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1. Introduce regular exercise into your life. While most people lead quite busy lives, the benefits of exercise usually present themselves in all areas of your life. Gradually introducing exercise will lead to longer patterns of fitness rather than adopting a harsh workout regime each New Year’s. A simple way to start is walking. Studies have shown that walking 2 miles-a-day cuts the risk of death almost in half and significant increases chances to live a long life. 30 minutes a day also works because it reduces as much risk of a heart attack as a highly intense exercise.

2. Keep a tab our diet. Eat foods which is balanced in carbohydrates (55%), proteins (25-30%) and fats (15-20%). Drink water to flush out toxins. To live a healthy life, moderation in food, drink and even medicine is needed. Eating fish such as salmon which is rich in omega 3, two times a week can reduce your chance of contracting coronary heart disease by up to 30 percent making your life more healthy and long. Green tea and dark chocolate rich in antioxidants has many health benefits, including reportedly reducing the chance of heart attack and cancer thus helping to live long. Red wine contains substances called polyphenols which maintain the elasticity of the artery walls and also act as antioxidants – thus helping maintain a healthy heart.

3. Reduction in stress is very important to live a long healthy life. Some of the ways for stress reduction is as follows:

o Have close relationships. People who are able to confide in close friends or life partners have been shown to live longer and healthier lives.

o Learn to cope with stress by trying different relaxation techniques like yoga pranayam or simply by looking at things differently. Take deep breaths during your most stressful moments.

o Try not to be afraid. Seriously, the worst stress comes from the inside. If you are in constant fear of anything or everything (phobias) you become as fragile as an ant, asking for life to step on you. Be as passive and easy going as you can. Fear is a tool, and it has a purpose, but it is most often bad for your well-being. Do not be afraid, be aware. This kind of attitude is essential to maintain mental health and is crucial to live a long healthy life.

o Laugh and Hug! If you laugh or hug every day in an average life span, you live seven more years! Laugh your way to a long healthy life.

4. Avoid Carcinogens Avoid use of cancer causing substances like present in cigarettes and some food stuffs like grilled or barbecued meats in order to live a healthy life. Harmful radiation from sun can be cancerous so apply sunblock and not to spend too much time in harsh, direct sunlight.

5. Develop a sleep schedule. It is not as important to get a certain number of hours of sleep; so much as it is to get the same amount of sleep, at the same time, day in and day out. Sleep gives your body a chance to heal and regenerate; having a stable sleeping routine will help your body take care of itself more easily and so is critically important if you plan to live a long healthy life.

6. Always keep your awareness levels high in order to protect your body for living a long life. by the following ways:

o Think first. This step includes looking both ways before you cross the street, as children are taught but many adults take it for granted, and wear protective gear when necessary. Whether you are riding a bike or skateboard, working on a construction site, or handling potentially harmful substances, be careful.

o Be safe. Avoid potentially dangerous activities that frequently or occasionally end in death or dismemberment, such as bullfighting, or relationships with dangerous people.

o Attend yearly physicals. Identifying potentially deadly health problems early can result in their eradication to live a healthy long life.

7. Educate yourself. One of the most consistent markers of longevity across the world, in all economic conditions is higher education. If you stay in school and get a degree, it seems to increase your chances of living longer more than almost anything else, apart from taking physical care of yourself with regular exercise, eating healthy and not smoking.

WISH YOU A HEALTHY LONG LIFE !!!

Medical scientists continue to research in order to establish the ultimate cure for high blood pressure. Because the disease is potentially life- threatening, it is recommended that you get your blood pressure checked regularly. If hypertension, also referred to as the ‘silent killer,’ is left untreated, it will increase the risk for heart disease, kidney disease and stroke. An astonishing one 1 of 3 Americans suffer with high blood pressure.

