Likes Eating Fish, Minimize Risk of Colon Cancer

Likes Eating Fish, Minimize Risk of Colon Cancer | There is good news for fans of fish consumption. A recent study indicates, people who love to eat fish may have a lower risk of colon and rectal cancer.

This finding is an analysis of the results of 41 previous studies that have linked the consumption of fish in the diet and new diagnoses and deaths from colorectal cancer.

"People who rarely eat fish during this, would likely benefit health in many ways, after they increased the number of fish consumption, such as reducing the risk of heart disease, reproductive, and now colon cancer," said Dr. Michael Gochfeld, from the University of Medicine and Demtistry, New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

It is not yet known whether the benefits would be greater if the quantity of fish consumed is more.

Although this new study focused specifically on the consumption of fresh fish, the authors noted they could not determine what kind of fish should be consumed or how to serve it, since in previous studies is not explained.

However, according to Liang Dr.Jie of Xijing Hospital of Digestive Disease in Xi'an, China, which involved researching, said cooking temperature may affect the risk of colorectal cancer. He said there is evidence to suggest the consumption of meat and fish grilled or baked with high heat associated with cancer risk.

Assessment of Research

In his latest findings, Liang and colleagues collected data from 41 research studies that have previously been published between 1990 and 2011 that measure the amount of fish consumption and cancer diagnosis. The study includes a number of studies from the United States, Norway, Japan, Finland, and other countries.

Overall, regular fish consumption may lower a person's risk in kolorektar cancer, and death due to cancer by 12 percent.

8 Strategies to Prevent Stroke

8 Strategies to Prevent Stroke | Stroke or partial loss of all neurological function (nerve), which occurs suddenly has become one of serious diseases in Indonesia, because of a growing number of cases.

In developed countries like United States, stroke ranks third as a cause of death. While in Indonesia, stroke is the leading cause of death and top cause of disability.

"It takes a strategy for dealing with stroke. Data in Indonesia showed that 8.3 per 10,000 people suffer a stroke," said dr. Dani Ekawati Yulianti, SpS, neurologist MRCCC Siloam Hospital Semanggi, while seminar Healty Healthty Brain for Life, in Jakarta, Saturday (14/01/2012).

In fact, as much as 23 percent of patients who were hospitalized due to stroke resulted in death.

There are many risk factors that trigger onset of stroke such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, hypercholesterolemia, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and excessive alcohol consumption. However, these risk factors can actually be altered by treatment of lifestyle.

8 Strategies to Prevent Stroke

1. Healthy and Balanced Diet

2. Regular physical activity

3. Weight Control

4. stop Smoking

5. Limit Alcohol Consumption

6. control of Hypertension

Lowering high blood pressure to target less than 140/90 mmHg (without other comorbidities).

7. Blood Sugar Control

For diabetics, the target of more aggressive blood pressure reduction of less than 130/80. Blood sugar control target of HbA1c <6.5 percent.  

8. Hypercholesterolemia

For people with high cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia), the provision of statins and lifestyle modifications with target LDL cholesterol levels less than 100 mg / dl.

Triglycerides also Trigger Stroke

Triglycerides also Trigger Stroke | Bad cholesterol is better known as a cause of heart disease. But not many people know that triglycerides, or blood fats, play a major role in the incidence of stroke.

Some experts even say that passage levels of triglycerides are very important to know a person's risk of stroke compared bad cholesterol (LDL).

In a study of 774 adult women, who suffered a stroke for over 8 years. They were compared with women who come from the same race and age but not of stroke.

In general, a quarter of women had high levels of triglycerides and 56 percent of stroke compared with a quarter of women are lower triglyceride levels.

Indeed it does not prove that triglycerides that cause stroke, but the connection came after the researchers accounted for other stroke risk factors like high blood pressure and diabetes. In addition to the American Heart Association (AHA) also states that value of triglycerides as a risk factor for stroke.

According to AHA, 150-199 milligrams perdesiliter triglyceride levels (mg/dL) as the upper threshold and triglyceride levels above 200 mg/dL as high.

Several other risk factors are intermediate density lipoprotein (IDL) and very low density liporterotein (VLDL), which shows the particle size of blood fats. Women who have large VLDL particles tend to be more at risk of stroke.

