Watch out, Sit Too Old Make You Fat

Want to be free of back pain and reduce the risk of heart disease? It's easy, do not sit too long. Hours and hours of sitting on the bench to actually like 'kill' you slowly.

Many studies have shown that sitting all day, can significantly damage the health. By forcing the body, which is designed to move, sit all day, can weaken the muscles. Including slow metabolism, increasing the risk of heart disease and even shorten your life.

"Sitting is very harmful for health as well as smoking," said Marc Hamilton, Ph.D., a microbiologist at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, as quoted from Health.com.

Sitting also make weight will continue to rise significantly. That's because, when you put your butt on a chair, your metabolism slows down immediately. The trigger is an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase, which is in the blood vessels in your muscles.

"Lipoprotein lipase capture and burn fat in the blood. When you are standing, postural muscles will support the weight, especially in the feet, releasing enzymes that work to burn fat. But when sitting still and not move every 30 to 90 seconds, the fat remains in the artery and so fat the body, "says Hamilton

Sitting all day to reduce the activity of lipoprotein about 90 to 95 percent. Another bad fact, there are some experts who argue that 60 to 90 minutes of exercise can not neutralize the effects of sitting all day.

In fact, Hamilton said, biochemical reactions in people who sit a long time is very slow compared to someone who a lot of physical activity. James Levine, MD, an obesity researcher at the Mayo Clinic, also reveals, the biggest difference between lean and obese people is not how much they eat or exercise. But, how long they sit.

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Caffeine is the Enemy Women's Fertility

Lifestyle affect fertility. For those of you who are longing for a baby, apply a healthy lifestyle through diet and regular exercise selection.

One thing you should do is to limit caffeine intake below 300 milligrams per day figure. This figure is equivalent to three cups of coffee or six cans of soft drinks. Remember, caffeine is not only contained in coffee, but also other foods such as chocolate, and soft drinks.

Caffeine is claimed can reduce the opportunity for pregnant women. Stimulant or excitatory effect on the caffeine causes changes in hormone levels which in turn can interfere with fertility. While consumption of alcohol can impair fertility by 50 percent.

Also avoid foods that are contaminated with pesticides so that the stability of the hormone is not interrupted. Also avoid eating foods that pass through the process repeated. Instead, eat natural and organic foods during their pregnancy program.

Currently undergoing pregnancy, keep awake weight proportional. Avoid crash diets that make the body weight decreased drastically because it can disrupt the menstrual cycle. Also avoid too much body fat. Limiting consumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates is also important you do.

Despite the bad effects on fertility, a number of studies in foreign countries proves caffeine increases fertility in men. One is the result of research from the Coffee Science Information Centre in Brazil.

Dr Euan Paul, spokesman for the institute, said, caffeine stimulates dopamine cells in the brain, thus helping people to concentrate. "There is the possibility of sperm also experienced a boost when a man receives the intake of caffeine," he said.

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Smokers' Women risk of premature menopause

Smokers' Women risk of premature menopause, at least one year earlier than female nonsmokers. Women smokers in the general menopause age range 43-50 years. While non-smokers tend to menopausal women in the 46-51 year age range.

The conclusion obtained from analysis of a number of previous studies involving tens of thousands of women, including the results of a survey of 6,000 women in the United States, Poland, and Turkey.

The study, published in the journal Menopause did not stop the threat of premature menopause. Therefore, early menopause associated with high risk of developing health problems like osteoporosis and heart problems.

Jennie Kline of the Mailman School of Public Health Colombia University, New York, said that smoking is likely to affect a woman's body in controlling the production of estrogen. Cigarettes also contain toxins that can damage the eggs in the ovaries. "This may be the influence of menopause," he said.

Menopause Prediction

The research team from St Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh developed a hormone test that can help women predict the timing of menopause. Tests done by looking at chemistry changes as women of reproductive age. This chemical change would be an indicator to show the number of remaining eggs in the ovaries.

With these tests, women can compare hormone levels with an average hormone levels of women her age. Not only can predict the timing of menopause, this test can detect a tendency of early menopause. Thus, women are more easy to calculate the best time to have children.

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Excessive at watching TV can trigger diabetes

How many hours a day do you spend in front of televisions and computers without moving? Be careful, watch television more than the recommended time, ie for two hours every day are hazardous to health in the long run.

Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) revealed excessive television viewing associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and premature death.

"The message is simple. Limiting television time can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and premature death significantly," said senior author Frank Hu, associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at HSPH.

He continued, "We should not only increase physical activity, but also reduce passive behaviors, especially prolonged television watching," he added as quoted by the Times of India.

