Healthy Living
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Sunday 16 November 2014
Diabetes Diet and Food Tips
Diabetes is on the rise, yet most cases are
preventable with healthy lifestyle changes. Some can even be reversed.
Taking steps to prevent and control diabetes doesn’t mean living in
deprivation. While eating right is important, you don’t have to give up
sweets entirely or resign yourself to a lifetime of bland “health food”.
With these tips, you can still enjoy your favorite foods and take
pleasure from your meals without feeling hungry or deprived.
Heart Healthy Diet Tips
Weight control and regular
exercise are critical for keeping your heart in shape—but the food you
eat may matter just as much. A heart-healthy diet can reduce your risk
of heart disease or stroke by 80%. By understanding which foods and
methods of cooking are healthiest for your heart, you may be able to
prevent or manage heart disease and high blood pressure, and take
greater control over the quality and length of your life.
Healthy Fast Food
When you’re hungry and on the run, fast food can
really hit the spot. It’s cheap, tasty, and, best of all, convenient.
But it’s also loaded with calories, sodium, and fat—often enough in one
meal for an entire day.
Fast food menus are tricky when you’re
watching your weight or your health. Finding a healthy, well-balanced
meal in most fast food restaurants is a challenge. But there are always
healthier options hidden among the diet disasters. You just need to know
where to look and how to order.
Weight Problems and Obesity in Children
The number of children who are
obese or overweight is growing at an alarming rate. Extra pounds put
kids at risk of serious health problems, including diabetes, heart
disease, and asthma. Childhood obesity also takes an emotional toll.
Overweight children are frequently teased and excluded from team
activities, which can lead to low self-esteem, negative body image, and
depression. However, with the right support, encouragement, and positive
role modeling, you can help your child reach and maintain a healthy
weight.
Emotional Eating
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We don’t always eat simply to satisfy hunger. We also turn to food for comfort, stress relief, or as a reward. Unfortunately, emotional eating doesn’t fix emotional problems. It usually makes you feel worse. Afterward, not only does the original emotional issue remain, but you also feel guilty for overeating. Learning to recognize your emotional eating triggers is the first step to breaking free from food cravings and compulsive overeating, and changing the habits that have sabotaged your diets in the past.
Healthy Weight and Diet Tips
In our eat-and-run,
massive-portion-sized culture, maintaining a healthy weight can be
tough—and losing weight, even tougher. If you’ve tried and failed to
lose weight before, you may believe that diets don’t work for you.
You’re probably right: traditional diets don’t work—at least not in the
long term. However, there are plenty of small but powerful ways to avoid
common dieting pitfalls, achieve lasting weight loss success, and
develop a healthier relationship with food.
Healthy Eating
Healthy eating is not about strict dietary
limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the
foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy,
and stabilizing your mood. If you feel overwhelmed by all the
conflicting nutrition and diet advice out there, you’re not alone. It
seems that for every expert who tells you a certain food is good for
you, you’ll find another saying exactly the opposite. But by using these
simple tips, you can cut through the confusion and learn how to create a
tasty, varied, and healthy diet.
Saturday 15 November 2014
Ectoparasitic Infections
Ectoparasitic infections are infections that are caused by tiny
parasitic bugs, such as lice or mites. They are transmitted by close
physical contact, including sexual contact. The parasites affect the
skin or hair and cause itching.
Pubic lice (pediculosis pubis)
Pediculosis pubis is an infection of the genital area caused by the
crab louse (Phthirus pubis). The lice (commonly called crabs) are small
bugs that are visible to the naked eye without the aid of a magnifying
glass or microscope. The lice live on pubic hair (or any other hair) and
are associated with itching.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) weakens the body's immune system and increases the body's
vulnerability to many different infections, as well as the development
of certain cancers.
HIV is a viral infection that is primarily transmitted by sexual
contact or sharing needles, or from an infected pregnant woman to her
newborn. Negative antibody tests do not rule out recent infection. Most
people who are infected will have a positive HIV antibody test within 12
weeks of exposure.
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a virus that causes inflammation of the liver.
Most people do not think of hepatitis as a sexually transmitted
infection; however, one of the more common modes of the spread of viral
hepatitis B is through intimate sexual contact. Sexual transmission is
believed to be responsible for a significant percentage of the cases
worldwide. (Improved screening of donated blood has diminished the risk
of getting hepatitis B from blood transfusion.) Complications from hepatitis B are responsible for 1 to 2 million deaths yearly.
Hepatitis B virus can cause both an initial (acute) and a chronic
form of liver inflammation. The initial phase of infection lasts a few
weeks, and in most people, the infection clears. People who recover from
the initial infection develop immunity to the HBV, which protects them
from future infection with this virus. Still, a small percent of
individuals infected with HBV will develop chronic or long-lasting liver disease.
These persons are potentially infectious to others. It is the chronic
form of hepatitis B that is dangerous to women. Chronic hepatitis B is
associated with cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure, and liver cancer.
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is liver inflammation (hepatitis) that is caused by the
hepatitis C virus (HCV). The HCV causes acute and chronic viral
hepatitis C. Unlike hepatitis B, however, hepatitis C is infrequently
transmitted sexually, so that it is unusual as an STD. It is primarily
spread by exposure to infected blood, such as from sharing needles for
drug use, piercing, tattooing, and occasionally sharing nasal straws for
cocaine use. Some babies born to women infected with HCV will also
become infected with the virus. Sometimes there is no method of spread
identifiable.
Most infected people have no symptoms, so a delayed or missed
diagnosis is common. In contrast to HBV, with which chronic infection is
uncommon, the majority of people infected with hepatitis C develop
chronic (long-term) infection. However, as is the case with hepatitis B,
chronically infected individuals are infectious to others and are at an
increased risk of developing severe liver disease and its
complications, even if they have no symptoms.
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