Sebuah studi selama 14 tahun oleh Penn State Hershey Sleep Research menunjukkan bahwa pria dengan pengidap insomnia atau susah tidur memiliki resiko tingkat kematian empat kali lebih tinggi dari pria dengan pola tidur normal (minimal 6 jam tidur malam).

Risiko kematian bahkan menjadi lebih tinggi hingga sampai tujuh kali untuk pria penderita insomnia dengan mengidap diabetes dan tekanan darah tinggi. Selama ini insomnia selalu dikaitkan dengan masalah psikologi tetapi dari penelitian itu menjadikan insomnia sebagai penyakit yang menggangu kesehatan fisik sama seperti penyakit apnea (gangguan pernafasan ketika tidur).

Penelitian itu dilakukan pada pria tetapai bagaimana dengan insomnia pada wanita? Para peneliti tersebut baru mulai mempelajari efek insomnia pada wanita selama lima tahun. Dan juga karena dari penelitian kesehatan sebelumnya bahwa wanita cenderung hidup lebih lama dibandingkan pria maka belum dapat diambil kesimpulan pengaruh insomnia pada wanita.

Air Susu Ibu (ASI) sendiri sepenuhnya dapat memenuhi kebutuhan gizi bayi untuk enam bulan pertama. Bayi tidak memerlukan makanan atau cairan lain selain ASI, bahkan tidak sekalipun air, selama enam bulan pertama mereka cukup hanya diberikan ASI. Sebab ASI sudah mengandung semua nutrisi dan kekebalan yang dibutuhkan tubuh sang bayi. Ini juga merupakan makanan yang paling mudah untuk dicerna bayi dan mendorong pertumbuhan yang paling baik dari makanan pengganti apapun.

Bagaimana seorang ibu mengetahui bahwa sang bayi mendapatkan ASI yang cukup dari dirinya. Salah satu cara mudah dapat dilihat dari adanya pertambahan berat badan pada sang bayi selama dia menyusui. Seorang bayi harus mendapatkan berat badan sekitar 140-245 gram per minggu dimulai setelah hari keempat sejak kelahirannya. Oleh karena itu sangat penting untuk selalu memantau tumbuh kembang dari sang bayi.

Cara lain untuk mengetahui apakah bayi kita sudah cukup ASI adalah dengan melihat siklus harian buang air kecil sang bayi. Pada hari kedua setelah kelahiran, bayi harus mulai untuk buang air kecil sekurang-kurangnya tiga kali sehari. Setelah ASI diberikan secara penuh biasanya pada hari keempat setelah kelahiran maka bayi harus minimal enam kali buang air kecil setiap hari.

Jika kita tersenyum pada bayi, ia mungkin akan tersenyum kembali pada kita atau jika kita cemberut padanya maka dia meresepon dengan menangis. Hal ini dikarenakan bayi terutama selama tiga bulan pertama sedang mengembakan kemampuan impressive-nya. Sehingga menjadi sangat penting bagi kita untuk juga belajar banyak tentang apa yang bayi kita rasakan dengan cara melihat dari wajahnya.

Bayi akan memiliki perasaan terhadap lingkungannya dimana dia menyukai atau sesuatu yang tidak dia sukai yang dapat membuatnya marah. Bayi juga akan memiliki pilihan untuk sangat suka pada orang atau hal-hal tertentu. Bayi mungkin sangat menyayangi satu mainan dibandingkan yang lain atau bahkan tidak mau untuk digantikan dengan mainan lain. Bayi memiliki orang favorit yang biasanya kedua orang tua nya.

Bayi mengerti di mana ia berakhir dan kapan kita yang memulai. Ia juga bahkan mungkin dapat mengenali namanya atau wajahnya sendiri di cermin. Dia mungkin takut jika kita meninggalkan ruangan karena merasa kita mungkin tidak akan kembali. Suatu pikiran mengerikan ya!

Bayi kita sibuk menyerap dunia. Sama seperti orang tua nya, ia juga menghargai sedikit waktu untuk bersantai dan dihibur.

It is normal to have concerns about breastfeeding. Your ability to produce milk is not related to the size or shape of your breasts, and women with flat or inverted nipples, or who’ve had some kinds of breast surgery, can also successfully breastfeed.

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding does not require any special preparations. Your breasts may be tender initially and increase in size as their milk-producing cells grow and multiply. The dark skin around your nipple (called the areola) will also get larger and darker as your pregnancy progresses; this is nature’s way of making your breasts easy to find for your baby. The small bumps on the areola (called Montgomery glands) also play a role in breastfeeding. They produce a substance that softens the skin, may slow the growth of bacteria, and produces a familiar scent that will guide your baby to your breast.

Women used to believe that they needed to prepare their nipples (with nipple rolling or rubbing with towels to “toughen them up”) for breastfeeding to reduce the likelihood of nipple soreness. But nipple soreness usually happens when the baby is not latched on correctly, so positioning your baby correctly on the areola, not the nipple, will help, although some adjustment soreness is to be expected.

