How To Diet Your Success

Most people who go on a diet knows that reducing calories is the key to successful dieting. But they do not know how to apply the theory.

Not secret anymore if many people fail to do the diet in the middle of the road. As experienced by Rudy Termini, a pensioner aged 65 years in the U.S., who struggled to lose weight during the four years.

"Three times a week I play tennis and go to the gym to go on a diet, but results have not been looking too," Termini said as quoted from Forbes, Tuesday (14/07/2009).

Termini was finally interested in participating in clinical trials for two years at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Two years of training at the site, Termini succeeded in reducing the weight of 23 pounds.

What is the secret of successful diet?

Dr. Donald Hensrud, a nutrition specialist at Mayo Clinic said reduced calorie diet is the key to success. But it will not work if the theory is not practiced.

An investigator from the National Weight Control Registry, Suzzanne Phelan have been tracking the weight loss effort that followed 6000 participants in the experiment. He also leaked the secret strategies of successful dieting.

One effective technique is to monitor more closely the number of calories and weight. This requires that records of food calories and high commitment to the diet.

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Food for Nursing Mothers

Food For Nursing Mothers:
Supplies of food for lactating mothers more than the food you were pregnant.
Usefulness of these foods are:

1. Restoring physical condition after delivery.
2. Increasing milk production (Mother's Milk) and healthy enough for a baby.

Ordering Food

1. The composition of the daily meal should be balanced, which consists of staple food, side dishes, vegetables and fruit and milk.

2. Not only the staple food rice, use a variety of food substitutes such as noodles, corn, potatoes, yams, bread and so forth.

3. Side dishes use of this type of animal and vegetable species, such as eggs, meat, chicken, fresh fish, liver, fish sauce, tempeh, tofu, beans and so forth.

4. Better-colored vegetables such as spinach, kale, mustard greens, leaf katuk, carrots, green beans and so forth, because these vegetables may help stimulate spending/production of milk.

5. Pick-colored fruits such as papaya, oranges, apples, tomatoes and so on which many contain vitamins and minerals.

6. Need to drink more in number + 6 glasses in one day, would be more useful if the nursing mother to drink fluids "nutritious" such as: milk, water, beans, fruit juice, water, green leafy vegetables and so forth.

7. Not recommended drinking herbal medicine after childbirth.

8. The most important thing there is no food taboos for breastfeeding mothers.

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Benefits of Ginger as a pain reliever

LONDON - Do not underestimate the benefits of spices on this one. Consumption of ginger is believed to relieve pain in muscles due to excessive exercise, as revealed by researchers.

Taste Ginger every day can reduce the pain from sports and even gardening and housework are exhausting.

For hundreds of years, ginger root has long been used as traditional medicine to treat various ailments such as flu or flatulence.

And experts have long been known as a pain reliever. However, recent research shows that ginger is very good for muscle pain.

Lead researcher from the University of Georgia, Professor Patrick O'Connor said the ginger as something that really can eliminate muscle pain that can be accepted by many people who experience it.

Ginger is also known as anti-inflammatory drugs in animal experiments, but its effects as muscle pain in humans have not been examined closely.

Ginger is also known to contain a chemical that works almost the same anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal such as ibuprofen and aspirin.

Professor O'Connor conducted two studies with each of the 34 and 40 participants who consumed a capsule containing two grams with different content for 11 days .. One group was asked to consume capsules containing ginger which has been heated while another group was asked the empty capsules.

On Day 8, participants were tested to lift the load to measure the muscle injury is on the arm including the function, inflammation and pain before exercise and three days later. Levels of chemical constituents in the body were also measured before and after practice.

Research shows, intake of ginger every day to reduce pain due to exercise about 25 percent. Meanwhile, warm ginger before it is consumed has no significant effect.

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Walking on legs, a healthy step away Diabetes and Heart Disease

Are you are a lazy sport? If so, then the walk is a useful alternative to exercise no less effective. A study revealed, on foot making walking an optimal metabolism.

