HEALTHY FEET WITHOUT VARISES

HEALTHY FEET WITHOUT VARISES

Concerned whether when blue-purple color of the blood vessels "decorate" your lovely legs? Not stocking beautiful blue purple but varicose veins. Of course the women do not want any "decorations" are. How not, the existence of such lump-blue cable is very disturbing beauty purple feet. In addition, varicose veins also cause discomfort when moving or walking, and even cause pain. Varicose veins can also indicate health problems more serious such as interference with the blood vessels in the body.

Is your calf is often painful to walk? Are bulges arise winding bluish skin at the top layer of your calf? If so, maybe you suffer from varicose veins varicose veins alias.

Many opinions, many of varicose leg attacking women - caused by childbirth. In other words, the woman who gave birth at increased risk of varicose veins. These opinions have a point. Varicose veins of legs are also often associated with a lot of people who work while standing. As people stood, once again there is an element of gravity that causes tone to work hard to restore the blood upward. This is what later led to varicose veins.

Varicose veins

Varicose veins are a condition of the dilation of blood vessels, especially veins (veins). Varicose veins can occur in any body part, but are more common in the calf and foot area. This is due to increased pressure on the body's veins when standing and walking. In addition, the feet also support weight.

These things can increase the pressure on the blood vessels in the leg veins. Not only the feet, other body may be affected by varicose veins, such as around the anus or called hemorrhoids (piles / hemorrhoids). The cause of varicose veins is not known for certain, but chances are weaknesses in the vein wall. Over time, the veins lose elasticity and will stretch and become longer and wider. To adjust to a normal space, this elongated veins become tortuous, forming varicose veins.

The emergence of signs of Varicose veins

Please note that varicose veins do not cause illness, symptoms that may feel the veins look purple or blue visible. In addition, knotted and prominent veins; sometimes like a wire in the leg. Varicose veins can also be formed in other parts of the foot of the thigh to ankle. Symptoms may include:

• And severe pain in the leg
• Feeling burned, pulse, muscle spasms, and swelling in the lower leg
• The pain worsened after sitting or standing on a long time
• Itching around one or more veins
• The wound on the skin around the ankles, which means required medical treatment for established vascular disease severe enough.

What to Do

Here are some things you can do to reduce discomfort from varicose veins. These tips can also be applied to prevent or slow the formation of varicose veins.

            Sports

Sports is a common suggestion put forward, but many diseases can be prevented by exercise, including varicose veins. Let your feet moving. Walking is the best way to stimulate blood circulation in the legs. 

Note the pattern of eating and weight

Being overweight can contribute to unnecessary pressure to the veins. The food you eat also has an effect. Eat foods low in salt and high fiber to prevent the knots in the leg veins are formed due to fluid retention and constipation / constipation. 

Clothes

Avoid high heels footwear. Low footwear makes the calf muscles to work harder, better for your veins. Avoid tight clothing around the waist, legs, and thighs. Tight clothing can impede blood flow. 

Elevate legs

To improve blood circulation in the legs, let your feet higher position than the heart. For example, by lying down with legs resting on three or four pillows. 

Avoid sitting or standing long

Try to move at least every 30 minutes, change of position is intended to encourage the flow of blood. 

Avoid sitting with legs crossed

Some doctors believe that sitting in this position can lead to blood circulation problems. 

Prevention of Varicose veins

Some ways to prevent varicose veins:

1.     To increase muscle strength and leg veins, do regular exercise.

2.     Reduce use high-heeled shoes because of the use of the calf muscles to the maximum no. If it should always use a high-heeled shoes, often moving the foot rest and every 15 minutes.

3.     Avoid standing too long. If your job demands require a lot of standing, move your weight from one foot to the other every few minutes.

4.     Do not sit with crossed legs for too long because it can inhibit blood circulation.

5.     Do not often use the tight clothing at the waist, thighs and legs.

6.     Get used to consume vitamin C and E for both the blood vessels.

7.     Many fiber foods, fruits and vegetables.

8.     Reduce salt intake to avoid swelling.

9.     Avoid spicy foods because it can stimulate blood vessel dilation.

10. Do gymnastics feet. While sitting around his ankles clockwise and vice versa.

11. Raise your legs when resting

12. Stand up straight every 45 minutes after you sit down to work all day.

13. Bath with hot and cold water alternately very good for blood circulation

Stay Healthy Using High Shoes

Active women, using high-heeled shoes it has become necessary. Because, besides making you look more elegant, this type of shoes can also be easily combined with a variety of styles matching dress. However, the few studies conducted, high heels (more than 5 cm) were susceptible cause various health problems, such as varicose veins and pain in the spine.

