Acne is skin condition, a disease of the oil secreting glands of the skin that often affects adolescents, producing eruptions on the face, neck, and shoulders that can leave pitted scars.
Actually, acne is a chronic inflammatory of pilocebaceus follicle.
Causes
There are a few factors related to acne, such as genetics, hormone, food, mental factor, season, bacterial infection, cosmetics, and chemical agents.
Risk Factor
Generally, acne seen when a boy either a girl within their puberty time, age beetwen 15 to 19 y.o.
Sign and Symptoms
It can manifest as comedo or usually known as blackhead (a small plug of dark fatty matter blocking a follicle on the skin, especially on the face), pimple (a small round raised area of inflamed skin filled with pus), nodule (a small protruding lump, or swelling on the skin surface), and scars.
Treatment
The general treatment is including cleaning face with soap twice a day, don't too often, and avoid to use excess cosmetics, also restricts your diet from chocolate, nuts, butter, oily food, etc.
Before taking antibiotics or applying ointment for your face skin, just see your doctor for safety results.
Oh Noo.... There're Pimples in My Face
Diet for Diabetes Mellitus
We know how difficult to get a healthy food for people with diabetes. Before cooking, we have to count how many calories, protein, and fat, also carbohydrates. Then thinking, is it allowed? How we can choose which food is the best for people with diabetes? These recipes below is brought to you, it may help you get the healthy and tasty food for you or someone your love.
Cheesy Cauliflower Soup
Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Ingredients
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 cup chopped green onion
* 4 cups chicken broth
* 2 packages (8 ounces each) fresh cauliflowerets
* 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
* 1-1/2 cups shredded pepper-Jack cheese (6 ounces)
* 1/4 cup roasted red peppers
* 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
* 1/4 teaspoon hot-pepper sauce
Directions
Nutritional Information (Per Serving)
Calories: 294
Protein: 15 g
Fat: 15 g
Carbohydrates: 14 g
Exchanges: 1 Starch, 2 Medium-Fat Meat, 1 Fat
Asian Chicken and Slaw
Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Ingredients
* 1-1/4 pounds ground chicken
* 3 cloves garlic, minced
* 2 green onions (including some green), finely chopped
* 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
* 1 can (8 ounces) water chestnuts, drained and chopped
* 2 tablespoons dark Asian sesame oil
* 3 tablespoons soy sauce
* 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
* 1 package (16 ounces) shredded coleslaw mix
* 1/4 cup beef broth
Directions
Nutritional Information (Per Serving)
Calories: 344
Protein: 32 g
Sodium: 579 mg
Fat: 16 g
Carbohydrates: 5 g
Exchanges: 3 Low-Fat Meat; 2 Fat
These recipes were taken from www.diabeticgourmet.com
Vitamin A
Vitamin A is vitamin in vegetables and dairy products, a fat-soluble vitamin found in some vegetables, fish, milk, and eggs, and important for vision. It is also known as retinol and carotenoids. There are many reasons why vitamin A is so important to the immune system. Vitamin A helps to maintain the function of the cells that line the airways, digestive tract, and urinary tract, this is important because these paths are lined with mucosal cells that act as a barrier to germs. Without sufficient vitamin A, these cells would not function properly. Vitamin A is also important to maintaining a healthy immune system, as it is integral to white blood cell production. Both vitamin A excess and deficiency are known to cause birth defects. Retinol and retinoic acid are essential for embryonic development. During fetal development, retinoic acid functions in limb development and formation of the heart, eyes, and ears
Deficiency in Vitamin A
A deficiency of vitamin A can have damaging effects on your vision as well as your susceptibility to infectious diseases. Vitamin A is readily available and, in industrial nations, deficiencies in it are very rare, except in poor country we still can find it. A severe vitamin A deficiency can result in corneal ulcers, scarring, and blindness. In its mildest forms, vitamin A deficiencies can lead to poor night vision. Resistance to infectious diseases is also linked to insufficient intake of vitamin A. Children who are even mildly deficient in vitamin A are more susceptible to respiratory disease and diarrhea.
Hypervitaminosis A
Hypervitaminosis A is the condition caused by vitamin A toxicity. It is caused by overconsumption of preformed vitamin A, not carotenoids. Acute vitamin A toxicity is relatively rare, and symptoms include nausea, headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, dizziness, dry skin, and cerebral edema. Signs of chronic toxicity include dry itchy skin, desquamation, loss of appetite, headache, cerebral edema, and bone and joint pain. Also, symptoms of vitamin A toxicity in infants include bulging fontanels.Severe cases of hypervitaminosis A may result in liver damage, hemorrhage, and coma. Generally, signs of toxicity are associated with long-term consumption of vitamin A in excess of ten times the RDA (8,000 to 10,000 mcg/day or 25,000 to 33,000 IU/day).