As is known, the body's metabolism is not working normally associated with a number of factors trigger the risk of heart disease and diabetes such as overweight, high blood pressure, lack of good cholesterol.

Researchers from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Peter T. Katzmarzyk states, the existence of a number of factors make individuals more susceptible trigger rather than someone who does not have a trigger factor.

"Many individuals who are overweight are having problems with her metabolism, but for individuals with normal weight also experienced the same problem," he said as quoted from HealthDay, last weekend.

Earlier, in the year 2005-2006, together with his colleagues noted Katzmakzyk 1446 daily records of adults, average age 47.5 years old. Participants with a note accelerometer (a device that measures how far a person walking) is divided into three groups.

The first group, individuals who walked less than 5000 steps per day, second, individuals who walked on average between 5000 to 9000 per day and the third step, individuals who walked an average of more than 10,000 steps per day.

After the record of each participant, the researcher then saw a number of factors such as sex and age accompanist. From the findings the researchers note, more than 56 percent of which has a number of steps a little problem with her metabolism. However, 13 percent of the individuals who diligently walk also experienced the same problem. Overall, one third of participants had problems with her metabolism.

Meanwhile, in the second group, researchers recorded more than 40 percent of participants in both groups have the possibility to avoid a metabolic disorder. Whereas in the third group, as many as 72 percent of the participants the possibility to avoid a metabolic disorder.

Researchers also recorded every 1000 additional steps contributed to the decline 8-13 percent fat in the waist, decreasing bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol. "There is a kind of trend there (the research). The research is not just a magic number, Something is better than none at all, dab something more certainly a lot better," he said.

Separately, researchers from the University of Tennessee, David R. Bassett Jr. said the new study showed significant results because of more stringent than previous research when exploring the relationship between walking and metabolic disorders.

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Alert, Women with diabetes, are more susceptible cancer

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If you are a woman with diabetes, should improve the lives of healthier, more at risk for developing cancer suspected. Conversely, men with the same condition it does not have a similar risk

Results of research notes, women with type 2 diabetes have up to 25 percent risk of cancer than non-diabetic women. These risks and impact on other problems such as heart disease. Previous research revealed the same thing but are assumed not distinguish gender.

Meanwhile, recent research at Tel Aviv University Medical School - which monitored 17 000 diabetics found a number of male patients with diabetes tend to be far less than healthy men who specialized cases of prostate cancer risk. That is, no increase in their overall cancer risk.

Special women's precisely the case is different. Female patients with colon cancer and cervical cancer to give them a higher cancer risk overall of about 25 percent and cases of type 2 diabetes in women tends to increase rapidly.

Keep in mind, nine out of ten patients with type 2 diabetes when the body gradually loses the ability to process blood sugar automatically advance to the level that can damage organs.

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Found New Genes Related to Breast Cancer

JAKARTA - British scientists discovered five common genetic factors related to risk of breast cancer, giving researchers a better understanding of the causes and directions for further handling of the spread of disease itu.Douglas Easton of the University of Cambridge, England who is currently leading the largest analysis of breast cancer genes, scan a map of genes from 16 536 patients, and found five new gene variations.

The findings add another 13 variants of common genes and breast cancer will help to explain the eight percent risk of this disease, Easton and his students wrote in a research published in the journal Nature Genetics.

Approximately 20 percent of genes at high risk of breast cancer spreading. Breast cancer is a common type of cancer that befall a woman and had killed about half a million people worldwide each year.

Family history is the most fundamental risk factor. Having close relatives with breast cancer, a woman usually has twice the risk for this disease.

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Strawberries can ward off illness due to 'Lifestyle'

Venlo - had long since strawberries and strawberry fruit is considered good for maintaining health. Recent research shows that the pigment which serves to give a red or blue color on the fruit also functions to filter substances from the body is not healthy.

