4.25 Million Child Dies of Lung Infection

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Respiratory infections, like influenza and pneumonia (pneumonia), each year killing 4.25 million people, mostly children. Acute Respiratory Infection In Atlas, the World Lung Foundation, said the deaths due to lung infection accounted for 6 percent of total global deaths.

"At least 4 million people die from Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), but the global health community still does not recognize this disease as a separate disease group," said Peter Baldini, Chairman of the World Cancer Foundation.

He added that the foundation hopes to convince governments and donors to look at deaths from respiratory diseases as a group. "This could save millions of lives. What is needed is a commitment, policies, and strategic investments," said Baldini.

In his report, people who come from poor countries most vulnerable to death from ARI. Deaths from pneumonia cases was 215 times higher in countries where income per capita is low.

Healthy Sleep Just 5 Hours

Who says a habit of sleeping less than seven or eight hours will worsen the quality of health and shorten life? Recent research on sleep duration and mortality relationship shows, their usual rest for five hours every day have the endurance to live (survival) is good.

The study by scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine for 14 years against the 450 female respondents aged 50 to 81 shows, those who have a habit of sleeping for five to 6.5 hours have aged long enough.

A recent study published the journal Sleep Medicine is different from previous research reports. Earlier this year, large-scale studies in the United States indicate that less than seven hours of sleep associated with the risk of heart disease. Even the other studies mentioned, those who slept less than six and a half hours more likely to die before the age of 65.

Savor Mahkota Dewa

Plants by scientific name Phaleria macrocarpa is also known by the name simalakama (Malay / Sumater), Makuto Dewo (Java). These plants originated from Papua and has been known efficacious for treating various diseases, such as: Diabetes Mellitus, Cancer and Tumor, Hepatitis, Rheumatism and Gout.

1.Diabetes Mellitus 

Treatment: Drink boiled water

Method: - Take 5-6 Mahkota Dewa fruit, slice and wash clean.
- Boil in 5 cups of water, let it stew until the remaining 3 cups water
- Strain the cooking water, drink 3 times a day (each 1 cup)

2. Cancer and Tumors
Treatment: Drink boiled water
Method: - Mix 5 grams of dried fruit pulp Mahkota Dewa with 15 g temu white, 10 g and 15 g dry sambiloto scribble dry, wash all materials
- Boil all ingredients in 5 cups water, let it stew until the remaining 3 cups water
- Strain the cooking water, let it cool and drink 3 times a day each 1 cup. Potion drink 1 hour before meals

Aspirin Reduces Risk of Colon Cancer

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Low-dose aspirin are consumed every day in the long term effective way to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer up to one quarter. The risk of dying from this disease is also reduced by a third.

Earlier low-dose aspirin is also recommended for patients who have a high risk of heart attack and stroke. In the prevention of colon cancer or colon cancer, aspirin in high doses are effective but have side effects bleeding.

Therefore, experts tried to examine whether if the dose is lowered, the effect remains the same protection. In this study the researchers followed up four research conducted in England and Sweden between the years 1980-1990 on the effects of aspirin in cardiovascular patients.

Laptop Can Disturb Fertility Sperm

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This is a warning to men who have a habit of assuming the laptop on top of the thigh. Research experts who published the journal Fertility and Sterility November issue is suggested that men avoid the habit of putting a laptop in the near any vital organs. Because it can trigger the risk of interference with fertility. 

The researchers explained, the use of laptops could be a threat to the production of sperm due to heat generated by the portable computer can trigger a rise in temperature in the scrotum or bag sperm-producing testes.

In his research, the researchers measure the temperature of the scrotum 29 young male volunteers using a thermometer. Volunteers are measured when they place the laptop on his knee. Although the volunteers using a type of mat to reduce the temperature of the laptop, investigators found the testicles of the volunteers experienced a rapid increase in temperature.

Top 10 Ways to Soothe Dry Skin

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Dry skin can be particularly difficult to treat in the dry heat of Austin, Texas. Here are some tips on how to maintain healthy skin, despite a sun denying your skin its much-needed hydration.

Drink Water. Your body needs at least 8 glasses per day to stay fully hydrated. Many people get used to drinking milk, juice or soda when they get thirsty. Nothing can substitute pure water for internal anti-aging hydration.

Decrease Your Intake of Caffeine & Alcohol. These liquids dehydrate the body. Make sure when you do enjoy them, you drink lots of water before and after that cup’a Joe with a shot in it.

Increase Your Intake of Omega-3 Fatty Acids. Some useful pills to have on-hand include Vitamin E, primrose oil and flaxseed oil. Taking these daily helps retain hydration in that rash-ridden skin.

Bathe Minimally. Try to keep showers and baths between 5 and 10 minutes, and don’t turn the water on hot; hot water causes skin irritation in dry skin.

