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Monday, December 16, 2013

Throw Loneliness with Meditation

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To kill loneliness, many people fill the day with partying, hanging out with friends, or go to the shopping center. The effort is not wrong, but there are way cheaper and easier, that is meditation.

Meditation is a relaxation practice by clearing the mind of all things interesting, overburden, or worrying about the day-to- day life, according to a study to prevent loneliness. Meditation also would reduce the inflammation as a starting point for a serious disease that emotionally draining.

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and Carnegie Mellon University in Pitsburg examined adults for eight weeks. Research based on the reduction of stress by adjusting the current mind, closing the past and projecting the future.

" Meditation training can help people get out of feeling depressed, " said J. David Creswell from Carnegie Melleon.

This small pilot study involving 40 adult women aged mostly 50-85 years. They were randomly divided into groups that perform meditation, and meditation group did. For two months, the feeling of loneliness and blood pressure as a marker of inflammation of the respondents was measured from the beginning to the end of the study.

Group meditation for weeks doing individual meditation program, the control group, as well as awareness training at home. They were accompanied by the leading instructors, guides yoga and stretching, as well as a discussion based on the experience of the respondents.

The results of this study provide guidelines that the simplest form of meditation can affect adult health, as well as dispel loneliness. However, this study can not directly formulate whether the decrease inflammation mean a person suffering from certain diseases.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

How Effective Yoga Prevent Depression?

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Yoga is a sport that has long been recognized as an antidote to stress and depression. In fact many studies have been conducted to support the statement.

One of the studies that prove the link yoga with stress that is reported in the journal Medical Hypotheses. The study found the effect of yoga on the brain that play a role in the formation of stress. Stress is known as a major trigger of depression.

" Yoga is lowered stress yoga movements could actually fix unbalance nervous system, " says lead researcher Dr.Chris Streeter, professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.

The researchers believe that, when a person experiences stress, an imbalance in the brain area. The balance disorders including low activity in the area of ​​the brain called gamma - amino butyric acid ( GABA ). The unactive GABA is also found in people with epilepsy, chronic pain, depression and anxiety.

Meanwhile, Dr. Ardi Dharmawan Purnama, SpKJ, a psychiatrist from the Mental Hospital Dr Suharto Heerdjan said, yoga is able to cope with the depression because exercise helps principals to focus on yourself.

" The principle may be such as mindfulness training, which aims to train to be more self- aware and environment, " he said on the sidelines of a mental health seminar last weekend in Tangerang.

According Darmawan, to prevent depression, a person also needs to abandon the habit of judging negatively to everything. Although, naturally people tend to judge negatively, but need to train yourself to change it.

In the same occasion, Dr. Elly Inkiriwang, SpKJ of the Faculty of Medicine Ukrida say, depression can be avoided if one can learn to accept the reality of injustice in his life.

" The attitude is unfair and not good in return for your good efforts over a law rather than the exception, " he said.

This is how to exercise your eyes

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Eyes Need Exercise, This is how to exercise your eyes

For those who frequently spend time in front of the screen gadgets, it is important to always maintain eye health. For some people, staring at the screen for a long time can be painful and cause eyes fatigue. If you are one of them, then maintain eye health should be a top priority.

Although the current condition of the eye is still pretty good, but it's important to keep doing prevention. Because, maintaining the health of course no need to wait when sick. One of the preventive measures to maintain eye health is to exercise the eyes.

"Exercise is important to maintain eye mechanical and optical functions. Diligent exercise also improves the ability of the eye to focus, " said eye surgeon, dr. Keiki Mehta.

Mechanical function is the ability of the eyes to remain stable, with coordinate and strengthen the eye muscles. While the optical function is the ability of the eyes to coordinate both eyes in fixing the resulting image. The ability of the eye can cause the optical image of the 3 -dimensional sent to the brain, and finally was able to make eye is able to see the object properly.

Sports eye may not reduce dependence on glasses. However, the sport is able to improve and enhance the power of the eye after a full day of use. Regular exercise will help the eyes do not feel tired and exhausted when work time is over. In addition, exercise also causes the eye is always in fresh condition when starting the day.

The following eye exercise to do every day :

1. rotate the eye
Turn the opposite eye and clockwise, then repeat every 30 minutes. It is very important to do, teruatama when sitting in front of a computer screen or studying for a long time.

2. Close your eyes with your palms
Close your eyes, then cover again with the palm of the hand. Eye closure should not be too tight to cause pressure. This stage will relax tired eyes.

3. Focus on other objects
If your eyes feel tired, you should view other, more distant object for half a minute. When it try to fix the focus, then blink rapidly several times. After that, change the view of the other objects that are closer for 15 seconds, and flashes more rapidly for several times. Repeat this step for the eyes as much as 10 times more relaxed.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Fix Libido with Yoga Exercises

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The practice of yoga is known to have many health benefits, among others relieve stress levels and body toning. But not only that, a new study finds, the practice is also able to increase arousal or libido. With regular exercise, yoga is able to improve their sex lives.