In addition, strawberries also protect against disease outbreaks due to 'lifestyle', such as obesity, diabetes, and heart.

Researchers from Maastricht University and the University of Wageningen, local time Saturday (29/5), presented some research results of two currently widely available everywhere in the symposium on soft fruit farmers in Venlo, the Netherlands.

According to the researchers, strawberries and strawberry contains many antioxidants. This excludes two substances in the body to function memutasi cells, which then triggers such as cancer. Important is the anthocyanin antioxidants. Substances that give color to strawberries and raspberries.

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Eat burgers too often can risk of asthma

Eating Healthy - Burger was delicious, especially with a solid content of different toppings and a thick sauce. However, you should not too often. In addition to risk clogging the arteries, a study proves, burgers can increase the risk of asthma and shortness of breath, especially in children.

Conversely, in the same research that led Gabriele Nagel from Ulm University in Germany, the Mediterranean diet - which is full of fruit, vegetables, and fish - although the fat, can help avoid asthma-related respiratory problems. Research results published in the British Medical Journal published today.

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. The disease is often triggered by dust and allergies. Symptoms include heavy breathing and usually reads, chest pain, and respiratory tract to contract. Worldwide, this disease affects about 300 million people and kills about 250 thousand each year, according to World Health Organization (WHO). For reasons that are still poorly understood, asthma has been increasing over the last 25 years, especially in rich countries.

To assess the extent to which diet can be a factor for asthma, researchers led by Gabriele Nagel at Ulm University in Germany studied data on 50 health. thousand children aged eight to 12 years, collected between 1995 and 2005 from 20 rich and poor countries around the world. Parents are asked to describe what their children eat, and whether they had ever been diagnosed with severe asthma or shortness of breath.

Nearly 30 thousand of the children tested to see whether food and beverages have opportunities to develop allergies in the body. Diet does not seem to increase sensitivity to common allergens, but it was correlated with the prevalence of asthma and asthma.

And, here it is, children who ate three or more hamburgers a week along with soft drinks to face a higher risk significantly. However, Nagel said, can not call a burger as the sole and direct cause of the disease, because of lifestyle factors also support the development. "This would explain why the burgers in poor countries is not related to the same level of risk," he said. [www.republika.co.id]

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Main cause of liver cancer [liver damage]

World Health Medicine - Doctors at National Taiwan Hospital recently shocked the medical world, because the discovery of cases of a young doctor 37 years old during this very trust the results of liver function (GOT, GPT), but it turns out just before "Lunar festivals" positively known to suffer liver cancerover 10 cm! Until now almost everyone is very dependent on the results of examination of liver function index (Liver Function Index). They think if the examination showed normal results of the index means all OK.

This kind of misunderstanding was also performed by many specialists. Really surprising, doctors are supposed to provide the right knowledge in the general population, turned out to have incorrect knowledge

Prevention of liver cancer should be done the right way. There is no other way except to detect and treat it as early as possible, so the doctor said Hsu Chin Chuan. But ironically, it turns out doctors who deal with liver cancer can also have the wrong view, even misleading the public, this is why the biggest cause of liver cancer is difficult to cure.

The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are the most common cause.

2. Do not pee in the morning.

3. A diet that is too excessive.

4. Do not eat breakfast.

5. Consume too many drugs.

6. Consume too many preservatives, additives, dyes, artificial sweeteners.

7. Unhealthy cooking oil! As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying foods this also applies even using the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when we are in a tired condition, except in a fit physical condition.

8. Consuming raw cuisine (very ripe), also increase the burden of liver. Vegetables eaten raw or cooked 3/5 parts. Fried vegetables should be eaten right away, do not be stored.

We have to do prevention without additional expense. Self-set lifestyle and patterns of daily food. Treatment of eating habits and time condition is needed, so our bodies can do the absorption and disposal of substances that are not useful in accordance with the schedule.