Why is that? When using high boots, position your feet will be in tiptoe conditions. This causes the muscles Achilles in the back heel and calf muscles become tense. As a result, blood vessels will trigger depressed and varicose veins. In addition, the position of the tiptoe feet also makes you constantly have to stand with your back upright. In fact, if the continuous standing with this position, can cause pain in the back that not infrequently spread to the waist.

You can still wear high heels, as long as the following tips:

If you want to use high-heeled shoes for a few days, try to use shoes with heels models different. Bring spare shoes without heels that you might use when the foot has felt tired. Try not to use high heels with a small cross section for days. Walk barefoot in the house or other place possible. 

Perform exercises with leg movements as follows: in a standing position, lift one leg so the foot resting on the toes. Hold for ten counts, then return to starting position and repeat. Do it for 5 minutes for each leg.

PREVENT INSULIN RESISTANCE WITH MEDITATION

Prevent Insulin Resistance with Meditation

Meditation is the most popular practice in a variety of holistic therapies for health. In addition to stabilizing the emotions, various studies have shown meditation is also healthy body. 

In a study reported in the Achieves of Internal medicine, the practice of meditation transcendental can significantly reduce insulin resistance, lowering blood pressure and reduce heart rate disturbances. 

"We can use the relationship between body and mind to open the core intelligence that could bring psychological healing for diabetes and heart disease," said Dr. Robert Schneider, director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention the Maharishi University. 

In terms of reducing insulin resistance, Schneider noted, "This disease treatment can make a wealthy drug manufacturers. And we can do this by intensive exercise and weight reduction," said the author of Total Hearth Health. 

Insulin resistance is a situation insulin sensitivity decreased in lowering blood glucose levels by pressing hepatic glucose production and stimulates glucose utilization in muscle and adipose tissue. The result raises risk of heart disease. 

In his research, Schneider and his team studied 103 volunteers who had been diagnosed with heart disease. The average one-third suffer from obesity and a history of high blood pressure, and 9 percent had diabetes. 

They were then randomly divided into two groups. One group received training and practiced transcendental meditation twice a day for 20 minutes which lasted for four months. Meanwhile, another group received the materials of knowledge about heart disease. 

Transcendental Meditation is a form of meditation that brings us into silence until our minds totally not thinking about anything or collectively, the transcending thinking process. 

The researchers found that systolic blood pressure decreased to three points on the respondents in a group meditation. While the study group, systolic actually rose two points. 

Meditation also has a positive impact on heart rate, one measure of cardiovascular health. However, significant differences seen in insulin resistance. When compared with the levels of fasting insulin with sugar, they are in the meditation group is reduced to 0.75. 

The researchers say, the benefits are not limited to the type of transcendental meditation, but also other forms of relaxation, such as yoga, tai chi, and so on. However, according Schneider, currently transcendental meditation is the only method that proved useful in many different clinical studies. 

Meditation has many benefits for the body because it activates parasympathetic, part of the autonomous nervous system, which helps relieve fight or flight response, triggered by the sympathetic nervous system. 

While sympathetic system is activated by stress, the body will release certain hormones that make the body become resistant to insulin. While the parasympathetic system is activated, cells become more responsive to insulin. 

IMAGINATION CAN REDUCE PAIN

Imagination Can Reduce Pain

The pain in the abdomen in children it can be reduced only by imagination. The results of the research team at the University of North Carolina and Duke University Medical Center, USA, is set out in the journal Pediatrics and was quoted BBC News website on Monday (12/10). 

The research team asked the children to imagine the time was lying on a cloud for 20 minutes. The result, children who were admitted stomach pain lessened. The researchers speculate that 1 in 5 children often experience abdominal pain for no apparent reason. In this study, there are 15 of 30 children aged 6-15 are given the compact disc (CD) contains a "guide the imagination" and is used for eight weeks, while the remainder received normal treatment. 

The result, 73.3 percent of the 15 children who were given a CD claiming their abdominal pain decreased gradually. As there are only 26.7 percent of the 15 children who were not given a CD that claimed to feel less pain. Dr. van Tilburg Miranda who led the research team was mentioned, at least the kids now know how to reduce pain. 