Sup ayam umumnya sering dimanfaatkan sebagai obat untuk meredakan penyakit flu. Tapi saat ini dari beberapa penelitian telah menunjukkan bahwa sup ayam dapat juga untuk mengontrol tekanan darah pada penderita tekanan darah tinggi.

Sup Ayam

Sup Ayam

Seorang peneliti Jepang dari Nippon Meat Packers mengatakan bahwa dada ayam mengandung kolagen protien tertentu yang sangat mirip dengan ACE inhibitor. Zat Ini adalah bahan yang paling dikenal sebagai anti tekanan darah yang dipakai pada obat kimia untuk penderita darah tinggi saat ini.

Masih perlu ada banyak penelitian yang dilakukan untuk melihat efek jangka panjang dari protein tersebut agar lebih dapat memahami efeknya terhadap tekanan darah. Jika hasilnya positif, maka kita semua bisa yakin bahwa ada cara lezat mengontrol tekanan darah.

How can you pick good skin care if you don’t even know why you’re cleaning your skin? To start, your skin is the largest organ in your body. Yes, it’s an organ, just like your heart, lungs, or kidneys. The skin keeps us warm, protected, and holds all our many parts together. It’s also largely responsible for eliminating wastes and maintaining our constant body temperature.

The skin is built in layers, like a sandwich. If you were to take your skin and stretch it out, it would stretch about 18 square feet and weigh over 3 kilograms. That’s a lot of surface area! The layers that make up the skin are very important when discussing skin care. The first layer is the epidermis, a thin layer of tightly packed cells that are constantly being shed. Protecting the epidermis is a layer of sebaceous oil and perspiration called the acid mantle. The slight acidity of this coating protects the skin from bacteria.

Below the epidermis is the dermis, a middle layer that gives our skin strength and flexibility. Collagen and elastin fibers, two big players in aging skin, are located here and it’s predominately their fault when your skin starts to sag and wrinkle. The final layer of the skin is the subcutaneous layer. Mostly this is fatty tissue that gives our skin smoothness and contour.

The skin is our protection, but that doesn’t mean it’s bulletproof. In order to excrete wastes, the skin must be able to breathe. Oxygen passes into and out of the skin along with salts, sweat, and waste particles. This also means that chemicals applied to the surface of the skin. are just one step away from being in the body. This is why proper skin care and finding safe products is very important for not only your skin’s sake, but also your overall health.

It is important that toddlers see parents eating and enjoying healthy food – are you a good role model for your child? It is normal for young children to be wary about eating a food they have not met before and these are ways to help them.

• Offer the food in a happy environment. Children tend to like foods that they associate with fun. (This is why fast food outlets can become so popular.)

• Keep offering the food on several occasions. It can take 8 to 15 tries before the food becomes familiar and a child accepts it.

• Children are more likely to try a food when they see the rest of the family or other children enjoy it.

• Don’t insist that the food is eaten and don’t offer a reward for eating it. Both of these measures have been shown to make children dislike that food.

• Children are more likely to want a food if they are told they can’t have it or if it is used as a reward.

Children have the natural ability to know how much food they need and they do not usually overeat. However they can easily lose this skill. If children are pushed to eat more than they want or encouraged to finish everything on the plate, they may learn not to stop when they have had enough. This can lead to weight problems later.

Persons with a tendency to lose hair (baldness) should thus take a well balanced and correct diet, made up of foods which in combination should supply all the essential nutrients. 

Baldness

Baldness

It has been found that a diet which contains liberal quantities of
(i) seeds, nuts and grains
(ii) vegetables and
(iii) fruits
would provide adequate amounts of all the essential nutrients.

Each food group should roughly form the bulk of one of the three principal meals. These foods should, however, be supplemented with certain special foods such as milk, vegetable oils, honey, wheat germ, yeast and liver.

Gout was at one time considered the disease of the rich, when in the West only the rich ate meat. The gout patient should avoid all purine and uric acid producing foods such as all meats, eggs, and fish.

Gout

Gout

Glandular meats are especially harmful. The one who has gout should also avoid all intoxicating liquors, tea, coffee, sugar, white flour and its products and all canned and processed foods. Spices and salts should be used as little as possible

Hypoglycaemia is a condition of low blood sugars. Ironically, it is aggravated by consuming too much sugar. Hypoglycaemia is usually caused by an excessive intake of refined carbohydrates and sugar foods.

Low Blood Sugars

Low Blood Sugars

These substances cause the pancreas, the adrenal gland and the liver to lose their ability to handle the sugar properly. Other causes of low blood sugar are a tumour, disturbed functioning of the liver, pituitary gland or adrenal glands. Stress intensifies this condition as it weakens the adrenal glands and starts a faulty pattern of glucose intolerance.