5 Healthy Reason to Eat Fiber

Even if you are people who only want to eat delicious food, do not forget to eat fruits and vegetables. Two of these foods contain fiber that are beneficial to our body for short and long term. Fiber helps you to not constipated. Impurities were expelled by the body and not easily absorbed into the body again.

Eat fiber in the long run wil helps you keep healthy. It will prevent killer disease infestation, such as cancer, tumors, etc. In fact, fiber from vegetables like any kind of fruit can be processed into various types of delicious delights.

Excerpted from She Knows, eating fiber is healthy for the body.

• Fiber may reduce weight When you eat fiber, it takes longer to be digested by the stomach. It makes you feel full longer. You also will reduce the amount of food to be eaten. Calories are usually lower in fiber than processed foods. Nutrients are also better for your health.
  

Riding Horse is one of Effective Autistic Children Therapy

Autistic children is usually hard to have eye contact and interacting with others. But many children with autism that can actually interact with animals. The horse is one animal that is used for the treatment of autism. Horses help break the barriers of communication in children with autism. Children with autism are often very comfortable with animals because animals do not judge them.

Beside horses, therapy for children with autism that has been developed is behavioral therapy, speech therapy, play therapy, therapy with dolphins and many more.

Horse riding therapy is widely practiced in several country. This therapy will make the autism children communicate with horses. This activity is expected to increase concentration in autism children. It also helps in socializing with other children.

The Benefits of eating Seaweed is same with Jogging for 1.5 hours

Replacing food with seaweed is one of reduced-calorie diet. According to research conducted on 79 men who are obese, the result proved that the benefits of eating breakfast with seaweed reduces the amount of calories the same as if someone ran on a treadmill for 1.5 hours.

Quoted by The Thelegraph, the type of seaweed that is used to study is intact seaweed, and not the powder. Intact seaweed has high mineral content as well as natural nutrients because of their habitat, the sea. Sea had a lot of mineral and salt content. Sheffield Hallam University, organizer of the study, no longer using salt as taste, because seaweed already contain a lot of salt.

Nail Can Describe Your Health

Did you know that the shape and color of the nail can describe how your overall health status? Changes in nails may indicate a disturbance in the body, such as liver, lungs and even heart. The nail is an important structure that acts as a protective and improve sensation in the fingertips. The fingertip has many nerve endings, which make it possible to get health information just by looking at the shape and color of the nail.

Here are some of the shape and color of the nails and their meaning, as quoted by WebMD :

Tired Drinking Viagra tablets, Now Viagra Condoms already Available

Many men avoid condoms as contraceptive during sex, because it causes loss of erection. Men who struggle with erectile problems now have new options with Viagra condoms. A large number of men complained because they must strive to maintain the erection while using condoms at conventional sex. Then the manufacturer start to provide new products with a gel that can increasing blood flow to the heart. It is intended to allow more blood flow into the penis.

"Men who reported have used Viagra condoms, experience firmer and longer erections with their partner," said the producer as reported by MailOnline.

Cigarette would kill total 1 million billion people in 21st century

The most feared negative impact of cigarette smoke is dying from many chronic diseases, which is actually highly preventable. If not controlled, it is estimated that tobacco will kill 1 billion people throughout 21st century. This warning is delivered by Edouard d'Espaignet Tursan, health experts from the Tobacco Free Initiative of World Health Organization (WHO). He said the deaths caused by cigarette smoke in the world happened at least once every 6 seconds.

"If effective problem solving not immediately taken, tobacco could kill more than 1 billion people throughout 21st century," said Edouard in a journalism workshop in the series of 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCOTH) at the Swissotel Stamford, Singapore.

China prohibits Health Supplement with Sex, God and Eternal label

To avoid vulgar and superstitious impression, Chinese government would prohibit health supplements that use name of their product with sex, god or eternal. According to official Xinhua news report, as reported by Reuters, China's State Food and Drug Administration would prohibit health products that use vulgar words and related to superstition, such as sex, god, eternal, strong, magical, magic and amazing,

This new rule finally set, because for many years China has been hit by a series of cases involving the issue of quality in food and medicine, which worries many people.

List of Junk Food Foods based on WHO

The term junk food is frequently heard, but when asked what criteria and types of foods that can be categorized as junk food, just a few people can answer it. Junk Food is the food that is claimed unhealthy (junk) because contain a lot of fat, low fiber, high calorie, high in salt, low in nutrients and vitamins, and contain addictive substances.  