During Hu's study and a study author Anders Grontved, conducted a meta-analysis, namely the systematic assessment of all studies published 1970-2011 that links to watch TV with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and premature death.

Eight large prospective study from the United States, Europe, and Australia are also included in the meta-analysis. The results showed that more than two hours watching television per day increased the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. While watching television more than three hours a day increases the risk of premature death.

"Passive lifestyle such as excessive television viewing clearly an important risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease," added Grontved.

This study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Multivitamins Can Increase The Risk of Death

multivitamin supplements are often used to support daily nutritional needs. However, an article in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, the latest report, consumption of multivitamins and mineral supplements is associated with increased mortality.

The study gathered data from studies on the health of 38,772 women with an average age of 61.6 years in the United States. Researchers examined the use of supplements in 1986, 1997 and 2004. They also found a number of women who mengasup supplement increased by more than 22 percent between 1986 and 2004.

The result, use of multivitamins such as vitamin B6, folic acid, iron, magnesium, zinc and copper, associated with an increased risk of death in the population. And, the consumption of iron and copper minerals are the worst cause.

"The women in the study, including outside the normal (anomalous) because they eat fruits and vegetables two times more than the national average," said Michael Roizen, MD of YouDoc.

"Multivitamins help the diet is inadequate, but the high mortality rate in the population can not be accurately tested against those who diet twice the national average."

This study, according to experts is the 'study of' who still need a few key studies. Chances are, women with higher mortality increased intake of multivitamins because they feel ill and tried to reverse the disease.

Roizen also explained that the study did not include a supplement that increases the life expectancy such as fish oil supplements (DHA).

"They did not study the intake of DHA or fish oil supplements, which have been shown to protect from degeneration. It has proven useful in randomized trials as a supplement for women over 50. In other words, it could be a supplement does not cause high mortality," says Roizen like quoted from Shine.

Supplements of iron and copper, according to the study, leading to greater mortality risk of 5 percent, but is still considered to be smaller. "Iron supplements pose a risk and it is recommended only for ages 50 and over and the only prescription. Avoid iron supplements and copper but the doctor ordered," he said.

He suggested, in order mengasup natural foods to obtain the benefits of using a variety of nutrients than a multivitamin.

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Four Mysterious Disease in Women

When a female tennis atlet Venus Williams must withdraw from the tournament in late August due to Sjogren's syndrome, many of which later wondered. Whether the disease is and how to fix this?

This disease is an autoimmune condition that commonly affects women over 40 years. There are also some other mysterious disease that affects more women. Want to know? Here it is four of them, as quoted from the Third Age.

Sjogren's Syndrome

Typical symptoms of pain, fatigue, dry eyes and mouth due to the production of tears and saliva decreases. Other symptoms include joint pain, swelling, and stiffness, skin rash and dry skin, vaginal dryness, and dry cough.

This syndrome is a chronic autoimmune disease where white blood cells attack the moisture producing glands. Approximately four million Americans - mostly women suffering from this disease. There is no medication to cope with Sjogren's syndrome, but a healthy lifestyle and medical treatment can reduce symptoms.

To stay hydrated, it is advisable to drink plenty of water throughout the day. And when needed minor surgery to correct eye glands.

Morgellons Syndrome

Morgellons syndrome sufferers experience symptoms of swollen, red and blue stripes appear on the skin when the skin is scratched, bitten or injured. Disease 'bugs' that affects approximately 14,000 people found a French physician in the 17th century. And, the name Morgellons, the latest name of the disease showed delusional parasitosis that may conceal the existence of other disorders.

To relieve itching and pain, patients are advised to use topical creams and analgesics. Until now, the U.S. disease control center has not found the cause of this disease.

Foreign Accent Syndrome

People with a foreign accent syndrome suddenly conversing with a completely different accent than before. In 2002, researchers at Oxford University found that patients have brain abnormalities that cause changes in voice, pronunciation and other changes.

According to the Journal of Neurolinguistics, patients often have never heard the accent they adopt. The first confirmed case was a Norwegian woman who woke up with a German accent in 1941. Because of that, he was exiled. In July 2011, an Oregon woman, Karen Butler, 58, woke up with a British accent after minor surgery in the mouth. Doctors believe he suffered a mild brain injury or a minor stroke that caused the condition.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome

The name of the disease is taken from a movie starring Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." People who suffer from this disease to see objects that are much smaller or larger than actual size.

The medical term for these symptoms and macrophasia microphasia. Migraine headaches are accompanied by visual perception often suspected as the cause. As a result of this illness, the senses of hearing, touch, and body image can also be affected.

This syndrome is usually a symptom of brain tumors, mononucleosis, or due to drug use.

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