"Traditional measurements such as LDL assessed only just now no longer enough to know the risk of stroke," said Dr.Jeffrey S.Berger, from New York University Medical Center.

Yet he added that not everyone needs to know levels of VLDL or IDL, although there is also a doctor who starts to check them.

RISK OF STROKE | Prevent Stroke with Citrus Fruit

Prevent Stroke with Citrus Fruit | Recent research shows that eating citrus fruit regularly can help reduce the risk of stroke. For this study, researchers focused on compounds called flavanone, which is found in citrus fruits.

"These data provide strong support for eating more fruit juice as a daily consumption to reduce the risk of ischemic stroke," says study leader Aedin Cassidy, head of the nutrition of Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, England.

There is a possibility that flavanone in citrus fruits improve blood vessel function or reduce inflammation, which has been associated with stroke, the researchers said.

Cassidy said, to gain maximum benefit from the flavanone, fruits should be presented in the form of juice and no added sugar.

The study was published online on February 23, 2012 in the journal Stroke, whose research is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Flavanones is a type of flavonoid which has been known for its ability to suppress the incidence of stroke risk is lower. In addition to fruits and vegetables, flavonoids are also found in red wine and dark chocolate.

For this study, the researchers focused on the six subclasses of flavonoids, including flavanone.

In the study researchers evaluated data from the U.S. Nurses Health Study for 14 years. The study involved nearly 70,000 women, who each reported their food intake every four years and include details about the consumption of fruits and vegetables. At the end of the study note that there are about 1803 cases of stroke occurring. Approximately half had ischemic stroke (blockage of blood vessels).

Researchers said the number of flavonoid intake did not reduce the risk of stroke, but flavanone intake may reduce the risk of stroke. Women who earn more flavanone intake have an increased risk 19 percent lower risk of ischemic stroke than those who eat them in small amounts.

The researchers found that 95 percent of consumption flavanone derived from citrus fruits and juices, especially orange and grapefruit juice. Participants who ate the fruit or orange juice at most, the risk of stroke was reduced by 10 percent.

Women who received the lowest intake of flavanone on average consume about 150 milligrams of flavonoids per day or less. While those who earn large amounts of flavanone intake consumed about 470 milligrams a day.

Cassidy said, a piece of citrus fruit contains 45 to 50 milligrams of flavanone.

The findings also showed that those who run a high flavonoid diet tend to have a healthy lifestyle such as smoking less, exercising more often, eat more fiber, and a little caffeine and alcohol consumption.

Researchers confirmed that relationship between diets high in flavanone and a lower risk of stroke does not prove causality.

Additional research is needed to better understand the link between consumption and the risk of stroke flavanon, the researchers said. Although this study only included women, Cassidy suspect the findings would apply to men. "This study now needs to be done," said Cassidy.

Hannah Gardener, an epidemiologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine neurology department, said the study adds information to us to determine the relationship between diet and risk of stroke.

"There are some studies that suggest that greater consumption of fruits and vegetables was associated with reduced risk of stroke," said Gardener, who was not involved in the study.

"These findings underscore the importance of fruit and vegetable intake, as well as providing evidence that citrus fruits may be particularly important in terms of reducing the risk of stroke," he concluded.

Sibling attacked by Stroke | you also risk

Sibling attacked by Stroke| The debate on whether the stroke hereditary disease or not, is still growing. But the latest research by Swedish scientists found evidence that risk of stroke can be seen from absence of siblings who have a history of stroke.

Researchers reported that individuals who have a sibling male or female with a stroke, the risk of stroke could rise to 64 percent than those who do not have a family history of stroke.

In fact, increasing the risk of stroke may be higher if a person has a sibling with a stroke when she was still relatively young. For example, when your brother had a stroke before the age of 56 years, then their siblings (brother or sister) have an increased risk of stroke nearly doubled.

The findings refer to the most common type of stroke - called ischemic stroke - which occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted as a result of blockages in blood vessels.

"Patients in zone of risk of heart attack or stroke should be made aware that genetic factors contribute greatly," says study leader, Dr. Erik Ingelsson, a professor of cardiovascular epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

To find out how relationships between family history and risk of stroke, researchers included more than 30 700 men and women that his brother had suffered a stroke and 152 000 adults who have siblings with no history of stroke.

