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Archive for the ‘Healthcare’ Category
Thu, November 13, 2008 11:45 am By James Coolridge  Printer friendly version
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 Today everyone is so busy working that people ignore their most important body organs. It’s no secret that the long hours we work and spend in front of the computer in offices harm especially the eyes.
Do you know your eyes are probably two of the busiest and most sensitive organs and easily become fatigued? And it happens especially if a poor diet and lack of an exercise routine are the norm.
Ophthalmologists give some simple advice on how to reduce eye fatigue and minimize the appearance of puffed eyes by means of proper nutrition and regular exercise to maintain healthy sight.
1. Eat lots of fruits like orange, apple, mango and vegetables like Cabbage family, Carrots, loaded with beta carotene is especially helpful in maintaining healthy eyes.
2. Get cucumber and cut it into pieces. Press cold cucumber slices gently against eyes 10 minutes before going to sleep at night to prevent puffiness.
3. Wear UV protective sunglasses. Get polarized lenses and use them rather using just dark lenses. Prolonged exposure to UV rays can harm your eyesight; protection in youth can help prevent loss of eyesight in later years.
4. Be sure to wear goggles or other eye protective wear when working with chemicals or on outdoor.
5. Feel relaxed by Looking at distant objects either in your office or outside. Try taking such visual breaks for about five to 10 minutes every hour.
6. Keep two used tea bags in the refrigerator before you leave for work. Once you are home, place the tea bags on your eyes for a few minutes - this will soothe your tired eyes.
7. While you keep your eyes closed, roll your eyeballs both clockwise and anticlockwise. Gradually open your eyes while releasing your breath. This exercise lasts for a minute and you can repeat it three times before getting back to work.” It serves as a good workout for the eyes
8. Try and quit smoking because the truth about smoking and its effects on the body, especially the eyes, is that it’s harmful. So keep your eyes away from smoke.
If correct eating and exercise done it rules, and protective measures are taken in ensuring your body’s over all well-being, there’s no doubt the eyes will be less puffy and will always look beautiful and healthy. So use these simple ways and enjoy BEAUTIFUL EYES….
Tags: Exercise, eyes, healthy, eye-sight
Wed, November 12, 2008 2:01 pm By James Coolridge
 In modern society, stressful situations are hard to avoid. As people wants to do lot of work all together and hence feels stressed very often. So Explore some stress busters to pick up quick and simple stress relief tips, choose relaxing nature wallpaper for your desktop, listen to some relaxation music, or absorb yourself in our free stress relief games and online puzzles!
Concentrate on your breathing. Inhale for 5 seconds and then slowly exhale for 5 seconds. Concentrate only on your breathing in this manner for 2 minutes. Once you get used to breathing in this way, use this method along with the others below.
1. Roll your head slowly around. Shrug your shoulders as high up toward your ears as you can and then slowly relax your shoulders. Repeat 5 times.
2. Use aromatherapy: visit a spa nearby when feel stressed and get an aromatherapy treatment such as lavender etc. You will feel relaxed.
3. Look around and feel refreshed: It could be a flower or a painting or something you keep with you, such as a seashell. Take a few minutes to concentrate on it and the calming feelings it brings. For example, a seashell could remind you of sitting on a beach with a cool breeze and the sound of the ocean.
4. Starting with your feet, tense and relax your muscles. Work your way up to your legs, abdomen, arms, etc. Work on one part of your body at a time and notice how you feel tensed and relaxed. Concentrate on keeping your body in a relaxed state for a few minutes. Do some stretching exercises making sure you stretch all parts of your body.
5. Listen to music: Get the CDs if you need to, otherwise, download songs that you like from internet. Use different songs for different types of stress or make up silly words to songs to fit your circumstances.
6. Find a “venting” partner. Call them when you find yourself in a terribly stressful situation and let them know you are venting, you don’t need someone to solve your problem or criticize, you just need to vent about your current situation. Once you are done venting, thank them for listening.
