Love your heart in the Workplace
Healthy Lifestyle October 1st, 2009
Today many people are busy working to forget about his health. And health is important, especially heart health. Heart disease is influenced by factors other than derivatives can also be triggered by a job and work environment.
Heart disease has become the number 1 killer in the world. Besides heart disease regardless of gender, because now the ratio between men and women that heart disease has reached 1:1. And lifestyle play an important role in determining health.
Examination of blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol is necessary for workers to find out if she has a risk of heart disease or not. World health agencies (WHO) estimates that the loss of income of a company between 2005 until the year 2015 will continue to increase, due to the number of reproductive age who suffer from chronic diseases.
“The work that can trigger heart disease is a job that has a high stress level and work just sitting without any exercise or physical activity,” said dr. Goddess Andang Joesoef, Chairman of Indonesian Heart Foundation, when contacted detikHealth, Monday (28/9/2009). 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.
Lazyness caused by Acne
Acne October 1st, 2009
Believe it or not acne can indeed affect one’s mood and interests. According to one study, acne can affect one’s interest in physical activities like sports.
The experts from the University of Bath in a report published the journal Health Psychology, Tuesday (26 / 2) indicate that patients with acne who worry about skin conditions tend to be reluctant to exercise.
Phenomenon that emerged from a study involving 50 adolescents who were recruited from a group of patients. In addition they tend to say that the reluctance to participate in physical activities, that acne sufferers feel appearance of negative votes also have trouble self-confidence and quality of life for the worse. This pattern is relatively the same according to researchers, both men and women.
According to the researchers, social anxiety associated with skin disease are often overlooked in the research on exercise motivation or physical exercise.
¨ Skin is the most visible organ of the human and the most important part of a person’s image, the light ¨ Dr Martyn Standage, from the School for Health at the University of Bath.
¨ The fear that the skin will be judged brands others have an influence on the lives of their physical and social. Sports and physical activity provides many opportunities for skin untu seen and evaluated. Therefore, acne sufferers become so concerned with his appearance that makes them shy away from physical activity, “explained Standage.
Tom Loney, one of the experts who conducted the study say that the behavior shown acne sufferers can result in other diseases. ¨ It was common knowledge that the decline in physical activity can trigger the risk of various diseases such as heart and blood vessels and heart, “he explained.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for acne patients express Alison Browsers are usually easy to acne treatment, but requires a determination to find a successful treatment techniques.
“Acne is not treated can lead to fear and shame, which then led to the refusal to follow the daily activities such as sports, ¨ he said.
The results of this study will hopefully help find the right way encourage acne sufferers to stay active life.
Acupuncture Reduce Excess Testosterone Woman Hormones
Health News October 1st, 2009
Acupuncture can reduce the symptoms of women who have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a woman who had high testosterone. The hormone testosterone is more present in men.
Excess testosterone affects the ovaries, irregular periods, and fertility problems, along with growing hair around the face and body and acne.
“PCOS treatment focuses on symptoms and frequency of hormones involved,” said Dr. Elisabeth Stener-Victorin of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, was quoted as saying by Reuters on Wednesday (30/7/2009).
Researchers conducted a study of 20 women with POCS doing acupuncture for 16 weeks, and physical activity can trigger heart rate to 120 beats per minute for 30 to 45 minutes. This treatment is at least 3 days a week, or in a control group who received health and diet information contact sports but no acupuncture treatment. Read the rest of this entry »
Mediterranean Diet Prevent Child When Pregnant Asthma
Diet Tips October 1st, 2009
A study published last Thursday said that the women who manage to follow his diet Mediterranean diet would say save the baby from asthma and allergies.
The doctors researchers led by Leda Chatzi, from the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Crete, Greece in 1997 had recruited about 507 women in clinical check-up content on the Mediterranean island of Menorca and give them a quiz contains questions on eating patterns in which they live.
More than six years later, they examined the children born to these mothers with six allergens to see whether they are sensitive to allergens. Result, the children of mothers who actually Mediterranean diet is not a problem with allergies.
Research subjects divided into two groups, one group (one third) consists of mothers who only Sekedarnya Mediterranean diet by consuming vegetables, olive oil, cereals, fish, nuts, and plant peas. The others (two thirds) strict Mediterranean diet.
The children of mothers who only Sekedarnya Mediteanian diet, at least three to four times more susceptible to asthma than children of mothers who undergo strict Mediterranean diet. And almost two times more at risk they suffer from allergies.
Consumption of vegetables more than eight times a week, fish more than three times a week and beans or peas more than once a week would be protected from the risk of allergies.
However, consumption of red meat more than three or four times a week instead invite the risk of allergies.
Articles published in the journal of the medical specialist to read the British Journal Thorax, showed two important kompnen Mediterranean diet: antioxidants – vitamins are very important compounds in the body to banish destructive molecules called free radicals – and unsaturated fatty acids are typically double that contained in olive oil and fish oil.
Antioxidants are known as elements that can protect against asthma attacks in children as fatty acids protect the body from the occurrence of inflammation, important factors for the emergence of asthma.
Mediterranean diet, which is also associated as a longevity diet is also equipped with intake of red wine. Red wine consumption is prohibited for pregnant women, but not included in this study.