The result, those who have a brother or sister with a history of stroke (61-64 percent) were more likely to suffer a stroke than people without a family history of stroke.

While individuals who have a sibling with a stroke at age 55 years or younger nearly doubled risk of stroke. Gender differences also seem to not be too influential.

Researchers emphasize that they only saw limited incidence of stroke and did not see the other risk factors like high blood pressure or cholesterol levels. This means that researchers can not track the extent to which genetic factors influence the risk of stroke.

"But if your brother had a stroke, probably the best idea is to pay more attention to lifestyle habits such as diet and exercise, and blood pressure checked regularly," advises Ingelsson.

Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the study was very helpful in better understanding about the risk of stroke. "It gives us insight into the family of risk, involving both genetic, in the case of high blood pressure and risk of high cholesterol, and lifestyle history together," he said.

"Obviously, those who have relatives with stroke have a higher risk, and should strive to address all modifiable risk factors for stroke," added Fonarow.

Dr. Murray Mittleman, director of cardiovascular epidemiology research unit of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, said, although one can not eliminate the factor of family history, but they can control the risk through lifestyle interventions.

"That means stop smoking if you are a smoker. Routine blood pressure checks, maintain an active lifestyle. And choose foods that nourish the heart to maintain a good balance of healthy fats, fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as a reasonable amount of fiber," Mittleman clear.

Beware, 7 Disease When Flooding

Beware, 7 The disease When Flooding | Ministry of Health, particularly the Directorate General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (PP & PL), again reminding the public of the threat of infectious diseases during the flood season.

Through electronic messages to Kompas.com, Wednesday (04/04/2012), Director General of PP and PL Prof. Dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama said it also reminded the whole range of health care in the area and the technical implementation unit (UPT) P2PL DG-related issues availability of logistics, personnel preparedness enhanced surveillance for mapping vulnerable areas, and improved coordination, both across programs and across sectors.

In addition, P2PL also will alert the rapid response team at every level, to take immediate action when the discovery of a potential threat to the possibility of an increase in infectious diseases.

Tjandra explained, there are some infectious diseases to watch out for the public in relation to flooding and anticipation as the following steps:

1. Diarrhea. Diarrhea disease is closely associated with individual hygiene (personal hygiene). In the rainy season with high rainfall, the potential for increased flooding. At the time of flooding, sources of public drinking water, especially drinking water from shallow wells, will also corrupted. In addition, at the time of the flood evacuation would normally occur with limited facilities and the facilities department, including the availability of clean water. It all becomes a potential cause of diarrheal disease with rapid transmission.

Anticipations: the public are reminded to remain vigilant and avoid the attack of diarrheal diseases in a way, first, get used to washing hands with soap every time they eat or drink and after defecating. Second, get used to boil drinking water to the boil every day. Third, keep the environment clean, avoid piles of garbage in your neighborhood. fourth, contact the nearest health worker immediately if any symptoms of diarrhea.

2. Dengue fever. During the rainy season, usually there will be increased brood where Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is mosquito-borne dengue fever. This is because during the rainy season, much like the garbage cans, old tires, and certain places and there is a pool filled with water for some time. Puddle of water that eventually becomes a breeding ground for mosquitoes. With the increasing population of mosquitoes as transmitters of disease, the risk of infection also increased.

Anticipations: The community actively participating with the movement of 3 M, which buried the cans, drain the water reservoirs on a regular basis, and close the water storage in the meeting. In addition, the community is expected soon to bring family members to the health facility when one is ill with symptoms of high fever for no apparent reason, accompanied by signs of bleeding.

3. Leptospirosis disease. Leptospirosis disease is caused by bacteria called leptospires. This disease is one of zoonotic diseases transmitted by animals or for animals. In Indonesia, the animal is a rat-borne primarily through the feces and urine. In the rainy season, especially during floods, the rats that live in burrows of land will come out to save themselves. Mice will be hanging around human excrement and urine that mixes with water flooding. Someone who has a wound, then play or submerged in flood water that was mixed with feces or urine of mice that contain bacteria lepstopira, potentially infected and falling ill.

Anticipations: To avoid the onset of the disease leptospirosis, people are encouraged to perform anticipatory measures as follows: First, suppress the population and avoid the rats that roam the neighborhood, to always maintain the cleanliness. Second, avoid playing in the water during a flood, especially if you have injuries. Third, use protection, such as shoes, when forced to enter flooded areas. Fourth, immediately go to health facilities when sick have sudden symptoms of fever, headache, and chills.

