Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts

Friday, 15 April 2016

Lose weight Naturally



1. Don’t Hush
If you are planning to lose weight, all you need to do is be calm and relaxed.  If you are a type of person who hurries and worries for every small thing, first put an end to that attitude to put a start to this weight loss program. 

If you are willing to learn something new that is out of your box, make sure you learn it to the core without hurrying.  One has to know that we get nothing by hurrying except a hurting result.  Don’t hush and mix up your schedule.  Do prepare a schedule for your entire day and follow it perfectly.  Don’t put start to everything on the same day.  Maintain a little gap between each activity you are going or willing to start.  With every passing day let your to-do-list fill.  Don’t fill it up on the first day itself.  It may affect your entire day schedule.
2. Vote For Proteins-Rich Foods

In order to lose weight, you have to keep your stomach full.  You must be wondering why!  People had a misconception about dieting that it is all about starving ourselves with less food intake or no food intake. 

But in real, dieting is all about eating healthy and protein-rich food that makes you feel full all day.  One of the protein-rich in regular food chart is an egg.  The Egg is rich in proteins.  Proteins come with an added advantage that they make us feel full even though they are taken in small quantities.  So, vote for protein-rich foods from now.  This way, you won’t feel hungry every now and then and you won’t stuff yourself.  Thereby avoid weight gain.

3. Fighting
Koreans use the word “Fighting!”, which brings out a meaning that doesn’t give up.  When we start something, we start it with utmost enthusiasm and energy.  But as time passes, we tend to give up on it. Remember that, if you are to start something, be determined by what you want. Just put your heart and soul on the mission you started.  If you are that determined, your result would surprise you for sure.  So, Fighting!


4. No Cheat Meals
Even though you start your day with a good motto of losing weight, the mouth-watering dishes around you may tempt you in a way that you may break the bond that you tied with the weight loss program. 

But don’t forget that you ate them a lot in the past and you will eat them in the future too.  Know that you are on mission weight loss. You cannot cheat yourself and have cheat meals in this mission.  Your wrong step for one such mouth-watering dish will keep you away from many such dishes in the future.

5. Give It A Commitment
Commit yourself to eat your diet and do your workout.  Don’t skip them at any cost.  They will drive you to healthy living.  Don’t perform any crash diets that claim to offer good weight loss.  They may affect your health in future. 

6. Eat Your Heart-Full
Here, heart-full in the sense, food that teases your taste buds.  Don’t try to take a chance.  Your taste buds may be teased by spicy and oily foods, but those food are absolutely restricted for you.  Eat healthy foods like raw vegetables and fruits.  Choose the best fruits you love to eat and eat them a lot. 

7. Don’t Hit A Miss To Workouts
Working out is very important to be fit.  Keeping the fitness part aside, being flexible is literally a boon to start with.  Workouts can help make your body flexible.  There are many types of workouts like yoga, gym, cardio, running, walking, jogging etc.  Choose the one that you enjoy a lot while doing.  Commit yourself to doing a daily workout for about 45 minutes.

8. Increase Vitamin D Intake
Vitamin D is responsible for making leptin worthwhile.  Leptin is a hormone that is responsible for the active working of the brain.  As our central nervous system is responsible for all our actions and activities, it is important to know how to make it work actively.  Vitamin D helps in doing so.  So, include foods in your diet that are rich in vitamin D supplements.

9. Have A Food Fest
Have a food fest once in a while.  Don’t over eat in the name of food fest.  Eat to your heart’s content.  Eat to burn them off as soon as possible.

10. Preplan
Preplan everything.  Monitor diet, workouts, and necessary things to make this weight loss program success.  Prepare a perfect diet chart that includes all the above-mentioned points.


Here end our tips for daily weight loss.  Want to give it a try?  If so, set your mind to do so.  

Saturday, 2 January 2016

HIV AIDS

AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) was first recognized in North America in the early 1980s. It is caused by a virus known as HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).


HIV infection has become a worldwide epidemic. As of 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated there were 35 million people currently infected with the virus.

HIV is more common among certain populations at risk, such as people who inject illicit drugs, and bisexual and gay men. HIV infections are also increasing among women, Aboriginal peoples, and African and Caribbean communities.



