What Are Your Risks of Obesity?
Topic: Obesity

Risks of Obesity

Scientific studies clearly indicate that obesity is linked to increased sickness and death rates. Hypertension, elevated levels of cholesterol, heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, gall bladder disease, back pain, arthritis, abnormal pulmonary function and sleep apnea are physical problems intensified by obesity. In the United Sates alone obesity is implicated in 300,000 deaths annually, representing the second leading cause of premature death behind smoking. Obesity is a global epidemic effecting about 20 to 25% of American adults and 15 to 20% of Europeans. The health risks of being overweight may be prevented by achieving and maintaining proper body weight.

What is ideal body weight?
The most common measurement of obesity is based on the use of the Body Mass Index (BMI) scale. The BMI is the ratio of weight over height squared. The American Institute for Cancer Research's guidelines require a person to maintain a BMI of between 18.5 and 25. This is considered to be within ideal body weight range. A BMI between 25 to 27 presents a potential health risk and a BMI above 30 is considered to be a significant health risk.

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Just Beginning A Love Relationship With A Beautiful Girl
Topic: Men's Health Issues
We've encountered love making difficulties. When we start towards real intimate love, I lose it and cannot finish making love. I would like to believe that my trouble is just psychological, but I worry about it being physical. Continue...

How To Make Your Wife Feel Passion Again
Mood:  happy
Topic: passion

How To Make Your Wife Feel Passion Again

Women need romance to feel passion. And if your wife works, plus takes care of the house and kids by herself, she is probably waaay too tired to feel like doing anything except sleeping in the bedroom.

Turn On The Romance

Try treating her the way you did when you were first trying to get into her grace...as if she is the only woman in the world and you would pull the moon from the sky and serve it to her on a platter, just to see her smile. Make her the center of your world again.

Romantic Weekend

Arrange a romantic weekend away from home (even if you have to 'kidnap' her by telling her that you are just going out to eat, then have a bag packed and hidden in the trunk, and take her to a restaurant in a hotel...where you have reservations for the honeymoon suite). Meanwhile, have a cleaning service (or a really good friend) come in and clean the home while you are gone. Not only will she be feeling all warm and fuzzy from the romantic weekend, but when she comes home and doesn't have a ton of housework facing her, she will feel like dancing on clouds with you again.

Keep Her Feeling Special

Once you have gotten her this far, you will need to keep it up if you want to keep her feeling frisky....otherwise you risk having the whole thing blow up in your face, with her feeling used. Remember, the more loving you get, the more you want, so if you are willing to spend a little time making her feel special, her libido should catch up to yours....provided you don't forget to keep the emotional intimacy primary and the making love intimacy secondary.

Emotional Intimacy And Communication

Relationships, especially marriage, require an effort to keep them fresh and exciting. And as we mature, sometimes it gets harder to create the excitement...especially at certain stages where hormones start doing weird things. But, if you keep the emotional intimacy alive and the lines of communication open, the world is your oyster, and she is your pearl.

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Why Do We Age?
Topic: Longing For Immortality

Innate Affinity With Immortality

The fountain of youth - such metaphorical piece of myth that alludes to immortality has been used over and over again on different forms of literature both in the past and in the present. Oftentimes, the fountain of youth's classification as myth is challenged from time to time with some expeditions or travels that claim to have finally found the fountain's location. Nonetheless, this recurring symbol of eternal youth in most forms of literature and art, verifies man's innate affinity with immortality.

In our contemporary setting, this longing for immortality is almost within mankind's grasp with the promise of better technologies and sciences in the near future. However, to completely grasp and understand the means of acquiring eternal life or a very long life span in the very least, one must first see the process behind our aging. This question kept many brilliant scientists hell-bent on searching for clues and theories that may answer such relentless query.

Through the course of these scientific explorations on the realm of human aging, scientists were able to come up with a term that refers to the human aging process - senescence. This term refers to a degeneration implication that manifests itself as people get old. Senescence is believed to be the result of a biochemical deregulation that is a natural component of life.

However, the effects of senescence vary among different species. Take for example a bat and a rodent, both of them are classified as mammals and both are of the same size, but a bat  generally lives longer than a rodent for the former can live up to 30 years while the latter usually have a life span of only two to three years. However, some animal species such as rockfish, turtles, and lobsters display a certain trait known as the negligible senescence. This trait enables these specific animal species to live through a longer period of time compared to other species. Some of these species can even live for an unbelievable span of 200 years.

Findings through extensive studies that were carried out by various scientists imply that this peculiar trait is a result of evolutionary and genetic factors that rule over these animals' life longevity. However, scientists still find it hard to assimilate this kind of trait to humans and the reason behind it is fairly simple: we humans live under a completely different environment compared to those animals that possess the negligible senescence trait.