Another Silent Killer
Have You ever had these symptoms :
- More than 3 times gets up in the middle of night to take a pee?
- Eat a lot but you loss your body weight?
- Drink a lot ?
- Feel tingling, burning sensation or thick feeling of your foot?
- There is ulcer for a long time difficult to be cured ?
Type II diabetes mellitus is metabolic disorder affecting blood sugar levels, a disorder in which there is no control of blood sugar, through decreased sensitivity to insulin, which causing kidney, eye, and nerve damage.
To be sure, you can check your blood test which may result any one of the following :
- Fasting plasma glucose level at or above 126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/l).
- Plasma glucose at or above 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/l) two hours after a 75 g oral glucose load as in a glucose tolerance test.
- Symptoms of hyperglycemia and casual plasma glucose at or above 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/l).
And for you who have the risk factors such as obesity, family history of diabetes, high-risk ethnicity (Hispanic, Native American, Afro-Caribbean, Pacific Islander), I suggest you to visit your doctor regularly if you have those symptoms above.
If I Don't See My Doctor, Don't Eat My Meds, So What Will Happen ? Of course there will be any rewards for you, any complications from your illness, such as..
- Vascular disease, chronic elevation of blood glucose level leads to damage of blood vessels. The lining of blood vessels take in more glucose than normal, since they don't depend on insulin. They form more surface glycoproteins than normal, and cause the basement membrane to grow thicker and weaker. The resulting problems are grouped as microvascular disease and macrovascular disease.
- Microangiopathy, which can cause one or more of the following:
- Diabetic retinopathy, growth of stiff and fragile new blood vessels in the retina as well as swelling of the macula, which can lead to severe vision loss or blindness.
- Diabetic neuropathy, abnormal and decreased sensation, usually in a hand and foot, starting with the feet but potentially in other nerves, later often fingers and hands. When combined with damaged blood vessels this can lead to diabetic foot. Other forms of diabetic neuropathy may present as amyotrophy, is a muscle weakness due to neuropathy.
- Diabetic nephropathy, kidney damage which can lead to chronic renal failure, eventually requiring dialysis. Diabetes mellitus is the most common cause of adult kidney failure in the world.
- Diabetic cardiomyopathy, heart damage, leading to heart failure.
- Microangiopathy, which can cause one or more of the following:
- Macroangiopathy which accelerated atherosclerosis is a contributor:
- Coronary artery disease, heart attack.
- Stroke
- Peripheral vascular disease, which contributes to intermittent claudication (fell pain in foot or leg, worse by activity).
- Diabetic myonecrosis, your mucle become thin
- Coronary artery disease, heart attack.
- Diabetic foot, usually caused by a combination both of sensory neuropathy (numbness or insensitivity) and vascular damage, increase rates of skin ulcers and infection and, in serious cases, necrosis and gangrene. It is the most common cause of non-traumatic adult amputation, usually of toes and or feet.
- Diabetic encephalopathy is the increased cognitive decline and risk of dementia observed in diabetes.
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Breakfast For The Champion
Breakfast is the first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. Why is breakfast so important to our body? Breakfast is important because it recharges our blood sugar, giving us energy for starting a day. Breakfast is good for both our physical and mental health.
Researches imply that people who eat a healthy breakfast
- Get more vitamins and minerals, and save less fat and cholesterol during the day.
- Can easily concentrate, think clearly, and be more productive throughout the day.
- There are some theories of the association between eating breakfast and controlling weight. Eating breakfast may reduce hunger later in the day, or that it may cause eaters to choose less-dense foods at later meals. Eating breakfast regularly may simply be an indicator of someone who adopts a low-calorie, low-fat diet.
- Have lower cholesterol, which can lower the risk of heart disease.
Eating breakfast is necessary for all generation, breakfast is more important for children and adolescents. According to the American Dietetic Association, children who eat breakfast are more likely to have better concentration, problem-solving skills and eye-hand coordination. They may also be more alert and creative, and less likely to miss days of school.
How to make a healthy breakfast ? Choose one item from at least three of the following four food groups:
- Fresh fruits and vegetables
- Grains : bagels, hot or cold whole-grain cereals, or low-fat bran muffins.
- Dairy : skim milk, low-fat yogurt cups or low-fat cheeses, such as cottage and natural cheeses.
