Sexual And Overall Health
Sexual health is inseparable from overall health. If you improve your general state of health, you will invariably improve your sex function.(1)
At the same time, the connection between sex and health is a two-way street. In other words, enhancing sexual vitality and improving your sex life will also have a positive impact on your overall health.
1. John Morgenthaler and Dan Joy. Better Sex Through Chemistry - A guide to the new prosexual drugs & nutrients. 1994 - Smart Publications. POB 4667 -
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Smokers not only damage their own health by directly inhaling cigarette smoke, they endanger others, including their loved ones through their tobacco smoke pollution.
Tobacco smoke pollution, also known as secondhand smoke, is the combination of smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe and the smoke exhaled by the smoker.
Secondhand smoke contains more than 50 substances that can cause cancer. Health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke include lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer, respiratory tract infections and heart disease.
There is no safe amount of secondhand smoke. Children, pregnant women, older people and people with heart or breathing problems are particularly vulnerable to its toxins.
Now, Maria Teresa Piccardo, Anna Stella and Federico Valerioin in a research paper published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health has shown that the smokers themselves are at additional risk from breathing environmental tobacco smoke, contrary to the prevailing assumption that such risks would be negligible in comparison to those incurred by actually smoking.
The researchers studied the exposure of 15 newsagents in
Newsagents were chosen because they work alone in small newsstands, meaning that any tobacco smoke in the air they breathe is strictly correlated to the number of cigarettes smoked by that newsagent.
The researchers found that environmental tobacco smoke may have a significant impact on smokers' health. For someone who smokes 14 cigarettes a day, their own second hand smoke resulted in exposure the equivalent of smoking an extra 2.6 cigarettes.
Isn’t it time to give up the fag, the cigarette that is!
Talk to your pharmacist or doctor today about the new medication to help you stop smoking.
1. Maria Teresa Piccardo, Anna Stella and Federico Valerio. Is the smokers exposure to environmental tobacco smoke negligible? Environmental Health, 2010; (in press)
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Osteoporosis adalah penyakit yang biasa pada orang tua di mana penurunan secara progesif ketumpatan tulang menyebabkan tulang menjadi lemah, sehingga menyebabkannya seperti retak.
Tubuh kita secara berterusan membina tulang baru dan mengaktifkan tulang yang lama. Semasa kanak-kanak, lebih banyak tulang dibina daripada digantikan, jadi tulang membesar mengikut saiz. Bagaimanapun selepas berumur 30-40 tahun, tubuh mungkin gagal membentuk tulang baru yang cukup, atau terlalu banyak tulang lama yang diserap semula, atau kedua-duanya sekali.
Penyebab osteoporosis bukanlah satu. Banyak factor yang menyumbang kepada kehilangan tulang seiring dengan usia.
Menopaus/ putus haid berlaku seiring dengan penurunan paras estrogen;estrogen membantu pembinaan tulang.Sejumlah kuantiti tulang mula menurun dan hasilnya osteoporosisterjadi. Walaubagaimanapun factor lain juga penting termasuk gaya hidup, indeks jisim tubuh yang rendah, penyakit dan ubat-ubatan.
Osteoporosis bagi kebanyakan orang adalah terkawal.Pencegahan penyakit ini adalah lebih penting kerana walaupun ada beberapa jenis perubatan untuk penyakit osteoporosis, seseorang itu tidak boleh sembuh dari penyakit ini.
Binalah tulang yang kuat, terutamanya sebelum usia 30 tahun, kerana ia adalah cara terbaik melawan pembentukan osteoporosis.
Pelbagai factor menjadi fenomena, pencegahan osteoporosis memerlukan lebih dari sekadar menambah kalsium dalam diet anda.
Kontroversi terjadi berkaitan dengan peranan kalsium pada umur pertengahan dan lanjut usia, peningkatan pada kajian populasi menunjukkan kadang-kadang hanya kekurangan kalsium yang memberi kesan, boleh diatasi dengan mengenali pelbagai factor karakter penyakit dan melalui pemerhatian khusus yang terperinci seperti perbezaan bangsa dan tabiat pengambilan kalsium1.
Berikut adalah antara ukuran efektif yang terbukti dalam pencegahan pertama osteoporosis; tiada satu daripadanya yang boleh mencegah osteoporosis dengan sendirinya tetapi mungkin tiga2.
1. Ubahsuai Gaya Hidup
· Jauhkan dari merokok, mengambil alkohol dan kafien berlebihan.
· Bersenam secara tetap seperti berjalan kaki setiap hari.
2. Suplemen kalsium dan Vitamin D
3. Ubat Mencegah Kehilangan Tulang
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Polyphenols are found in many plants and give some flowers, fruits, and vegetables their color and taste properties.
Polyphenols are the most abundant antioxidants in the diet. Their main dietary sources are fruits and plant-derived beverages such as fruit juices, tea, coffee, and red wine. Vegetables, cereals, chocolate, and dry legumes also contribute to the total polyphenol intake.
Current evidence strongly supports a contribution of polyphenols to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and osteoporosis and suggests a role in the prevention of neurodegenerative diseases and diabetes mellitus.
Epidemiologic studies tend to confirm the protective effects of polyphenol consumption against cardiovascular diseases. Evidence for protective effects of polyphenols against cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, and brain function deterioration is still largely derived from animal experiments and in vitro studies; we await the discovery of predictive biomarkers for such diseases or large intervention studies.
A considerable body of literature supports a role for oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of age-related human diseases and a contribution of dietary polyphenols to their prevention.
The current evidence for protective effects of polyphenols against diseases has generated new expectations for improvements in health, with great interest from the food and nutritional supplement industry regarding promotion and development of polyphenol-rich products.
Wu et al (2) studied the total phenolic content, antioxidant activity and antiproliferative activity of Dragon fruit or red pitaya on melanoma cells and to determine if it is a valuable source of antioxidants and an anticancer agent. Their work indicated that the flesh and peel were both rich in polyphenols and were good sources of antioxidants. The red pitaya peel fulfilled its promise to inhibit the growth of melanoma cells.
1. Scalbert A, Johnson IT, Saltmarsh M. Polyphenols: antioxidants and beyond. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005 Jan;81(1 Suppl):215S-217S.
2. Wu, L.C., Hsu, H.W., Chen, Y.C., Chiu, C.C., Lin, Y.I. and Annie Ho, J.A. 2006. Antioxidant and antiproliferative activities of red pitaya. Food Chemistry 95: 319-327
3. Photo: Dawn at a Dragon Fruit farm, courtesy of COMEN Resort Farm, Melaka
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Technique of consuming enzyme:
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DO NOT REGRET
Regret is nothing but a waste;
Therefore, do not regret.
See the light, feel the light, become the light
Of today’s dawn
And try not, cry not
To see yesterday’s stars, moon and sun.
They are gone.
They should be buried in oblivion-night.
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose
(August 27, 1931 – October 11, 2007)
Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher.
His teachings emphasize love for God,
daily meditation on the heart,
service to the world, and religious tolerance.
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