Causes of HIV/AIDS

The virus can be found in the blood, semen, vaginal fluid, and breast milk of infected people. HIV is also found in saliva, sweat, and tears, though not in high enough amounts to transmit the virus to another person. There are no known cases of anyone catching HIV through sneezing, shaking hands, or from toilet seats or mosquito bites.

The two most common ways to be infected with HIV in North America are through unprotected sex and sharing needles. HIV may be transmitted through unprotected heterosexual or homosexual, vaginal, anal, or oral sex.

Although the risk of infection is lower with oral sex, it is still important to use protection during oral sex, such as a dental dam (a piece of latex to cover the vagina during oral sex) or a condom. HIV can also be passed on through perinatal infection, where mothers who have HIV are at risk of giving the disease to the baby during birth. The risk of perinatal infection is declining with new treatments. Breast-feeding by an infected mother can also transmit HIV.

Once HIV enters the bloodstream, it takes over cells vital to the immune response, known as CD4+ lymphocytes. The virus then inserts its own genes into the cell, turning it into a miniature factory that produces more copies of the virus. Slowly, the amount of virus in the blood goes up and the number of healthy CD4+ cells goes down. The destruction of CD4+ cells interferes with the body's ability to fight off infections and other diseases.

Symptoms and Complications of HIV/AIDS

Symptoms of HIV infection appear 2 to 12 weeks after exposure. At this point the virus begins rapidly taking over immune cells in the blood. The symptoms of this phase are flu-like and include:

diarrhea
fatigue or weakness
fever
headache
joint pain
night sweats
rash
swollen glands
weight loss
yeast infections (of the mouth or vagina) that last a long time or occur frequently
When the symptoms begin to appear, the person with HIV is very infectious. The symptoms usually go away within a week to a month, and the person will feel fine again. However, the symptoms may return from time to time.


The symptoms of HIV are similar to symptoms of other diseases. The only way to know for sure whether you are HIV-positive is to be tested. After infection with HIV, it can take 3 months for antibodies to the virus to be detectable in the blood. On average, it takes about 22 days to develop antibodies. This is called seroconversion. After seroconversion occurs, the virus can be detected using a blood test.

After the initial symptoms go away, the body's immune system tries to control the virus. The immune system can keep the virus at bay for a while, but it can't completely get rid of it. Many people will feel fine for years before their immune system weakens and they develop AIDS. Without treatment, about half of HIV-positive people develop AIDS within 10 years of infection. Some people develop AIDS within a few years of infection. A few, called long-term non-progressors, do not develop AIDS until much later. Many factors affect the timeframe to develop AIDS, including medications and the person's general health and lifestyle.

AIDS is a term applied to advanced HIV disease. AIDS is defined as having HIV and an opportunistic infection (an infection by a microorganism that ordinarily does not cause disease unless the immune system is weakened) normally associated with AIDS. These infections can be bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasitic.

Examples of opportunistic infections include toxoplasmosis, pneumocystis pneumonia, cryptococcal meningitis, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), cryptosporidium, cytomegalovirus, and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). With the use of better medications to treat HIV, the risk of opportunistic infections has dropped over the years; however, people with AIDS will usually need to take medications (such as antibiotics) to prevent opportunistic infections.

People who have AIDS are also more likely to develop cancer, especially cancers of the immune system (lymphomas). Another cancer common for people with AIDS is Kaposi's sarcoma, a type of cancer that causes bluish red nodules on the legs and that spreads to the lymph system. Women with AIDS are prone to developing cancers of the cervix. Gay men with HIV have higher rates of infection by HPV, a virus linked to anal cancer, and precancerous HPV strains.

Children with AIDS tend to get common childhood infections like conjunctivitis, otitis media, and tonsillitis, but they experience symptoms much worse than the infection usually causes.

Excessive weight loss or "wasting syndrome" is a problem for approximately 20% of people who have HIV infection. It is associated with an unexplained loss of 10% or more of normal body weight, plus chronic diarrhea (30 days or more) or chronic weakness with fever (30 days or more).

Most people with AIDS die from the diseases that AIDS makes them more susceptible to. The virus occasionally infects the brain, causing dementia that gets worse over time.