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Friday, December 20, 2013

2,000 Step to a Healthier Heart

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THE rarity of someone doing physical activity today is believed to be one cause of the increased incidence of cardiovascular disease. Therefore, lifestyle changes through simple physical activity should be done to reduce mortality from cardiovascular disease.

A study showed that simple physical activity such as walking can have a major impact on health. Researchers say that increasing physical activity by 2,000 steps every day can cut the risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke.

In other words, changes in lifestyle can have a significant effect on health, regardless of whether a person is obese. In addition, both the impact of physical activity are also felt by people who have never exercised even before.

Therefore, the researchers recommend physical activity such as walking to people who are overweight. In addition, experts say that walking is excellent for parents who may be struggling during the exercise to be healthy.

"The benefits of this activity looks useful activity, regardless of weight or level of intensity in the beginning. Therefore, these findings provide strong evidence of the importance of physical activity in the population at risk,"said Dr.. Thomas Yates of Leicester University, told Express.

In addition, Dr. Thomas said that the research results provide new evidence related to cardiovascular disease. According to him, changes in physical activity levels by increasing the number of steps to substantially reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Destroy the HIV - AIDS Using Radioactive

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Scientists find radioactive can be used to destroy the HIV - AIDS virus is hiding in the patient's body, even in the brain.

This approach is part of an effort to cure AIDS. The researchers finally thought to look for ways destroy the HIV - AIDS virus, after 30 years of fighting the deadly virus that is incurable. To this end, the White House and the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) announced a research as an effort to cure AIDS, with an investment of 100 million dollars.

In previous studies, the researchers never tested by modifying therapies currently used for leukemia patients. The test is performed on the blood of 15 patients with HIV. The researchers found evidence that this modification therapy is able to reach the infected cells. Latent cells is what causes HIV can not be cured. Infected cells is hiding in the body, silent, but when the treatment stops, these cells react back.

Ekaterina Dadachova of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York and colleagues, is working to eradicate this latent cells with cancer therapy called radioimmunotherapy.

Radioimmunotherapy using a monoclonal antibody, an engineered version of the virus the human immune system, which then come into contact with radioactive material, bismuth - 213. These antibodies are designed to recognize HIV, then the infected cells, and deliver lethal radiation HIV virus.

" Radionuclide which we use to deliver radiation only HIV-infected cells without damaging the surrounding tissue, " said Dadachova.

According to him, this therapy is not dangerous because the basic idea of using isotope radioimmunotherapy for HIV -infected cells that can be targeted appropriately.

Based on testing in mice, this therapy is able to eliminate infected cells in the body, at least in cells that could be detected using this method. Because of the demonstrated efficacy in animal testing, a team of researchers then conducted a clinical trial to 15 patients who were undergoing HIV therapy.

In a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, this therapy revealed Dadachova destroy infected cells were still lodged in the patient's body, even in the brain. Drugs can not even give results like this.

The UN reported that the HIV virus causes AIDS, infects 35 million people worldwide, and causes death in 36 million people.

Until now there is no cure for AIDS, and vaccine did not provide optimal results. Called antiretroviral drug therapy can suppress the virus to the lowest level and much less likely to infect others. Even so, there are still remaining virus. And if the treatment is stopped, the virus appears again. Although, in some relatively rare cases, patients can be cured with this drug therapy.

According to Clyde Crumpacker of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, one problem that arises when trying to eradicate HIV is the virus can hide inside cells.

" Some HIV-infected cells fly under the radar of the immune system, " he said.

Antibodies can recognize which cells should be attacked because these cells show little of the protein on the cell surface. But HIV is integrated with cell DNA. And according to experts, this virus can infect cells without showing its presence. So clever as any of antibodies will not be able to find or recognize it.

Therefore, further Crumpacker, Dadachova promising findings need to be tested and more powerful.

Meanwhile, according to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, these findings are still limited to experimental and has not been tested in humans.

Of that, Dadachova said his team is being asked for permission and seeking funding to conduct testing in patients in South Africa and the United States.

However his condition, the U.S. Congress cut the budget includes some funding medical research. Even so, the NIH is still seeking additional funds for AIDS research.

" Research on AIDS is an example of an area that is progressing from year to year, and always generate new and exciting opportunities, both in the knowledge base would also knilis, so it should continue to be pursued, " said NIH Director Francis Collins.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Steer clear of Heart Disease Through Meditation

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Routine meditation not only give you peace of mind and eliminate stress. In terms of health, meditation is proven to keep us from heart disease.

In one study, those who regularly perform transcendental meditation risk of heart attacks and strokes down to 48 percent.

Transcendental Meditation is a technique that diajakran by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from the ancient Vedic tradition of India. He spread the meditation technique to the United States since the 1960s. This meditation is done while sitting with his eyes closed for 15-20 minutes.

The benefits of the Transcendental Meditation was proven through research involving 201 African-American respondents aged about 59 years and is generally categorized as obese.

The study participants were previously diagnosed with heart disease. In addition they are former smokers, people of African-Americans is 35 percent higher risk of suffering from heart disease.

Study participants were divided into two groups. Each group still running the standard therapy and treatment of heart disease, but there is one group that is asked to do transcendental meditation twice each day for 20 minutes. Previously they follow the seven steps of training do transcendental meditation.

In the second group, they are educated on health and physical activity were asked to do the least good for the heart for 20 minutes every day. The researchers followed the study for 9 years.

Besides proven to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke by half, transcendental meditation also significantly lowered blood pressure. The level of anger and perceived stress in the meditation group participants also reduced.

Tea and Honey Will Replace Antibiotics?

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The phenomenon of resistance of germs to antibiotics is an increasingly alarming re- echoed health experts. Recipes of traditional medicine such as tea and honey prepared as one of the alternative solutions to address the increasingly resistant bacteria to drugs.

Irrational use of antibiotics and over and over again is the biggest cause of a type of bacteria become resistant to drugs. Medical experts call this alarming phenomenon with the term "arms race".

The inability of a drug to overcome bacterial antibiotic is now a scourge after the discovery of antibiotics in the 1940s. The presence of antibiotics could be an effective solution in treating diseases caused by bacteria. However, when the bacteria have become resistant to it, the other alternatives are needed to make the treatment becomes effective again.

Prof. Les Baillie, of Cardiff University in the UK states, is not impossible that the world will return to a time where antibiotics have not been found, so the treatment of a disease becomes a big problem.

Therefore, scientists are seeking to make an alternative sulution when the bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics. Baillie currently heads the research team to find out whether such an ancient medicinal tea and honey can be the next way as the most effective drugs to treat the disease.

Tea is known to contain a compound called polyphenols that have the ability to kill microorganisms.

Baillie led the research team has found that tea is able to treat diseases caused by Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that is responsible for at least 2,000 people were killed and more than 24,000 cases of infection last year.

Rhidian Morgan - Jones, a surgeon from Cardiff, said that there are real concerns about the future of medicine when antibiotics can no longer be used.

Prof. David Livermore, from the Health Protection Agency, last month warned, major surgery and cancer treatment will become more dangerous. The use of antibiotics will likely only be done for the next 10 years.

The development of modern medicine such as intensive care and organ transplants will be under threat without antibiotics. Therefore, immediate replacement is needed antibiotics.

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.
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