Self Health Pages

Fruits and vegetables are indeed vital to our daily diet and the same time purchasing them has an effect with our budget. With these factors we need to keep our fruit and veggies fresh the longer time possible. To lock the nutrients of your fruits and veggies and save precious bucks and prevent them from rotting early and premature spoiling is to separate them. Many Fruits and vegetables emits ethylene when they ripen, a gas that can produce spots on the other produce and/or make other crops become soft and mealy.

Here is the list of which farm products that emits ethylene and which is not:

Produce that emits ethylene:

Apricots, Avocados, Bananas, Melons, Kiwis, Mangoes, Nectarines, Papayas, Peaches, Pears, Rum and Tomatoes.

Produce that are sensitive to ethylene:

Apples, Asparagus, Broccolis, Carrots, Cucumbers, Eggplants, Green Beans, Lettuces, Potatoes, Squash and Watermelons.

The muscles in our lower back are use most often. With too much hard work sometimes this might cause back injuries. Moreover, we tend to bend all the time to pick up something we dropped.

Here are some simple yet valuable stretches that you can do to prevent back injury or strain in muscles.

Lie flat and pull your knees to your chest. Lie on your back and pull both knees up toward your chest. Put your hand on each knee and gently pull your thighs closer to your chest. Breath deeply, while holding on with this position for 20 to 30 seconds.

Tilt knees to tight and left. Lie on your back, bring your knees to your chest then tilt them to the right, bring them as afar down as you can. Hold on to this position for 30 seconds. Let your knees go back at the center, and repeat this with your left knee. Repeat this steps as many times as you can.

Stretch like what the cat does exercise. If you feel like not reading the text below feel free to click the link from YouTube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-67HQ5xetzk .Like cats and both of your arms straight and your hands directly under your shoulder and knees about 8 inches apart, drop to the ground as if you like a cat.

Begin this exercise with your back lying flat, then arch your back as high up as you can, whilst pulling your abdominal muscles up. Hold on with this position for few seconds. Do opposite of this position by pushing your abs toward the floor, arching your back in the reverse direction Repeat this as many times as you can. When arching your back up or down, keep your head facing toward and always the back of your neck straight aligning with your spine.

People are asking about home remedies for abdominal pain. Here are some valuable tips to cure abdominal pains.

• Mix one teaspoon of mint juice and lemon juice. Then add a few drops of ginger juice and pinch of black salt. Drinking this mixture may lessen the pain.
• Grate a small piece of ginger and have its juice extracted. Gently apply the juice on the bottom of the stomach and massage. This may eventually heal stomach ache.
• Drink plain soda water. Doing so may help curb the pain when stomach ache is caused by acidity. This will give an instant relief from the pain.
• In 50 ml water, mix 2 teaspoon  of lemon juice and a gram of rock salt powder. Drink this mixture three times a day for the needed relief.
• Combine ginger (dry), black pepper, asafe tide, toasted cumin seeds, dry mint leaves, coriander, garlic and rock salt in equal quantity. Grind all the ingredients well, until it become powder. Have a teaspoon of this mixture with a glass of water, after meals.
• Grind 3 gram of tamarind (the tender ones) leaves, with water to create a paste. Once it is in liquid form, add a gram of rock salt. Drinking this mixture can provide instant relief from stomach ache.
• Mix 2 teaspoon of lemon juice and a teaspoon of ginger juice, a quarter teaspoon of sugar and have it two times a day.

Here are some more of body products than can also be a utilized as a form of  beauty tips, nyahahaha.

Personalized Body Lotion

You can avoid buying expensive perfumed body product by making your own by putting a few drops of fragrance into any scent-free lotion. Using this may last for several hours.

Egg-white Mask

To help you rejuvenate tired and dull skin without going to expensive spa, try using the cheap and easily available egg-whites and utilize it as facial mask. The proteins of the eggs will help restore skin moisture. After five minutes rinse off.

Sparkle in the Eyes

Perhaps an easy way to highlight your eyes is to comb petroleum jelly lightly through the tip of your eyes for captivating , sexy and alluring glow in your eyes.

way of highlighting your eyes without putting a lot of mascara is to comb petroleum jelly lightly through the tip of your eyelashes for that easy and alluring glow.

Spearmint may aid help women that are bothered by abnormal hair growth. Researchers from Turkey treated 21 women with tea made from spearmint leaves, twice a day for five days during the follicular phase of menstrual cycle.

Around 5% of women during their reproductive-age grow hair on areas like the face, chest or ears, an outcome of increased sensitivity to or production of, androgen hormones, including testosterone. The women tea drinkers had a reduced testosterone.

Oral contraceptives or spironolactone, a drug that have undesirable side effects is often used as a treatment of excess hair.

According to the authors, spearmint tea can be used as an alternative method for mild cases.

Cucumber Mask For Sensitive Skin

• 10 gm oatmeal
• ½ cucumber
• 3 tbsp
• Plain yogurt
• 1 tsp. honey

continue reading…

Here are some body products made from organic materials (common ingredients that you can even find in the favorite place of your home, which is, the kitchen) that are tipped to give you the best whilst shunning away from commercial products that are expensive and teeming with synthetic materials.

