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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Kidney Failure

The kidneys have other important roles in maintaining the balance of electrolytes in the body, regulating the amount of acid in the blood and controlling blood pressure.
Kidney failure occurs when your kidneys filter wastes from your blood and regulate other functions of your body. It happen when harmful wastes build up in your body or your blood pressure may rise, and your body may retain excess fluid and not make enough red blood cells, then this means you need treatment for your kidney. You must need treatment to replace the work of your failed kidneys.
Diseases like, diabetes, inflammation of the kidneys, high blood pressure, hereditary kidney diseases, scarring of the kidney caused by back flow of urine from the bladder can effects kidneys . That person who suffers from these diseases has needed to be special care of them even every body need to be careful about or must have knowledge about kidney failure because early detection can save lives.
However kidney transplantation gives us an option to treat kidney failure with 100% success ration.But as it is very costly so better you take care in initial stage. Because precaution is better than cure.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

24% of depressed teens lack of sleep

People who sleep through the middle of the night at risk of depression. In fact, too much sleep over at 00.00 could encourage suicide, iterutama for those who only slept less than five hours per day.

As reported by the Telegraph, Sunday (3/1/2010), teenager, who slept on the night 12-hour mental disorders often experience.

According to Dr James Gangwisch, a professor from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, should teenagers start resting his physical with the bed at 22:00 or ten at night.

“Our results show that lack of sleep makes a person at risk for depression, eight hours is a good time to rest his body.” Gangwisch said.

Studies conducted by examining approximately 15 thousand students aged 12 to 17 years. 24 percent of them admitted having problems due to lack of time thinkingsleep.

The results showed a teenager who slept under 10 hours of night sleep an average of approximately eight hours 10 minutes. This time is much longer approximately forty minutes from respondents who slept over 12 hours ofthe night.

“The quality of sleep can prevent someone from excessive depression, their mood is also linked to the quality of sleep,” said Gangswitch.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Reduce Stomach Fat for Improved Health & Beauty

Women more so than men concentrate a great deal of effort on their looks. As a woman it is a part of our make up to focus on our appearance and try to put forward our most impressive displays of beauty in any occasion or gathering. However there are a large majority of us who have problems in the area of looks that relate to excess weight. This issue affects women of all ages but does tend to increase as we age. Middle age is often a period in a woman’s life where the excess weight she is carrying becomes a real emotional issue as well as a physical or health one.

Not all of our efforts are spent on showing the image we want to others, but also so that we ourselves have a higher belief in our own self worth. Nobody can really know what another person is thinking or feeling about us but we tend to think too much ourselves which creates a personal paranoia about our own outer beauty. We often feel dissatisfied with ourselves and loose confidence especially if we were once slim and trim and have slowly over time put on those extra pounds. Many women don’t understand that due to the age process, unless you have amazing genes, our body stores the fat we have in different ways and our skin looses the ability to be as firm as it once was without a lot of effort.

One big problem area is the stomach where fat when accumulating there makes us look and feel, to ourselves at least, unattractive. Often the fat on our stomach will group under the skin on top of the muscles of the stomach however there are cases where it will group together under the muscles. When the accumulation of fat is on the outside of the muscles this is generally only a concern for physical appearance however for those that have the fat that accumulates under the muscles this can cause serious health problems.

Many of these health problems relating to fat under the stomach muscles start in older women around middle age or older and the damage they can do can be very serious for health concerns. When this is the case the fat needs to be managed in some way not purely for an appearance factor but for a continued health benefit and you should contact your doctor if you are concerned.

Any kind of stomach fat, regardless of where it is accumulating is a concern for woman for social occasions as well. When you want to wear the latest fashions such as low cut jeans or tight fitting jeans or skirts and have the fat accumulation on your stomach you feel despondent when trying to purchase the latest styles. Then if you are perhaps invited to social outings such as to the beach where you would normally be required to wear a swimsuit or bikini the fat around your stomach tends to create havoc for these kinds of social events. Making women self conscious, often to the point where they will not attend any such events.

The recommended ways to try to avoid these fats forming are to try to ensure that you are maintaining a healthy lifestyle including your diet, regular exercise and monitoring alcoholic or sugary liquid intake. Maintaining a healthy diet is beneficial not only relating to the fatty deposits but also in overall health, the same applies regarding exercise. Try to find ways that you can exercise as part of your daily routines to ensure that you are including some physical aspect in to every day. Of course if you are able to understand these factors when you are younger you can get your healthy lifestyle off to an early start. However many of us ignore the early years where our body is still “holding us together” only to find that as we get older the elastic starts to stretch!

Take a look at your lifestyle and the way you do things every day. What you eat, what you drink and how much exercise you get. If you are at all concerned about any fat deposits that appear to you to be under the muscles then you should be contacting your doctor for further investigation and request their assistance with balancing your life including such factors as diet and exercise. It is almost never too late to start but the earlier you start to take care of yourself the less problems you will have as you get older.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Genital warts

Genital warts is a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection.It is caused by some sub-types of human papillomavirus (HPV).It is also called Condyloma, Condylomata acuminata, or venereal warts, also anal wart or anogenital wart.It affects both men and women and can occur at any age.This infection spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected partner.
Generally, two-thirds of people who have sexual contact with a partner who has genital warts develop them within three months.
In women this infection occur on the outside and inside of the vagina, on the opening (cervix) to the womb (uterus), or around the anus. this is indirectly associated with use of birth control pills due to increased sexual contact without the use of barrier protection, multiple sex partners, and having sex at an early age.
so if you are infected with this infection go and consult to your doctor...