4. Acute respiratory infections (ARI). The cause of ARI may baerupa bacteria, viruses, and various other microbes. The main symptoms can be btuk and fever. If severe, it may or may be accompanied by shortness of breath, chest pain, and others.

Handling: Rest, symptomatic treatment according to symptoms, and may be required to address the causes of causal treatment; increase endurance, and prevent transmission to the people around (eg by covering your mouth when you cough, do not spit at random). Factors such as the gathering of many people in flood-shelter also play a role in transmission of respiratory infection.

5. Skin diseases. Skin diseases can be infectious, allergic, or other forms. If the flood season comes, then the main problem is that good hygiene is not maintained. As well as the ISPA, gathering a lot of people also play a role in transmission of skin infections.

6. Other gastrointestinal diseases such as typhoid fever. In this case, food hygiene factors play an important role.

7. Worsening of chronic diseases that may indeed have suffered. This happens because the lower resistance due to a prolonged rainy season, especially when flooding for days.

Tjandra also recalls that people always maintain a clean healthy living behaviors (PHBs), eat a good, clean, adequate rest, and always do the hand washing with soap (CTPS). Instead, make CTPS while before eating, before preparing food, after defecation, after cleaning a child, and after being a dirty environment and animal environment.

Source: kompas.com

500 000 People Die Due TB Each Year

500 000 People Die Due TB Each Year | Accord to WHO (World Health Organization) In south east obtain a half of numeral tuberculosis disease (TB) over the world, suggest, every year, 500,000 peoples in this region died due to TB disease.

Samlee Plianbangchang, Regional Director of south east WHO, in his state in Jakarta, request to all stakeholders to strengthen partnerships in the elimination of TB disease, when the World TB Day March 24.

"This partnership, education, and empowerment as part of basic public services is the key to eliminating TB. Partnership with NGOs, government and private hospitals, and others since 1990 has been lowered to 25 per cent of the discovery of new cases," said Pliangbangchang.

In addition, the partnership between the various parties involved have also been raised to the TB treatment success rate reached 90 percent.

"Nevertheless, tuberculosis is a disease that is often caused by poverty, so if it does not reach the poorest among the poor, and focus on education and prevention, we can not eliminate this disease," said Pliangbangchang.

The number of TB patients in South East Asia region has declined by about 40 percent since 1990 to the early detection of process improvement and improved care system. However, the number of TB patients in South East Asia is still relatively high, even the WHO estimates that half the world's TB cases are in Southeast Asia and among the five countries included in the 22 countries with the highest number of TB patients, such as India which accounts for a quarter of new cases of TB.

Know Gall Stone Disease

Know Gall Stone Disease | Actually, what it gallstone disease? According to the explanation Dr.Ari Fahrial, Sp.PD, a disease that has the typical symptoms of heartburn is caused as a result of inflammation of the gallbladder.

Gallstones are shaped like crystals, with variations in the size of a grain of sand to larger than golf balls. "If further analysis consists of gallbladder stones cholesterol stones and pigment stones," he said.

Gallstones that obstruct the cystic duct, the tube that connects the gallbladder to the bile duct center, can cause pain and sometimes inflammation. Attacks and sudden illness usually lasts for several hours.

If you experience constant pain in upper abdomen, consult a doctor to find out if an interruption of bile.

"Through an abdominal ultrasound examination to know whether there is either acute or chronic inflammation of the gall bladder is. Examination is also to determine the presence or absence of bile duct dilation," said the lecturer in the Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia.

In view of the factors of age, approximately 20 percent of cases of gall bladder disorders occur in those aged over 40 years and more experienced women. "It is rare under the age of 30 years," he added.

Another risk for the occurrence of gall bladder stones include: obesity, diabetes, HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) is low, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, and also with high blood sugar. Diets high in fat and high cholesterol and low in fiber and a sudden weight loss can also cause the formation of gallbladder stones.

Prevent Stroke with Citrus Fruit

Prevent Stroke with Citrus Fruit - Recent research shows that eating citrus fruit regularly can help reduce the risk of stroke. For this study, researchers focused on compounds called flavanone, which is found in citrus fruits.