 Vodka Splash

Zest of half a lemon

Zest of half of an orange

Rose Petals

2 chopped basil leaves

3 mint leaves, chopped

100 ml Vodka

Procedure

Mix all the ingredients in a sterilized glass

Shake

Best when used after three days

Cleanser made from milk, cucumber and mint

Great for skin even for those oily. This splendid concoction is whipped out to produce a cooling yet soothing feeling when applied to your skin.

½ cucumber

10 mint leaves

50 ml milk

Procedure Peel and chop cucumber

Get rid of the stalks and chop mint leaves

Mix all the ingredients and have it blended or processed until smoothens

Pour the mixture into a pan and have it low heated until it simmers

Allow the mixture to cool

Strain and pour liquid into sterilized water

Keep the cleanser in the ref  and use within a week

Voila, now you a natural cleanser that can be used to eased out dirt in your face and skin whilst having a smooth and soothing feeling.

To be continued… Tired already …

Odd yet seems cuddly and amiable, platypus has characteristics that sets them apart with other animals. It has a big beak, can swim underwater to catch meal, has fur just like mammals, lays eggs, and suckles its young. Platypus’s feature surely baffles and amazes scientists. Moreover platypus has both the attributes of the warm-blooded and the cold-blooded. According to the latest study conducted by European Biologiformatics Institutes in Cambridge has unveiled proof that platypus has a cocktail of genes from birds, reptiles and mammals. This makes platypus which is also known as ornithorhynchus anatinius as one of a kind and provides geneticists the chance to learn about how it developed from a progenitor that also believed that bring humans to life, about 170 million years ago. Platypus has ten (10) genes which are much more than human’s two (2) genes. This could be the reason why platypus avoids diseases even without known immune system.

Confusing indeed, platypus enjoys specific genes to generate molecules as potent as antibiotics. Further studies are now in progress to track down how these amazing molecules work, if drug companies could transform these to wonder drugs to combat bug strains that wards off present day antibiotics.

Proteins are considered to be body-builders from the fundamental structure of muscles, tendons, bones and other tissues. Without it repairing damaged tissues won’t be possible. Generating new cells essential in growth will not materialize. Proteins also help make our body prevents wear and tear. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen (sometimes even phosphorous and sulfur atoms too) comprises a protein molecule. Any extra protein that the body doesn’t require is transformed into glucose to make energy or stored as fat.

Proteins are needed in smaller amounts, 40 to 60 grams a day is enough for the majority of adults.

Many wrongly thought that red meat is the best protein and other is second class.

Meat, fish, eggs, cheese, yoghurt, milk, bread, peas, beans, oat-based/wheat based breakfast cereals, and nuts provide little protein to your diet.

An ample amount of protein intake is not recommended, because surplus can be transformed and stored as fats.

Food rich in carbohydrates should be taken in ample quantities, especially for athletes or those with work that are stressful and very physical. Your body breaks carbohydrates down into the simple sugar glucose, which is used to give energy or will be stored for a short time in muscles and liver in the form of glycogen or animal starch. Extra glucose in our body is transformed as fat and may cause obesity. The molecules of carbohydrates contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms and even starches and sugars. Refined cane sugar is a major source of carbohydrates, and is consists of sugar sucrose, the sweetest of the natural carbohydrates. Refined sugar does not make you feel full just like other carbohydrate foods and could be possible cause of tooth decay. You must eat sugar and honey only in small amounts. The hormone insulin is vital for the oxidation of glucose the process of yielding energy for the body. When not enough insulin is generated and this may lead to diabetes. Starches should be in your carbohydrate intake. The best sources of starches are bread, oats, rice and beans. To make our diet balanced eat more bread and potatoes and less meat, fat and refined sugar. Cakes, biscuits, and puddings produced with white sugar and flour do no harm, but should not form bulk of your diet. Choose good alternatives like carrots and sandwich that is low in fat.

Scientifically speaking, we grow old and die because our body has consumed its telomeres.

Researchers observed, that in most types of cells, the telomeres became shorter after each successive division. Thus, after 50 or so divisions, the cell’s telomeres were whittled down to tiny nubs, and the cell stopped dividing and eventually died. The observation that cells appear to be limited to a finite number of divisions before they die was first reported in the 1960’s by Dr. Leonard Hayflick. Hence, the phenomenon is now referred to by many scientists as the Hayflick limit.

Going deeper though, why we die, there is something more important for us to know why do we grow old and die.

Imagine your life, if you could live, two hundred years, five hundred years, or more; An endless life is preferred is it not?

If you contemplate your desire to live endlessly, and the natural tendency of us not to accept death, did you not wonder why we think this way? If fact, on our part (the editor) already know the real reasons why we grow old and die.

It is very interesting to gain understanding on this matter. If you want detailed information regarding this discovery feel free to post your comment.

t is also of great interest to note that we humans have the deep inner sense of who we are. On the other hand, no animal species has the capacity to meditate the lot in life.