7. Take a walk outside. Fresh air is a wonderful de-stressor. Take a few minutes to breathe in the fresh air. Or try go to a beach if nearby.
8. Try which interests you: Try knitting, needlepoint or something that doesn’t require thinking too hard. Taking a few
minutes to concentrate on something else will allow your mind to stop thinking about the problem at hand.
9. Meditate: concentrate on one thing or repeat a phrase over and over. This is difficult to accomplish at first, but with practice you will be able to empty your mind for a couple minutes and feel refreshed and be ready to start again.
10. Reading: While on break, at lunch, Read anything on your computer. Dive into something inspirational or spiritually enlightening, or find a funny story or comic strip that will make you laugh. Since you’re doing this for energy renewal and stress reduction, you will probably want to avoid the front page of the newspaper!
11. Writing: Write a poem, a note to a friend or family member, or a diary entry it will make you feel lighter. As you will note down your thoughts. Read them later and you will feel different.
12. Drawing: Draw something, sketch, or a body art. Sometimes you can try making graffiti too. You will enjoy such activities. And your stress will also go away.
13. Swimming: swimming is a very nice de stressor. It is also a very good exercise. Try you will feel better as water has calming effects.
14. Look towards sun at dusk: at the time of dusk look at the sky and sun. You will feel so much better.
These are just a few de- stressors. Try more of them if you can find.
Tags: Health, Exercise, meditation., stressed, stressors,
Tue, November 11, 2008 1:04 pm By James Coolridge
 Fibre is an important part of your food and health. It is also known as roughage. Earlier it was not considered important or useful for our body and health. But now Researchers believe, with more and more research showing that a high-fiber diet may help prevent cancer, heart disease, and other serious ailments, roughage has started to get some respect. And suggests that we should be eating at least 25 grams of fiber per day, instead of the 12 grams most people are eating.
Helps in Weight loss: Well, it is said that fiber serves as the perfect way to reduce your appetite. This can be attributed to the fact that fibrous foods also known as cellulose and hemicelluloses, occupy a large space of your stomach, thus making you feel full and thereby enable you to avoid overeating. When you eat whole grain food, your hunger is satisfied faster. When you fill up on high fiber foods like whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and nuts, you are less likely to have room for high-fat, low-fiber foods with high calorie count. When you eat fewer calories by including fiber in your diet, you can lose weight or maintain a healthy weight.
It Purifies blood: Fibre lowers your blood cholesterol level, by removing bile acids that digest fat. It also takes the responsibility of regulating your blood sugar. Also your risk factor of falling prey to kidney diseases is greatly reduced. So, incorporate fiber in your daily meals and derive its ultimate health benefits.
It Reduces the risk of Cancer: It is widely believed that fiber-rich diets would prevent colon cancer. Researchers believed that fiber strands formed a mesh network that grabbed on to cancer-causing substances and flushed them out of the intestines. Then one study also showed that women who ate 26 grams of fiber a day were not less likely to develop colon cancer compared to the study participants who only ate 8.5 grams.
Heart disease: Research published in the September 1999 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that fiber was a shield against heart disease. In fact, it was shown that women who ate at least 25 grams of fiber per day were 40% less likely to have a heart attack than the women who ate less than 9 grams of fiber a day. This was also true of the men in the studies. They could cut their risk of having a heart attack by 50% by eating a high fiber diet.
Sources: Fiber can be found in many foods: multigrain pancakes, muffins, whole grain bread, kidney beans, fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Whole wheat bread is an excellent source of high fiber. Remember, the darker the color of the vegetables, the richer in nutrients they tend to be. Broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts - are a healthy choice for meals.
Tags: healthy, Fibre, meals,
Mon, November 10, 2008 4:58 am By James Coolridge
 Heart, the softest part of our body and can also be called as the piston of our body. Our heart beats 70 to 90 times a minute and works our whole life.
