Banning Cigarette Advertising to Protect Youths
Health Care December 15th, 2009
- Prohibition of advertising, promotion, and sponsorship activities by tobacco products, including cigarettes, to protect young people from the dangers of smoking. Moreover, the age of smokers in Indonesia beginners get younger age, ie a dozen years, and some have started smoking at age below 10 years.
It was made Director of Tobacco Control Support Center, Public Health Specialist Association Alex Papilaya Indonesia, Wednesday (27/1/2010). As reported earlier, the Government Regulation (RPP) of the Tobacco Products Security as addictive substances for Health prohibition expressly includes advertising, promotions. and sponsorship of tobacco containing products such as cigarettes.
Prohibition of advertising, promotion, and sponsorship activities by tobacco products, including cigarettes, not to worry about going off industries, especially advertising or the media. He gave an example, advertising expenditure, for example, recently was not dominated by the tobacco industry.
Based on AC Nielsen data reported in some media recently, advertising expenditure during the year 2009 amounting to Rp 48.5 trillion. Advertising expenditure is dominated by four sectors, namely corporate services, telecommunications, toiletries, and drinks. Highest position as an advertising shopper occupied by the telecommunications sector, followed by the government and related political campaign period. “Empty spaces left by the tobacco industry will be filled by other products,” he said.
He said the difficulty of smokers to quit tobacco industry also cause continues to have a market. The most important thing is to prevent young people try smoking.
Reducing Risk When Pregnancy
Health Care November 23rd, 2009
Through pregnancy to the mother often felt worried. Concerns the prospective mother’s natural, because of the pregnancy was so vulnerable. There are things that need to consider the mother while still pregnant. One meal or one set of life patterns can affect the fetus. Fetal health should be maintained so that the baby can stay healthy and do not lack for anything. However, so that the mother is not always worry, it’s good to know what expectant mothers should be avoided. Here are the things that need to be done to reduce the potential risk of the mother during pregnancy was written Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff, and Sandee Hathaway in the book Pregnancy: What You’re Expecting per month.
Good Medical Care
All must have a risk of pregnancy. Especially if you do not get prenatal care, or treatment pralahirnya bad. Highly recommended for all women who found herself pregnant to immediately consult with the obstetrician regularly. However, do not leave everything to the doctor. The prospective mother should be proactive in their medical treatment, reported symptoms, and do not be a doctor for yourself.
Good Food intake
Ask your doctor about what foods should be consumed and what to avoid. The best choice intake gives the possibility of the baby remains healthy and growing perfectly.
Fitness
Ideally, when will pregnancy the mother’s body was in excellent health and fit. There are several exercises for pregnant women who can help the expectant mother is more prepared for pregnancy. These movements help the mother improve blood circulation, prevent constipation, perspiration accelerate, maintain muscle flexibility and elasticity of the skin, also have a comfortable pregnancy and delivery easier.
Added Ideal Body Weight
During pregnancy, there are additional stages of normal weight. It should be noted expectant mothers. Weight gain should be in sufficient numbers, steady, and gradually to avoid complications or other diseases (eg; diabetes, hemorrhoids, low birth weight infants, difficult labor because the baby is too large, and others).
No Smoking
To avoid disorder in pregnancy, premature birth, or too low weight babies, smoking is something that should be avoided.
Not Drinking Alcohol
Drinking too many alcohol can cause fetal alcohol syndrome. Even just drinking a little alcohol can have an impact on the baby.
Avoiding Drugs
Expectant mothers should limit intake of medicines. Drugs should only be used if the benefits outweigh the risks, and only when they have been approved or prescribed by a doctor who knows your pregnancy.
Avoiding Toxins in the Environment and Work
Many things around us is poison. However, not all harmful to the fetus. Consult about the condition of your pregnancy with your doctor to find out what is good and not for your condition. Especially if you have allergies tertent or unusual conditions. However, things toxic and dangerous, such as X-rays, cigarette smoke, or pollution should be avoided.
Prevention and treatment of infections Soon
Infections due to colds, urinary tract infections, or infections of any kind, must be treated promptly by a doctor who knows you’re pregnant.