Live longer. Enjoy life while you are yet strong. The attainment of good health lies in knowing more about health. But the attainment of life without end is something more precious than the riches of the whole planet. Let your quest for the the attainment of the real life be granted.

All is well.

The latest results in Nursing Board Licensure Examination, January 2010. Finding some difficulties to find the result in the internet or still doesn’t know the outcome feel free to visit: the results from inq7.net for the complete results.

Here are some tips to manage and control your appetite:

• A fiber supplement and drinking a couple of glass of water 30 minutes before each meal. Phenylalamine (amino acid) supplements, 250 to 500 mg can be employed for appetite control.
• Know when to say no.
• Study your body well, burping for the first time is an indication to stop from eating, in other words, you’re full already.
• If hungry, try eating healthy foods like apple, banana, turnips and nuts (walnuts and almonds).

Here are the importance of cholestrol in our body.

• Helps in metabolism of carbohydrates. The more carbs consumed, the more cholesterol is yielded.
• It is the main sourse of adrenal steroid hormones like cortisone.
• Important in the generation of male and female sex hormones. Bear in mind that LDL (low density lipoproteins) have 65% of blood cholesterol, which are harmful to our body. HDL (High density lipoprotiens) have 20% of blood cholesterol which is good for the body.
• VLDL (Very low density lipoproteins) have 15% of blood cholesterol that is necessary in producing the LDL.

How to Control Cholesterol Profile

• Raise your HDL and reduce triglycerides (fats that differ from cholesterol, but are connected to one another).
• Make your fats intake not exceeding 20 to 20% of total calories, but more than 10% should be saturated fats.
• Eat more vegetables and fruits like apples, carrots, red pepper, broccoli, cauliflower, fiber, eggplant, psyllium husk, bailey, lentils and onions. You may also have fish, fish oils (omega-3 fatty acids, 1,000 mg a day) and yogurt.
• Garlic and ginger (fresh or available in capsules)
• Lemon grass oil
• You may opt to consider methionine, choline, inositol and betaine-lipotropics whose role is to ward off abnormal acquisition of fats in the liver while cleansing the organ’s harmful toxins. This helps the liver generate more lecithin.
• Use safe oils while cooking like olive and peanut.
• You may have supplement with chromium picolinate and primrose oil
• Eat foods that are abundant in Vitamin E and C.

Extended for being immobile during the long-haul air travel increases the risk of developing blood clots, report medical researchers in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Long-haul air travel may develop Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), the formation of a blood clot within one of the large, deep veins of the pelvis or lower limbs.
As the blood clot breaks into smaller pieces, it floats in the blood and becomes tight in the blood vessels, supplying the lungs, a pulmonary embolism, lead to sudden death.

continue reading…

Recent Information about sexual dysfunction in women.
In a study conducted by Yale School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers yield new insights about female sexual dysfunction (FSD).

continue reading…

Here are some suggestions coming experts to get the proper sleep you need to regain lost energy and soothes our minds from the problems and worries provided by the our work or responsibilities.

continue reading…

German newspaper Giebner Allegemeine stated, “Gardening brings people the most zest for life a stroke.” Seventy (70) patients who were released from rehabilitation were given questions which activities brought them contentment. The activities included suggestions such as housework, shopping, cooking, reading, walking, driving and working at their job.
Gardening looms out to be the activity that can increase contentment in life. Occupational therapist Brigitte Oberauer said, “Gardening makes it easier for stroke patients to focus on certain things and to keep concentrating. It busies the senses and delivers the message new things are growing and life goes on.
These are important message after a serious illness.” Working outside may also break the isolation of staying indoors, increase mobility and train one’s sense of balance.

In a new conducted study suggests that intake of soft drinks (sodas) and/or sleeping pill before going to sleep may develop uncomfortable heartburn. Consumption of carbonated soft drinks was discovered to increase risk to night-time heartburn by 31% most likely attributed to soft drinks  which has high level of acidity.
Regular intake of prescribed pills such as Ativan, Halcion, Valium and Xanax contain the compound benzodiazepine that could lead to a 65% increase in night-time heartburn risk.
A high body mass index (MBI), sleep disorders (snoring, insomnia and sleep apnea) may contribute to the risk of heartburn. To reduce the risk, avoid soda and change sleep medicines when necessary.

Ethnicity May Vary Risks of Colorectal Cancer

According to new study some US ethnic groups have a 10 to 60% higher risk of having a colorectal cancer in an advanced stage and a 20 percent to 30% higher risk of succumbing from the ailment, than non-Hispanic white. Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle made a comparison of data from 18 various racial and ethnic groups and discovered that African Americans, Native Americans, Asians (including Pacific  Islanders) and Hispanics are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer than non-Hispanic whites, while African American and Native Americans have greater  risk of dying from it.

Vitamin B May Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

Women who has a steady diet high in Vitamin B for the best past few years lowers their risk of colorectal cancer. Moreover those who have an intake of moderate to large amounts of alcohol in tandem with Vitamin B may lower their risk by more than 70%, according to Gastroenterology. Researchers discovered that alcohol intake in women with low Vitamin B intake may result to an increase of having a colorectal cancer while increasing intake lowers the risk at a significant rate.