The study, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, involved 41 women aged 30 to 60 years. The women are known to have metabolic syndrome triggered by several factors such as obesity or high blood pressure. For information, metabolic syndrome may increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.

They were then divided into two groups, of which the first group was asked to perform yoga exercises for 12 weeks, and the other as a control group. After that period, the group who do yoga tend to be better in taste stimulation and lubrication compared to the control group.

" High blood pressure and high blood sugar levels is a symptom of metabolic syndrome that interfere with circulation systems that affect all organs, including the genital organs, " says Ray Sahelian, author of Natural Sex Boosters, who was not involved in the study.

The practice of yoga, he added, can improve blood flow in the body. In fact not only in patients with the metabolic syndrome, the positive impact exercise can also be felt by healthy women.

Timothy McCall, a yoga practitioner who was not involved in the study said, the benefits of yoga practice on sexual health not only from improved blood flow, but also improving mental health.

Why is that? McCall explained, sexual disorders are often also influenced by an unhealthy mental state. So the improvement of mental health has been able to treat sexual disorders.

" Many studies have linked yoga with improved sexual function, " he concluded.

Smart Bra That Can Measure Stress Levels

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Microsoft researchers designed a smart bra that can detect stress.

Prototype model on display has a sensor to monitor heart activity and skin to give an indication of the mood

The goal is to determine if this technology could be used to prevent overeating due to stress.

The data is sent to the user 's mood bra through a smart phone application to indicate if the "emotional eating" may occur.

The team of visualization and interaction research group put electrical sensors and electro cardio for heart charity for the skin inside the bra.

In a research document, it says a team of scientists use a bra "ideal because they can collect data ECG ( electro cardio, heart rhythm)".

While efforts to create underwear for men with similar functionality are less successful because the location of the sensor is too far away from the heart.

Women who tried the smart bra reported their feelings for six hours a day over a period of four days.

"Users of this prototype bra overwhelmed because the electrical energy in a bra should be recharged every three to four hours," said Microsoft senior research designer, Asta Roseway.

The discovery of the smart bra is evidence that technology features embedded in clothing is now more widely used to monitor health conditions.

Last month, there was even a scientist who developed a bra that is linked to the Twitter social networking media. Twitter account will automatically tweet whenever paired bra wearer to remind women to check the health condition of her breasts.

Friday, December 13, 2013

This 7 Minutes Exercise Equals Long Distance Running

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If you do not have enough time to exercise, it could not hurt to try a type of high - intensity exercise intervals for 7 minutes. Exercise lasted seven minutes is claimed to have high effectiveness because it proved to provide equal benefits to long distance running and weight training.

Besides short, this exercise does not require a lot of tools. You only need a chair, a wall, and little time to spare. However, the researchers warned, though only seven minutes, you should be ready to bear the pain to get maximum benefit.

In addition, for those who have cardiac dysfunction or disease, this practice is not recommended. Very wise before attempting this exercise, you first consult with your doctor to avoid things that are not desirable.

The experts publish this exercise in an article entitled High - Intensity Circuit Training Using Body Weight : Maximum Results With Minimum Investment published American College of Sports Medicine Health & Fitness.

This high intensity workout consists of 12 types of movement can be done in 7 minutes.

" What matters is the intensity of a workout in the movement to make the body more healthy. The higher the intensity, of the time needed to exercise a little more, " said Chris Jordan, director of the Exercise Physiology of the Human Performance Institute in Orlando.

These exercises include several movements such as jumping with legs closed and open ( jumping jacks ), sitting against a wall, push ups, sit ups, squats, up and down the seat, push- ups using a chair upside down, and push- ups spinning.

Previous research proved, the maximum intensity exercise produces changes in the same molecule with several hours of cycling. Changes in muscle molecule is what gives the equivalent effect on the body workout routine a few hours.

Even so, researchers warned to keep doing the rest at each stage. This interval is useful as a recovery period of muscle and body parts are used during training.

To obtain maximum benefit, this very intensive training should follow with very short rest periods in each interval. Jordan said that, every 10 seconds interval is filled break.

In each set of exercises, the muscles are not trained are given time to "catch breath ", so it is important to do the exercises every move sequentially. Each exercise each stage requires a very short time is 30 minutes.

If you want to get the best results, Jordan recognizes this exercise should be done with a lot of power drain and uncomfortable conditions. When created discomfort scale of 1 to 10, it requires that the exercise is done in figure 8. Therefore, seven minutes is very very excruciating for those not familiar.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

sweating trigger brain more creative

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Most people desire to make more slender as the motivation to exercise. However, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience shows, sweat-producing activities that one is also useful for enhancing creativity.

Dutch researchers found that people who exercise regularly tend to be better at generating creative thinking. According to them, physical activity improves people's ability to think more flexibly.

However, the researchers emphasized that such effects can only be felt in those who exercise regularly. Chairman Lorenza Colzato research from Leiden University, the Netherlands, said the research team conducted an analysis of the impact of sports on the creativity of two main parts, namely the divergent and convergent thinking.

