Happy Valentine's Day- Take Care of Your Heart

I figure in honor of Valentine's Day, I'll write about the organ of the hour, the Heart! It's no question that the heart is probably the most important organ of your body. It is the organ that pumps blood, which contains the minerals that are essentail for your cells (i.e oxygen), through out your entire body. The heart pumps blood to your brain, your nervous system, and down to your feet. If the heart stopps working, you'll stop working.

It is important to keep your heart beating consistently and regularly. Keeps your arteries clean by eating foods low in low density lipids (bad cholesterol), and avoiding saturated fats. Exercising regularly to keep your heart beating and blood flowing throughout. Aside from exercise, the other most beneficial thing you can do for your heart is to eat right.

Some things to increase in your diet are Omega-3 fatty acids. This can be found most commonly in salmon. There are also certain vitamins and minerals that you can increase into your diet. In an article by Charlene J Nuble, titled, Vitamins and Minerals Help Ensure a Good Healthy Heart, she writes the potassium can help the heart. She states, "potassium is essential to the rhythmic, smooth and continuous pumping of the heart." Potassium is envolved in impulse potential between neuron to neuron. Potassium is very useful in helping to regulate a person's heartbeat.

Some other vitamins listed on the article are:
Vitamin D
Selenium
Magnesium

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To Douche Or Not To Douche.

Over the years the term "douche" has been popping up everywhere. maybe its just me.. but i guess until a few years ago i never really heard the term.As usual when you hear a new words like that you wonder what it is? I would regurally heard my male classmates call each other "douche bags" so i figured it had to be a negative thing.

Out of curiosity one day i decided to figure out what a douche really was,and although i had an idea of what it might be im glad i looked it up because it provided me with tons of information on the subject.

A douche is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself.

Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the vagina, but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body cavity. A douche bag is a piece of equipment for douching(a bag for holding the fluid used in douching.)

After looking into it i also found out that theres a really big controversy out there, and that many people are" iffy" on whether or not they should douche? which brings me to my question To douche or not to douche?

first of all lets start out with asking.Is Douching Healthy?
Simply stated, the answer is "No."
According to a study published by the American Journal of Public Health, douching may reduce a woman's chance of becoming pregnant during a particular month by approximately thirty percent.

Regular vaginal douching changes the delicate chemical balance of the vagina and can make a woman more susceptible to infections. Douching can introduce new bacteria into the vagina which can spread up through the cervix, uterus, and fallopian tubes. Researchers have found that women who douche regularly experience more vaginal irritations and infections such as bacterial vaginosis, and an increased number of sexually transmitted diseases.
but wait theres more...regular users of vaginal douches face a 73% greater risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)(a chronic condition that can lead to infertility, or even death, if left untreated.) Bacterial vaginosis and PID can have serious adverse affects on pregnancy including infections in the baby, labor problems, and preterm delivery.

it wouldnt be a controversy with out another side.
many women around the world still use douching as an effective way to self clean their vaginal area. i know plenty of women( all older then me) who douche and say that they have never had a problem and they feel cleaner then ever down there.

so again its all up to you.. douching may or may not be the way for you,but if you find that it is ,there are many products out there that can help keep you fresh and clean down there.

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Cataracts

I have never had a cataract before but my friend did one time. We were in junior high and we were hanging out at school one time and I noticed something a little bit different with her eye. I really didn't notice much of her eye, it was just a little bit of red. She said she couldn't see really that good, and that her eyes were getting blurry. The next day she went to the doctor and they told her that she had a cataract eye.

A cataract is a painless, cloudy area in the lens of the eye that blocks the passage of light to the retina. The retina is the nerve layer at the back of the eye. The nerve cells in the retina detect light entering the eye and send nerve signals to the brain about what the eye sees. Because cataracts block this light, they can cause vision problems.

Your doctor can find out if you have cataracts by doing a physical exam and by asking questions about your symptoms and past health. You may need other tests to make sure you have a cataract or to rule out other conditions that may be causing vision problems.

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Green Tea Cures Almost everything

I remember opening up a green tea package and reading that cures almost everything. It's a "real miracle worker" It helps you out with diabetes,cancer, UTI, anything! Well I decided to look on the internet on some facts about Green Tea and see if it really is a miracle worker. The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics in their fight against resistant superbugs, making them up to three times more effective.

Green tea is a very common beverage in Egypt, and it is quite likely that patients will drink green tea while taking antibiotics. The medical researchers wanted to find out if green tea would interfere with the action of the antibiotics, have no effect, or increase the medicines' effects.

"We tested green tea in combination with antibiotics against 28 disease causing micro-organisms belonging to two different classes," says Dr Mervat Kassem from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Alexandria University in Egypt. "In every single case green tea enhanced the bacteria-killing activity of the antibiotics. For example the killing effect of chloramphenicol was 99.99% better when taken with green tea than when taken on its own in some circumstances."

Green tea also made 20% of drug-resistant bacteria susceptible to one of the cephalosporin antibiotics. These are important antibiotics that new drug resistant strains of bacteria have evolved to resist.

The results surprised the researchers, showing that in almost every case and for all types of antibiotics tested, drinking green tea at the same time as taking the medicines seemed to reduce the bacteria's drug resistance, even in superbug strains, and increase the action of the antibiotics. In some cases, even a low concentration of green tea was effective.

"Our results show that we should consider more seriously the natural products we consume in our everyday life," says Dr Kassem. "In the future, we will be looking at other natural herb products such as marjoram and thyme to see whether they also contain active compounds which can help in the battle against drug resistant bacteria".


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Why Get Vaccinated?

It's especially important for people with certain medical conditions (like kidney disease, diabetes, HIV, heart problems, or asthma) to get a flu vaccine because getting vaccinated can protect against complications like pneumonia. Kids and teens who take aspirin regularly also need to be vaccinated because they're at risk for developing a serious condition called Reye syndrome if they get the flu.

Another reason for getting vaccinated is to protect the people around you who might get seriously ill from flu, especially because many (like very young babies) can't be vaccinated themselves. It's what scientists call "herd immunity" — by protecting yourself you are also protecting other people who are more vulnerable because there's less chance you'll get the flu and pass it on. No one likes to get the flu so you should get vaccinated.

So be sure to get vaccinated if you are around people who are at risk if they get the flu, like babies, people with a serious illness, and the elderly. You wouldn't want your little baby brother or sister to get the flu at such a young age.

The best time to get a flu shot in the United States is in October or November. This gives the body a chance to build up immunity before the winter flu season. However, you can get a flu shot throughout flu season and still have some protection against the flu. You can also protect yourself against the flu by washing your hands frequently. Washing your hands also keeps you very clean and it protects you from other germs.

Flu vaccines are available as a shot or nasal mist (a type of spray that's squirted up the nose). The shot contains killed flu viruses that won't cause people to get the flu, but will cause the body to make antibodies to fight off infection by the live flu virus.

The flu shot is about 80% effective against the flu, which means that a few people who get the shot will still get the flu. In addition, the shot only contains certain strains of the virus. If a new flu strain emerges, a person who's had a shot may not be protected against it.

Get protected now with flu vaccine.

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