Fatigue as Super Woman Want to Be
Women today are more active, so do not realize that he was exhausted and needed rest. Do not wait for your body asking for a break before you reduce the activity. If your doctor recommends early maternity leave, keep. Several studies showed the incidence of preterm birth is higher in women who worked until delivery time, especially if their jobs involve physical work or standing in a long time.
Tooth Color
Health Care November 10th, 2009
Maybe you think color should be white teeth gleaming. But the actual email or dental coating is transparent so the color of teeth radiating dentine (the substance in the email) that is in the teeth.
As reported by the dent.info.md, color white teeth do not always depend on each individual. Adults normally have yellow teeth color grayish, grayish white or yellowish white. While normal baby teeth or milk white berwarana bluish white.
But in addition to the normal color of teeth is, there are many people who have extreme color. Tooth color can be informed about what is happening in the body. Tooth enamel can also change color according to the inclusion in the mouth.
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph.D. and Jacqueline Nardi Egan in his Body Sign, How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective, was quoted as saying Tuesday (25/8/2009) review the 8 kinds of color have teeth that serve as a warning to the body.
1. Yellow-brown teeth
Color brownish yellow teeth will occur with age which occurs mostly in the elderly. But if you’re not old age and have yellowed teeth is a sign that you are a smoker, drinker of coffee, tea or cola. Read the rest of this entry »
The Future of Hospital, Doctor Replaced by a Robot
Health Care October 1st, 2009
What kind of hospital would be in the future? Certainly more advanced, sophisticated and technologically. Everything was computerized by the tools of modern versatile. Not the doctor ruled out any position taken by the robot.
In developed countries like America, it had already applied the Methodist Hospital in Houston. The doctors there use robots the size of 5 inches could move anywhere with a monitor on top that connects doctors with his surroundings.
With the robot, the doctor can monitor the situation and give direction to the patient from wherever he is. That way he can monitor a lot of people at once without having to get out of his office or are there other matters.
Robots that walk like cleaning the floor is guarded by a medical team at the room around the patient. The robot has the ability to visualize the doctor in front of the patient.
The robot is also equipped with a radio-frequency ID to track the presence of doctors, nurses, and some existing equipment in the hospital so he could respond to emergency circumstances. Other sophisticated facilities available in the modern hospital that is a mattress ‘smart’.
The mattress can transmit images heartbeat and breathing, so patients can automatically provide a direct warning to the nurse more quickly if there is interference with the transmission results. But experts and doctors still have a dream about the future of the hospital they were.
“One day, hope that all doctors can know the patient’s medical history through access to a health identifier device implanted under the skin tissue of patients,” said Naomi Fried, of Kaiser Permanente’s Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center in San Leandro, California, as quoted from USNews, Thursday (1/10/2009).
According to Datamonitor, – a company that produces medical equipment -, tool dreamed that doctors may soon be attending. Tools which he said would be called telemedicine is like a remote that can monitor the patient’s condition and even remote surgery by the doctor.
Hospital investors basically have 2 goals to build a future hospital use of robots and other advanced technologies to improve the clinical care of patients and physicians to reduce error rates. It is expected stress levels would be decreased patient and the healing process will be faster.
“In the year 2015, probably care centers and medical action is done at home, do not need a hospital because it can be done by robots doctors and other tech facilities,” said Fried.
Cotton is New Source of Protein
Health Care September 26th, 2009
Besides the clothing materials, cotton is now used as food ingredients. Researchers found a high protein content in cotton and can be used as a source of new proteins. Want to try to eat cotton?
Plants that have been developed 7000 years ago, now has support of about 20 million farmers in 80 countries. Nearly 40 percent of cotton is used as raw material to make clothing.
But there is one thing missing from the cotton, the cotton can also be used as nutritious food.
Seed cotton is a source of very high protein. However, seed cotton can be consumed only after going through the process of purification of gossypol, a toxic chemical which functions to protect plants from insects and microorganisms. Read the rest of this entry »