Although no specific cure for high blood pressure has been discovered, the medical care providers recommend ways to prevent and control the disease. Research indicates that these prevention methods have been successful in that they have alleviated the onset of or controlled the progression of high blood pressure in patients allowing them to live healthier lives. Ironically, the factors that contribute to high blood pressure are often evident which suggest that the patient has the ability to reverse the effects that it can have on the body.

The most effective way to prevent and control high blood pressure is to adopt healthy lifestyle habits. Any one person who suffers with high blood pressure or is at high risk of developing it can benefit from living a healthier life. More so, high blood pressure-lowering methods decreases the risk of additional complications. By incorporating this list of healthy habits into your daily routine, it will help keep your blood pressure levels in control.

Adopting a healthy eating plan: Consider implementing the DASH Diet Action Plan which lowers cholesterol, improves glucose control and overall health.

Lose weight if you are overweight or obese: Eat less food that is high in calories and fatty acids. Reduce sodium (salt) in your diet. Concentrate on eating foods that are natural such as fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Increase water intake.

Implement daily physical activity and exercise: The American Heart Association suggests aerobic exercise.

Limit Alcohol consumption

Quit smoking

Lifestyle changes are extremely important and effective for the overall health. However, this is not sufficient for certain groups of people. In some cases, genetic predisposition calls for other precautions.

Finding a cure for high blood pressure in regards to this group of patients may prove more stringent. In addition to the lifestyle modifications; that has actually proven to significantly lower blood pressure, some patients may also require treatment such as hypertensive medications. Medication has not proven to cure the disease, yet it has certainly been effective.

Let’s start with the less obvious phenomenon of BDSM which involves a range of physical activities sometimes involving the infliction and acceptance of pain. This all spills over from the notions of dominance and submissiveness in sex, but it’s not as uncommon as you might imagine. About 10% of the population engage in BDSM fantasies. Then, depending on sexual preferences, a significant number move on to practical experimentation using masks, blindfolds, handcuffs, and so on. The most common use of pain is through spanking. Even though the mainstream might not understand how voluntarily experiencing pain can be considered sexually stimulating, the reality is that there’s a small but active community that finds it so.

At the other end of the spectrum are people who flinch even at the thought of pain. As a nation, we take more painkillers than any other group of people. This has nothing to do with the US having one of the largest populations in the world. It reflects a culture that largely rejects the idea of pain and wants a quick fix if even the slightest discomfort comes its way. The result is the consumption of vast amounts of painkillers starting with the over-the-counter medications and working up to the heavy-duty opiates. Given this, it might not surprise you to learn that more people die from the abuse of prescription painkillers than from heart attacks. It’s a depressing thought that one of the most common causes of death in our country is avoidable if only people would treat drugs with more respect.

This national obsession with medication is a result of direct marketing by the pharmaceutical industry. In other countries, Big Pharma is only allowed to sell to the healthcare services industry. So, although there are inevitably stories in the newspapers and magazines about new developments, the general public’s awareness is not constantly reinforced by ads. More importantly, government regulators limit the choice of drugs that doctors can prescribe. There’s a value-for-money test. If there’s no evidence of significant improvements from using a particular drug, the doctors cannot prescribe it through the public system. Desperate patients must rely on private health insurance or pay out of their own pockets for these drugs. The results are easy to see in the pharmaceutical industries’ profits from foreign countries. Where there’s effective regulation, profits are down. Our market is the most profitable in the world.

Now we’re not saying we’ve all been brainwashed into thinking we must take a pill every single time we feel anything remotely like pain. But other nationalities cope with pain and get on with their lives. Whether you’re prepared to accept some degree of pain in your life is all down to your social conditioning. We’ve been persuaded the quick pill is the best answer. This is reasonable for the over-the-counter drugs. Even Tramadol is fairly safe when taken over relatively short periods of time. But if you get into a routine of taking any one drug, you will build up tolerance. Even Tramadol will stop working after a while unless you increase the dosage. This is the danger point. If you give in and increase the dose or move up to an opiate, you’re on track for abusing the drugs and possible addiction.

Obesity, A Disease By Itself

What is obesity?

