4 Indicators of Stroke
Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a
Fourth Indicator, the Tongue
4 Steps to Recognize a Stroke
- Ask the individual to SMILE
- Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (i.e. It is sunny out today)
- Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
- Ask the person to stick his/her tongue out. (If the tongue is crooked or if it goes to one side or the other, then it is an indication of a stroke)
A new way to FIGHT CANCER
At first there was surgery, then came chemotherapy and radiation. Now, there is a fourth way to fight cancer: using the body’s natural defender, the immune system. It is called cancer vaccine and it treats the disease rather than prevents it.
Researchers said that the vaccine kept a common form of lymphoma from worsening for more than a year. It also gave positive results against prostate cancer, melanoma, and neuroblastoma ( a fatal childhood tumor).
These is a huge step even though it is still a work in progress. No one knows how long the benefits will last, whether people will need “boosters” to keep their disease in check, or whether vaccines will ever be a cure. Many vaccines must be custom-made for each patient.
Doctors are still figuring out how to get the immune system see the cancer cells as a threat. Virus and other bacteria are easily seen because they look different from human cells. But not cancer, it comes from our very own cells. Its like, there is a rebellion among our cells and our immune system are having a hard time differentiating normal cells to cancer cells.
To help our immune system do that, many cancer vaccines take a substance from a cancer cell’s surface and attach it to something the immune system already recognizes as foreign. “Its like a training device on what you are trying to kill” Dr. Hwu said. To make the attack as strong as possible, doctors add a substance to put the immune system on high alert.
Sources: http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/us_med_cancer_vaccines.html
Poor Sleep + Hypertension = Heart Disease
According to the Japanese Researchers, people who slept less than 7.5 hours a night are the ones who are highly risked of having a heart disease. This guys tracked 1,255 people’s sleep with an average age of 70.4 years old for 50 months.
“The incidence of cardiovascular disease was 2.4 per 100 person-years in subjects with less than 7.5 hours of sleep and 1.8 per 100 person-years in subjects with longer sleep duration,” wrote Dr. Kazuo Eguchi, of Jichi Medical University in Tochigi, and colleagues.
Those people who have sleep of less than 7.5 hours a day combined with a high blood pressure have greater percentage of having a heart disease compared to those who slept longer.
“In conclusion, shorter duration of sleep is a predictor of incident cardiovascular disease in elderly individuals with hypertension,” particularly when it occurs with elevated night-time blood pressure, the researchers concluded. “Physicians should inquire about sleep duration in the risk assessment of patients with hypertension.”
“Reflecting changing lifestyles, people are getting less sleep in modern societies,” they added. Adequate sleep is essential for preventing health problems such as obesity and diabetes, as well as several risk factors for cardiovascular disease, they said.
To prevent such disease from happening, one must have a regular schedule for exercising combined with a balanced diet and 7.5 hours of sleep.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081111/hl_hsn/poorsleephypertensionadangerouscombination;_ylt=AvKKE17YtF_7TSmY5j3UNMXVJRIF
Knock Out
This GIF File is so Hilarious. I can’t stop laughing every time I see it.
China’s Milk Situation
Better be careful, cuz some products that are mentioned below are recalled. Singapore has just removed this items from its shelves.
FYI, the following items have been recalled due to China ’s milk situation.
This is real.
- M&M’s
- snickers
- Mentos
- yoghurt bottle
- dove chocolate
- oreo wafer sticks,
- monmilk
- dutchlady sterilized milk
- wall’s all natural mango,
- mini poppers ice cream,
- magnum ice c ream,
- moo sandwich ice cream
- mini cornetto, and youcan ice cream.
If you have any of these items in your house, DON’T EAT THEM.
Hard Drinks or Soft Drinks
Which is better, a hard drink (wine, cocktails) or soft drinks (pop)? Some people are stll arguing about this. Im gonna research about this sutff in a while. In the mean time, feel free to give your opinions in the comment section.
Vinegar & Watermelon are Health Products
I read this article from an email.
So this household products can help us regulate our sugar level. Would you believe that Vinegar can help us clamp down our sugar level?? Well, it does. While some Carbo foods like Rice, potatoes, pasta, etc. spikes up our sugar level, vinegar will help us regulate it.
The watermelon, on the other hand, is full of lycopene that helps us crush cancer cells. It loaded with water, therefore keeping us Hydrated. Here is the full message from my email.
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Household Staple That Steadies Blood Sugar
You use it for cooking, cleaning, gardening, and a hundred other household chores. But for your blood sugar?
You bet. Seems vinegar — the tart stuff in tasty vinaigrettes and marinades — may help clamp down on blood sugar spikes from eating starchy carbs like potatoes and pasta.
Keep It Steady
Keeping blood sugar from surging may cut down on diabetes risk in the long run. But stabilizing blood sugar can do good things instantly, too — like stymieing hunger pangs, keeping your energy up, and keeping pounds off. To get the blood sugar benefit of vinegar, try pairing starchy foods with vinegar-based sauces or dressings. Or start a meal with a salad dressed in oil and vinegar.
Reality Check
Of course, a shot of vinegar will only go so far when it comes to keeping your blood sugar steady. To really ward off blood sugar problems, you’ll need to:
Get moving . . . so your body uses blood sugar better. Try this easy-on-the-joints workout.