WHO (World Health Organisation) insert the following foods in the category of junk food :

• Fried Foods
  Various types of fried foods have high calories, fat from oil and high oxide can be the cause of coronary heart disease. In the process of frying it often formed carcinogenic substance that causes cancer.

Delicious Chocolate for Our Health

Who doesn’t know this food ? Almost every people in the world love to eat chocolate, but they don’t know what is the advantages of chocolate for their health. Chocolate not only have a delicious taste but it also contains useful substances for our health. Even scientists recommend us to eat 1-2 ons chocolate everyday. This are benefits of eat chocolate to our bodies.

First, chocolate have high antioxidants and theobromine. Chocolate contains flanol, it is like flanoid that only can find in the chocolate. This antioxidants can prevent free radicals in our bodies and act as arteri cleanup. On the other hand, the theobromine in the chocolate can avoid tooth decay by eliminating streptococcal mutants, bacteria that can be found in the oral cavity.

Lack of Sleep can make you Fat

Lack of sleep can have negative effects on health. There are known facts about the effects from lethargy, lack of enthusiasm, until concentration decreased. According to research from Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, United States, lack of sleep can give effect to an increase in appetite that can cause weight gain.

"Many people have an idea if they work hard until late at night, they burn more energy. But we found no change in how much energy to move when the lack of sleep, " said by Dr. Andrew Calvin, author of the study and assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic.

Researchers try to observe the behavior of the volunteers for a week when they stay at home. Those who aged 18-40 years are observed about their sleeping and eating habits.

What Cause Gallstone Disease?

Why people can have gallstone disease? Who are the vulnerable people affected by gallstones? Gallstones are hardened sediment from digestive fluids which form in gallbladder. Gallbladder is a small gland in the right side of the abdomen just below the liver, which secretes fluid to digest the food in the small intestine.

There are many things can trigger gallstones disease. Gallstones can be caused by various reason. Too much cholestrol in the bile, too extreme diet is two of a lot of reason why gallstones diseases can occurs.

Drug Addicts : Before and After

Consume illicit drugs is extremely bad effects on health. However, there are very many people who ignored that and still consume drugs. The impact of their body become damaged and this can be seen clearly from the look on his face. Here are some of the impact of several drug addicts. It's really scary. So if you haven't try drugs, please don't even try it, even once. Just stay away from the drugs.

Drug addiction can also be caused Descendants

Drug addiction is always been complex problems. The study found that drug addiction can be caused by heredity. The scientists found abnormalities in the brain of drug addicts and siblings who are not addicts.   

"Substance abuse is known can run into families. Having a family member who is addicted to drugs increase the risk of addiction to 8-10 per cent compared to the average person. But we have yet to find genes that influence this addiction," said Tapi Karen Esche at University of Cambridge in England as VOA News reported on Tuesday (03/13/2012).

Esche team used MRI brain scans to photograph the brains of cocaine addicts and their siblings who are not addicts. Brain scans showed the same abnormalities in the pre-frontal and striatal brain. This pattern was not found in volunteers who did not have an addiction and drug addict brothers.

Smoking less as dangerous as smoking a lot

Some people are smoking, but not become addicted. These people smoke only when they want it or simply just to socialize. Be social smoker still have the same risk as active smoker. The study found that social smokers brain ability has decreased as many as heavy smokers.

According to a study in Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, social smoker is defined as a person who smokes about 20 cigarettes in a week or three sticks a day. This behavior can cause memory impairment and lower mental health as those who smoked 15 cigarettes per day.

The Reasons Why Obesity Can Damage Brain

Weight gain was not only affect your physical appearance, but also can affect brain function. Obesity has been proved can increase the risk of many diseases, including brain damage. This was revealed by the researchers based on several studies. How obesity can affect the brain function?

Here are 5 reason why obesity can affect brain function, as quoted from MyHealthNewsDaily, Thursday (08/03/2012), among others:

The Most Bizzare Sleep Disorder

Sleep should be time when the mind becomes calm and the body becomes relax. However, some people actually have do strange things during their sleep. This sleep disorder is varies, from eat while asleep to having sex while asleep. Here are some of the most bizarre sleep disorders.

Sexsomnia, Sex While Sleeping

Sexsomnia is sexual activity while asleep. There are many forms of this weird behavior from doing sexual sigh, masturbation until sexual violence or rape. A study published in 2007 in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology journal, said that lack of sleep, stress, alcohol, drugs can trigger sexsomnia.

