REDUCE SALT INTAKES

Use Less Salt in Your Diet

Sodium can contribute to high blood pressure, which raises your risk for heart attack and stroke.

These suggestions for a lower-sodium diet:-

• Choose fresh, lean meats, poultry, and fish instead of processed versions.
• Skip the salt and use fresh herbs, spices, and low- or no-salt seasonings.
• Stick to fresh or frozen vegetables instead of canned. If you do choose canned, look for “no salt added” versions, or rinse vegetables before use.
• Don’t add salt to the water when cooking rice or pasta. Also, avoid instant versions of these foods.
• Stay away from pre-packaged foods that are often high in sodium, such as frozen meals, pizzas, canned soups and foods, and packed food mixes.
  

HUMAN BODY

Amazing facts about Human body

The Skeletal System

The largest bone is the pelvis, or hip bone. In fact it is made of six bones joined firmly together.

The longest bone is the ‘femur’, in the thigh. It makes up almost one quarter of the body’s total height.The smallest bone is the ’stirrup’, deep in the ear. It is hardly larger than a grain of rice.The ears and end of the nose do not have bones inside them. Their inner supports are cartilage or ‘gristle’, which is lighter and more flexible than bone. This is why the nose and ears can be bent.After death, cartilage rots faster than bone. This is why the skulls of skeletons have no nose or ears.

The Muscular System

There are about 60 muscles in the face. Smiling is easier than frowning. It takes 20 muscles to smile and over 40 to frown.The longest muscle in the body is the sartorius, from the outside of the hip, down and across to the inside of the knee. It rotates the thigh outwards and bends the knee.The smallest muscle in the body is the stapedius, deep in the ear. It is only 5mm long and thinner than cotton thread. It is involved in hearing.

The biggest muscle in the body is the gluteus maximus, in the buttock. It pulls the leg backwards powerfully for walking, running and climbing steps.

The Circulatory System.

The heart beats around 3 billion times in the average person’s life.About 2 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.Within a tiny droplet of blood, there are some 5 million red blood cells, 300,000 platelets and 10,000 white cells.It takes about 1 minute for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.Red blood cells make approximately 250,000 round trips of the body before returning to the bone marrow, where they were born, to die.Red blood cells may live for about 4 months circulating throughout the body, feeding the 60 trillion other body cells.The brain looks like a giant, wrinkled walnut.Unlike other body cells, brain cells can not regenerate. Once brain cells are damaged they are not replaced.The brain and spinal cord are surrounded and protected by cerebrospinal fluid.

The Immune System

The skin secretes antibacterial substances. These substances explain why you don’t wake up in the morning with a layer of mold growing on your skin - most bacteria and spores that land on the skin die quickly.Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the cell wall of many bacteria.Lymph nodes contain filtering tissue and a large number of lymph cells. When fighting certain bacterial infections, the lymph nodes swell with bacteria and the cells fighting the bacteria, to the point where you can actually feel them. Swollen lymph nodes may therefore be a good indication that you have an infection of some sort.

The Digestive System

Adults eat about 1,100 pounds of food per year.About 3 pints of saliva are produced each day.The esophagus is approximately 10 inches long.Muscles contract in waves to move the food down the esophagus. This means that food would get to a person’s stomach, even if they were standing on their head.An adult’s stomach can hold approximately 3 pints of material.Every day 3 gallons of digested food, liquids and digestive juices flow through the digestive system, but only about 3 ounces of fluid are lost in feces.In the mouth, food is either cooled or warmed to a more suitable temperature.We get two sets of teeth. Our 20 ‘Baby Teeth’ are replaced starting at around 6-7 years of age with our 32 ‘Adult Teeth’.

The Respiratory System

At rest, the adult body takes in and breathes out about 1.6 gallons of air each minute.The right lung is slightly larger than the left.Hairs in the nose help to clean the air we breathe as well as warming it.The highest recorded “sneeze speed” is 102 miles per hour.The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.The capillaries in the lungs would extend 1,000 miles if placed end to end.We lose half a more than two cups of water a day through breathing. This is the water vapor we see when we breathe onto glass.A person at rest usually breathes between 12 and 15 times a minute.The breathing rate is faster in children and women than in men

SURPRISE HEADACHES - AVOID IT!!

Avoid surprise headaches

A fast, inexpensive test that can help avoid ‘out of the blue’ headaches followed by consumption of certain red wines, cheese, chocolate, and other aged or fermented foods has been developed. The study led by Richard A. Mathies, a chemist with UCLA, Berkeley, reported the development of a home use test, which could prove beneficial for millions of people.