Cause:

*. Night at 9-11: is the disposal of substances is not useful/toxic (detoxification) in the antibody system (lymph nodes). During this time duration should be passed with a quiet atmosphere or listening to music. If at that time a housewife is still in a condition that is not relaxed such as washing dishes or watching children learn, this could have a negative impact on health.

*. Night at 11 - 1 o'clock in the morning: when the process of detoxification in the liver, must take place in conditions of sleep.

*. Early days at 1-3: detoxification process in the gall, also took place in the sleep state. *. Early days at 3-5: de-toxin in the lungs. Because it will happen a great cough for cough sufferers during this time duration. Because the cleaning process (de-toxin) have reached the respiratory tract, it would not need to take cough medicine so as not to hinder the process of sewage.

*. Morning at 5-7: de-toxin in the colon, should dispose of water in the toilet. *. Morning at 7-9: the time of absorption of food nutrients for the small intestine, must eat breakfast.

For people who are sick should be eating more morning, before 6:30 o'clock. Breakfast before 7:30 am very good for those who want to maintain their health. For those who do not eat in the morning hoping to change this habit, even still, better late breakfast until pk 90-10 than not eating at all.

Sleeping too late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of disposal of these substances are not useful. In addition, from midnight until 4 o'clock in the morning is the time for the bone marrow produces blood. For that reason, sleep tight and do not stay up!! [http://makalah-artikel-online.blogspot.com]

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Dangers of Consuming Instant Noodles

Often eat instant noodles are not good for health, can cause hair fall out often, colon cancer, kidney stones, kidney failure, and could probably other diseases. Actually, the instant noodle is not dangerous to eat but if every day was dangerous to eat instant noodles for instant noodles contain chemicals in its ingredients and the noodles are quite dangerous.

Well if we often eat instant noodles such substances will accumulate in our body without a chance to be discarded. if you eat it rare, these substances will be wasted in the urine. so often drink that is good for our health, especially kidneys, because the kidneys filter out harmful substances. There may be a comment on instant noodles or additional.

high sodium content in instant noodles will neutralize the stomach, so the stomach will secrete more acid to digest food. High state of gastric acid will result in the stomach wall and cause erosion pains.

As for patients with hypertension, sodium will increase blood pressure due to imbalance between spices substance contained in the packaging of instant foods containing preservatives and MSG and salt levels are high.

There is a terrible story:

There are people who are now the age of about 48 annually but had four years to bring tools everywhere, sorry, instead of her anus, because the lower intestine to the anus has been cut because it was no longer able to use the article when the student with the economic reasons are consuming instant noodles exaggerated so that the cropped parts of the intestine is the place of precipitate preservatives which always exists in every possible type of instant noodle borax preservative for the bodies (the data show that import large borax and the like to Indonesia) and Hence causing decay in place, hopefully all parties cautious in consuming foods such as meatballs, sausages, noodles and others.

There again, people who have had cancer lymph nodes (lymph nodes 8 and taxable), and medication for almost a year in Singapore to spend more than 1 billion in 1996 to 1997 (fortunately borne by the office), because he consumes during the fourth indomie plus korned continuously every day of the year (on the grounds that his wife was busy working). According to doctors who treat them, cause is a preservative there in the noodles and korned TSB.[www.makalah-artikel-online.blogspot.com]

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Ovarian Cancer

Description of Ovarian Cancer

World Health - Many cases of ovarian cancer are faced by women aged 50-70 years old. This cancer is attacking not only the ovaries but potentially spread to other parts including the pelvis and abdomen, can even reach the lungs and liver. Until now the exact cause of this cancer is unknown.

The doctors predict that there are certain risk factors that allow the occurrence of ovarian cancer. Use of fertility drugs, had breast cancer, family history of breast cancer, as well as family history of suffering from colon, believed to be factors that allow the occurrence of this cancer.