Heart is the most important part of our body. But who cares for it do you? We pay much more attention to our hair style, or looks. But what about organ like heart, which drives you for nearly 70 to 90 years. Care taking of the internal organ like heart is much more important then our peripheral body.
Most of us often abuse our heart in our daily life. We smoke, Inhale those chemical to have that stupid feeling. Abusing heart is not just about smoking, even the people who dose not smoke also abuses their heart very often.
There is whole list of things which we eat giving no thought to its impact on heart. In our daily life most us often eat red meat, egg yolk (yellow of the egg), cheese, butter and saturated and trans fats containing all fried foods. All these foods reduces your heart efficiency, some increase your cholesterol and ultimately leading to high blood pressure and other heart problems.
According to a survey almost every seventh person in the world is suffering from some or the other disease relating to heart. To keep our heart healthy we must have good amount of vegetables, fruits, pulses and breast of chicken in our diet. Only olive oil, mustard oil or sun flower oil should be used in cooking food.
If heart remains healthy it increases work efficiency it self and person lives a long and healthy life. Where as if you keep abusing your it will lead you no where the bunch of health problems
Here are some tips by heart specialists to keep heart in good condition
1. Low amount of salt and spices should be used in food. Only iodised salt should be used.
2. Those people who drink wine, red wine is a better option because of the presence of antioxidants.
3. Regular exercise is must for both younger and aged people to keep heart healthy.
4. Water intake is very important, at least a liter of water is must daily. Drinks like aerated drinks should be avoided.
If you don’t abuse your heart in early stage of life, It will be in better condition in your later stage, and last long. It is not a tough job to care for your heart, you just need to give up some things and induce more of others in your life, that’s very small price to live healthy and every one can pay that for better life.
Tags: Health, Diet, heart problems
Wed, October 15, 2008 1:42 pm By James Coolridge
 Men – Son of many, Loved one of someone special, ever first love of daughter, head of family, major earning member and a guy to jolly around in friends and family.
So many roles and one single entity. To perform all these Variety of roles, men need sumptuous energy and power so that their face and health remains glorious and they are able to fulfill all the necessities of every individual in their life. So, to do all these jobs they need special care so that they stay healthy at any and every stage of life.
In order, to attain a good health it is important to have Screening Tests. It is beneficial to have screening test for some specific problems, such as colorectal cancer tests. This can find diseases early when they are easier to treat. Some men need certain screening tests earlier, or more often, than others. Screening tests are diagnostic in nature and just a way to make sure that everything is all right.
For any trouble that happens within the body it is always better to talk to your doctor about which of the tests should be the right one for you.
• Cholesterol Checks: With the growing age it is always recommended to have your cholesterol checked at least every 5 years, starting at age 35. If you smoke, have diabetes, or if heart disease runs in your family, it is better to start having your cholesterol checked at age 20.
• Blood Pressure: At least every 2 years. It is always good to have your blood pressure check with the regular screening for colorectal cancer which starts somewhere at age 50.
• Diabetes Tests: Have a test to screen for diabetes if you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
• Depression: If you’ve felt “down,” sad, or hopeless, and have felt little interest or pleasure in doing things for 2 weeks straight.
For any of the disease mentioned above it is always recommended to have proper diagnose and treatment from the recommended and specialized doctors.
And more on to stay healthy: Following are the points -
• Don’t Smoke.
• Eat a Healthy Diet
• Be Physically Active.
• Stay at a Healthy Weight.
• Drink Alcohol Only in Moderation.
Hence to conclude a happy life, nutritious diet and staying healthy are the three main mantras for a good living
Tags: Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, prevention, Screening tests
Sat, October 4, 2008 1:21 pm By James Coolridge
 Telemedicine involves the amalgamation of telecommunications, information, human-machine interface and medical-care technologies in medical field to improve the delivery and access. The institute of medicine defines telemedicine as “the use of electronic information and communication technologies to provide health care when distance separates the participants”. Telemedicine is composed of the word “tele” which means “far” in Greek, and the word “medicine”. Hence, it is defined as, the delivery of medicine from distance. Telemedicine is a system that connects primary care physicians, health care providers, and specialists to patients, who are geographically dispersed. Telemedicine has become a feasible option for providing routine and specialized medical services to those in distant/remote areas. It has gained significant attention during the recent years, though its existence and application goes back a few decades in time.