Load up . . . on low-glycemic-index foods that help keep blood sugar stable. We’re talking high-fiber fruits, veggies, and whole grains. Check out this video on how fiber helps digestive health, too.
Pare down . . . maintaining a healthy weight helps reduce your risk of diabetes.
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Watermelon: 3 Juicy Benefits
A cool wedge of watermelon on a hot summer day? Refreshing, for sure.
But watermelon is more than just a seasonal treat. Here are three great health reasons to dig into this juicy fruit:
It’s loaded with lycopene. Watermelon juice actually gave tomato juice a run for the money in a recent study of lycopene levels. That’s good news for your body, because early research suggests that lycopene may be a cancer crusher.
It can make your skin pretty. Watermelon is loaded with a key compound credited with helping skin’s healing and regenerative processes. Say no more — bring on the melon!
It’s practically calorie-free. With fewer than 50 calories in every cup, watermelon is one smart way to satisfy a sweet tooth. And with a whopping 141 grams of water per cubed cup, watermelon will keep you hydrated, too.
Exercise Cures!
This is why exercise is so important. Any diet supplements or food we eat will not be that effective if we don’t exercise. It helps us regulate our blood flow, increase our stamina, sweat out all the dirt inside our body, and decrease the possibility of getting sick. For example, in my experience, I use exercise (basketball) as a stress reliever. I release all my anger and all the negative emotions into it, resulting to a positive note. I feel relaxed after that game and can easily look forward to the next day’s work.
Did you know that walking is also a kind of exercise? Here is an article about exercise curing diabetes and obesity:
“Walking a bit more each day can help people control their Type 2 diabetes but obese people trying to keep weight off may need to exercise harder than they had thought, according to a studies published on Monday.
Simply walking 45 minutes more each day helped people with diabetes use blood sugar better, Michael Trenell of Britain’s Newcastle University and colleagues wrote in the journal Diabetes Care.
“People often find the thought of going to the gym quite daunting, but what we’ve found is that nearly everyone with diabetes is able to become more active through walking,” Trenell said.
The Newcastle team paired 10 Type 2 diabetes patients with people without the condition of similar height, weight and age and asked everybody to walk more than 10,000 steps each day.
Magnetic resonance imaging or MRI scans showed that people who walked 45 minutes more each day burned about 20 percent more fat — increasing the ability of the muscles to store sugar and help control diabetes, the researchers said.
“What is exciting about this study is that it provides an immediate way to help control diabetes without any additional drugs,” Trenell said.
Diabetes affects an estimated 246 million adults worldwide and accounts for 6 percent of all global deaths. Type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90 percent of all diabetes cases and is closely linked to obesity and physical inactivity.
Obesity and diabetes both are growing problems as more developing nations adopt a Western lifestyle, something the International Diabetes Federation estimates will propel the number of people with diabetes to 380 million by 2025.
But current exercise guidelines calling for people to get 150 minutes — 2.5 hours — each week may not be enough to help the obese keep weight off, John Jakicic of the University of Pittsburgh and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
To determine an optimal amount of exercise, the U.S. team enrolled 201 overweight and obese women in a weight loss programme between 1999 and 2003 and assigned them to one of four exercise groups.
After six months, women in all four groups had lost an average of 8 to 10 percent of their weight but many gained it back.
Women assigned to exercise for about an extra hour each day did not gain the weight back, the researchers said. These women were also more likely to stick to healthy diets.
Jakicic recommended that people who want to lose weight and keep it off get at least 4-1/2 hours of exercise a week.
“There is a growing consensus that more exercise may be necessary to enhance long-term weight loss,” Jakicic and colleagues wrote”
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/hl_nm/exercise_weight_dc;_ylt=Akoty..aj0eS8udEGp9K0GfVJRIF
3 Bad Sleeping Habits
There are three reasons why we can’t sleep a night which sometimes results to insomnia. I read this one while surfing the net and I would love to share it with you. This habits should be avoided before going to sleep.
“1. Setting a Bright Alarm Clock
The looming glare of your alarm clock can be distracting when trying to sleep. The goal is to have as dark a room as possible. Block the bright numbers with a book or consider buying a small travel clock. Your cell phone alarm may also do the trick.
2. Counting Sheep
When you just can’t fall asleep, it’s useless to stay in bed. If you’ve been trying to fall asleep for more than 30 minutes, the National Sleep Foundation suggests doing something mundane, like balancing a checkbook, reading or watching TV. An activity that demands marginal brainpower will lull your mind. Before you know it, you’ll be crawling back into bed genuinely tired.
3. Exercising Late at Night
Daytime workouts will keep you invigorated for hours. That’s why you don’t want to exercise within three hours of hitting the sack. Intense physical activity raises your body temperature and pumps your energy level—both interrupt a calm transition into sleep.”
source: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/bedtime-habits-that-are-ruining-your-sleep-199441/
Nature’s way of Healthy Living
I’ve read this product review about ALIVE. It may sound and look like an ordinary food supplement, but if you look closer, its not. The product’s ingredient came from natural sources, unlike others that use factory-made additive. Its natural sources contain green food blend (spirulina and chlorella, veggies, fruits, medicinal mushrooms, etc) which all fight off diseases that could prove to be life threatening. In short, it makes us stringer and healthier by the minute.
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