The test is designed to detect the presence of biogenic amines or naturally occurring toxins that can trigger a wide range of symptoms in sensitive individuals, starting from nasty headaches to life-threatening episodes of high-blood pressure. Biogenic amines include tyramine, histamine, and phenylethylamine, which are known to cause nausea, headaches, and respiratory disorders. The researchers state that the new test can produce results within five minutes.

“These toxins can be serious health problem and are more common than people think. They are hidden in a wide variety of foods. Having a quick, convenient way to identify them will help consumers avoid them or at least limit their intake”, Mathies said.

In the study, the researchers used a prototype device to analyze tyramine and histamine concentrations in a variety of wines (both red and white), beer and sake. After reviewing, they found that the device accurately measured the biogenic amines present in the beverages in less than five minutes. The researchers noted that red wine had the highest levels of tyramine and the highest levels of histidine were found in sake. However, the beer tested contained small amounts of biogenic amines.

“Some foods have more biogenic amines than others, but you can’t tell because they aren’t listed on the food labels. I think that certain foods, especially wines, should indicate their biogenic amine content,” Mathies said.

The study appeared in the journal of ACS’ Analytical Chemistry.

INDIGESTION

Indigestion

Simple constipation generally occurs due to inactivity, improper diet or by disregarding the calls of nature. Hence for proper treatment one must know the cause.

Proper dietetic treatment is generally preferable to medical management. A diet containing salads, green vegetables and fresh fruits helps to relieve constipation.also add lot of rich fibre contented vegetables in your food. However, sometimes’ laxatives are required. Prudently prescribed, laxatives provide a stimulus for the intestines and may start a regular bowel movement. Most laxatives are harmless provided they are taken in adequate dosage and withdrawn after sometime.

For indigestion take a drink made of a spoonful of ginger juice, a teaspoon of lemon juice mixed with a bottle of soda. Salt or sugar can also be added. Take a pinch of pure wood ash daily in the morning and drink a glass of water; this will keep your bowels clean and blood pure, and will ward off skin ailments.

Put 2 or 3 tender leaves of “tulasi” in a glass of water over-night and diink this water early in the morning. This will clean your bowels and purify your blood. If you have lost your appetite and cannot stomach your breakfast in the mornings, take the juice of a whole lemon in hot water every morning, and you will be surprised to see how it gets you going again and opens out your appetite, like an aperient. . Here is an excellent cream of garlic soup, which does wonders for weak digestion.

Cook 4no's cut-up cloves of garlic in a cup of milk, add salt and pepper, strain, dot with cream. Besides righting the digestion it will induce deep, sound sleep. Take a few tender green leaves of neem ground into paste, form them into tiny balls and dry them for storage. Taken first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, they cure billiousness, improve the condition of the blood and increase one’s appetite. This will also prevent and control diabetes.

Tension, worry and anxiety affect the secretion, mobility and blood supply of the stomach adversely leading to indigestion and pain. If the emotional experience is prolonged, the result may be actual ulceration ultimately. When the causes of such negative emotions are removed sufficiently early, normal functioning of the stomach is restored. Feelings of well-being, joy and happiness are essential for the normal digestive processes to go on. Don’t allow your emotions to affect your digestion adversely and thereby your total health.

Treatment for indigestion:-

• Eat a little “ajwain”. or, heat a glass of buttermilk and water with a little jeera (cummin- seed), curry leaf and bruised dry or fresh ginger. This will make a refreshing drink at night.
• The best use of “amia” (Nelli/amla) is a digestive tonic. It has been found that use of “amia” in the diet for a sufficiently long period regulates and tones up the digestive system and cures nearly all the ailments of the alimentary canal unless they have reached the chronic stage.
• By using a small piece of ginger in your daily food in any form you can be free from indigestion and other stomach troubles.
• Ginger is like a digestive tonic.
• Those suffering from high blood pressure and digestive disorders can find immense relief by taking garlic either raw or cooked.
• The best way, however, of taking it is to eat three or four cloves of raw garlic early in the morning and again at tea time.
• Regular use of garlic will, besides lowering the blood pressure, create a feeling of general well-being and physical fitness together with mental alertness and stamina.
• Ginger pieces mixed with a little salt, taken along with principal meals go a long way in increasing digestion and appetite. Ginger mixed with a little lemon-juice, if taken regularly removes allergy, cures nausea, vomitting sensation and other gastric troubles and disorders including constipation.

FINGER NAILS CAN GIVE THE CLUES OF YOUR HEALTH

Your fingernails can provide clues to your overall health. You can identify almost 7 Signs of Possible Health Problems through your fingernails signs. But do you know how to read the signs?