Telemedicine is distinct from “e-health” and “tele-health”. Telemedicine is concerned with the provision of clinical services. Tele-health may refer to the provision of clinical and non clinical services. Tele-health embraces areas and specialties such as nursing, pharmacology, occupational therapy etc. The term e-health refers to the provision of health information on the internet for either private or public use.
In telemedicine, patients’ case records are electronically transmitted from one place to another. Treatment is done using video links. There are five key elements of telemedicine: Distance, Data, Telecommunications, An expert to interpret the data and the ability to affect care as a result of data interpretation. Telemedicine is practiced through two methods- Real time (Synchronous) and Store-and-Forward (Asynchronous).In real time method; patients can communicate and interact with physicians. Video conferencing and audio visual signals help the providers and patients to communicate each other from remote locations. It is often used in cardiology, pediatrics, internal medicine, neurology, gynecology, rehabilitation and obstetrics. Store and forward implies acquiring medical data such as images, bio signals and transmitting it to a medical specialist for consultation, evaluation or any other use. Store and Forward Technology does not involve direct interaction and communication between patient and provider. This technology is more useful in Radiology, Pathology and Dermatology.
Telemedicine has several benefits. It reduces costs of travel, accommodation and processing and thus helps patients from remote areas. Chronic patients can be monitored at home regularly by remote consultants for certain cardio vascular, diabetic, renal, and respiratory cases. Moreover it helps the treatment of patients in inaccessible areas like mountains, ships at seas, areas affected by natural disasters etc.
Tags: Telemedicine, Store-and-Forward
Thu, October 2, 2008 10:08 am By James Coolridge
 Water is an essential element for life as it keeps you healthy. It has lot of medicinal value. Factually the average 150 lb. adult body contains 40 to 50 quarts of water. Almost 2/3rds of our body weight is “water weight”: The average healthful adult should be drinking at least one eight-ounce cup an hour, in order to replace the amount of water that is lost through exercise and other works. The other benefits of water are:
Allows for proper digestion
Water is indispensable for your body to digest and absorb vitamins and nutrients. Well-hydrated body cells function generally and efficiently. Fiber alone cannot aid proper digestive function by itself. In fact, without water as its partner, good fiber goes bad, causing constipation and extreme discomfort.
Keeps your heart healthy
The findings of a six-year study of more than 20,000 healthy men and women aged 38-100, found that women who drank more than five glasses of water a day were 41% less likely to die from a heart attack during the study period than those who drank less than two glasses. Water Keeps Cardio Vascular system healthy. Researches have revealed that, drinking water regularly reduces the risk of heart diseases. So drink water and keep your heart healthy.
Helps you to loose weight
developing a good water drinking habit is good for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Yet another benefit of drinking water is that it can help you to lose weight. If you drink water every time you’re hungry instead of eating, it can often substitute for high calorie food which you might intake. So drink more and stay fit.
Keep Skin Healthy and Glowing
A well-hydrated skin prevents dry skin. Increased water intake moisturizes the skin from inside. It maintains the young looks. Drinking water not only moisturizes skin it acts as a toner and a cleanser too. It can also reduce wrinkles. Because when skin loses its moisture, it becomes dehydrated, and ultimately becomes wrinkled. So, drink water and maintain that charm of your skin.
Improve Your Energy level
We lose a certain amount of water each day through urination, respiration, and perspiration. If you’re dehydrated, your blood is thicker, and your body has to work much harder to circulate it to other parts of the body. As a result, the brain becomes inactive, and it’s hard to concentrate, and your energy level goes down. So to keep ourselves healthy and lively we need to replace it with drinking more and more water.
