Taking Blood Pressure
Whenever your blood pressure (BP) is to be taken, whether you are doing it yourself or someone is doing it for you, you should keep several factors in mind so that you can get the most accurate reading.
The U.S. Pharmacist reports that one should rest for at least 15 minutes before a blood pressure reading is taken. This is important because the BP rises to compensate for the increased amount of blood that polls in the legs by gravity as when one is moving about. Without this compensatory increase of BP, the amount of blood flow to the brain would become inadequate during periods of physical activity. The height of one's BP, furthermore, depends upon how active one has been just before it is taken.
Breakfast Menu
Too many working women skip breakfast and then gobble down the wrong foods after they've checked in with the boss. Take-out breakfast from fast-food establishment are very high in fat, salt, sugar, and cholesterol-typically eggs, croissants, doughnuts, sweet rolls, fried ham, sausages, or bacon. Commercial bran muffins are likely to be high in sugar and saturated fats. Fruited yogurt contains 140 calories of heavily sugared preserves and 140 calorie of yogurt. Watch out for bagels with cream cheese and for commercial granola, usually high in fat and sugar. Nondairy creamers are a bad idea because they're made of corn syrup and coconut oil.
Antioxidant
Antioxidants are compounds in foods that can stop free radicals from doing harm in the body. Because they may also boost the immune system, they are a big help in lowering the risk of cancer and infection.
Free radicals, on the other hand, are the unstable oxygen molecules that have lost an electron through exposure to sunlight, pollution, and daily wear and tear. They are free-moving molecules that travel around the body trying to stabilize themselves by stealing electrons from healthy molecules. More free radicals are created after a successful steal, damaging healthy cells in the process.
Ear Cleaning
There's an old saying: "Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear." Your ear canal and eardrum, are very delicate. Don't use cotton-tipped swabs, bobby pins, paper clips, or twisted pieces of paper to clean your ears. These items usually don't remove problem wax and - more importantly- can easily damage your eardrum. In fact, you may push the wax in deeper when you use these items.
Eye Check-up
Symptoms
Tired, dry, or burning sensation in the eyes after working before the computer monitor (screen) for several hours.
Causes
There are ways to continue in such work, without damaging your eyesight. Here are several suggestions help you protect your eyesight as you work with computers:
Anemia
If you’re concerned about factor that interferes with your iron nutrients you’ll happy to learn about the work of the International Center for Control of Nutritional Anemia with the University of Kansas Medical Center. A research group doctors and scientists at the center have made a concerted effort to track down the factors that inhibit our absorption of iron. Here are some of their key findings.
ginseng capsules
Among 200 normal adults studied at the University of California while taking ginseng daily for long periods, 22 (10 percent) developed hypertension, nervousness, insomnia, rashes, and diarrhea. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, both men and women experienced these side effects in response to the American and foreign varieties of ginseng.
Sleep Problem
Sleep apnea is the condition in which people frequently stop breathing at night for a disturbingly long time. Each episode ends in a burst of snoring. Because this occurs many times a night, it can interfere significantly with the brain's oxygen supply and result in morning headaches, drowsiness, and the need for many naps during the day. Ultimately, high blood pressure, heart failure, and intellectual deterioration may supervene.
Loosing Weight
When overweight results from an underlying condition, you can bet that nothing is likely to matter unless the problem is brought under control. Similarly, if drug treatment is contributing to the problem, you'll be in that classic risk/benefit dilemma: Is the benefits of the medicine more compelling than the discomfort of the side effect?
The fact is, however, that for most people, no underlying cause for weight woes can be found. But that doesn't mean that you're without options. A diet and exercise program can make a big difference.
overweight
How many times have you tried to lose weight? And how many times have you given up? If your answer to both questions is the same, you’re like most people who try to lose weight.
But you know the old saying about try and try again. No one has taken it to heart more than weight-loss specialists –when one method has failed, they have gone back to the drawing board and come up with another. And some of them actually work! In this article, we’ll share some findings on these strategies that have yielded impressive results.
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