Saturday, March 24, 2012

Sleep Medication Dangerous For Health


When the body feels tired, we would expect to sleep. Unfortunately, not everyone can just sleep easy. For them, apparently sleeping pills comparable to a night's rest. However, be aware that studies have linked consumption of sleeping pills harm in the long run.
Sleeping pills did not just make a deep sleep. Dr. Genevieve Belleville study from Canada showed that those who used sleeping pills drank three or more tablets have a risk of early death than people who do not take sleeping pills. Another impact of the use of sleeping pills is a chronic health disorders, such as alcohol or cigarettes, as well as the possible cause of depression.
Side effects of sleeping pills are attracted the attention of researchers because many OTC sleeping pills. In the UK, an estimated 10 million sleeping pills are prescribed every year. Sleeping pills that can counter antihistamines that usually contain high, as is commonly prescribed by doctors, such as Valium.
The case is considered crucial. Therefore, the researchers did not differentiate between the users of sleeping pills weight scale and those who occasionally use them. "These drugs are not candy and can bring them in danger,"
Based on research for 12 years and analyze the data more than 12,000 in Canada, Dr. Belleville stated that the death rate significantly higher for users as well as sleeping pills, and those taking medication to reduce anxiety.
After taking into account levels of alcohol and tobacco on physical health, physical activity, and depression, Dr Belleville found that existing sleeping pills may increase 36 percent risk of death. "They are also more susceptible to any kind of disease from parasites to cancer,"
Other findings of the side effects of sleeping pills also can not be easy. "Sleeping pills and anti-anxiety effect on reaction time and coordination so as to make it easier one falls and accidents,"
For those who have problems with heart, Belleville found that sleeping pills can depress the respiratory system that will aggravate breathing problems during sleep. "These drugs are also working on the central nervous system that affects judgment and mood. There is a danger of these drugs increase the risk of suicide,"
He said, cognitive behavioral therapy has shown good results in treating insomnia and anxiety. Therefore, the physician can discuss these therapies with their patients systematically as an option. "Combining a pharmacological approach in the short term with psychological treatment is a promising strategy to reduce anxiety and promote sleep,"

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Bathing For Health Benefits


We feel the freshness after bathing, in addition to the body clean of dirt. Shower in the morning if you get used to the cold will not be felt, even coolness that can be felt. Especially when we finished a long trip or a grueling activity, bathing can restore freshness to your body.
Recent research indicates that the bath was not only serves to cleanse the body of impurities. But it also serves to bathe away stress, improve immune system, prevent skin infections and can cure certain medical problems.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Milk Lower Risk Of Breast Cancer


Benefits of milk is no doubt. Almost all of the nutrients found in milk of good quality. Protein and milk fat has a high digestion properties. Vitamin and mineral content of milk is also relatively complete.

Milk can be consumed in various forms. There are fresh or in processed form, such as milk powder or condensed milk. Humans also consume milk from food products containing milk, such as cheese, ice cream, and yogurt.

However, there are still differences of opinion about the consumption of this milk. No group has claimed that the consumption of milk every day is not good for health, especially vascular diseases such as constriction of blood vessels. The argument is, milk increases blood cholesterol levels are a risk factor for heart disease. Second, a positive relationship between average milk production per capita in deaths from heart disease in some countries.

Other groups supporting the role of milk at a reduced risk of various degenerative diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, and cancer. Recent studies in Norway in favor of it.

Hjartäker with colleagues from the Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, Norway, through publication in the International Journal of Cancer, show that consuming three or more glasses of milk a day can reduce the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women.

Through the study cohort of Norwegian Women and Cancer Study, they examined 48 844 women for six years and two months. Milk consumption was measured with a history of food consumption submit the form to the respondent. During this period, Hjartäker team found 317 cases of breast cancer patients.

It turned out that the consumption of milk since childhood negatively associated with the incidence of breast cancer when they were aged 34-39 years (premenopausal). That means that the consumption of milk since childhood can reduce the risk of breast cancer.

Milk consumption in adulthood also reduces the risk of breast cancer after corrected by hormonal factors, body mass index, physical activity, and alcohol consumption. Women who do not consume milk run the risk of breast cancer 2 times greater than women who consumed 3 cups of milk or milk every day.





Monday, March 12, 2012

Benefits Of Chocolate


The word chocolate comes from xocoatl (Aztec language) that means a bitter drink. The Aztecs and the Maya in Mexico believe that the god of Agriculture has sent a chocolate that comes from heaven to them. Cortes then took him to Spain between the years 1502-1528, and by the Spaniards bitter drink was mixed sugar so it tastes better. Brown then spread to France, Holland and England. In the year 1765 chocolate factory was established in Massachusetts, USA.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Cigarettes Could Shorten Life


Cigarettes contain more than four thousand substances and two thousand of them have stated the impact is not good for our health, including a radioactive material (Polonium-201) and materials used in the paint (acetone), washing the floor (ammonia),  silverfish (naphthalene), insecticide (DDT), termite poison (arsenic), toxic gases (hydrogen cyanide) used in the "death chamber" for who undergo the death penalty, and many more. And substances in cigarettes are the most dangerous is the Tar, Nicotine and Carbon Monoxide. Tar contains more than forty three ingredients that cause cancer or so-called carcinogens. Substances have nicotine in cigarettes can cause addiction, which causes the user is very difficult to quit cigarette smoking. Nicotine is the substance in cigarettes that cause heart disease risk, 25 percent of people with heart disease caused by smoking