Remove Toxins & Waste Products from body
Water helps in expelling waste products produced in the body during the process of metabolism. It also detoxifies the liver and kidneys, and carries away waste from the body. Hence its essential to drink water everyday, as it helps to keep you alkaline.
Tags: water, benefits, healthy, medicinal value
Sat, August 23, 2008 9:55 am By James Coolridge
Twenty minutes after your meal, it hits you a burning sensation in your stomach, everything tastes sour, and you feel uncomfortable WHAT YOU EXPERINCE IS AN ATTACK OF HYPERACIDITY.
 Acidity is nothing but excessive secretion of the normal acid which is present in the stomach. When the secretion is in normal amounts, it helps in digestion of food .But when the secretion is more it causes symptoms in the form of burning just below or behind the chest, pain, nausea, vomiting, eructations, and loss of appetite or excessive appetite depending on the severity of the problem. In other other words it can be said that acidity or acid peptic disease (ADP) represent a set of symptoms caused by an imbalance between acid secreting mechanism of the stomach and protective mechanism that keep the gut healthy.
MAJOR SYMPTOMS
Indigestion and heartburn are the most common stomach complaints. Heartburn usually occurs after a meal. If left untreated chronic acidity might lead to peptic ulcers.
It has been found that acidity usually tends to occur in one of the following conditions:
• After meals
• During the nighttime while lying on the bed
• While exerting pressure on the intra-abdominal area.
Major Causes
The stomach and intestine secrete hydrochloric acid and enzymes like pepsin that help in digestion but an excess of these can adversely affect the stomach.
ACIDITY MAY ALSO BE CAUSED DUE TO
• Alcohol consumption
• Consumption of highly spicy foods
• Non-vegetarian diets
• Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID’s)
HOME REMIDIES
• Suck on clove or jaggery or chew a few basil (tulsi) leaves
• Refrigerated milk, bananas and vanilla ice-cream also give relief from acidity
• Sip fresh mint juice after meals
• Drink coconut water
• Eat a few almonds if heart burn persists
If you want to sort out the problem of acidity from root go in for a homeopathy treatment. The homeopathic treatment of hyperacidity is safe and convenient for it focuses on treating the condition by understanding the mind and body interrelationship. Remedies may also include natural medicines that are not habit-forming. Part of a homeopathy therapy is doing Yoga exercises. These Yoga exercises aim to strengthen digestive power. It also has a relaxing effect to the digestive organs resulting to a more controlled digestion .Self-help treatment can also be done simply by avoiding food and drinks that can lead to hyperacidity .It can also be tackled easily with changes in lifestyle, learning to relax, exercising, eating on time and choosing east to digest food.
Tags: symptoms, acidity, heart burn, home remedies
Fri, August 22, 2008 9:24 am By James Coolridge
Teen health is also known as” Adolescent health.”
As a teenager, you go through many changes. For one thing, your body is on its way to becoming its adult size. Have you noticed that you can’t fit into your old shoes or that your jeans are now 3 inches too short? Along with these changes, you are probably becoming more independent and making more of your own choices. Some of the biggest choices you face are about your health.
Why? Because healthy habits, including eating nutritiously and being physically active, can help you feel good, look good and do your best in school, work or sports. They might also prevent diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, osteoporosis, stroke and some cancers when you are older.
During puberty, adolescents experience a major growth spurt, and thus require increased nutrient needs. Boys experience the growth spurt at different times than girls. For males, puberty usually begins anywhere from the ages of 12 to 15 years, with peak growth usually occuring at 14. For females, puberty occurs much earlier, between the ages of 10 and 13, with peak growth occuring around the ages of 12 to 13. Thus, males need more nutrients than females during puberty, with the exception of iron. Girls need more iron because they are beginning to menstruate.