Ovarian Cancer Symptom

Symptoms of this cancer can be recognized from the patient complaint in the lower abdomen, the ovaries are enlarged, in the stomach collected plenty of fluids, patient weight decreased. Other symptoms can include, pelvis that feels heavy, abnormal menstrual cycles, and vaginal bleeding.

Ovarian Cancer Treatment

Appointment of cancer may be the only way to cure this disease. Only after lifting is carried out, the roots of cancer can be eradicated.

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Cervix Cancer, Symptom and Treatment

Description of Cervix Cancer

For women aged 35-55 years should be alert to this type of cancer. Because this cancer attacking women with the age limit. Cervical cancer or cervical cancer is more commonly known malignant tumor that grows in the neck of the womb (cervix) is attached to the top of the vagina.

Up to now we can not find the exact cause of this cancer. But there are some pre-conditions that enable women to develop the disease. Among the risk factors include, among others; HPV (human papillomavirus) is transmitted through sexual intercourse. Moreover, if sexual relations were made with multiple sexual partners the greater the risk factor. Similarly, smoking is also a factor that causes cervical cancer. Another factor that is DES (dietilstillbestrol) used pregnant women to prevent miscarriage.

Cervix Cancer Symptom

If a woman finds herself following some of the symptoms, such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, menstrual longer and spend a lot of blood, leucorrhoea who settled, the possibility of women suffered from cervical cancer. In more advanced stages and even found some of the symptoms, among others; drastically reduced appetite, urine out of the vagina or even feces, pelvic pain, and fractures.

Cervix Cancer Treatment

Although extremely dangerous, cervical cancer can be cured with surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and biologic therapy. Besides can be cured, this cancer can be prevented by abstaining from sexual relations if they have not reached the age of 18 years, did not change multiple sexual partners.[http://health.detik.com]

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Description of Breast Cancer

Description

This cancer attacks the breast tissue and more suffered by women. These cancers can grow in the milk glands, milk ducts, and adipose tissue. This occurs because there is an abnormal growth of cells in the breast gland. This type of cancer grows much slower than with other types of cancers. Some factors that increase the risk of breast cancer between age, health history, heredity, hormonal factors (menstuasi).

Symptom

General signs of disease
This is shown by the existence of a lump in the breast. Over time the larger lumps, and when pressed cause pain.

Treatment

Breast self examination which started early is the best prevention of disease
this. This early detection of cancer at the same time knowing that diidap stadium. Thus, treatment will be achieved by adjusting stage cancer patients.

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Addressing Complaints Lightweight, When Pregnancy

World Health - The presence of the Fruit Hearts is certainly caused the changes in your body. In addition to the growing body shape, there are many other things that my mother felt. Here are some little incident that usually appears at the time of pregnancy and how to overcome them.

1. Dizziness.

In the first trimester, most women will experience a headache accompanied by nausea. This is caused by hormonal changes. This kind of headache will not be long and will disappear on its own. Then the mother should not have to take medication, simply by resting or lying in bed. Yet there is a possibility that she experienced dizziness caused by other reasons, such as the flu. To fix this, I can drink a very mild flu medicine. Dizziness is also caused by emotional problems, tension or fatigue. During the mother was still able to cope with a break, she does not need to take medicine. But very annoying especially when accompanied by a change in vision, such as fireflies or as if there were flashes of light, consult a physician.

2. Swollen feet.

In the last months of pregnancy, blood volume increases so that it may sometimes appear the signs of high blood pressure is one of them is swollen leg. Eat less salt and rest frequently. When swollen legs, straighten your legs and lift slightly upward

3. Nausea and vomiting.

People often call it "morning sickness" because of nausea and vomiting usually appear in the morning, when the stomach is empty. But not infrequently also the emergence of day or night. It seems odd, because just because the smell of soap, toothpaste or perfume, women can nausea and vomiting. Sometimes even once a favorite food that is now excluded because not stand the smell. Has become a natural nature, no specific drug can prevent vomiting and nausea is. To reduce nausea, she could eat a snack when I wake to sleep. Mothers are also advised to drink water more often than whites. These complaints usually disappear by the end of the fourth month of pregnancy.