"These data provide strong support for eating more fruit juice as a daily consumption to reduce the risk of ischemic stroke," says study leader Aedin Cassidy, head of the nutrition of Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, England.

There is a possibility that flavanone in citrus fruits improve blood vessel function or reduce inflammation, which has been associated with stroke, the researchers said.

Cassidy said, to gain maximum benefit from the flavanone, fruits should be presented in the form of juice and no added sugar.

The study was published online on February 23, 2012 in the journal Stroke, whose research is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Flavanones is a type of flavonoid which has been known for its ability to suppress the incidence of stroke risk is lower. In addition to fruits and vegetables, flavonoids are also found in red wine and dark chocolate.

For this study, the researchers focused on the six subclasses of flavonoids, including flavanone.

In the study researchers evaluated data from the U.S. Nurses Health Study for 14 years. The study involved nearly 70,000 women, who each reported their food intake every four years and include details about the consumption of fruits and vegetables. At the end of the study note that there are about 1803 cases of stroke occurring. Approximately half had ischemic stroke (blockage of blood vessels).

Researchers said the number of flavonoid intake did not reduce the risk of stroke, but flavanone intake may reduce the risk of stroke. Women who earn more flavanone intake have an increased risk 19 percent lower risk of ischemic stroke than those who eat them in small amounts.

The researchers found that 95 percent of consumption flavanone derived from citrus fruits and juices, especially orange and grapefruit juice. Participants who ate the fruit or orange juice at most, the risk of stroke was reduced by 10 percent.

Women who received the lowest intake of flavanone on average consume about 150 milligrams of flavonoids per day or less. While those who earn large amounts of flavanone intake consumed about 470 milligrams a day.

Heart Attack Symptoms in Women are Different

Heart Attack Symptoms in Women are Different | Chest pain is one of the great heart attack symptom is the most popular. But apparently the symptoms were only experienced by men only. Heart attack symptoms in women are different.

In a study of more than one million women aged less than 55 years found that 42 percent of respondents who ever had a heart attack have no symptoms of chest pain. Meanwhile, the group of men, only 30 percent who do not feel chest pain.

In general, the incidence of heart attacks in women are much less than in men. But the heart attack suffered by women younger than 55 years can be fatal. About 14 percent of women die from the disease at that age.

Research conducted by collecting data from 1,000 hospitals, found the typical symptoms of a heart attack in women. Symptoms include discomfort in the chest, pain spreading to the back, abdomen or arms, and feeling dizzy head.

Cathy Ross, cardiac disease nurse from the British Heart Foundation, said the young woman who suffered heart attacks relatively rare. "Heart attacks are not always dramatic, different symptoms in each person. There is a severe chest pain, but there is also a sense of mild pain," he said.

Therefore, patients often choose to defer to the doctor because it is not considered an emergency condition. In fact, according to Ross, the handling is faster it will increase the chances of recovery.

Although the death rate from heart attacks are now increasingly be suppressed, but health workers and patients should be aware that women can also have a heart attack while not feel chest pain.

2 Signs of Stroke Attack

2 Signs of Stroke Attack - Stroke is a dangerous disease that can cause death of brain cells. The cause of stroke could be due to a blockage in blood vessels and the presence of a ruptured blood vessel.

Early detection of stroke symptoms is the key to prevent someone falling on a more fatal condition such as paralysis or even death. Therefore, if you have or see one or more signs of a stroke like this, immediately consult a doctor:

1. Sudden numbness or weakness in the face, arm, or leg - especially on one side of the body.

People with stroke will usually have a form of mouth "does not mean" alias oblique. Also need to be aware when they (suspected stroke) had difficulty moving the arm or finger control. For example, when lifting both hands, right hand higher than the other.

2. Sudden confusion and trouble speaking.

Language problem is one of the signs of the most common type of stroke. A person who suffered a sudden stroke may experience problems when they talk. In fact, some of which also decreased comprehension. Ask him (suspected stroke) to repeat a simple sentence to you, for example: "I went to the store today." If he has difficulty repeating the words she could be having a stroke.

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease

Treat Parkinson's disease by gene therapy has proven successful in clinical trials for the first time, U.S. researchers said. This disease causes uncontrollable motor movements, tremor, rigidity and slow movements as part of the brain dies.