- Protein : hard-boiled eggs, peanut butter, lean slices of meat and poultry, or fish, such as tuna or salmon.
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Silent Killer
We are living in modern era, we can find everything in instant way. As instant as our food an as instant as our chance to get diseases related to that instant life style. One of those disease is hypertension. Maybe some of us know what is hypertension , some of us guessing, and the rest still unclear.
Hypertension is a sillent killer among us, did you know? We can have it but we don't know we have it, it can come without sign or symptoms. Like a thief come to our house without permission.
We know that hypertension is defined as high pressure (tension) in the arteries. Arteries are vessels that carry blood from the pumping heart to all the tissues and organs of the body. High blood pressure does not mean excessive emotional tension, although emotional tension and stress can temporarily increase blood pressure. Normal blood pressure is below 120/80, blood pressure between 120/80 and 139/89 is called "pre-hypertension", and a blood pressure of 140/90 or above is considered high.
Example, from the examination, the doctor said, my blood pressure is 120/80, that means 120 is the systolic blood pressure, corresponds to the pressure in the arteries as the heart contracts and pumps blood forward into the arteries. And 80 is the diastolic pressure, represents the pressure in the arteries as the heart relaxes after the contraction. The diastolic pressure reflects the lowest pressure to which the arteries are exposed.
Causes
Causes of hypertension up to 90 % is unknown. But the rest, called secunder hypertension, is caused by underlying diseases, such as diabetes, Adrenal glands tumor, kidney problems, and it can also caused by medicines or pregnancy.
Risk factor
smoking, alcohol, high salt and calories diet, less in exercise, obesity, and in a pressured conditions.
Sign and Symptoms
Generally you won't find any sign or symptom, unless there have been any complications.
Complication
Stroke (Cranio Vascular Attacks)
Heart Failure
Kidney Diseases
Prevention
Routine check up after 30 years old annualy
Stop smoking or free alcohol
Reduce weight excess
Do exercise
Manage stress conditions
Treatment
Nonmedicine : diet low salt and callories, quit smoking, daily exercise.
Medicine : There're a lot of class of antihypertension, they have different ways to reach target, so for best result and do no harm, please do visit your physician.
With medicines and control regularly, avoiding the risk factors, so that we can chart a lower mortality rates because of hypertension.
Cannot Sleep Well ?
Insomnia is kind of difficulty in fall asleep. It occurs to 1 from 10 American people. Insomnia can be manifest as can not fall asleep during a whole night, wake up in the middle sleep and can't have sleep after that, including wake up too early in the morning or fell like no sleep after getting up.
However, just 30% of those have insomnia who is irritated. Insomnia happened as results from pressured conditions or physical disorders, but too much take a nap in the mid day also can make us can't close our eyes in the night.
Actually resting in the mid day is unnecessary. Melatonin hormone which secreted from pineal gland is a nature clock for our body. This hormone flows when sunset, and its flow indicates to take a rest for our body. In the mid day, this hormone isn't produced.
Environment can bother our sleep, such as sounds, temperature too hot or cold. Beside that, environment change such as moving to another country which has different local time can also give us sleep problems.
Too much consumption of coffee or caffeine, smoking, drinking alcohol before sleeping, can trigger insomnia. Caffeine can increase heart beats, alcohol seems to throw away vitamin B which supports our nerve system. And nicotine as nerve stimulant make us aware, so at last we can't sleep.
The worst thing, insomnia can decrease our productivity. Every those who get insomnia, they always feels sleepy in the mid day and can't concentrate for a small detail. They can't give a judgement for solving any problems. They always forget, even though the thing which just happens. They angry easily, so that there is one insomniac among us could make our day just like in a hell.
How to overcome insomnia?
Taking sufficient Magnesium and Calcium can help. Magnesium uses for muscles relaxant. Calcium can give us calming effect. So, anxiety problem can be reduced by Magnesium and Calcium. Now days, we can find supplement that combines Magnesium, Calcium, and Melatonin for helping insomnia people.
Daily intake must be consist of complex carbohydrate, like bread and crackers which helping us sleep. Don't just take the simple carbohydrate such as sugar.
Why must complex carbohydrate? Because its nutrients trigger our body to release serotonin, a brain neurotransmitter which makes us asleep. Beside those, drinking a glass of hot milk or honey can be a good solution for sleeping problems. You can also try to eat lettuce in the afternoon, because it has opium like substance which makes you fall asleep.
Cheese, chocolate, spinach, and tomatoes consumption before sleeping is not recommended, because all of that food force our brain to release nor epinephrine that will make us can't close our eyes.