Archive for September, 2010
Panic can happen anytime and is associated with many things, like money, jobs, children or in-laws. But in certain circumstances the body also needs to be calm and free from panic attacks. This time he’s 12 signs your body needs to rest.
When the panic came from or are in stressful situations, then one has the choice to fight the panic that or just run away. At the same time stress hormones will flow through the body’s systems, if not addressed these stress hormones can cause physical and mental damage.
There are 12 signal is issued as a sign that the body needs rest, namely:
1. Feeling dizzy
When the panic, one can not think clearly. Adrenaline surge will cause some blood flow diverted from the brain and sent to the muscles. This will cause a sense of lightheadedness.
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Procurement of malaria vaccines to prevent diseases
malaria seems still far from expectations. The first clinical trial results were disappointing by scientists that the world still have to wait for the emergence of this vaccine.
Malaria vaccine has been a dream of hundreds of experts, but this effort seems still difficult to really be developed and completed.
The number of malaria endemic areas around the world including Indonesia, to encourage scientists to create a malaria vaccine.
From 80 volunteers vaccinated with an experimental malaria vaccine Sanaria, only five people who are protected from infection in clinical trials (trials in humans), the first company.
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Colds is a disease that can heal by itself (self-limiting disease). Although it can heal by itself, rinsing with saline solution to overcome the symptoms that accompany it, such as cough and sore throat.
But if you do not want to get too dependent on drugs, there are ways to alleviate cold symptoms (common cold), such as coughing, sneezing and sore throat. Materials needed are very simple, just use table salt only.
Salt solution is a liquid so it can draw out excess fluid in the throat area that was inflamed. Not only will reduce the inflammation, the salt will also ease the pain it causes.
In addition, the salt solution will also dilute the mucus or phlegm that obstruct the respiratory tract. Watery mucus that will be easily removed, so that could bring allergy-causing substances and even if there is fungus or bacteria infection.
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indeed according to the study, overweight people and smoking less productive. Besides harmful for health, obesity or overweight also makes people more difficult to do the job. According to a recent study, obese workers will spend more time ill than his colleagues are more slender. This makes it less productive.
Dutch researchers studied this by analyzing the 10,674 workers at 49 companies engaged in various fields, such as administration, manufacturer and construction industry.
The result, compared with colleagues who had normal weight, obese workers in this study 66 percent more permits because of an illness and health problems, namely the average for 10 to 24 working days. We’re working 30 percent were obese workers less than workers poduktive normal weight.
Apart from obesity, smoking was also associated with loss of worker productivity. Smokers are 10 to 24 percent more to take leave due to illness. In fact, according to the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, smokers are less productive than workers of obesity.
The results of this study makes sense, given the variety of health problems directly related to obesity and smoking.
From the results of the study, 83 percent of workers in the study of obesity, is reported to have at least one chronic disease, including heart disease, diabetes, depression, and sore joints and muscles.
New research in the United States claims that sleeping for seven hours is the best length for most adults. The results of this study undermine the belief that the ideal sleep duration is 8 hours.
Research conducted by researchers at West Virginia University found that people who sleep for more or less than seven hours, are at increased risk of heart disease. While less than five hours sleep, increases the risk more than doubled to wind disturbance sit (angina), heart attack, or stroke.
Another study, also published in the journal Sleep shows that the United States-which is often used as a weekend “revenge” for the workers sleep longer, did not reduce the risk.
“The style of life that resulted in lack of sleep during weekdays are continuing to generate pressure and the possibility of increased errors and loss of alertness (in work),” said Dr. David Dinges of the University of Pennsylvania