Archive for July 2011
Drinking Milk at Night Prevent Osteoporosis
July 30, 2011 | 
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Calcium in milk is one of the best nutrition for bone health as calcium is more readily absorbed. For maximum results, milk should be consumed at night.
At night, osteoclasts or cells of the bone crusher does not work. Also at night, we did not do much activity, so that dairy calcium absorption could be more optimal.
Bone is living tissue that continues to actively work, so the bone grows when we are young and have the ability to repair when damaged or broken. This repair process occurs in the bone surface simultaneously. This special bone cells called osteoclasts that absorbs the old bone repeatedly, and osteoblasts will replace them with new ones.
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How to Avoid Toxoplasmosis
Parasite Toxoplasma gondii infection (toxoplasmosis) can cause serious health problems in people with poor immune systems. In pregnant women, toxoplasmosis before and during pregnancy can be transmitted to the fetus, and can cause miscarriage, the baby died in utero, the baby’s head size is smaller or larger than normal, blindness, deafness, and so on.
To avoid toxoplasmosis, The American Academy of Pediatrics gives some of these tips:
- Pre-marital health check to ensure you and your partner really well.
- Check your health care when planning a pregnancy, so that precautions can be taken immediately, in case of toxoplasmosis and other infections.
- Eating meat that completely cooked. Meat that stored in the freezer for several days, or smoked meat, usually do not contain toxoplasmosis, but should still be cooked before eating.
- Drink milk that has been cooked or pasteurized.
- Wash hands with soap and warm water after handling meat. Wash cooking utensils as well as knives, cutting boards, and the bowl, until completely clean.
- Wash fruits and vegetables with clean running water. Read the rest of this entry »
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Technology Equipment Disturb Your Sleep Patterns, Use It Wisely !
Humans constantly strive to create a variety of advanced tools with the aim of making life easier, comfortable and enjoyable.
But in reality, the technology also has made a human being ‘tortured’. Time to rest could be a mess, so many people in modern times become more frequent sleepiness.
That at least is reflected in the results of the poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation in the United States recently.
“Sleep and technology, not in sync,” said the polls show, the 2011 Sleep in America.
Russell Rosenberg, PhD, chief executive at the polls and director of The Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine and Technology, said the use of cell phones, computers and video games before bedtime and midnight – as is often done by teenagers and children today – have been confiscated a lot of time allotted to rest.
“The poll of this year is to focus on technology and electronic tools are used by the people, the tools are very easy to find everywhere,” he said.
In addition to revealing the influence of technology on sleep duration, the poll also found, that so many Americans are not happy with the quality of their sleep. Noted there is a third of U.S. adults sleep less than seven hours a day, and the fact it puts them at risk for serious health disorders.
This year, the routine surveys conducted since 1991 by the National Sleep Foundation, involving 1508 respondents. Respondents were divided into the four age groups: 13-18, 19-29, 30-45 and 46-64. Read the rest of this entry »
Exercise Your Brain!
In order for the five major brain cognitive function still works fine, do the following stimulation as suggested by Dr. Bernard Croisile, neurologist from the Neurological Hospital of Lyon, France.
- Memory
Listen to music. It’s not only creates a feeling of pleasure, by selecting a song that we do not know it before and then try to memorize the lyric, levels of acetylcholine, a chemical that helps build the brain be fueled. Memory capabilities will also improve.
Another challenge that you can do is wearing a shirt with no lighting or use a different hand while brushing your teeth. For a lefty, try it with your right hand. vice versa.
- Attention
Change the routine. Change routes to and from work, reset your desk or room at home. It will awaken the brain from the previous habits. You can also combine the activity of listening to audio books while jogging.
- Language
If you’re used to reading newspapers especially the sports section of course, try to read a business article a little deeper. You’ll get new words, which would be more easily understood when you read it in context. This will help you to develop your language skills.
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How To Reduce Your Cholesterol Level
If you’re targeting the reduction of cholesterol levels, then, depends on cholesterol-lowering drug without diet and exercise settings is a futile act. Cholesterol reduction programs must be multidisciplinary.
Lifestyle changes are the first line in a program to decrease bad cholesterol. This lifestyle, including avoiding foods high in calories and a source of cholesterol, and change it with healthy food and a source of fiber.
Other lifestyle that needs to be modified is to exercise. For those of you who have risk factors for heart disease, such as obesity, diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol, and have a family history of heart disease, then the sport is highly recommended.
Research shows that exercise would increase levels of good cholesterol (HDL) 3-6 percent and lowers bad cholesterol (LDL) to 10 percent. In addition, triglyceride levels will also go down. Of course, this effect is not obtained from the exercise alone, but must also be strengthened with the diet. The approach must be multidisciplinary.
Exercise increases the size and amount of the protein that carries cholesterol in the blood. The large-sized lipoproteins in the blood can not be stockpiled.
In addition, people who suffer from hypercholesterolemia is an obese person, so weight loss because exercise will also lower cholesterol as well, and this is a long-term effects. Read the rest of this entry »
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