Showing posts with label increase. Show all posts
Showing posts with label increase. Show all posts

Saturday, February 1, 2014

10 habits that increase the risk of sudden death

10 habits that increase the risk of sudden death - No one could have guessed when death will arrive. But some habits can increase the risk of sudden death. What is it? Listen more, as reported by the following RocketNews24.

Cycling on busy roads

According to research from Belgium, pedal cycling is healthy. But doing in the middle of a busy street area is dangerous to health because of pollution.

Constipation and straining

Do not force yourself to push when constipated. Because muscles can become strained and trigger high blood pressure. The worst effects, straining can make attacks of life-threatening heart attack.

Excessive consumption of coffee and alcohol

Coffee has many health benefits. Likewise, the alcohol of wine. However, if consumed in excess, can increase blood pressure and make you develop heart failure.

Depression

Mental issues impacting bad for the heart rate. If depression is left, the body of hypertension and the risk of fatal heart attack.

Eating and drinking excessive

Greedy is one of the habits that can increase the risk of sudden death. Because overeating makes blood pressure rise as it takes to digest food quickly.

Excessive fuck

Making love is an intimate activity is fun and healthy. But do it in excess can create a burst blood pressure being too happy.

Consuming illegal drugs

People who consume cocaine and 23 times more likely to die of a heart attack. Anyway without further explained, drugs and illegal drugs is lethal to the body.

Active and passive smoking

Cases of sudden death due to smoking are extremely rare. However, both active and passive smokers suffer long-term health problems that strike unexpectedly.

Eating sweet foods, spicy, or salty excessive

The three types of food that tastes sweet, spicy, or salty is toxic to the body if consumed in excess. So limit your intake of all three in order to maintain health.

Lazy

Excessive habit of sitting at home or in the office to make your metabolism decreases, blood vessels clot, and trigger a heart attack. So it should not be too lazy to move every day.

Thats the habits that can increase the risk of sudden death. Change all become more healthful lifestyle to lower the risk.

Friday, January 31, 2014

PCB Exposure May Increase Risk For Diabetes

In light of the recent contamination of pork in Ireland (On Saturday, Ireland recalled all pork products because they were contaminated with high levels of PCBs. PCBs are polychlorinated biphenyls, highly toxic petroleum products. Yesterday, the Irish government reported that cattle were also testing positive for dioxins), I bring the unfortunate news that exposure to PBCs can increase the risk for diabetes.

In 1978-1979, people in central Taiwan were poisoned by PCB-contaminated rice bran oil that they used for cooking. Between 1993 and 2003, researchers in Taiwan investigated the incidence of type 2 diabetes in these Yucheng ("oil disease") victims.

When compared to non-poisoned controls, women who were exposed to the dioxin-laced oil were twice as likely to have developed diabetes in the ensuing 24 years.

For women whose PCB exposure was greatest (as evidenced by the presence of chloracne - an acne-like skin disorder caused by exposure to toxic chlorinated chemicals), diabetes risk was five and a half times that of matched controls (hypertension risk was 3.5 times that of matched controls).

Men exposed to dioxin also experienced an increased risk for diabetes but it was not significant. The researchers speculated that "women tend to have a greater fat percentage than men, which might result in a longer half-life of these lipophilic compounds."

One of the studys authors, Dr. Yueliang Leon Guo, commented to Reuters Health on the implications of their findings:
"Guo said that since "everyone" has detectable PCB levels in his or her body, its possible that exposure to such pollutants has helped feed the widespread rise in diabetes in recent decades."
The authors advised:
"When planning treatments against diabetes, the body burden of PCBs and dioxins should be caully considered, especially for women."
The study appeared in the August, 2008 issue of Diabetes Care:
Increased Risk of Diabetes and Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Dioxins
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Alcohol diet drinks may increase intoxication


Alcohol + diet drinks may increase intoxication more than alcohol + regular drinks

A persons breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) after drinking is influenced by factors such as food.