Obesity is one of the major problems in the industrialized world. It is affecting all age groups and is responsible for many diseases and disorders like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis etc. Obesity is characterized by excess weight (fat) accumulated on the body.

How much is judged as excess weight?

A person whose body mass index (BMI) is more than 30 is considered obese. Your body mass index is defined as your body weight divided by the square of your height. Body mass index may be calculated using the formula given on the website mentioned at the end of this article.

What causes obesity?

Your weight is determined by the balance between calorie intake and calorie expenditure. People gain weight if they consume more calories than they burn, the excess calories are stored by the body as fat. You can lose weight if you consumes less calories than you burn, Therefore the most common causes of obesity are overeating and physical inactivity.

It is not as simple as it looks

Weight gain or loss is not that simple! As we try to study why we become obese, the matter tends to become more and more complex. If it were that simple, we would not have spent billions of dollars on research for understanding and controlling obesity! There are many factors that contribute to a person’s weight gain (or loss). Genetics or heredity plays a very important role

Genetics.

If one or both parents are obese, the child is more likely to BE obese. Hormones involved in fat regulation are also affected by genetics. Deficiency of the hormone leptin, for example, is one of the causes of obesity. Placenta and the adipocytes (fat cells) produce the hormone leptin. When the body stores too much fat in the fat cells, they secrete leptin in the circulation, which gives a signal to the brain to eat less thereby controlling weight gain or obesity. If there is a defect in this leptin signalling pathway, that is if either enough leptin is not produced or leptin is ineffective in signalling the brain to eat less obesity develops. Leptin replacement therapy could potentially be one future possibility to treat obesity.

Overeating. Overeating is one of the major causes of weight gain. If the diet is high in fat or simple sugars, the effect of weight gain is multiplied. The reason for this is simply the high energy density (more calories packed in a small volume of a serving) of the high fat high sugar diet. Weight gain due to consumption of high fat high sugar diet has been validated by several epidemiological studies.

A diet high in simple sugars. Simple sugars increase blood glucose levels, which in turn stimulate the pancreas to secrete insulin, and insulin promotes deposition of fat in fat cells thereby causing weight gain. (actually fat gain!) Some scientists believe that simple sugars (eatables made by adding table sugar, glucose, fructose, desserts, soft drinks, beer, liquor etc.) are rapidly absorbed into the blood stream (see glycemic index) than complex carbohydrates like bread, brown rice, grains, vegetables, raw fruits, etc. More sugar in blood has to be rapidly cleared by our body system to avoid hyperglycemia. This is done by insulin. Therefore, more simple sugars in diet » rapid rise in blood glucose » more insulin secretion » more deposition of glucose as fat in fat cells » weight gain.

Frequency of eating. Eating more frequently can help you lose fat!

We saw above that the diet high in simple sugars raises the rate of glucose pouring into the blood circulation. A diet large in serving size also has the same effect: fast rise in blood sugar requires fast rise in insulin levels causing conversion of excess blood sugar into fat and ultimately deposit in the fat cells. Instead, if the serving size is smaller, and the eating frequency higher, the overall effect is some reduction in total calories consumed per day without feeling hungry. This is validated in several studies. People eating small portions more frequently have stable blood sugar levels (and in turn stable insulin levels) and also they have lower blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels. For more about obesity and disease prevention visit Body Mass Index

In the last century (eleven years is such a long time), the only way of getting out news about a product or service was to send out a press release. If the media outlets considered the release newsworthy, they would publish some or all of what was said. This was a very uncertain process and people with the right contacts to get press releases published were able to command quite high fees. Today, we see the results of an information revolution. The majority of people now walk about carrying hand-held devices that connect either to a telephone network or the internet or both. This means it’s possible to connect directly with people who may have an interest in the particular piece of news.