DIET TIPS FOR TEENS-
 Hidden calories and empty calories are causing teens to become increasingly heavy and nutrient deficient at the same time. As kids enter their teenage years, their nutrient requirements suddenly increase to adult levels, and for minerals like phosphorus, magnesium and calcium they actually need more than adults do. A full 45 percent of total bone growth occurs during adolescence, and most teens don’t consume enough calcium to support it. Only 13 percent of girls and 36 percent of boys consume the recommended amount of calcium.
In order to avoid excess weight gain, and take in the nutrients their bodies need, teens should eat nutrient-dense foods, which provide a good amount of vitamins, minerals, fiber and protein in relation to their caloric count. So choosing snacks wisely is a great first step. Snacks like ice cream (high in saturated fat), candy (high in empty calories), chips (one 7-ounce bag of sour-cream-and-onion potato chips averages 1,051 calories) and soda are fine once in a while, but they should not be part of your daily intake. .Instead of a shake, ice cream or a Starbucks Creme Frappuccino (870 calories, 32 grams fat), choose a smoothie made with real fruit and skim or low-fat milk.
Breakfast should be a must. A recent study showed that young adults who did not eat breakfast every day were almost twice as likely to be overweight as those who did.
ACNE A MAJOR PROBLEM AMONG THE TEENS-
Acne is unavoidable during adolescence. Acne is the result of the acceleration in the production of hormones, androgens, that occurs in puberty. Acne is the clogging of the pores in the skin. A pimple forms when bacteria get into the clogged pore and fills the space with pus. Studies have failed to find any connection between acne and foods such as chocolate, cola, nuts, pizza, or french fries–foods which are oily and thought to be the cause of acne among many people. However, as these foods are not scientifically linked to cause acne, they may aggravate acne, so therefore elimination of their presence from the diet may be beneficial.
ASTHMA-
Many teenagers have asthma, or have had it when they were younger. Some people have problems due to their asthma most days, but most people have difficulty breathing only occasionally.
Most people with asthma can do just about everything everyone else can. Some really famous Australian sports people have asthma, including Olympic swimmers Sam Riley and Matthew Dunn, and record breaking long distance swimmer Susie Moroney.
Asthma is one of the most common reasons why students have to take time off school.
To keep asthma under control it is really important to be well educated about your asthma and how to manage it. Your doctor and your local asthma association can give you detailed information about how to manage your asthma.
WHAT IS ASTHMA??
* Asthma affects the small airways in the lungs (bronchioles).
* People with asthma have more sensitive airways than other people. Certain triggers make the airways narrower for a few hours or days, making it hard to breathe.
* In between attacks, the airways are a normal size.
* No one knows for sure why some people get asthma. It tends to run in families and is related to eczema and hay fever.
The teenagers today often neglect their eating habits,skip meals and eat junk food instead which leads to problems like obesity,lack of nutrients in the body,acne,asthma etc.Health should be the prime lookout of the teens.
Tags: Diet, Acne, Asthma
Sun, August 10, 2008 2:43 pm By James Coolridge
 Massages are an ancient method used for centuries to treat pains, injuries and disease. In a massage structured or unstructured pressure is applied, manually with the hands or feet or with aids.
The health benefits of massage are relaxing and improved circulation. They are especially beneficial for pain management and stress management.
Types of massages
Ayurvedic Abhyanga Massage- Abhyanga is performed by two masseuses working in tandem, using a heated blend of specially selected herbal oils. This massage originated in India.
Barefoot Deep Tissue- Barefoot Deep Tissue is a blend of Eastern barefoot techniques with Western manual medicine. Massage is applied by the masseuse’s feet and no oils are used.
Deep tissue massage- Deep tissue techniques are intended for more focused massage work. Specific joint, muscle or muscle group, are accessed through the deeper layers of the soft tissue.
Foot or sole massage- Foot massage is practiced by the Chinese who believe that each spot on the sole of the foot corresponds to an internal organ. The ailments are healed when the aching spots of the sole are treated by massage.
Hot Stone Massage – is done by using particular stones. The heat of the stones is great for stress reduction. The hardness of the stones allows the masseuse to address specific problem areas with more detailed work or deeper pressure.
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