"The kids have imagination better than adults," he said. Prof. David Candy, a child health consultant at Western Hospital Sussex, England, admitted often treat patients with treatment "hypnosis" and proved successful, but he has not tried to treat the imagination. "Pain in the abdomen is often experienced by the children so they had to not go to school," he said.

APPLES, FOR HEALTHY COLON

Apples, For Healthy Colon

In addition to genetic disorders, food consumed affects the incidence of colorectal cancer (colon). One of the food that proved able to prevent this cancer is an apple. 

Recent research shows, an apple or apple juice have a positive impact on the large intestine. Content of pectin and polyphenols found in apples much, are known to increase biological mechanism to produce compounds anti carcinogenic (anti-cancer) in the fermentation process. 

"Apples are a source of fiber and antioxidants are good. Apples are also rich in pectin are effective as an anticancer substance in the large intestine," said the researchers. 

In laboratory research conducted by German researchers, Dr. Dieter Shrank, known components in apples can increase butyrate production, to prevent the formation of HDAC (Histonedeacetlyases). HDAC production decline will put pressure on the growth of pre-cancerous cells and tumor cells. 

Colon cancer is a cancer that is often encountered in Indonesia. Cancer is not just about the men but also women. Colon cancer risk increases in consumption of high fat and low in fiber, body fat, smoking, and lack of exercise.

YOUR BABY FISH CONSUMPTION INCREASE THE BRAIN'S ABILITY SON

Your Baby Fish Consumption Increase

The brain's ability Son 

Children preschool age that their mothers regularly consume low-mercury fish during pregnancy is more likely to have an intelligent brain compared with their peers, according to results of a study.

Some researchers found that among 341 children as much as three years old, those whose mothers consumed more than two servings of fish per week during pregnancy is usually better in tests of verbal, visual and movement development of the baby.

Conversely, lower examination rates among mothers of preschoolers that they have mercury levels higher in their blood during pregnancy.

Common among women who consume fish during pregnancy are more likely to have such mercury levels than the levels of mercury that mothers do not eat fish, so the researchers report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

The discovery adds to evidence that fish is brain food, but underlines the need to choose low-mercury fish during pregnancy.

"It is recommended, for mothers who ate fish during pregnancy should take into account the nutritional benefits of fish and the potential risks from mercury," wrote the researchers, led by Dr. Emily Oaken of Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Fatty fish such as tuna, salmon, and Sardine contain omega-3, are important elements for the development of the child and the fetal brain.

The problem is, more fatty fish may be contaminated with mercury, a substance that is toxic metal for the brain cells, particularly in fetuses and young children.

The result was that pregnant women are advised to avoid certain fish altogether, such as shark, swordfish and "tilefish". All the fish had mercury levels so high because they eat other fish and long-lived, from time to time they accumulate mercury in their fat tissue. 

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What is less clear is how much benefit other fish that contain omega-3 compared with the potential risks. Current U.S. health officials recommend that pregnant women consuming more than 12 ounces, or an average of two servings of fish per week.

For the current study, Oaken team collected blood samples from 341 women during the three second semester and asked them how often they ate various foods, including fish. When their son was three years old, they undergo a standard vocabulary, visual skills and hand coordination and finger movements.

Overall, the researchers found, children who by their mothers ate more than two times per week to have test scores higher.

However, children who their mothers had mercury levels in the highest 10 percent in the study recorded rates worse than those whose mothers had lower mercury levels.

Only two percent of women who never eat fish during pregnancy had blood mercury levels that high, compared with 23 percent of those who ate fish more than twice a week.

According to Oaken team, the lower limit is to eat low-mercury fish can allow obtaining the benefits of stronger in fish consumption.

Fish with high omega-3 but relatively low mercury include canned tuna, which has less mercury than tuna "Albacore", and smaller fish such as salmon fat. White meat fish such as cod and haddock tend to have lower mercury, even has a low mercury levels, but have less omega-3 compared with the more fatty fish.

The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and Harvard. Some research fellow Oaken has received funds from food and supplements industry.

IS IT STRESS

Is It Stress

Stress is basically the experience of "fatigue" experienced by our bodies when to adjust to environmental changes that continue to occur. Stress has emotional and physical effects that can be positive or negative.

We see from the positive side, stress can give you the motivation and strength to get through difficult situations. While the negative side, stress can reduce the physical and emotional stability.

There are several examples that often cause stress such as: the fired from a job, family problems, pain, traffic, economic pressures and marriage.