Small study in The Lancet Neurology used a virus to add genes to brain cells, resulting in less than half the patient's symptoms. Parkinson's UK warmly welcome this research, but they say more research is still needed. The disease affects 120,000 people in the UK, especially on over 50 years.

There is no cure for Parkinson's disease, although drugs and deep brain stimulation has shown a reduction in symptoms.

Gene therapy (gene therapy)

In patients with Parkinson's, a decline in the levels of chemicals are: GABA is located in the brain known as the nucleus subtalamikus. The researchers created a virus that "infects" cells with genes to increase the production of GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid).

In a trial of 22 patients, virus was injected into their brains, while 23 patients were "sham surgery", to make them think that they had injected the virus, their motor function and then monitored for six months.

Patients who had performed the gene therapy showed an increase of 23.1% at the level of their motor, while carried out with a "sham surgery" increased by 12.7%. Professor Nicholas Mazarakis, who is a specialist in gene therapy at Imperial College London, told the BBC a positive outcome was "very encouraging."

He added: "These results should be taken though with some caution, because even though the increase is rather small, only 10.4%, the clinical motor scale scores between patients who received gene therapy and placebo groups."

There are concerns about the safety of gene therapy. In 1999, Jesse Gelsinger died during the trial in the U.S. and there are cases of leukemia after treatment in France. The authors say the procedure is safe.

Dr Michelle Gardner, manager of the development of Parkinson's research in the UK, said: "This research shows promise of gene therapy for neurological conditions like Parkinson's, but further research is still needed. "We still do not know for how long the benefits of this treatment is over, or whether there may be long-term problems because the virus is inserted into the brain."

8 Strategies to Prevent Stroke

8 Strategies to Prevent Stroke - Stroke or partial loss of all neurological function (nerve), which occurs suddenly has become one of serious diseases in Indonesia, because of a growing number of cases.

In developed countries like the United States, stroke number third as a cause of death. While in Indonesia, stroke is the leading cause of death and top cause of disability.

"It takes a strategy for dealing with stroke. Data in Indonesia showed that 8.3 per 10,000 people suffer a stroke," said dr. Dani Ekawati Yulianti, SpS, neurologist MRCCC Siloam Hospital Semanggi, while seminar Healty Healthty Brain for Life, in Jakarta, Saturday (14/01/2012).

In fact, as much as 23 percent of patients who were hospitalized due to stroke resulted in death.

Eka said

There are many risk factors that lead to stroke such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, hypercholesterolemia, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and excessive alcohol consumption. However, these risk factors can actually be altered by treatment of lifestyle.

Here are some Strategies to Prevent Stroke as revealed by dr. Eka:

1. Healthy and Balanced Diet

Healthy and balanced diet can mean eating lots of fruits and vegetables, low fat milk, low cholesterol and low sodium (daily salt intake should not exceed 2300 mg or about 1 teaspoon)

2. Regular physical activity

With moderate exercise (30-60 minutes accumulated) 4 to 7 days a week. For example, brisk walking, jogging, biking, swimming. For high-risk patients is recommended to follow a medically supervised program.

3. Weight Control

Maintain a Body Mass Index (BMI) in the range of 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2 and a waist circumference of less than 80 cm for women and less than 90 cm for men (standard and South East Asia).

4. Stop Smoking

Smoking is one of the biggest trigger factor for stroke. Soon as possible to quit smoking and live in an environment free from tobacco smoke. There are several ways to stop smoking with nicotine replacement therapy (gum, patch) and behavioral therapy.

5. Limit Alcohol Consumption

Consuming alcohol is actually not be a problem as long as not excessive. Consumption of alcohol should be enough two standard glasses or less per day. For men with no more than 14 drinks per week. While for women less than 9 drinks per week.

6. Control of Hypertension

Lowering high blood pressure to target less than 140/90 mmHg (without other comorbidities).

7. Blood Sugar Control

For diabetics, the target of more aggressive blood pressure reduction of less than 130/80. Blood sugar control target of HbA1c <6.5 percent.  

8. Hypercholesterolemia

For people with high cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia), the provision of statins and lifestyle modifications to target LDL cholesterol levels less than 100 mg/dl.

Quoted from kompas.com

Air Pollution Can Cause Heart Attacks

Air Pollution Can Cause Heart Attacks - Highway congestion can cause not only stress but also dangerous for the heart. According to research inhale smoke containing pollutants in a long time can lead to heart attacks.

