Weight Can Increase due to Hormones

It is not easy to lose weight, let alone defend it. But, if you are already exercising and adjust your diet but still failed to reach the weight you want, do not immediately feel guilty. Sometimes this failure has nothing to do with your lack of effort.

Apparently, there are certain hormones that play an important role in regulating our body weight. Hormones and behavior are influenced by a particular health condition that makes you struggle to prevent the scales go up.

When your break time is reduced, or not sleeping soundly, you must feel exhausted the next day. Well, this lack of rest time can spoil your healthy eating habits. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that people who slept only four hours a day for two consecutive nights will increase ghrelin (hormone that triggers hunger) 28 percent, and lowered leptin (a hormone present in the brain that you are full ) up to 18 percent.

Hormone disorder that causes increased appetite, where you can be tempted to eat sweet foods, high carbohydrate, and vegetable refuse. If this condition is still added stress can double the risk, because cortisol (stress hormone) can also improve appetite and encourage us to eat foods that are high in fat and high in calories.

If you feel tired and hunger began attack, you can still eat, as long as selecting healthy snacks and are able to provide extra energy. The combination of complex carbohydrates and proteins, such as whole wheat bread with peanut butter, could be an alternative. To reduce stress, you can do any sport you like. Yoga and breathing exercises also help.

Outside the hormone, there are actually other health conditions that can affect your weight. You may have heard of metabolic syndrome, which according to the American Heart Association has affected more than 50 million Americans. This syndrome is a set of medical conditions, including high insulin levels, high blood pressure, and fat around the waist, which can increase the risk of heart disease and other health problems.
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Why Your Appetite Increasing?

Turns out there was one habit that makes us always "invited" the hunger we unknowingly. Immediately overcome in order to streamline our program more smoothly.

1. Not enough time for breakfast. As a result, we will be selecting a donut or other fatty food as the stomach contents.

2. It was already mid-afternoon, but work is still piling up. Finally, we need more energy is one of them met with the eat.

3. Busyness makes us postpone the dinner. For example an appointment with a client dinner at 8pm, when we used to have dinner at 7 pm.

4. Already ordered food at the restaurant but the service is very long. And belly rings to boisterous powerful appetite signal which jumped dramatically. So do not be surprised if we eat with a frenzy.

5. Overtime. Working late into the night turned out to make our body requires more energy than usual. (PreventionIndonesiaonline/Lily Turangan/Priska Siagian)

Tips for prevention of breeding of Aedes mosquito in your urban neighbourhood

Dengue fever is an acute febrile illness which can be life threatening.The WHO says some 2.5 billion people, two fifths of the world's population, are now at risk from dengue and estimates that there may be 50 million cases of dengue infection worldwide every year.
Dengue is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, particularly A. aegypti and A. albopictus.So it is very important for us to know about these mosquitos and to learn how to prevent its breeding in our neighbourhood.

Dengue Virus Transmission


Dengue viruses are transmitted to humans through the bites of infective female Aedes mosquitoes. The mosquitoes generally acquire the virus while feeding on the blood of an infected person. After virus incubation for eight to ten days, an infected mosquito is capable, during probing and blood feeding, of transmitting the virus for the rest of its life. There is no way to tell if a mosquito is carrying the dengue virus. Infected female mosquitoes may also transmit the virus to their offspring by transovarial (via the eggs) transmission, but the role of this in sustaining transmission of the virus to humans has not yet been defined.

Aedes aegypti goes through a complete metamorphosis with an egg, larvae, pupae, and adult stage. The adult life span can range from two weeks to a month depending on environmental conditions. The life cycle of Aedes aegypti can be completed within one-and-a-half to three weeks
 


After taking a blood meal, female Aedes aegypti mosquitos produce on average 100 to 200 eggs per batch. The females can produce up to five batches of eggs during a lifetime. The number of eggs is dependent on the size of the bloodmeal. Eggs are laid on damp surfaces in areas likely to temporarily flood, such as tree holes and man-made containers like barrels, drums, jars, pots, buckets, flower vases, plant saucers, tanks, discarded bottles, tins, tyres, water cooler, etc. and a lot more places where rain-water collects or is stored. The female Aedes aegypti lays her eggs separately unlike most species. Not all eggs are laid at once, but they can be spread out over hours or days, depending on the availability of suitable substrates. Eggs will most often be placed at varying distances above the water line. The female mosquito will not lay the entire clutch at a single site, but rather spread out the eggs over several sites.