You ask how a stranger would know your interests. If you use Google or any of the major social networking sites, your interests are carefully analyzed and the information sold on to marketers. No matter what your choices about privacy on your profile, these sites make money by enabling marketers to target you. This means the ads you see are adjusted to fit your interests and, increasingly, the SMS and other electronic messages you receive will be aiming to sell you something. In this high-pressure world, Bayer has recently been named and shamed for breaking the European rules on using the social media to promote its drugs. The regulations forbid any use of electronic messaging to sell medication to members of the public. The only messages allowed are to medical professionals. Unfortunately, the German manufacturer sent out two sets of messages on Twitter. The first was promoting a drug to treat multiple sclerosis. The second to alert people to a new version of its erectile dysfunction drug.

When challenged by the regulator, Bayer denied it was promoting the drugs. It claimed the messages were informational. Quite what the difference might be is not clear. Facts can both inform and promote. Anyway, the regulator was unimpressed and publicly shamed Bayer for breaking the rule. Perhaps this is an example of all publicity being good publicity. No matter what the reason, there’s been a lot of publicity about both branded drugs.

The rules in the US are slightly different but using Twitter is unlikely to be any more successful. The FDA requires all promotional information about a drug to list the adverse side effects. This would exceed the number of characters allowed in a tweet. For all the major manufacturers, the big decision is going to be what to do about the rule changes introduced by Facebook. Before the change, drug manufacturers could put up a page but not open it for comments. Now these pages must have open comments. The danger for companies is that unhappy people may post comments warning others of bad experiences. Reputation management becomes more challenging.

Interestingly, Bayer has opened its page on Levitra. So not only has the company managed to tell everyone there’s a melt-in-the-mouth version, but it also plays fair on Facebook. This shows a mature outlook on the use of electronic media for promoting their drugs. In the case of Levitra, the profile of the brand has been lower than for the competing brands. It’s going to be interesting to see which manufacturer comes out ahead in this latest race.

There’s no surprise about the fact that drivers with no speeding tickets on their driving records tend to get the most competitive insurance rates from their insurers. Yet, if a driver is unlucky to get a speeding ticket entry to his driving record things change for the worse, as insurance premiums go up by hundreds of dollars and may stay that way for several years depending on the state legislation concerning driving records.

If it’s the first speeding ticket

Getting your first speeding ticket doesn’t cause the rates to go up automatically. It really depends on the provider and your previous driving experience. If you’ve stayed with the same provider for a long time and had no claims filed then it’s likely that the ticket will be forgiven and your rates will stay the same. However, if you’re a new customer and are rather young you are very likely to get your premiums raised right after the first ticket. An insurance industry study suggests that even having one speeding ticket raises the risk of a driver to file a claim by 50%. So if you’re already a high risk driver than get ready to pay more right after your first ticket.

Speeding tickets are not all the same

Any insurance company will first look at the type of ticket you have received before making the decision on your rates. If it’s a mild violation then there’s a chance for keeping your rates low. Yet, if it’s a severe violation then there’s virtually no way you can prevent premiums form going up. A severe violation is classified by state laws, yet generally it’s viewed as speeding in school and construction zones and exceeding the posted speed limit by more than 15 mph. Depending on how much you have exceeded the speed limit your rates will be set accordingly. And the bad news is that not only car insurance quotes will be affected by reckless driving. Your health and life insurance rates may also go up once you get a speeding ticket because you will automatically be included into the high risk group.

What can be done about it?

There’s a perfectly legal way to keep your driving record clean from a speeding ticket. Most states offer traffic school safety courses as means of dismissing the ticket. You will still be required to pay the fine, however. And it’s best tine soon after you’ve received the ticket in order to prevent the car insurance quotes from going sky high. You can also fight the ticket in court if you feel that it was issued by mistake, however it’s impossible to forecast the outcome and you will face additional court fees just for filing the case.

Shop around to get better rates

If you’ve received a ticket and feel that your current provider has set the rates too high you should consider switching companies. There are plenty of insurers out there to get car insurance quotes from and they will compete for every customer, even with a bad driving record. So make sure to shop around in order to get the best rates possible.