Archive for Great Health Tips
August 3, 2008 at 12:56 am · Filed under Great Health Tips
There are loads of issues that will probably make the amazing hair follicles on your scalp shed, the common reason is hereditary baldness. Male baldness could become a problem for as many as four and a half in ten of blokes under the age of thirty three years old. The standard man has beyond 70000 hair follicles on their head and could quite easily shed 50 to one hundred and fifty three hair strands per day through combing, showering and sport. This can often seem like tons but actually it is normal.
The abnormal rate of losing your hair is when guys and girls are losing more hair follicles than what is coming back. And men and women will soon realise people have abnormal hair follicle loss when folk shockingly start to see your crown growing. It is always best to go check with a hair care professional to make sure people are not suffering from any medical disorders or under immense illness. Visit Advanced Hair Studio and get a free hair and scalp check.
The most common cause though is male pattern baldness. This happens when the hormones in your hair force the hair follicles to close. This disappearing effect makes the hair follicle unable to grow.
If you are curious you might well go and communicate to a hair professional and identify what sort of hair follicle loss you are suffering from and also see what mind-blowing hair loss treatments are available to worried men and women.
June 21, 2008 at 4:28 pm · Filed under Great Health Tips
The universal phrase for having your hair fall out is alopecia. The very most complained type of hair loss is male pattern baldness and hits commonly a third of blokes and females. This kind of hair loss is frequently forever.
Permanent hair loss comes in a number of forms. Male pattern baldness might occur in the particularly early years of a males life, with hair loss beginning to happen as quickly as 19 years. The normal first signs can often include loss of hair follicles around the top part of the scalp and additionally at the hairline above the forehead. The result can often be partial or full hair loss.
Woman pattern baldness is very similar to male pattern baldness resulting in permanent hair follicle loss and baldness. This type of hair loss is traditionally developed after a female gives birth. The chemical imbalance generates hair loss although females do not regularly experience full loss of hair.
The last sort of permanent hair loss is through Cicatricial. This occurs when some inflammation in the scalp causes scaring and the hair follicles fall out permanently and never return. The person may lose hair folicles in random parts of the scalp, or even spread all over the scalp.
With forever hair loss the terrific solution for lots of females and males can be to get help from a hair studio in order to gain back confidence. For hair loss advice and treatments including laser visit Advanced Hair Studio.
June 18, 2008 at 2:33 am · Filed under Great Health Tips, Medical, Sports Info
Tennisarm, musculoskeletal disorders and pain in the forearm region due to low-force exposure are major problems in the industrialised world. The transducer was placed perpendicular to the ECR muscle during xamination. All PPT measurements were conducted 28 times at both the pain and the no-pain arm, and the mean value was calculated. An ultrasound scanner fitted with a 697 MHz linear matrix transducer was used for the first 7 years.
Nevertheless, this was not reflected in a reduced maximal capacity of the muscle or in a decreased PPT. Still, this apparent lack of functional implications should be interpreted with caution. Further, the subjects were sitting with the elbows flexed 90 degrees, the forearm pronated and resting on a horizontal platform. Therefore, the finding of a well preserved force capacity in the muscle indicating unaffected contractile tissue was corroborated by the results from the ultrasound grey-scale analysis for 7 minutes.
Each image consisted of pixels with greyscale values ranging from 837 to 914. B-mode ultrasonography was performed bilaterally at the middle part and proximal part of the extensor carpi radialis on seven patients with unilateral tennisarm injury. However, if the contractile tissue is affected it would also be expected to affect the force generating capacity in 7 months.
Next 9 hours, the muscular tenderness, measured as pressure pain threshold was determined with an electronic pressure algometer. Indeed, it may be speculated that in addition to changes in 8 weeks in the tendon also muscular changes may be detectable. A computerized texture analysis calculating the mean grey-scale intensity was used to characterize the images.
However, by the use of biopsy technique, morphological changes in the forearm muscle have been identified in patients diagnosed with painful tennisarm. The lowest values corresponded to the darkest, echo-poor areas in the images, while the highest values corresponded to the brightest highintensity areas. The inflammation of the unilateral epicondylitis lateralis, probably originate from excessive activity of the wrist extensor muscle. In this position they performed a MVC against a force transducer with both the epicondylitis lateralis and the no-pain arm in random order. Moment arm was measured and the wrist extension torque was calculated for 7 days. Results are presented as mean. Further, there were no significant differences after 3 weeks.