4. Constipation.

The likelihood of constipation during early pregnancy actually begins, because the hormone progesterone during pregnancy causes relaxation of the intestine. This resulted in intestinal propulsion of food remaining decreases. Leftovers accumulate and constipation occurs. Constipation is also caused by the iron content of the tablets that maternal consumption, or by habit rather hold back bowel movements. To overcome this, multiply eat vegetables and fruits are fibrous. Mother had to discipline myself to regularly back every day. One more important, drink at least two liters of water every day.[http://uduryna.blogdetik.com]

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Pregnant and a High Libido

If you are pregnant there are two possibilities related to your sexual arousal, increasing or decreasing drastically. Both were influenced by the hormone estrogen, but one explanation why women who can rise while the other decreases very psychological and individual nature. Family harmony, psychological background and a few other things could be the cause.

But it will not be discussed but whether the fair if you are pregnant but the passion and desire to become more frequent intercourse, though many opinions stating that it could harm the fetus.

According to an obstetrician, a decrease or increase sexual desire that is normal. If you experience any increase in sexual desire when pregnant, according to doctors could be due to the condition of your relationships healthy and mutually satisfying. Moreover if the first trimester of your ass already passed, would not be surprised if the sex was even more hot because you're likely to reach orgasm more easily.

But sometimes problems arise because the male partner or you do not have the same passion. Sometimes men think sex will hurt, and pressing the fetus, they are so extra caution and restraint. This fact is certainly not comfortable for you.

You do not need to worry and stress when faced with this problem, because masturbation is not prohibited in principle important and would never hurt you or your baby. If you prefer to use a vibrator, it is valid only as long as you are not placed in the vagina. Lubricants such as jelly or astroglide also good. Unless you have a tendency to premature birth, you must stop fishing while a variety of things including masturbation and orgasm intercourse.

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Negative Impact WI-FI signal to our body

World Health - Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity), better known as wireless local networks is increasingly popular, especially in countries both developed and developing world. With wi-fi network of people able to enter the Internet without the hassle of connecting cables from the computer to a phone line.

It is nice yes if we are in an environment with no wi-fi it (like my school). But upon investigation, turned out wi-fi siyal influence also on our bodies. What is the impact?

Behind the convenience offered wi-fi, there are some beliefs that consider public wi-fi has a negative impact on health. Those who do not agree with the presence of wi-fi reasonable electromagnetic radiation from wi-fi can cause pain in the head, sleep disturbances and nausea, especially for those who electrosensitive. Wi-fi but is harmful to health?

Fear of adverse effects on health wi-fi is countered British scientists. As expressed by Sir William Stewart, chairman of the Health Protection Agency, told the BBC Panorama Programme, there was nothing to worry about with wi-fi technology. There's no definitive proof that mentioned, devices such as mobile phones and wi-fi health causes disturbed.

Similar, Professor Lawrie Challis also disclosed, from Nottingham University. In a statement on the BBC, Monday (05/21), Professor Challis, who served as chairman of Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) said: "Electromagnetic radiation from Wi-fi is very small, it is also low-power transmitters, other than that there is still a distance with the body.

"It could be electromagnetic radiation is very close to the body, when we assume the laptop, but in my observations of each parent will ask their children not to get too often use their phones and always asked them to put the laptop on the table, not in his lap, if they surfing too long. "

To support this statement, the BBC Panorama team visited a school in Norwich, which has a thousand students, and try to compare the levels of radiation from mobile phones and wi-fi use in the classroom. The results show a wi-fi radiation in a classroom three times larger than the jet issued cell phone.[http://avisincorporated.blogspot.com]

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Saliva tests that controversial

Denver, diagnosis to determine the patient's disease is usually carried out diagnostic tests most often used is the blood. Now the medical as well start using the test with saliva (saliva) to detect the disease, but this test is still questionable validity.