Put Oil on Skin After Soaking. Whether you just got out of a bath or washed your hands, pat the itchy skin dry. You don’t want to rub it, because that dries the skin out more. Then put some oil on your skin to seal the hydration in – olive oil, primrose oil or even Vaseline can work wonders.

Aerobics: 30 Minutes To A Healthier Life

The definition of aerobics is with oxygen. Aerobic exercise is a combination of physical exercise, strength training and stretching. It is recommended that individuals get between 30 minutes to 1 hour of aerobic activity a day.

Aerobic exercise has many health benefits besides weight management.

Exercise reduces the systemic inflammation that can lead to the development of heart disease. In addition, exercise helps to increase good cholesterol while decreasing bad. It also makes the heart pump more efficiently, thus becoming stronger. Having a stronger heart allows for a healthier lifestyle, controls weight, and leads to a sense of well-being. Theses changes can help control blood pressure levels.

Diabetes is another disease that can be controlled through exercise. By allowing glucose to metabolize in the body, normal blood sugar levels are maintained. For people with Type 2 diabetes, physical activity raises tissue sensitivity to insulin, and produces more glucose to be released from the blood stream and into cells, decreasing glucose in the blood.

Colors May Affect Your Appetite

Color is very influential on the person's condition. And do you know if the color can also be used as appetite control?

The desire to eat may be influenced by the colors that exist in your eye. Bright colors like yellow, red, or orange can stimulate appetite. In contrast, green, blue, gray, and brown tend to make poor appetite.

You can test it. Please go to the dining room with bright red tablecloth or bright orange. Surely there is a trend you'll eat more. It's shades of color can boost your appetite.

Therefore, for you are going through a diet program can choose the color of white or pastel-old to cloth or cloth at the dining table of your home.

Want to Orgasm? Touch the Tip of Your Finger

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Your fingertip calluses? Try to carefully observe and touch. If yes, now you know why you rarely or never experience orgasm. Because, according to research, if your sensitive fingertips so you can feel the feeling in the area, you still have chance to get experience better sex through orgasm.

The study, published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, it also revealed that women with sensitive fingertips may also experience multiorgasme. As for women who are not so sensitive fingertips tend to be less able to build physical intimacy with her partner and by themselves rarely orgasm.

The results of this study was obtained after testing the 70 female students aged 18-30 with special microfilament designed to measure skin sensitivity. Researchers then compared this test with respondents provided information about their ability to orgasm and concluded that the sensitivity of the fingertips (and touch in general) plays a key role in getting a good sex.

Woman Needs 5 Minutes To Orgasm

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Through a scanning method (scan) Specifically, the experts at Rutgers University in the United States managed to uncover a secret that occurs in the female brain during orgasm.

One important finding is the extraordinary sexual stimulation can make her nervous system such as 'disabled'. These stimuli provide a broad impact on the area of women's brains, so they feel the pleasure.

According to the researchers, the moment of orgasm affects nearly 30 different areas in the brains of women, including areas that affect emotion, feeling, pleasure, satisfaction and retention.

In his study, the researchers asked eight volunteers woman to perform sexual stimulation in itself. The volunteers lie behind the blanket while undergoing magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI).

6 Easy Steps to Care Eye Office Workers

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Do you know if they are day-to-day staring at computer screens such as office workers prone to experience eye problems?
 

One reason is because they are not blinking as often as the normal eye. As a result, the eyes are forced to "familiar" with the monitor screen often become irritated. Complaints that appear to the eye is usually the eye becomes dry, watery, blurred vision, and so forth.
 

To avoid and relieve the symptoms due to irritation, you should follow the following tips:

• Always provide eye drops. Use according to the instructions listed on the drug packaging or consult your eye doctor.

• If you sit near the air conditioning (AC) or fan, try reducing the flow of air passing through the eye.

Plant Benefits Sosor Bebek / Kalanchoe Pinnata Pers

Kalanchoe Pinnata Pers

Sosor Bebek in Latin known as Kalanchoe Pinnata Pers. The leaves are quite thick, in addition contains a lot of water, also keeps a variety of chemicals that are beneficial to health.

A health site, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, said that bufadienolides contained in the Sosor Bebek has antitumor.

Research conducted by Supratman and his colleagues from the Applied Biochemistry Division, Osaka Prefecture University in Sakai, Japan, showed that the isolation of five bufadienolides of leaf Sosor Bebek has the effect of inhibiting the activation of early antigen Epstein-Barr virus (EBV-EA) in Raji cells which caused by the tumor.

Besides bufadienolides, Sosor Bebek which has slightly sour flavor, soft, and cool it also contains lemon acid, apple acid, vitamin C, alkaloids, flavonoids, quercetin-3-diarabinoside, and kaempferol-3-glucoside. Chemical constituents makes Sosor Bebek could be used for various treatments.