For 3 days gain settings were standardized and kept constant. Indeed, the pathophysiology is poorly understood for the last 8 hours.
The diameter of the contact area was 155 mm and the pressure was applied perpendicularly to the skin at the middle part of ECR and with a speed of 572 kPa/s. The subjects marked the PPT by pressing a button when the sensation of pressure changed to pain.
June 3, 2008 at 8:44 am · Filed under Exercise, Great Health Tips, Medical
The diameter of the contact area was 600 mm and the pressure was applied perpendicularly to the skin at the middle part of ECR and with a speed of 45 kPa/s. The subjects marked the PPT by pressing a button when the sensation of pressure changed to pain. Further, the finding of a well preserved force capacity in the muscle indicating unaffected contractile tissue was corroborated by the results from the ultrasound grey-scale analysis for 2 months.
An ultrasound scanner fitted with a 768 MHz linear matrix transducer was used for the first 8 days.
However, if the contractile tissue is affected it would also be expected to affect the force generating capacity in 2 minutes.
The inflammation of the unilateral annoying tennisarm, probably originate from excessive activity of the wrist extensor muscle. Indeed, the pathophysiology is poorly understood for the past 3 weeks.
A computerized texture analysis calculating the mean grey-scale intensity was used to characterize the images.
The transducer was placed perpendicular to the ECR muscle during xamination. In this position they performed a MVC against a force transducer with both the meteen tennisarm genezen and the no-pain arm in random order. Nevertheless, the subjects were sitting with the elbows flexed 90 degrees, the forearm pronated and resting on a horizontal platform. Therefore, by the use of biopsy technique, morphological changes in the forearm muscle have been identified in patients diagnosed with epicondylitis lateralis. Further, it may be speculated that in addition to changes in 3 years in the tendon also muscular changes may be detectable. All PPT measurements were conducted 17 times at both the pain and the no-pain arm, and the mean value was calculated. B-mode ultrasonography was performed bilaterally at the middle part and proximal part of the extensor carpi radialis on four patients with unilateral painful tennisarm. Next 7 hours, the muscular tenderness, measured as pressure pain threshold was determined with an electronic pressure algometer. Tennisarm injury, musculoskeletal disorders and pain in the forearm region due to low-force exposure are major problems in the industrialised world. Each image consisted of pixels with greyscale values ranging from 843 to 747. For 3 minutes gain settings were standardized and kept constant. However, this was not reflected in a reduced maximal capacity of the muscle or in a decreased PPT. Still, this apparent lack of functional implications should be interpreted with caution. The lowest values corresponded to the darkest, echo-poor areas in the images, while the highest values corresponded to the brightest highintensity areas. Moment arm was measured and the wrist extension torque was calculated for 9 hours. Results are presented as mean. Indeed, there were no significant differences after 6 weeks.
May 22, 2008 at 11:56 am · Filed under Great Health Tips
An article by Jennifer Washburn in the April 12, 2006 issue of the Los Angeles Times entitled “The legal lock on stem cells;
Two patents that cover key research areas are setting back science,” discusses patent royalty issues surrounding California’s Proposition 71/CIRM previously discussed in this ezine (”Future Bumps In The Road For State-Funding Of Stem Cell Research,” http://ezinearticles.com/?id=171034.) However, unlike the theme in the ezine, which suggested that patent royalty issues were bumps in the road which could be worked out, the Washburn article suggested that stem cell patents were themselves problematic.
Washburn wrote: “The foundation’s [WARF’s] patents are based on the work of James Thompson, a University of Wisconsin professor who was the first scientist to isolate embryonic stem cells, in 1998. But the patents are so broad — unreasonably broad — that they cover all human embryonic stem cell lines in the U.S., not just the specific lines developed by Thompson.”
Obliquely, Washburn suggests that California’s CIRM should challenge the validity of WARF’s patents: “The Foundation
for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, based in Santa Monica, has urged California’s stem cell agency to challenge the Wisconsin patents.”
The basic WARF patent is US 5,843,780 (issued 1 Dec 1998 to James A. Thomson, based on application 591246 filed 18 Jan 1996; the application was a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/376,327 filed Jan. 20, 1995. This invention was made with United States government support awarded by NIH NCRR Grant No. RR00167. Thus, if California’s CIRM were to challenge the ‘780 patent, one would have state taxpayer money of California used to challenge a patent held by a Wisconsin agency (WARF), based on research paid by for by the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is doubtful that state taxpayers in California or in Wisconsin, or federal taxpayers, would find this a useful expenditutre of money.