In research published in the British Medical Journal, researchers found exposure to particulate pollutants and nitrogen dioxide that is released the vehicle dangerous to heart health, although the risk is relatively small at only 1.3 percent.

Yet two-particle exposure in a long time into the lungs can trigger heart attacks about six hours after a person is inhaling pollutants. The experts call this condition as an effect of "harvesting" of pollution.

Krishnan Bhaskaran and his team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tested on 79,288 cases of heart attacks that occurred in 15 suburban England and Wales between 2003-2006. Then the researchers measured the amount of pollution in the area at the time of the patients had a heart attack. The data used comes from the UK National Air Quality Archive.

The researchers also measured levels of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and ozone, as well as other pollutant particles called PM10 and nitrogen dioxide.

"We estimate that within the context of pollutant PM10 and NO2 levels high enough to trigger a heart attack six hours later," said the researcher.

Professor Jeremy Pearson of the British Heart Foundation explains, can cause air pollution thickens the blood making it more easily clogged and are at high risk of heart attack.

"My advice to patients already diagnosed with heart disease should avoid being outside the polluted air in a long time," he said.

UK study also concluded that air pollution causes 29,000 premature deaths annually.

Avian Disease and Red Fruit

Avian Disease and Red Fruit

Bird flu is a disease affecting the poultry.

Symptoms of birds affected by bird flu are high fever and lead to death.

The medicine to cure this disease, the vaccine has actually been found that the AI ​​(Avian Influenza).

When this disease attacks the poultry industry, it will be fatal, because of all poultry farms are in all of them will be infected.

In addition to Al vaccines for the treatment of the disease, a lecturer from the University of Papua Cendrawasih namely: Dr. Made Budi, MS, has been entered into trials through sari "Red Fruit" in the treatment of bird flu and the results are quite satisfactory, from 20 chickens affected by bird flu 19 tail experience healing, and only one tail is dead.

The characteristics of the Red Fruit juice concoction of Dr.. Made Budi MS ie, does not smell acidic, neutral aroma, dark color (red), water content of zero (0), sediment pasta zero, the number of high iodine and peroxide value of zero (0) to 0.5. Boiling point lower red juice.

Bird Flu Disease and Red Fruit

Bird flu or Avian disease is a disease affecting the poultry.

Symptoms of birds affected by bird flu are high fever and lead to death.

The medicine to cure this disease, the vaccine has actually been found that the AI ​​(Avian Influenza).
When this disease attacks the poultry industry, it will be fatal, because of all poultry farms are in all of them will be infected.

In addition to Al vaccines for the treatment of the disease, a lecturer from the University of Papua Cendrawasih namely: Dr. Made Budi, MS, has been entered into trials through sari "Red Fruit" in the treatment of bird flu and the results are quite satisfactory, from 20 chickens affected by bird flu 19 tail experience healing, and only one tail is dead.

The characteristics of the Red Fruit juice concoction of Dr.. Made Budi MS ie, does not smell acidic, neutral aroma, dark color (red), water content of zero (0), sediment pasta zero, the number of high iodine and peroxide value of zero (0) to 0.5. Boiling point lower red juice.

Prevent and Overcome Liver Cancer

Prevent and Overcome Liver Cancer - Transmission of hepatitis A through food, while hepatitis B and C through body fluids. Hepatitis A often attack children and young adult age group. How to prevent this disease is to maintain the cleanliness of food and hepatitis A. The vaccine is also available The vaccine is given twice a distance of 6 months.

Hepatitis A although sometimes show clinical symptoms that interfere with, such as fever, nausea, vomiting, and yellow, in general will recover without complications. Thus, hepatitis A does not lead to liver cancer. However, hepatitis B and hepatitis C can become chronic liver cancer. Most liver cancer in our country caused by hepatitis B or hepatitis C.

You have to know that hepatitis B vaccination to prevent transmission of hepatitis B. Hepatitis B vaccination carried out three times in six months. Hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for health workers so as long as contact with the patient, the risk of contracting through the patient's body fluids is high enough. Until now, the hepatitis C vaccine is still in the research, when compared with hepatitis B, hepatitis C more often become chronic so that the risk to liver cancer is also greater.