New findings show that mixing alcohol with a diet soft drink can result in a higher BrAC than mixing alcohol with a regular or sugar-sweetened drink.
Individuals were unaware of these differences, which may pose safety risks such as drinking and driving.

An individuals breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) following alcohol intake is influenced by several factors, including food. While it is known that food delays the stomach emptying, thus reducing BrAC, only recently has the role of nonalcoholic drink mixers used with alcohol been explored as a factor influencing BrAC. A new comparison of BrACs of alcohol consumed with an artificial sweetener versus alcohol consumed with a sugared beverage has found that mixing alcohol with a diet soft drink can result in a higher BrAC.

Results will be published in the April 2013 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View.

"More attention needs to be paid to how alcohol is being consumed in the real world," said Cecile A. Marczinski, assistant professor of psychology at Northern Kentucky University. She erenced an earlier field study of bar patrons. "Researchers found that, one, individuals who reported consuming alcohol with diet beverages had the highest BrACs, as compared to all other bar patrons, and two, that women tended to be more frequent consumers of diet mixers with their alcohol. These good naturalistic observations give researchers many ideas to explore in a controlled laboratory setting."

Dennis L. Thombs, professor and chair of the department of behavioral and community health at UNT Health Science Center, was the author of the field study erenced by Marczinski. "Research on artificially sweetened drink mixers is new," he said. "I believe this might be only the third study published to date on this issue, and the findings are quite consistent with ours."

"I am really interested in drinking and driving as a problem, so I wanted to know if the simple choice of mixer could be the factor that puts a person above or below the legal limit," added Marczinski. "I also wanted to determine if any BrAC difference would be something that subjects would notice, since this has implications for safe drinking practices, including decisions to drive."

Study authors had 16 participants (8 females, 8 males) attend three sessions where they received one of three doses – 1.97 ml/kg vodka mixed with 3.94 ml/kg Squirt, 1.97 ml/kg vodka mixed with 3.94 ml/kg diet Squirt, and a placebo beverage – in random order. The participants BrACs were recorded, as well as their self-reported ratings of subjective intoxication, fatigue, impairment, and willingness to drive. Their objective performance was assessed using a cued go/no-go reaction time task.

"Alcohol consumed with a diet mixer results in higher BrACs as compared to the same amount of alcohol consumed with a sugar-sweetened mixer," said Marczinski. "The subjects were unaware of this difference, as measured by various subjective ratings including feelings of intoxication, impairment, and willingness to drive. Moreover, their behavior was more impaired when subjects consumed the diet mixer."

When asked why mixing alcohol with a diet drink appears to elevate BrACs, Thombs explained that the stomach seems to treat sugar-sweetened beverages like food, which delays the stomach from emptying. "The best way to think about these effects is that sugar-sweetened alcohol mixers slow down the absorption of alcohol into bloodstream," he said. "Artificially sweetened alcohol mixers do not really elevate alcohol intoxication. Rather, the lack of sugar simply allows the rate of alcohol absorption to occur without hindrance."

Both Marczinski and Thombs were concerned about the risk that diet mixers can pose for alcohol-impaired driving. "In this study, subjects felt the same whether they drank the diet or regular mixed alcoholic beverage," said Marczinski. "However, they were above the limit of .08 when they consumed the diet mixer, and below it when they drank the regular mixed beverage. Choices to drink and drive, or engage in any other risky behavior, often depend on how people feel, rather than some objective measurement of impairment. Now alcohol researchers who are interested in prevention have something new to consider when developing or modifying intervention programs."

Thombs agreed. "Research on alcohol mixers is critically important for improving serving practices in on-premise drinking establishments," he said. "About one-half of all drinking and driving incidents are estimated to occur in persons leaving these settings. This type of research can provide guidance to policy-makers interested in improving the safety of bars and nightclubs."