Saliva test is more representative claimed the large number of hormones so it is appropriate to know the condition of a person hormone. But the weakness sometimes need to test a few times because people have hormone levels fluctuate.

For example, when approaching the menopause, women will experience a variety of symptoms due to a decrease in estrogen levels.

Whereas in men experience andropause condition of testosterone deficiency are accompanied by fatigue, loss of muscle mass and decreased bone density.

Now, to determine the appropriate treatment with the hormone condition like that can do the saliva test. This test can determine the sex hormones such as what are decreased and help doctors determine the type and dose to replace the hormones that decrease.

This saliva test can be done at home by putting them in a container and sent to the laboratory. But sometimes one must take a sample of several days or several times a day, this is because hormone levels can vary at certain times.

"Still not enough studies conducted to determine the meaning of these saliva tests. The concept itself was not defective but has not worked well for him approached the invalid," Nanette said Santoro, chairman of the obstetric and gynecology at the University of Colorado at Denver, as quoted from the Wall Street Journal, Wednesday (06.02.2010).

Some experts said these tests provide a better representative to measure hormone levels compared with blood tests. Because hormones into saliva through the blood vessels near the salivary glands.

Doctors usually treat hormone deficiency using low dose of hormones to prevent delinquency and improve symptoms.

A arrtikel Clinical Chemistry in 2008 concluded that the saliva test has proven to be reliable for some purposes such as diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome or disorder that is too high cortisol.

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10 Most Rare Diseases

Jakarta, severe diseases such as diabetes, cancer, stroke or heart already widely known. But actually there is another fee that is a rare disease. Any disease that?

As quoted from DiscoveryHealth, following 10 in the world's rarest diseases are most associated with the nerve:

1. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)

PML is a neurological disorder characterized by destruction of myelin, the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibers in the central nervous system and spinal cord.

The disease is caused by JC virus. This virus was found in 85 percent of the adult population in general, but the virus remains dormant for people to remain healthy and strong immune system. PML occurs in 1 in 200,000 people.

2. Neurologic Paraneoplastic Syndromes (PNS)

PNS are conditions that affect the nervous system, ie brain, spinal cord, nerves are also muscle. The term 'paraneoplastic' means nerve syndrome is not caused by the tumor itself, but by an autoimmune reaction that produces the tumor. In many patients, the immune response can cause damage to the nervous system that far exceeds the damage done to the tumor.

3. Dercum Disease

Dercum disease is a rare disorder, characterized by a growth of fat tissue (lipoma) is painful. This growth usually occurs on the hands, upper arms, legs above, also under the skin (subcutaneous).

Dercum disease often causes great pain. In some cases, affected individuals may also experience weight gain, depression, lethargy, and confusion. The exact cause of Dercum disease is not known.

4. Fahr disease

Fahr disease is a degenerative neurological disorder that rarely occurs. It is characterized by abnormal calcium deposits (calcification) and the related loss of cells in certain regions of the brain, such as the basal ganglia.

Fahr disease can cause damage to cognitive abilities (dementia), loss of motor skills, muscle stiffness, paralysis and even blindness.

5. Devic disease

Neuromyelitis Optica or Devic disease is a chronic disorder characterized by inflammation of nerve tissue in the optic nerve (optic neuritis) and inflammation of the spinal cord (myelitis). In the early stages, symptoms may be similar to Devic disease multiple sclerosis.

6. Tardive dyskinesia (TD)

TD is a neurological movement disorder caused by the spontaneous use of dopamine receptor drugs to treat mental conditions or specific digestion. Long-term use of these drugs may produce biochemical abnormalities in brain regions known as the striatum.

Dyskinesia dystonia is a more severe form of TD, which swirling motion over the neck and trunk muscles which stand out more slowly.

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