Divergent thinking is the thinking that produces many solutions to solve a problem. Meanwhile, convergent thinking can produce the best solution to the problem right.

Colzato and his team asked two groups of respondents to test creative thinking. Meanwhile, the group is required to exercise at least four times a week, the other group was asked not to exercise.

Creativity tests conducted by researchers think that writing down the link of the three words that are not interconnected. They found that the group of respondents who exercise have better scores than any other group.

" Physical activity is good for improving the ability to think creatively, as long as done routinely. If not, then the energy that could be used for nearly think it used to move, " he said.

Colzato added, regular exercise is a healthy and inexpensive way to improve cognitive abilities, including creativity.

Make your short exercise more effective

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many people end up choosing a minimalist exercise or high intensity interval training ( HIIT ) is done with a relatively short time. By doing so, we can derive the same benefit even more than spending hours in the gym.

According to Jennifer Cassetta, sport jujitsu black belt trainer, HIIT can help burn more calories. The reason, after exercise your metabolism is still too high so as to burn more calories.

However, because time is short, it takes a maximum effort in doing HIIT to obtain the promised benefits. Here are tips from the experts to get the optimum benefits of HIIT.

1. Start Slowly
Sports briefly just burn more calories than exercise intensity is already high current generally. Then slowly start training can not only help maintain the current energy started to increase the intensity, but also increase the consumption of oxygen after exercise ends which helps burn calories longer.

In addition, start slowly to minimize injuries by preparing the body before entering the high -intensity exercise. But before start of course must be preceded by warm-up and ends with cooling.

2. Set 15 minutes
HIIT is a type of exercise that is appropriate for those who want to lose weight. Not only because it makes the sport more motivated, but also flexible performed at any time, morning, noon, or night. Set 15 minutes of time to do HIIT and promise to give you utmost high intensity without stopping prematurely.

To be effective, we must focus on doing HIIT. So during exercise, make sure there are no distractions such as chatting, television viewing, to check the phone. That way, no time is wasted so that the benefits of HIIT will be increasingly felt.

3. multitask
Versatility allows HIIT to train multiple body parts at once in a single training session. The more variations of movement, HIIT will get better. The experts advise to do squats, push ups, sit ups, and other movements to train the upper body at the same bottom.

We can also combine with the earlier movements of other sports, such as jogging. When jogging for an hour is boring, then combine with HIIT will be a challenge. For example, after 15 minutes of jogging, connect with one session of push ups or sit ups, jogging back and continue.

As well, do not let out the desires of the body to rest in the middle of doing HIIT. Remember, this is only 15 minutes, so let your body adjust to the rhythm of the exercise. We can start HIIT 2-3 times a week, once familiar, even every day.
Black Cumin Potential for ARV HIV/AIDS Medicine

Black Cumin Potential for ARV HIV/AIDS Medicine

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Hexane extract of black cumin seeds ( Nigella sativa Lor ) was developed as a potential immunomodulator in patients with immunodeficiency such as HIV - AIDS infected patients who experienced a decrease in CD4 cell count, said Akrom Kes, lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ahmad Dahlan Yogyakarta.
  
" Hexane extract of black cumin seeds ( EHBJH ) can be developed as a chemopreventive agent antikarsinogenesis through cytoprotective antioxidant and immunomodulatory mechanisms, " he said in an open doctoral examination in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Gadjah Mada ( UGM) in Yogyakarta, on Monday ( 04/02/2013 ).

According to him, the effect EHBJH can increase CD4 lymphocytes, CD8, IFNgamma levels, and hematoprotektor. The success of black cumin seeds increase the number of CD4 and CD8 cells as well as the impact on CD4CD25Treg cell population gives hope to patients with HIV - AIDS undergoing antiretroviral therapy ( ARV ) as adjuvant therapy.

" Although the new scale laboratory research through the provision of hexane extract of black cumin seeds in mice, known to have timokuinon antikarsinogenesis chemopreventive effects in rats even able to reduce the mortality rate of 81-97 percent, inhibiting liver and kidney damage as well as increase the number of leukocytes and hemoglobin, " he said.

He said, cumin seed hexane extract was also able to reduce the incidence of nodule formation 45-50 percent and 70-90 percent decrease formation of rat mammary adenocarcinoma induced dimetilbenz ( a) antracene.

In addition, the activity and immunomodulatory mechanisms antihematoksik hexane extract of black cumin seeds is known to increase the number of peripheral blood lymphocytes, increases the number of lymphocytes CD4Th, CD8 and CD4CD25treg, increase spleen weight and lymphocyte counts and lymphocyte activity in secreting IFNgamma.

According to him empirically black cumin seed has been used as a medicinal herb for the treatment of various disorders that are able to treat them as immunomodulatory, antiviral, antidiabetic mellitus, anticancer, antiasma, and antiepileptics.

" The content timokuinon, nigelon, and unsaturated fatty acids in the seeds of the black cumin is the content that is alleged antioxidative, chemopreventive, and immunomodulatory, " said Akrom.
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