Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Tips to Prevent Brain shock (Head Injury)

Tips to Prevent Brain shock (Head Injury)
Concussion or head injury is experienced by the brain injury in a collision experienced by the head. Traffic accidents are common causes of concussion. Other causes are sports, especially sports that gave priority to physical contact or driving.

Symptoms of concussion include drowsiness, headache, loss of consciousness, dementia, confusion, dizziness and difficulty communicating. Patients who experience these symptoms should get immediate medical attention and should rest in the hospital until determined how severe the head injury.

Here are some tips to prevent the occurrence of concussion:
  • Use protective head or helmet when you drive a motorcycle or sports activity that gave priority to physical contacts. Although helmets are not too guarantee you will not have a concussion but at least to reduce the impact of collision.
  • Remember always to obey the traffic rules so that you avoid the accident.
  • Note the rules that are used when you follow the sport of physical contact, if that rule was not enough to protect your head, make a change.

Walk the morning to make the body stay fit

Walk the morning to make the body stay fit
Walking in the morning is a simple way to make the body stay in shape. Freshness is obtained in the morning starting from the air and the environment will affect the body.

This condition makes the body ready to perform various activities during the day. At least there are 8 major benefits to the diligent exercise in the morning as reported by Lifemojo, Friday (22/04/2011):

1. Good blood circulation
Morning walk serves as a fine cardio workout by speeding up the heart rate and pumping blood to every part of the body. This exercise increases blood circulation and help control blood pressure and cholesterol in the long term.

2. Muscle strength and stamina
Morning walk to help increase muscular endurance and increase blood oxygen carrying capacity, thus improving overall stamina. So, with the regular morning walk does not have to worry about tired during the day.

3. Controlling blood sugar
Morning walk is one of the best ways to control blood sugar, especially if you are a diabetic and insulin disorders. A study published in the journal American Medical Association found that people who exercise in the morning showed better control of blood sugar throughout the day.

4. Improved skin quality
Many people with skin problems like acne, the reason is pollution. Walking in the morning helps your skin to breathe in oxygen that is free of pollution and fog in the morning has a moisturizing effect on skin.

Vitamin D is absorbed from the sun in the morning was also very helpful. While you sweat, the skin pores open and clean, giving a healthier skin, which results can be seen only in a few days.

5. The quality of a good sleep
People who diligently walking in the morning are also easier to sleep soundly at night. A study conducted at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, shows that exercise performed in the morning helps in provoking sleep at night.

6. Improved metabolism
When sleeping, your metabolism slows down completely. Roads in the morning is the best way to start increasing your metabolism. Many studies have proven that people who used to walk in the morning have a better metabolic rate than people who do not run at all.

This ensures that you feel more active, energetic and mentally alert throughout the day. Some studies also show that people who regularly with morning exercises tend to have a very sharp brain and good decision makers.

7. Good mental health
Morning walk almost the same benefits as meditation. Wind fresh morning to release positive energy and helps overcome mental problems like depression and anxiety. This can put you in a good mood all day.

8. Absorption of vitamin D
Bathing or soaking up the morning sunshine vitamin D to help absorb valuable to the body, as well as reduce the risk of loss of calcium from the bones that can lead to conditions such as osteoporosis and osteopenia.
Lowering Blood Pressure With 1 Siang Can Sleep Clock

Lowering Blood Pressure With 1 Siang Can Sleep Clock

Napping sometimes identified with slacker. Though there are benefits too lho. A short nap for 1 hour can help you lower your blood pressure and reduce work stress making you more refreshed.

When the daily routines of work and make your stress and depressed, it's good to rest and sleep for a moment to control blood pressure and away from hypertension and heart disease.

Studies conducted by researchers from Allegheny College in the U.S., found that 45-60 minutes of sleep during the day could help lower blood pressure after experiencing stress and pressure when on the move, rather than people who do not sleep.

By night's sleep now that an average of two hours shorter than 50 years ago, researchers claim nap provides a simple way to improve heart health.

Longer working hours and night shift to make people spend more time watching TV until late at night, which affects not sleep soundly. As a result, hours of sleep a night less than two hours from the time they should.

In fact, lack of sleep has been associated with numerous serious disease risk is higher, such as hypertension and cardiovascular problems (blood vessels).

"Our findings show that napping can provide cardiovascular benefits by accelerating cardiovascular recovery from stress mentally," said Ryan Brindle and Sarah Conklin, Ph.D., from Allegheny College, as reported by the Telegraph, on Thursday (03/03/2011).

In this study, researchers studied 85 healthy students were divided into two groups, which take a nap for 60 minutes and that does not take a nap.

The findings, published in Springer's International Journal of Behavioural Medicine shows that students who take a nap for between 45-60 minutes to have lower blood pressure levels significantly during the recovery phase of post-activity (nap) than students who do not sleep.

"These experiments prove that napping gives healing and protective benefits," said Sarah Conklin, PhD.

Further research is needed to explore the mechanisms linking sleep during the day with heart health, and to evaluate a nap as the practice of healing and protective, especially for people with risk of cardiovascular disease and those with optimal sleep quality.
Tea For Pemuas Thirst More Helpful Of Pure Water

Tea For Pemuas Thirst More Helpful Of Pure Water

Water is beneficial for the body, but not the only healthy choice to quench thirst. For most people, good tea because it was more potent than quench thirst also can provide more benefits than white water.

The advantage is revealed in a search of the various studies that have been published in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The editor, Dr Carrie Ruxton is also a nutrition expert said that in general, satisfy the thirst of tea as superior to white water.

"The function of water is to replace lost body fluids. Tea provides a double benefit because in addition to replacing fluids can also contain antioxidants," says Dr Ruxton as quoted by the Times, Sunday (16/01/2011).

Antioxidants in tea is the antidote, especially flavonoids that prevent free radical cell damage and premature aging caused by pollution and unhealthy diet. Some experts also bermanfaaat metyakini antioxidants in the prevention of cancer and heart attacks.

Meanwhile, the BBC reported, in the form of flavonoid antioxidants is also beneficial for healthy teeth and bones. In addition to strengthening bones and joints, flavonoids also prevent tartar formation and reduce the risk of tooth loss and decay.

Dr Ruxton also disputed the myth that tea actually cause dehydration or loss of body fluids because they contain caffeine which is a diuretic aka piss bullets. According to him, the liquid that comes out from the effects of caffeine are not more numerous than the incoming fluid along with steeping tea.

Dr Ruxton opinion is supported by the British Nutrition Foundation, which advocated for a cup of tea from 1.2 to 2 liters a day or 8.5 cups of medium size. However, anemic patients should not drink tea just before and after eating because some research indicates that tea can inhibit the absorption of nutrients by the intestine.