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Stress Accelerates Aging

  • Posted on February 26, 2010 at 5:25 am

Recent research is trying to open a new insight into how someone who is experiencing mental stress will accelerate the aging.
Women who experience mental stress will result in a chromosome, a part of the cell, in this case, immune cells, will be more rapid aging and death, compared with women who were not stressed in his life.
This was seen in 58 women aged between 20-50 years, who examined the chromosomes of immune cells. 19 of them have healthy children as controls, while the other 39 children who have chronic pain (chronic).
This chromosome can be measured from the age of these cells. The result, women who live in stress, immune cells have an older, equal to an additional 9-17 years of age, compared with women with normal life. The longer a child is sick, the shorter the age of immune cells.
Apparently the old stress will shorten the life span of cells, at least immune cells. And currently being investigated, whether the other body cells are also affected will be the existence of this stress, and how the actual mechanism of the mind (stress) the body’s cells and how far its effects on health. Aging cells had previously been linked to premature deaths from heart disease and infection.

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The Awesome Garlic

  • Posted on February 14, 2010 at 9:02 am

It turns out garlic or Garlic has long been used by our ancestors to cure various diseases. Various ways have been done, such as food consumption directly, blended and ground, but this way is bad breath cause complaints that sting. Today many products imported garlic in the form of capsules marketed in malls and average sold price was very high.

Garlic is excellent for almost all illnesses, including sore throats and colds. Sulfur content which makes it a distinctive smell and flavor that can enhance and accelerate activities in the mucous membrane of respiratory tract, which helps relieve compression and mucus. Additionally, raw garlic contains phytochemicals that may help kill bacteria and viruses that cause disease.

In 1992, researchers from Brigham Young University in Utah reported that mashed garlic in oil to kill not only kill rhinovirus type 2 (a common cause of flu), but also two kinds of herpes (infectious skin disease) and some of his other common viruses. Worldwide research group also reported the same success, using the garlic extract against fungi and bacteria, makes garlic one of the most effective natural medicine in the world.

Now there are more than 12 studies published worldwide that ensure that the garlic in various forms can reduce cholesterol. Therefore, it can be concluded that garlic can cure high blood pressure and heart disease. One study published in “The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians” by Silagy and Neil Haw CS 1994 mentioned that garlic is an agent for reducing fat.

Researchers state that garlic supplements is an important part in the treatment of high cholesterol. According to him, as a whole, with a decline of 12% of the total cholesterol. This decrease was for the new 4-week treatment, and this decrease continues during the study lasted. The largest study conducted in Germany, where 261 patients received garlic powder tablets. After a 12-week treatment period, cholesterol levels fell 12% and trigliserin down 17%.

A study was also conducted by CA Silagy and HA Neil, two researchers from the Department of General Practice-Flinder University, in Adelaide, South Australia. The study was conducted to determine performance garlic extract powder to reduce hypertension. Results showed that respondents who consumed garlic dosage decreased systolic blood pressure (pressure on blood vessel walls when the heart contracts).

The above is a reference to scientific evidence that garlic deserves to be an alternative for those of you who have complaints of high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Because garlic is effective, safe to consume in the long-lasting and without side effects!

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Cause of Stress

  • Posted on February 8, 2010 at 5:53 am

Stress in certain levels can have a positive impact for ourselves, but if too much would be harmful to our mental health.
Feeling anxious before we do presentations can spur us to be more serious in preparing the presentation, but if anxiety becomes excessive, we would likely be more difficult to concentrate.
Having a heavy pressure in life or a complex problem to be solved alone can cause excessive stress we feel. The causes can vary from mild to severe, for example:
- Work is piling
- Traffic jams
- Unexpected events such as the dead lights, TV broken, broken air conditioning, etc.
- Change of habit (how to dress, how to speak, and others)
- Bad news
- Failure
- Left or lost a loved one
- Economic issues such as credit card bills that continue to increase, the costs of an increasingly suffocating, and others
- Bosses who are never satisfied with the results of our work
- Did not have a spouse or partner who does not fit our dreams
- Natural disasters
- Criminal
- And others
So the stress caused by factors that exist around us. Therefore, stress can not be categorized as a disease. And because stress can come from anywhere, then we can not avoid stress, but we have discovered how to cope with it.