"We have an obesity crisis in this country," added Marczinski. "As such, individuals tend to be conscious about how many calories they are consuming, and they might think that mixing alcohol with diet drinks is a healthy choice. Yet the average reader needs to know that while mixing alcohol with a diet beverage mixer may limit the amount of calories being consumed, higher BrACs are a much more significant health risk than a few extra calories."

"In natural drinking settings, such as bars and nightclubs, young women are significantly more likely than young men to order drinks mixed with diet cola," said Thombs. "I suspect this occurs because young women tend to be more weight conscious than young men. Thus, from a public health perspective, artificially sweetened alcohol mixers may place young women at greater risk for a range of problems associated with acute alcohol intoxication."

Friday, January 24, 2014

High supplemental calcium intake may increase risk of cardiovascular disease death in men



A high intake of supplemental calcium appears to be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) death in men but not in women in a study of more 388,000 participants between the ages of 50 and 71 years, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

Calcium supplementation has become widely used, especially among the elderly population, because of its proposed bone health benefits. However, beyond calciums established role in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, its health effect on nonskeletal outcomes, including cardiovascular health, remains largely unknown and has become "increasingly contentious," the authors write in the study background.

Qian Xiao, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md., and colleagues examined whether the intake of dietary and supplemental calcium was associated with mortality from total CVD, heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases. The study participants were 388,229 men and women ages 50 to 71 years from the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study in six states and two metropolitan areas from 1995 through 1996.

"In this large, prospective study we found that supplemental but not dietary calcium intake was associated with an increased CVD mortality in men but not in women," the authors conclude.

During an average 12 years of follow-up, 7,904 CVD deaths in men and 3,874 CVD deaths in women were identified and supplements containing calcium were used by 51 percent of men and 70 percent of women. Compared with non-supplement users, men with an intake of supplemental calcium of more than 1,000 mg/day had an increased risk of total CVD death (risk ratio [RR], 1.20), more specifically with heart disease (RR, 1.19), but not significantly with cerebrovascular disease death (RR, 1.14).

For women, supplemental calcium intake was not associated with CVD death, heart disease death or cerebrovascular disease death. Dietary calcium intake also was not associated with CVD death in men or women.

"Whether there is a sex difference in the cardiovascular effect of calcium supplement warrants further investigation. Given the extensive use of calcium supplement in the population, it is of great importance to assess the effect of supplemental calcium use beyond bone health," the authors conclude.

Monday, November 18, 2013

How To Increase Body Height

How To Increase Body Height | For woman, beside know how to make long hair, woman also know how to make body be height. Because the height will effected to beautiful. Body height is effected by growth hormones. Growth hormones working for organize the growing of hard bone tissue and cartilage. In program improvement body height, through a special method, the pituitary gland activity can be enhanced so as to produce more growth hormone.

Well, below i will tell you many ways or many exercise for getting height body, All ways below include to category of exercises induced growth hormone (EIGH), or exercises that stimulate growth hormone, among others are:

1. Stretching
Stretching movements will make the bone-lengthening spine interested. If done regularly and intensively, the movement can help to stimulate the addition of the length of the spine.

2. Hang
Dependent with both hands will stimulate the elongation of the bones of the back, especially in adolescents is still in its infancy. When the dependent with both hands, attracted by the gravity of the body down and hand the weight of the body, causing stress on your back.

3. Kick
This movement stimulates the growth of leg bones, so that an optimal length. In its infancy, the movement is quite effective. In fact, at the age of consent is still able to increase the movement of a leg length but not much. Tekwondo athletes generally have relatively long legs for kicking practice regularly and intensively. In adulthood, when growth has stalled, the length of the leg bone is formed of cartilage, not bone hard.

4. Bicycle
The correct cycling movement can stimulate the length of the legs, feet flat on the pedal, do not tiptoe. Back straight, and the pedaling motion conducted in stable and constant.