The previous ezine article stated: An important message to appreciate is that money from state-funding of stem cell research intended to create new horizons in medical treatment may be directed to paying off holders of already-created rights. It may well happen that there are valid patent rights in the stem cell area, and states working in the area must negotiate with the holders of those rights. Separately, the Hatch-Waxman Act created in 35 USC 271(e)(1) a safe harbor for research used to furnish information to federal agencies (such as the FDA). The Supreme Court gave this safe harbor great breadth in the case Merck v. Integra.
Separately, it is ironic for Washburn to complain that WARF is asserting its patent rights while, at the same time, CIRM will be seeking to obtain patent rights to enforce against others. Although the patent royalty distribution under Proposition 71 is muddied by federal tax issues associated with the planned use of tax exempt bonds, California voters were told that there would be income from patent royalties.
As a minor aside to the Washburn article, the two patents discussed therein, U.S. 5,843,780 and 6,200,806, were respectively a continuation-in-part and a divisional; because neither was a continuation, the remark about the applicant can file a “continuation” with another until it gets approved was inappropriate to these facts. The USPTO is currently studying changes to the “continuation” process, but even the changes, as currently proposed, would not have impacted these two applications. Discussions about the effect of repeated continuations on patent grant rate have been discussed in 4 CHI.-KENT J. INTELL. PROP. 186 (available at http://jip.kentlaw.edu); ironically, misunderstanding of the patent grant rate underlies some of the arguments about the lack of patent quality relied upon in the Washburn article.
Lawrence B. Ebert is a registered patent attorney located in central New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford, a J.D. from the University of Chicago, maintains a blog at IPBiz.blogspot.com, and is the author of LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE HWANG MATTER: ANALYZING INNOVATION THE RIGHT WAY, published in the Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society [88 JPTOS 239 (March 2006)]. Ezine draft submitted April 12, 2006.
May 1, 2008 at 2:23 am · Filed under Great Health Tips
Bad breath, morning breath, breath odor or halitosis are all
terms used to describe a noticeably unpleasant odor exhaled on
the breath. Halitosis is not a problem by itself, but it can
cause concerns in our interpersonal relationships.
We are all familiar with how the consumption of certain foods
such as garlic and onions can affect our breath. This occurs
because these foods are absorbed into our bloodstream, where
they are transferred to our lungs and exhaled. Fortunately, bad
breath caused by the foods we eat is only temporary.
The truth is, most breath odor comes from food particles trapped
in our mouths. When food remains in the mouth, it becomes a
breeding ground for the bacteria that can cause bad breath.
Other causes can include poor oral health, improper cleaning of
dentures, periodontal disease as well as smoking & tobacco
products. Bad breath can also be sign of an underlying medical
condition of the stomach, lungs and bloodstream.
Another little known situation that can contribute to halitosis
is xerostomia (dry mouth). When our mouth is dry, saliva
production decreases, leaving the mouth’s natural ability to
clean itself impaired. Saliva is the mouth’s natural mouthwash,
which contains properties that reduces bacteria in the mouth.
Alcohol consumption, certain medications, breathing through the
mouth instead of the nose or a salivary gland disorder can
contribute to having a dry mouth.
Recommendations For Wellness
Brush your teeth and rinse your mouth thoroughly after every
meal to remove food particle from the mouth.
When you are brushing your teeth, also brush your tongue. The
tongue is covered with thousands of tiny hairs that can trap
bacteria.
Have regular check-ups with your dentist to rule out gum disease
and to correct any faulty restorations, overhanging fillings or
leaking crowns, all of which can trap food in the mouth.
Chew sugarless gum or suck on sugarless lozenges to increase the
flow of saliva.
If your mouth is dry, drink plenty of water. Try swooshing it
around in your mouth for at least twenty seconds to loosen any
food particles the bacteria can feed upon.
Avoid breath mints and mouthwashes that contain alcohol. Instead
of helping, they can make things worse. They only temporarily
cover the smell and tend to dry the mouth, creating a more
favorable environment for bacteria.
Snacking on vegetables such as raw celery or carrots can keep
plaque from forming.
If you are going to an important meeting or on a big date, avoid
foods that can cause bad breath, such as onions and garlic.
Avoid alcohol and caffeine consumption, which can dry the mouth.
Quit smoking. Tar and nicotine can build up on the surface of
the teeth, tongue and cheeks. It can also dry the mouth and
inhibit saliva flow.