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Stress Causes Breast Cancer

  • Posted on February 4, 2010 at 5:16 am


Women who have always felt lonely and sad is at risk of getting breast cancer, according to a recent study researchers from the Chicago University. How come? What to do?

Although this fact was discovered in guinea pigs, rats, but experts say it may also occur in humans. The existence of this study may be an alternative to get a new type of drug in the prevention of breast cancer which attacks the most beautiful parts of a woman.

The researchers assume that the sense of loneliness and sorrow will make a person stress and depression. Sense of stress and depression that comes later will change some existing gene in breast tissue and the meat will trigger abnormal growth (tumor).

Actually, the relationship between loneliness and breast cancer have been around 100 years ago, but it was still a lot of controversy. There are many conflicts among the investigators about it.

Dr. Suzanne Conzen and colleagues who ran the study examined two groups of rats raised in different environments. One group placed in a social environment and the other was in seclusion.

Both rats were given food with the same quantity and quality. They are also given access to the same exercise. But the fact that rats living in a quiet and isolated environment has a growing tumor in her breast.

Researchers found that the more isolated rat nervous and release of stress hormones more in line with increasing age. Stress causes mammary glands (breasts) are located on the female breasts to grow abnormally.

The stress of loneliness turns out not only boost the growth of meat is not normal in the brain (brain tumor) but also in parts of the body including the breast.

Published study in the journal Cancer Prevention Research indicates that the environment is not only an effect on mental health, but also physical health such as breast cancer. Several other studies also noted that loneliness also cause diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure.

“Moral support and companionship can reduce those risks. So women should not be too much grief, and seek an environment that can make you socialize. Do not isolate yourself from outside world, and do not forget to do a screening to anticipate every possible bad on your breasts, “said Dr Lesley Walker of Cancer Research UK as reported by Dailymail, Friday (02/10/2009). 

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Tips to Use Plastic Products

  • Posted on February 2, 2010 at 10:15 am

1. Prevent the use of baby bottles and baby cups (with holes penghisapnya) made from polycarbonate, try to choose and use baby bottles made from glass, polyethylene, or polypropylene. Use baby cups made from stainless steel, polypropylene, or polyethylene. To suction, use a silicone based, as it will not release carcinogenic substances as in the dot made from latex.
2. If the use made of polycarbonate plastic can not be prevented, do not store food or drinking water in hot conditions.
3. Avoid using plastic bottles for storing drinking water. When the use of plastic bottles made from PET (code 1) and HDPE (code 2), can not be prevented, only use disposable and immediately spent for disposal of antimony trioxide compounds continued to increase over time. Alternative materials that can be used are stainless steel or glass bottles.
4. Prevent heat food packaged in plastic, especially in the microwave oven, which can lead to chemical substances contained in the plastic is released and reacts with the food faster. This could happen if the plastic packaging used for packaging oily or fatty foods.
5. Wrap the food first with banana leaves or paper before wrapped in plastic wrap when it will be heated in a microwave oven.
6. Try to use containers made of fabric for carrying vegetables, food, or groceries and use packaging made from stainless steel or glass to keep food or drink
7. Prevent the use of plastic plates and cutlery for cooking. Use cutlery made from stainless steel, glass, ceramics, and wood.
8. Spread the tips and invite everyone in our homes, offices, schools, campuses, and anywhere to find out this information and implement it in everyday life.
9. Ask the government to issue a policy with respect to plastic, as has been done by the Regents of Wakatobi, Ir Hugua, in order to rescue the marine ecosystem in the Wakatobi. As known, Wakatobi has the highest coral reef ecosystems and the best in the world today. 

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