The eggs of Aedes aegypti are smooth, long, ovoid shaped, and roughly one millimeter long. When first laid, eggs appear white but within minutes turn a shiny black. In warm climates eggs may develop in as little as two days, whereas in cooler temperate climates, development can take up to a week. Laid eggs can survive for very long periods in a dry state, often for more than a year. However, they hatch immediately once submerged in water. This makes the control of the mosquito very difficult.

Prevention of breeding of Aedes mosquito

Aedes mosquito lay their eggs in clear,clean water and not in contaminated water.As they fly only a few metres their breeding place is usually in our house itself.

Most common breediing places and tips to prevent breeding

Water storage tank/cistern ---should have mosquito proof lids
water coolers/collection pans in Fridge/ACs ------ water should be drained out periodically 

Drum   ------tight lids
Flower vase with water  [least in brass vase]----------change water frequently,use sand
Potted plants with saucers ------- change water frequently
Ornamental pool/fountain ---------water changed once a week
Roof gutter/sun shades------------check frequently for drain block
Animal water container----------- empty and clean periodically
Ant trap--------------------------use oil/salt
Used tyres-----------------------keep it under roof
Discarded large appliances-------bury or keep it under roof 
Discarded buckets,plastic cups,tin cans etc-----bury


Whenever piped water supply is inadequate and available only at restricted hours or at low pressure, the storage of water in varied types of containers is encouraged, thus leading to increased Aedes breeding.It is essential that potable water supplies be delivered in sufficient quantity, quality and consistency to reduce the necessity and use of water storage containers that serve as the most productive larval habitats.

Chemical and biological agents can also be used for prevention of breeding of Aedes mosquito.

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Denguevirusnet
WHO

How to Prevent Amputation for Diabetes Patients

ON diabetics, trifecta problems resulting in amputation, ie, numbness in the feet. Consequently, this nerve damage makes it less aware of injuries and leg ulcers. Ulcers that fail to treat, in turn, lead to serious infections.


"Usually, people with injuries at the bottom of their feet, like a blister, will change the way over. Style run will be changed to protect the blister place until cured," says Joseph LeMaster, MD, assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine , as quoted Health.

However, he asserted, people lose sensation, can not do it. They'll just walk right on top of the foot blister, as if this problem does not exist. The longer the rupture, become infected, and transformed into what we call a foot ulcer.

"Ulcers can penetrate to the bone and into the street for the infection to the entire foot. This is what leads to amputation," he said.

Leg injuries, the most common cause of hospitalization

Approximately 15 percent of all diabetics will develop foot ulcers at some point, even 24 percent of them needed amputation.

"The most common reason a person is hospitalized due to diabetes, not by high blood sugar or heart attack or stroke, but for a hole in the foot, a wound," said David G Armstrong DPM, Diabetic Foot Disease Specialist Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago.
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Coconut milk food, can trigger Gall Stones

IN general, food that was served on the day of Idul Fitri is a special food. Opor Call it chicken, goat curry, rendang, pastries and wet, and others. But generally the foods that contain lots of fat.

What happened on the day of Idul Fitri is a lot of people eat foods that contain fat. As there is a tendency "revenge" for not being able to enjoy such foods during Ramadan. "And the food (fat) is usually mostly made from coconut milk," said dr Prasna Pramita SpPD.

It is not wrong you eat fatty foods. Why? Because the body needs fat. "Functions for giving coating on human bone-shaped so that," continued Dr. Prasna. New will be a problem if the excessive fat consumed. If you have excessive fat deposition could occur in the body. And this makes the liver cells work harder to produce bile.

Just to note, in bile-green-brown. Bile plays a role in the process of absorption of fat and some vitamins such as A, D, E and K. "Because the fat is usually a lot. Importance of bile in digestion especially the absorption of fat, "said dr Prasna. The liquid stored in the gallbladder bile is stored in the gallbladder which lies below the liver. Shaped like a pear. Gallbladder accommodate as many as 50 ml of bile. Length is about 70-10 cm. These organs are connected with the liver and duodenum through the bile ducts.