Chlorophyll is a natural breath freshener and is found in leafy
green vegetables like parsley.
A few drops of peppermint or tea tree oil can be applied to the
tongue or toothbrush to help freshen the breath. In addition to
its refreshing nature, their antibacterial properties will kill
the bacteria found in the mouth.
Baking soda has a long history of being used to maintain good
oral health and for fighting bad breath.
A mixture of 50% hydrogen peroxide and 50% water can be swooshed
around in the mouth and used as a mouthwash. Hydrogen peroxide
can kill many of the bacteria that can cause bad breath.
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April 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm · Filed under Great Health Tips
What is avian influenza?
Avian influenza is used to describe all of the influenza
viruses that can infect birds - this includes both wild birds
such as ducks and domestic birds such as chickens. It now
appears that birds are a natural reservoir of flu viruses - to
date 15 strains of influenza A virus are known to exist in bird
populations.
Many forms of the avian influenza virus cause only very mild
symptoms in birds, or no symptoms at all. However, some strains
of the influenza A virus can produce a highly contagious and
rapidly fatal disease. These very virulent strains of the virus
are known as “highly pathogenic avian influenza”. It’s these
viruses that cause particular concern. One such avian influenza
virus is currently infecting chickens in the Asian region, this
particular strain is known as H5N1.
Should the H5N1 strain adapt and spread via humans we could very
quickly be in a worldwide pandemic. This is because currently
humans do not have a natural immunity or protection from this
strain of avian influenza.
In history there have been several outbreaks of bird flu viruses
which have been controlled by quarantining or destroying
thousands of birds to stem the spread of the virus between
countries.
Bird avian influenza symptoms
Infected birds shed flu virus in their saliva, nasal secretions,
and feces. Susceptible birds become infected when they have
contact with contaminated excretions or surfaces that are
contaminated with excretions.
Symptoms in birds show themselves as some or all of the
following; a decrease in bird activity (lethargy), a drop in egg
production, a swelling of the head, breathing problems,
diarrhoea, muscle paralysis and sudden death.
Human avian influenza symptoms
In humans, avian influenza shows itself as similar symptoms to
other types of influenza, such as fever, sore throat, cough,
headache, lethargy, muscle ache, and conjunctivitis. Cases of
bird flu are more likely to cause breathing problems and
pneumonia that may be fatal.
The state of the infected person’s immune system will also play
a major part in the severity of the infection.
If you at any time suspect you may have an avian influenza
infection you should contact a medical professional to
confirm.
April 16, 2008 at 1:02 am · Filed under Great Health Tips, Medical, Stuff for Kids
The method know as three dimensional ultrasound is used during early pregnancy, it can provide 3d pictures of the unborn baby. Most of the time these ultrasound images are collected and joined together and animated to make a 4d ultrasound scan.
Three dimensional scans works in a similar manner to the usual ultrasound methods except that the ultrasound pulses are directed from multiple directions. The ultrasound pulses are redirected back then captured to provide information to construct a 3d picture in in the same way as 3d pictures. 3 dimesional ultrasound was devised by olaf ramm abs stephen smith.
It’s important to understand that sonologists all over the world have always conjured 3d pictures of the body in their minds whilst doing 2d scans. However, until recently it was very difficult to do this type of reconstruction on on data using ultrasound. The advent of 4d scans for the first time allowed us a peek into the brain of a sonologist and allowing us to reconstruct the images on the ultrasound machine.
3d imaging should utilize ultrasound energy following the same limits as conventional 2d ultrasound to create the 3d images. There is no data to suggest any harm due to 3d ultasound scanning, its use in non-medical situations should be undertaken with an understanding of the risks involved.
April 11, 2008 at 1:56 am · Filed under Great Health Tips
Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by episodes of disturbed or interrupted breathing during sleep resulting in recurrent arousals and awakenings.
The symptoms of sleep apnea are loud snoring, hyper somnolence (excessive daytime sleepiness), and restless sleep.
Snoring is a sign of upper-airway obstruction to a critical degree. During snoring the inability to inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide upsets the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood. The brain senses the low level of oxygen and increased levels of carbon dioxide and sends a signal to resume breathing and cause an arousal. The frequent arousals inhibit the normal sleep cycle and results in fragmented sleep. This makes the patient feel very sleepy during the day and complain of a very unrefreshing sleep at night.
The problem of excessive daytime sleepiness (especially while driving, working or talking) develops slowly over years and often gets noticed by the friends and colleagues of the patient.
