. Improve physical appearance. @
Guidelines for Stretching
- Stretch everywhere: in front of the television, at work, or in the car.
- Can also do this stretch in pairs or using a tool to modify the stretch.
- Stretch as part of the cooling during exercise.
- Stretch for at least 10-30 seconds.
- Do not stretch more than 1 minute.
- Do not hold your breath during the stretch. Conversely, do deep breathing exercises to increase the supply of oxygen to the muscles during the relaxation process.
- Do not do the stretches in a state of muscle pain.
- Do not apply excessive stretch when you’re pregnant because it was the condition of vulnerable ligament injury.
Overweight Often to Headaches
Weight Loss April 26th, 2010
NEVER underestimate the negative impact of your baby is overweight. Therefore, some research shows when obesity has swept under the weather for those who experience it.
Examples of research in the superpower, the United States (U.S.) recently. Results showed penitian children and adolescents who are overweight have more frequent headaches than age friends who have weight proportionate.
The researchers also said, losing weight quickly can also cause headaches that occur repeatedly. Thus, for those who try to do a crash diet programs should not be too hasty to lose weight. The reason is, it’s bad for their health impact.
Studies conducted in seven clinics that handle maintenance headaches have found 34.1 percent of overweight patients (17.5 percent), or which would likely be overweight.
It also has the same ratio of overweight in children or adolescent population as a whole.
The researchers analyzed data has been collected on 913 patients at the beginning of the study. Then, performed again at three and six months later, which later found evidence of a link between weight loss and headache disorders.
“Among the children who are overweight, when he first visited a medical clinic headaches occur a change in body mass index numbers (BMI) is associated with changes in frequency of head pain they suffered,” said Dr. Andrew Hershey, Head of Research and Director of the Headache Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA.
“While we can not provide answers to the link between obesity and headache, the association is expecting some environmental and psychological processes common to both conditions,” he added.
The discovery was published online in Headache report, which has important implications for health practices, it was said Hershey. “The psychiatrist should actively consider a child who is overweight to the care of head pain,” he said.
He added that they also should routinely measure body weight, BMI, and prepared to offer information on weight control in the first treatment visit.
Seeing the impact that poor health for anakanak and adolescents are overweight, parents should begin to notice the weight of her baby early. Do not allow children to like foods that contain high calories. If allowed, the children will be hooked and west of their bodies would be swell.
If it were so, obesity-related diseases were already waiting in front of the eye.
How Immune System Works?
Health News April 26th, 2010
key to a healthy immune system is an ability to distinguish between self and foreign objects into the body. Usually when there is a foreign object into the body recognized there will be a process of self-defense.
Any foreign object that triggers an immune response are called antigens. May be a microbial antigen such as bacteria, virus, plasmodium, and mushrooms; even other individual tissues that enter the body such as organ transplants may be treated as a foreign body and can lead to rejection reactions. This is because the number of organ transplants that are unacceptable to the body and destroyed by our immune system.
In general, the mechanism of our body’s immune system is as follows; when there is an antigen (foreign objects into the body) is detected, several types of cells work together to find out who they are and respond. These cells trigger the B lymphocytes to produce antibodies, a specific protein that leads to a specific antigen.
For example if a person never exposed to smallpox, then usually the individual is not the same disease again or if the contract will not give a fatal complications and rapid recovery. This is also a mechanism of how immunizations to prevent certain diseases. An immunization introduces the body to the antigen in a manner that does not make sick, but enough to make the body produce antibodies that will protect a person from the disease in the future.
Antibodies alone can neutralize toxins produced by various organisms, and antibodies can also activate a group of proteins called complement that are part of the immune system and help destroy bacteria, viruses, or infected cells.
In abnormal situations, the immune system can be mistaken for our own part of the body as foreign and attack ourselves, this is known as autoimmune diseases. Usually the antibodies that attack this self-regulation can be formed without the virus due to previous stimulation, so that the antibodies come circulate throughout the body and can provide adequate organ damage worrying. For example Sistemic Lupus is a disease called Lupus or Eryhtematosus, and Scleroderma. In addition, this autoimmune reaction may cause threat to abortion in pregnancy.
In other cases, the immune system which responds to excess or hipereaktif of a foreign object so that incoming antigens are called allergens and can be symptoms such as swelling menumbulkan, watery eyes, runny nose, allergies, can even cause allergic reactions that threaten the great soul that is called anaphylaxis. Various kinds of allergic reactions incurred include asthma, eczema, allergic runny nose, cough allergy, food allergy, drug allergy and allergic to toxins.
The number of antibodies can be measured indirectly with CD4 cell counts. If the amount is less then a person suspected of having immunocompromized disease where the body resistance is very low, it can happen to people affected by HIV / AIDS, and non-HIV (old corticosteroid users, individuals with cancer, chronic diseases such as kidney failure, heart failure, diabetes, etc.)
Risk So Passive Smokers
Health Lifestyle April 26th, 2010
Did not enter eating jackfruit, uh … exposed resin. That’s bad luck passive smokers who are exposed to nicotine had come and toxic substances from cigarette smoke. Although only an instant, just as active smokers, the lungs were passive smokers too contaminated by more than 4,000 toxic substances cigarettes.
The experts had long been defined cigarette smoke is the smoke inhaled mainstream smoke, while the smoke from the burning cigarette tip is called sidestream smoke. Air pollution caused by mainstream and sidestream smoke is called second hand smoke (secondhand smoke) or environmental tobacco smoke (environmental tobacco smoke / ETS).
This second hand smoke is bad too, among other things, increase the risk of cardiovascular disease due to damage to blood vessels and changes in cholesterol levels.
Several studies showed that people who are often exposed to smoke from her husband for several years at risk of lung cancer by 20 percent. In the meantime, they are exposed at work or social environment, the risk is higher, namely 25 percent.
Although Air Conditioning (AC) can eliminate visible smoke in the room, but can not eliminate smoke particles because it will continue to circulate and very easily inhaled by those who are not smokers. Therefore, turn the AC is not an answer to avoid the dangers of cigarettes.
Despite the dangers of cigarettes has been understood, in fact there are still many smokers who do not care about the suffering of others. They were casually smoking on the bus or work space.
The anti-cigarette smoke that have been echoed it will not guarantee the right to not perkokok for clean air. Indeed, many now have found a special smoking room, but the authorities should also help smokers who want to quit smoking.
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Tomato Can Also to Diet
Diet Tips April 26th, 2010
Besides being used as a flavoring in many dishes, or drunk as juice, it rarely makes the fresh tomatoes as a snack. In fact, recent studies show that frequent eating tomatoes can help you lose weight. How?
Tomatoes rich in lycopene content, a compound which scientists believed could help provide satiety to decrease the appetite hormones.
These findings obtained by researchers from the University of Reading after test-enriched bread with tomatoes for 17 people aged 18-35 years. Given the time that compared to ordinary bread, and bread enriched with carrot, tomato bread was the most satisfying.
“It was a small study, and we can not say what the basic ingredients necessary tomatoes, but the results were statistically significant,” said Dr Julie Lovegrove, a specialist in the field of nutrition who led the metabolism of the research project.
According to The Daily Telegraph, lycopene is a substance that gives red color to tomatoes, and is a key component of the Mediterranean diet. Mediterranean diet has been believed to reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, dementia, and some types of cancer.
This research is certainly interesting to be developed again. Nothing wrong even if you begin to try it now. When fresh tomatoes taste boring, try to eat with a protein such as tofu and fried tempeh. Or, create a menu with grilled tomato cheese on top.