Because there is no vaccine, if infected with hepatitis C, your doctor will consider whether the patient needs to get a hepatitis C therapy, namely interferon and ribavirin.

6 Disease that Damaging Liver

6 Disease that Damaging Liver - The liver is the organ in the body that has the important and complex task for the sake of continuity of all functions of the body. Because of its complexity and many are dealing with materials potentially damaging, like chemicals in blood, liver consequently vulnerable to injury. But, naturally, the liver has the ability to protect itself by regenerating.

In general, there are several diseases caused by viruses that can attack the liver.

1. Hepatitis

Hepatitis, or inflammation of the liver is the most common disease attacks the liver. There are several types of hepatitis, namely hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and autoimmune hepatitis caused by a gene that triggers the immune system attacks liver cells.

Almost all people with hepatitis A can be cured, and not develop into chronic. About 90 percent of people with hepatitis B will also be healed. While hepatitis C and steatohepatitis nonalkoholik often develop into chronic hepatitis.

2. Hemokromaatosis

The disease is caused by a genetic disorder that causes the intestine to absorb too much iron, so the levels are excessive. Excess iron is going into the bloodstream and accumulate in certain organs, especially the liver.

3. Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis is characterized by progressive liver damage and can not be repaired. Often caused by infection, hepatitis B and C chronic, excessive alcohol use, or autoimmune disease.

4. Liver cancer

Usually liver cancer originating from other parts of the body, then spread to the liver. Liver quite vulnerable to attack cancer cells.

5. Liver abscess

Abscess, fluid or pus that meets the cavity, sometimes formed in the liver due to bacterial or parasitic infections. If caused by bacteria usually immediately followed by fever and chills. While the abscess because the parasite develops more slowly. The disease is identified by CT scan or ultrasound of the liver.

6. Congenital disorders of the liver

There is some inherited liver disorder and is usually seen when childhood.

Beware of Foot Bone Disease

Beware of Foot Bone Disease - Leg Bone Disease may sound strange to our ears, because if we hear the word bone, we only know about bone loss, or better known as osteoporosis.

But you need to know, the foot bone disease is also dangerous for your health, especially for you who have advanced age. Why? Because the leg bone disease can cause paralysis. So beware of early bone disease leg.

Recognize early

Surely you do not want this disease is not it? For that recognize the signs of this disease early.

1. Sprain
2. Fracture
3. Arthritis
4. Nekrois aseptic
5. Pain in the cartilage
6. Stiff joints when you wake up and people are very difficult to move and activity

This foot bone disease usually attacks in people who have more than 45 years of age due to calcium in the body has been slightly reduced in number, if you find the above symptoms consult your doctor as soon as possible.

The cause of leg bone disease include the following:

1. Likes to wear high heels, since legs will stand not as it should, but legs like a tiptoe through the back heel lifted and cause the leg had to restrain him.

2. Do not like to consume calcium. Most women do not like milk, the reason they are a weight problem, even though milk production may increase the calcium in your body.

Another fact you need to know, that bone disease affects women more vulnerable than men. You can eat low-fat milk to increase calcium in your body.

3. Inflammation of the bone. Other causes that arise because of the occurrence of uric acid in the body.

Insomnia due to death? Beware

Insomnia due to death - There have been many accidents and health problems due to sleep disorders. Research on mice in the laboratory that continually forced to get up eventually die within two weeks. However, did not sleep in humans also lead to death?

According to medical records, the longest human survive without sleep is 11 days. That is evidenced by Randy Gardner, teens 17 years in 1967 continued to get up for 11 days for a competency dance. Over the past does not sleep he does not suffer pain and still be able to follow the competition. Finished the competition, he then slept for 14 hours and recovered his strength back as usual.

However, the example is a lack of sleep, which is very different from insomnia. "It is not unusual when someone can not sleep for several days because of insomnia," said Dr. Michael Thorpy of Sleep-Wake Disorder Center, USA.

Indeed there is a very rare case of insomnia, which is caused by genetic factors, that is fatal familial insomnia (FFI). The interference experienced only 40 families worldwide.

As a result of FFI, a person will suffer from panic attacks, hallucinations, decreased body weight, demenisa, and sometimes death. Sleep disturbance causes impairment of nerve function in the brain. FFI usually occurs in people of middle age and ends with death during the period of one or two years.
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