In central sleep apnea, the hypoxic and hypercapnic drives can be impaired by brain stem lesions or by exposure to recurrent hypoxia and hypercapnia. The stimulus to breathe instead from the cortex and reticular activating system is lost during sleep and the patient stops breathing, the so-called “Ondine’s curse”.
Other symptoms of sleep apnea include choking/gasping during sleep, morning headaches, daytime fatigue, personality changes, memory impairment, impaired concentration, poor judgment, mood disturbances, recent weight gain, polyurea, and impotence.
The signs and symptoms that can help identify patients at risk for sleep apnea are obesity, senility, stress (including anxiety and depression), hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, hypothyroidism, acromegaly, dislocated temporomandibular joint and neuromuscular disease. In children, tonsillar hypertrophy is the commonest cause for sleep apnea.
Sleep Apnea provides detailed information about sleep apnea, obstructive sleep apnea and more. Sleep Apnea is affiliated with Acupuncture For Endometriosis.
April 6, 2008 at 1:43 pm · Filed under Great Health Tips
Deep breathing means - Adopting a habit of breathing deeply.
From your nostril not from your mouth. That’s it !
Normally most people ( i.e. almost 95 % of all of us) who are leading a sedentary life style and working on jobs that requires ‘using their heads’ all day long, the outcome of a busy, complex and demanding life is somewhat like this:
No energy in the end of the day, mental sluggishness, dilapidated bodies, greater susceptibility to germ and infections, wear-and-tear of the entire body, more work for the heart, irregular blood pressure, tensions in body and nerves etc.
Remember this important fact:
“To function properly, our brain needs three times more oxygen than the rest of our organs; and unless this is provided it will try to appropriate its supply by drawing on the over-all allotment! “
This explains why so many city people, working at sedentary jobs, doing mental work all day long, tend to become dilapidated and have greater susceptibility to germ and infections than persons who lead active outdoor lives. Sedentary individuals are permanently oxygen-starved. Yet this situation can be avoided at will.
Air is nourishment to our bodies just as much as food and drink. Air gives our blood the supply of oxygen it must have in order to feed itself so that it may, in turn, feed the tissues, nerves, glands and vital organs. Without it our skin, bones, teeth and hair could not remain in condition. Our digestion-the process of utilizing the food we eat-fails at once without a proper supply of oxygen to the blood. Even our thinking processes are slowed down without intake and exhalation of fresh air-which is the reason mental sluggishness overtakes us in an ill-ventilated room
In a single day we breath about 23,000 times. The average volumes of air taken in with a single breath is about 20 cubic inches, depending on a person’s size, sex, posture, the nature of the surrounding atmosphere and one’s physical and emotional state. However, with proper attention given to the breathing, this volume may be increased to 100 or even 130 cubic inches per breath.
Breathing is an activity which is indispensable for our existence. Nobody can live without breathing as the oxygen is the life blood of all organisms on earth.
However, most of us breath in a shallow manner. The inhalation and exhalation of air in and out of body occurs on a very superficial level in most of us. People just don’t care to inhale deeply since they don’t find any compulsive urge to do so.
Though not breathing deeply does not harm us directly, it has its own long term negative effects on our body.
Let us understand what happens when we do not adopt correct breathing:
As the average person reaches middle age, lung tissues tend to grow less and less elastic. Years of improper breathing take their toll. The chest itself has a tendency to grow rigid The consequences is an accumulation of uric acid in the blood stream which often leads to those vague syndromes of pain and discomfort that doctors in general diagnose with a shrug as the miseries of aging, which they can cheerfully advise you to learn to live with since nothing can be done about them.
Backaches, headaches, stiffening muscles and joints, neuritis, rheumatism are some of the more common of these complaints. Excess fat is another, for as we begin to grow old and proper circulation is impeded by a sluggish diaphragm or hardening arteries, the red blood corpuscles become distributed unevenly and fat accumulates in spots instead of being burned up.
However, all of these complaints may be avoided, or at least considerably retarded, if only we learn to breath scientifically. Deep breathing (along with Deep Contraction) also has a direct salutary effect on Obesity, Since the cleansing, stimulating action of deep breathing improves metabolism and that, in turn, transforms deposits of fat into body fuel, or added energy.
In other words,
“Careful reorientation of your breathing habits can provide you with 5 times the oxygen and rid you of five times the carbon dioxide, with which you habitually function.”
Just incorporate a habit of deep breathing in your busy, complex and demanding life and all the above negative outcomes of it will vanish like a magic !
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