The best that we humans can do for now is to first determine the various factors that fuel the process of aging and to address these factors accordingly.  One of the most obvious reasons or factors behind aging is stress. In a nutshell, the dynamics of stress simply say that constant beatings and punishments that our bodies take from everyday tasks lead to hormone disturbance which can ultimately lead to cell damage.

Furthermore, the degeneration of the hypothalamus, a gland that resides in your head, is also one of the determining factors of aging. The hypothalamus is solely responsible for setting the "traffic" of various hormones to other glands. Through the course of time, the hypothalamus becomes weary and tends to be inaccurate in releasing proper amounts of hormone to other glands in the human body. This leads to imbalanced hormone levels which cause damage to tissues.

External factors brought about by the environment are also some of the very viable reasons behind the aging process. Environmental harms such as pollution, radiation, contaminants coupled with self induced stress, and poor nutrition inflict damage on human cells. Significant damage is instantly inflicted upon these cells once they are exposed to such harmful external factors. Cells play a very substantial role on the process of aging because they contain valuable information for the human body's development. Whenever a cell reproduces or divides itself, it makes sure that the new cell is of the same level with the previous cell that it originated from. If that previous cell received any slightest form of damaged from the previously mentioned factors, it will then spawn new cells that possess slightly deformed information sets. This will then start a trend of degenerated cells which leads to what is commonly known as the aging process.

Among these scientific theories that deal with the process of aging the Free Radical Theory tends to be the most popular among contemporary American health buffs. This theory suggests that extremely reactive chemicals, which the term free radicals refer to, are responsible for inflicting damage to the human body's tissues. In general, however, these free radicals are not completely bad for the human body for they also serve numerous purposes for the body's development. But what is damaging to the human body, especially to the tissues, is the free radicals' ability to reproduce itself in excessive amounts. Free radicals are endowed with an extra electron which makes them more capable of stealing electrons from other molecules which they tend to do frequently. This act subsequently leads to a very dangerous cycle that can burnout the cells from constantly repairing damaged molecules.

With these various theories that try to decipher the process of aging, certain medical solutions are also devised to combat the inevitable aging ritual. The most common among these medical solutions are taking vitamin C, vitamin E and HGH or Human Growth Hormone supplements to combat stress and to balance out the damage induced by free radicals in the body. Another effective method is to lessen your average intake of junk foods and substituting it with healthier food choices such as fruits and vegetables.

 

 

 

 

Saw Palmetto Herbal Remedy For Enlarged Prostate!

Saw Palmetto grows in dense clumps along sandy coastal lands or as undergrowth in hardwood hammocks [1]. It is native to the southeastern United States along the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains [1]. Saw palmetto is a fan palm and its leaves are almost identical to the leaves on the Sabal Palm Tree [1]. Therefore, some alternate names for saw palmetto include Sabal, Sabal Fructus, American Dwarf Palm Tree, Cabbage Palm, Ju-Zhong, Palmier Nain, and Saw Palmetto Berry [2].

Saw palmetto plants produce large reddish-black fruit that have been eaten by the Native Americans and animals for centuries [1]. Although the saw palmetto also produces leaves and flowers, it is the edible fruit that is used as an herbal remedy [2]. The whole berry or berry extracts can be effectively prepared for herbal use [2]. Early records indicate the fruit was first used by the Native Americans to treat urinary and genital problems [1]. In modern times, when taken orally, saw palmetto is used to treat symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia, a condition in which the male prostate gland becomes enlarged [2]. Saw palmetto is also used as a mild diuretic, a sedative, to improve sexual vigor, and for colds, coughs, and migraines [2]. It is also used for its an anti-inflammatory and antiseptic actions [2]. The fruit of the saw palmetto can also be applied topically as a powder to be used as a uterine and vaginal tonic [2].

Some common side effects reported with saw palmetto use include dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, constipation, and diarrhea. There are also reports of erectile dysfunction and excessive bleeding. These side effects can lead to serious drug interactions with anticoagulant/antiplatelet drugs such as warfarin (Coumadin), heparin, or aspirin. It is also believed to interact with oral contraceptives and estrogen therapy. [2]

Saw palmetto is commonly given 160 mg twice daily or 320 mg once daily for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). It is also available as a powder but this dosage form is not commonly used. [2]

Saw palmetto is important in the field of pharmacy for its use in benign prostatic hyperplasia. Patients with allergies to current prescription medications on the market may not have any alternative, so they turn to saw palmetto. In addition, it is more affordable and has easier access than prescription medication so the patient will probably be more compliant.

References

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_palmetto

[2] Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database: Saw Palmetto Monograph (available online)

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