Well, what happens when we consume food containing fat was excessive? Will occur or the birth of many diseases. One of them is gallstones.

"Well, if people have already had the talent, already have cholesterol, there will be more piles of cholesterol. And so could spark gallstones. Tendensinya could have up to 30 percent, "said Dr. Prasna. Gallstones can form due to increased cholesterol levels in the body and the heart can no longer issue them.

Gallstones are formed gradually. First, the excreted cholesterol that can not be settled. "As is usually the gall wall thickening also occur. And that if in-ultrasound visible thickening occurs, "continued Dr. Prasna. It triggers chemical changes in the bile. This change is called gallstones.
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Prevent Stroke with Know the risk factors

Stroke is a health problem in Indonesian. In the estimate 2-3 million people in this country have suffered a stroke. Although a stroke is often associated with old age, in fact, more and more initial 30 year-old man who suffered a stroke. In addition to causing disability, stroke can also cause death.

However, if you prepare yourself from now, you can memangksa most of your risk factors. "This disease can be prevented," according to dr.Sutarto Prodjo Disastro, Sp.S, head of public relations counseling and Stroke Foundation of Indonesia in the event that the Control Cholesterol Control diadakano Life Leh Pfizer in Jakarta, Thursday (19/8/10).

Stroke is a brain attack that may arise due to sudden interruption in blood flow due to blockage or rupture of blood vessels in the brain so that brain cells are deprived of blood, oxygen or food substances that resulted in cell death in a short time. "If the dead brain cells can not regenerate or grow back, so be careful with stroke," said Sutarto.

Men do have a greater risk of stroke, but in recent decades into the same chances in women. "Women tend to be more stressful to have two roles, namely, career women and housewives," said dr. Arieska Ann Soenarto, Sp.JP (K), from RS.Jantung Harapan Kita Jakarta.

To help reduce the risk of stroke, try checking the following:

- Check blood pressure
Many people who do not know they have hypertension, because these diseases have no symptoms from the outside. Your blood pressure checked by at least once a year for control of hypertension is the thing that is not negotiable in the prevention of stroke.

- Check cholesterol
There are many reasons why high cholesterol levels in the blood, including diet, obesity and smoking habits. Lowering cholesterol is important, regardless of your age and health condition. The recommended safe limit is less than 160 mg / dl. Choose the type of foods with low fat content.

Watch out, Santan Improve Cholesterol

Dishes during the month of fasting was impressed even more special than ordinary days. For most people, less if the breaking of the fast afdol unaccompanied bersantan compote and other foods. But be careful, consume too much food bersantan can cause bad cholesterol (LDL) increases.

"Coconut milk is dangerous to koresterol because it contains saturated fatty acids or unsaturated fat. In contrast to the unsaturated fat in avocados, that is unsaturated fatty acid which is not dangerous," said Ann Soenarta dr.Arieska, Sp.JP, consultant on the sidelines kardiologis Living Control Cholesterol Control event, held by Pfizer at Jakarta, Thursday (19/08/10)

According to doctors, Ann, is very important to maintain your diet when breaking fast. "80% intake of the food intake is to determine cholesterol levels. So what you eat can increase the risk of increasing cholesterol," the doctor said that the daily practice in RS.Jantung Harapan Kita Jakarta.

Coconut milk as fast food is okay, but the amount is limited. "If allowed to eat food iftar bersantan, but do not limit although the coconut milk over it tasty and can increase appetite," he said.

Added by him, cholesterol is a disease that can be present because of a long process. "If you eat (food coconut milk) every now and then it does not matter, does not directly increase cholesterol. Cholesterol is a progressive disease. But if the food during the 10 days it automatically cholesterol coconut milk continues to increase," he explained.

To maintain good health during the month of Ramadan, the doctor Ann suggested that we should eat a varied diet. "Balance in eating fruits and vegetables," he said. In addition to coconut milk, which also needs to be restricted is makananan intake of high sugar-containing and unsaturated fats, such as fried or fatty meat.