Even good change can be a burden in our lives, these changes have caused stress. Does not change as much as we can not avoid stress, and therefore we need is to learn to deal with it. The fact that 75 percent of actual human populations have some kind of stress every week. So there is some kind of stress we experience such as:

1.     Stress survival

If the defense of life or your health is threatened or if you are under pressure, experiencing something unpleasant or challenging event. Your body releases adrenaline and you have a reaction to "fight or flight".

2.     Internal Stress

Uneasy at the thought of events beyond your control, the approach in a hurry and tension or romance problems.

3.     Employment and environmental stress

Neighborhood or workplace who bring stress. Can come from noise, crowds of people, pollution, conflicts or other interference. Deadlines, presentations, job security is another form of stress at work.

4.     Fatigue caused by stress and too much work.

In this section the stress is formed in a long time. Chronic stress can occur when you attempt to achieve too many things in too little time or if you do not use time management strategies efficiently.

Job stress can be harmful to health as smoking or not exercising. Whatever the source, stress can cause a response "fight or flight" that automatically affect all body processes and progress.

Adrenaline burst, blood pressure rises and muscles tense. In an effort to produce more energy in a very short time, the body increases metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates and nutrients meant issued potassium, magnesium, calcium and amino acids.

Digestion slows down, resulting in the release of fat and sugar from the body joints, increased cholesterol and decreased levels of nutrients. Although sometimes you need a stress release adrenaline, the body is experiencing stress is not a healthy body, under the suffocating pressure, some functions did not work or work less effectively, the following summary of the stress reaction:

1.     Body and mind through the senses receive threats.

2.     Sensory organs are exposed to the threat of sending a message to the brain stress hormone, adrenaline is released.

1.     Heart beat faster, your breathing getting faster and blood pressure increase.

2.     Kidney increases blood sugar levels.

3.     Blood flow translated it from gas-trot-internal system to the brain and major auto.

4.     Blood vessels in the legs to improve his contract in case of a blood clot cuts or wounds.

5.     Enlarged eyelid so that we can see more clearly.

6.     After missing a threat or anger, the body relaxed again. The real facts of the Confederation of British Industry estimates that businesses lose 10.2 billion in 1998 due to loss of productivity due to stress, stress, especially if prolonged and intense, can increase the risk of a serious medical condition and can aggravate the condition. Stress is rarely cause disease but stress plays a role in immune crucial of a disease or how the disease spread more widely. Chronic stress can undermine including cardiovascular system, immune system and gastrointestinal system.

Chronic stress can cause or exacerbate the increased risk of heart disease, migraine, asthma and several other diseases:

1.     Cancer

Studies show that stress can make you more susceptible to a large number of cancer diseases. Once you are sick, stress can slow the healing process.

In another study, breast cancer patients who experience high stress levels the diagnosis and treatment have immune system weaker than in those who experience less stress. Women who are high stress levels have fewer natural killer cells that can detect and kill cancer cells.

2.     Heart disease

Heart work very hard when under pressure, both physical and psychological. Increased blood pressure, blood clotting mechanism to work with full force, the heart beat faster than usual and increasing metabolism levels. If you continue to do so for hours, then you are tired and if you continue to do so for hours, then you are very tired. If you continue to do so for years then you will be affected by heart disease.

3.     Immune System

When in stress conditions, depressed immune system so the body will become old disease. In an experiment are shown after 21 days in the area of stress, the immune system is depressed will stop working as it should be expected that due to the immune system is forced to work too hard and need to stop for rest.

Stress can even make you more susceptible to diseases common cold. Fortunately, we are not helpless victims. As we can fight other types of body pollution, we can reduce the effects of stress by taking concrete actions and positive.

To cultivate stress, you have to do something different that would change the situation causing stress or change the behavior of your reaction to the situation.

Here are some stress reduction techniques that can help:

1.     Frequently take deep breaths throughout the day.

2.     Conduct body checks before going to bed at night and when I woke up in the morning to find out where you are experiencing stress.

3.     Focus on goal setting and planning on a regular basis.

4.     Read books that make a positive and daily activities.

5.     More multiply laugh even in difficult circumstances.

6.     As far as possible to avoid negative influences from peers, the media, violence and others, all that can weaken us.

7.     Learn to meditate or quiet every day.

8.     Give time to interact positively with people you love.

9.     Take the opportunity to do the things you love like singing, reading, exercise, whatever you like.

10. More physically active "sports".