Facts about Smoking

No one denied that cigarettes can harm the health. Cigarette not only can harm the smoker but also the people arround them. Hundreds of chemicals spread as the cigarette burned. So, be ready to be poisoned by smoke.

Serious illnesses such as cancer, heart, lungs, and other diseases is the excess of the cigarette. Remarkably, cigarette toxins can infect to almost every organ and tissue in the body. Toxins do not only target organ in the chest only. Part of the brain, liver, and even genitals can not be separated from the shackles of toxins. Only a moron would even say "keep healthy with cigarettes". In Britain, smoking becomes a killer around 110 thousand people each year.
Against the dangers of smoking, there are facts that should be pay attention. Quoted from the BBC, this is the fact about smoking .

How to Distinguish Common Flu and Serious Flu in Children

Children often experience sore throat, cough and high fever. Fever can be a symptom of various illnesses, including flu, laryngitis, or viral infection. Some bacterial infections, like strep throat or pneumonia, can also look like flu or cold. Flu was more of many kinds, from bird flu to swine flu.So a lot of parents are often difficult to distinguish the common cold and serious flu in their children. Although serious flu usually cause more serious symptoms that make someone feel worse than common cold, but it is not always easy to distinguish between both of flu.

To be able to distinguish the child has a common cold or serious flu, it is necessary to understand the symptoms guide. Here are some guidelines to distinguish the difference between common cold and more serious flu :

Sleeping position that cause Body Pain

Sometimes you feel your body hurt when you wake up. This is most likely because of wrong sleeping position. What are the cause of this body pain? The wrong sleeping position can affect the entire body, causing pain and damage in the long run. Besides poor sleeping position can also aggravate existing conditions such as shoulder injuries and osteoarthritis. This is because the wrong alignment of the spine that affect muscles, joints, organs and nerves, so it can cause back pain and pain in the neck and other body parts.

The Cleveland Clinic and National Sleep Foundation give the reason why the body feel hurt when wake up :

Elderly Sleep Quality Better Than Young People

So far, most people believe that elderly sleep time was shorter than younger people. But according to researchers from the United States, elderly tend to sleep longer. It has been proved through a survey conducted on thousands of people.

A study has been conducted through a telephone survey method, which involves more than 150,000 adults. The survey participants stated that, apart from age of 40 years old, sleep quality will be better with age. The survey participants with an age of about 80-years reported getting very quality sleep compared to younger participants. The results of these studies have been published in the Sleep journal.

Eliminate Cancer With This Delicious Food

Who does not cringe when you have been verdict that you or your family have a cancer. Moreover, the medicines and treatment cost required to cure cancer is not small. But do not despair. Here is a delicious food that is claimed to suppress, or at least reduce the cancer cells in human body. At early stage this food can even prevent the emergence of cancer.

Broccoli 
Researchers from the Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, believes that broccoli could treat cancer.

Oranges can reduce the risk of stroke

Researchers claim that the oranges and grapefruit can reduce the risk of stroke. Both fruits are best eaten whole or in juice form in the morning. Why those fruit can reduce the risk of stroke? This is because the orange and grapefruit contain certain antioxidants called flavanones. The study involved thousands of women who participated in the Nurses Health Study in the U.S.. This fruit believed have the same effect on men.

The research took almost 14 years, 69,622 women reported their food consumption including details about the consumption of fruits and vegetables every 4 years.

Illegal online pharmacies selling drugs through Social Media

"Illegal online pharmacies are using social media to attract young customers and sell them illicit drugs and medicines," says Hamid Ghodse, director of the International Narcotics Control Board (International Narcotics Control Board) in its annual report published Tuesday. The technology of social media considered can pay attention to visitors especially young people / teenagers, who certainly has some risks of drugs.

World Health Organisation has found that among 12,000 items, there are 5,500 number of illegal drugs from online pharmacies that can use unknown material. Hamid Ghodse also said on press conference in London that an illegal online pharmacy is using social media such as YouTube or Facebook to attract people to buy their products through chatrooms. Illegal online pharmacies often pretend to be legally sold, when in fact smuggling of illegal products to their customers. There are many fake drugs are sold, this is very dangerous.

Train the brain to keep your eyes healthy

Presbyopia regarded as one signs of aging that can not be avoided. The eye loses its elasticity and cause people feel difficult to read. Actually, although the age of eye is aging, there are ways to fight presbyopia by keep the brain to remain sharp.

Presbyopia affects nearly everyone over the age of 50 years of age. Researchers from the University of California Berkley and Tel-Aviv University found evidence that a simple exercise can help presbyopia patients improve their vision.