5. Swim
Movements in the pool can stimulate the growth of the body in an optimal, because the whole body, from head to toe stretch. Swimming motions involve almost all the muscles of the body, requires a lot of energy, and cause a lot of lactic acid. Getting a lot of energy and lactic acid are removed, the body release more growth hormone.

6. Basketball/Volleyball
Movement basketball / volleyball very well stimulate growth significantly because the body often stepping up the fight against gravity and cause stretching the whole body. This exercise also releases a lot of energy and lactic acid that spurred the growth hormone.

May be, here before about How to Increase Body Height, may this article be useful to all, other important article is about heart maintaining, Let get healthy heart simple-ways-of-maintaining-healthy heart

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

7 Energizing Ways to Increase Metabolism

Some days it just seems hard to get going. Trying to find that extra bit of energy to get you through your day but it just isnt there. The periods of low energy may not be what they seem. Sometimes just doing a few simple things will not only help your energy levels but it can increase your metabolism as well. And anyway you can increase your metabolism is a good thing.

Here are 8 ways to help energize your days and increase your metabolism at the same time.

1. Get up and get out: Exercise is one of the most important energy boosters there is. Living the life of a couch potato lowers your energy levels. Your heart and lungs do not work as efficiently supplying less oxygen to the cells. Oxygen is a key component in cell metabolism and less oxygen means a slower metabolism. As your metabolism drops you burn fewer calories and gain weight. A slow metabolism will also cause you to feel fatigued and run down.

Exercise can reverse this energy drain. It increases cardiovascular efficiency, pumping more blood through the body and therefore greater amounts of oxygen, increasing the metabolic efficiency of the cells and the body as a whole.

2. Boost your breakfast: Most people make the mistake of either not eating breakfast or if they do it consists of a big cup of coffee and some sort of sugar filled sweet roll. While it satisfies the taste buds its long term energy output is minimal. Once the caffeine wears off and your blood sugar drops youll be ready for that midmorning nap.

Eating a breakfast high in complex carbohydrates like whole grain cereal with skim milk and fruit will give you a long sustained energy source that keeps your metabolism at its optimum level well until lunch.

3. 8 Hours in the sack: Nothing recharges the batteries like a good night sleep. Sleep is the time when the body renews and heals itself. The best way to get more sleep is to go to bed earlier. That might put a damper on your channel surfing but your metabolism will thank you. Here are 5 ways to help improve your sleep.
� Exercise regularly
� Get on a schedule and go to bed about the same time every night.
� Eat a high carbohydrate snack before bed.
� Dont drink caffeinated drinks before bed.
� Avoid alcoholic beverages before bed. You will not sleep as soundly with alcohol in your system.

4. Know your prime energy time: Are you a morning person or an evening person. Your bodys energy runs in cycles, with high energy and low energy periods. Make a note of your energy cycles, when they are high and when they are low. Plan your major tasks at your high energy times and youll breeze right through them.

5. Have fun: Do things that make you happy. Take the time to partake in activities that you enjoy everyday, if possible. It doesnt have to be the same thing everyday but taking the time to do something fun decreases stress and helps to motivate you.

6. Take a break: Taking a break from work every one and a half to two hours helps refresh our minds and bodies. If your mind starts to wander or you find yourself wishing to take a nap during work get up from your desk and take a walk and get some fresh air. Movement is your bodys best friend and helps jump start your metabolism giving you the energy to get through the day.

7. Alcohol is a downer: Alcohol, as we all know, is a depressant. While it can make us loose our inhibitions, at the end of the night your reaction times are slowed and drowsiness takes hold. What you may not realize is the fatigue and slowed thinking will continue the next day. Even if you only have a beer or two a day you may notice a vast difference in your energy levels if you eliminate the alcohol.

By following these seven tips you can boost your energy and increase your metabolism and before you know it your fatigue and lack of motivation will be a thing of the past. And who knows, you may even burn a few extra calories and lose some weight.

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