Learn about some nail conditions that might require medical attention. If you have a nail problem that doesn't seem to be going away, or is associated with other signs and symptoms, make an appointment with your doctor to get it checked out.

Yellow Nail Syndrome

Yellow discoloration in your fingernails may result from a respiratory condition, such as chronic bronchitis, or from swelling of your hands (lymphedema). In yellow nail syndrome, nails thicken and new growth slows, resulting in discoloration. Nails affected with this condition may lack a cuticle and may detach from the nail bed in places.Although this condition is often a sign of respiratory disease, it's possible to have yellow nails and not have a respiratory condition. Yellow nails may also result from any condition that causes the growth of your nails to slow.

Nail Pitting

Small depressions in the nails are common in people with psoriasis — a skin condition that produces scaly patches. They may also result from nail injuries. Pitting may cause your nails to crumble.Pitting is also associated with conditions that can damage your nail's cuticle, such as chronic dermatitis of your fingers or alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss.

Nail Clubbing

Clubbing occurs when the tips of your fingers enlarge and your nails curve around your fingertips. This condition results from low oxygen levels in your blood and could be a sign of lung disease. Clubbing is also associated with inflammatory bowel disease and liver disease.

Spoon Nails

Spoon nails (koilonychia) are soft nails that look scooped out. The depression usually is large enough to hold a drop of liquid. Spoon nails may be a sign of iron deficiency anemia.

Terry's Nails

With the condition known as Terry's nails, your nails look opaque, but the tip has a dark band. Sometimes this can be attributed to aging. In other cases, it can be a sign of serious illness, such as:

1. Congestive heart failure

2. Diabetes

3. Liver disease

4. Malenutrition

Beau's Lines

Beau's lines are indentations that run across your nails. They can appear when growth at the area under your cuticle is interrupted by injury or severe illness. Diseases or illnesses associated with Beau's lines include:1. Uncontrolled diabetes2. Circulatory diseases, such as peripheral artery disease3. Illness associated with a high fever, caused by pneumonia, scarlet fever, mumps or measles4. Malnutrition

Nail separates from nail bed

With a condition known as onycholysis, your fingernails become loose and can separate from the nail bed. If your nails show signs of detaching, this may be associated with:

1. Injury or infection

2. Thyroid disease

3. Drug reactions

4. Reactions to nail hardeners or acrylic nails
5. Psoriasis

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LITTLE FINGER SHOWS YOUR CHARACTER

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12 FINGERS

Baby Born With 12 Developed Fingers, Toes

A Daly City couple is beaming after becoming the proud parents
of a healthy but incredibly rare baby boy this month. Baby Kamani Hubbard has six-fully formed and
functional fingers and toes on his hands and feet.
It's called "polydactyly" -- extra digits -- not an uncommon genetic trait,
but Bay Area doctors say they've never seen a case so remarkable. Born at San Francisco's Saint Luke's
Hospital three weeks ago, Hubbarb seemed so perfect at birth no one noticed.
"Nurses and doctors, looked so normal they couldn't tell, they told me he was six pounds in good health,
that was all they said," said Miryoki Gross, Hubbard’s mother.
But his dad Kris Hubbard noticed this spectacularly rare case of polydactyly: 6-perfect fingers
on each hand and six perfect toes on each foot, which went well beyond a general trait that runs in his family

"Some family member have had six fingers, not completely developed. But not the toes," said the 34-year-old
Hubbard, a postal worker.. In fact Hubbard himself had nubs of sixth fingers removed as a child as
these non-functional digits routinely are. But baby Hubbard's case is so astonishingly rare according to doctors,
and because the extra digits are functional, it's not a deformity to be discarded.
"It's merely an interesting and beautiful variation rather than a worrisome thing," said Dr. Michael Treece and
St. Luke's Hospital Pediatrician. "I would be tempted to leave those fingers in place.

I realize children would tease each other over the slightest things, and having extra digits on each hand is more
than slight. But imagine what sort of a pianist a 12-fingered person would be.
Imagine what sort of a flamenco guitarist. If nothing else, think of their typing skills."
Kamani's mother says she hasn't had time to absorb this; her baby's specialness didn't even show up on
prenatal ultrasounds.

"I heard nothing before I gave birth so I'm still in shock, kinda," said Gross.
"I just want him to see what greatness will be in store for him," said the baby's proud father.
The Florida Marlins' pitcher Antonio Alfonseca, blues guitarist Hound Dog Taylor and several
remarkable figures in history have had polydactyly.
This little guy may, at the very least, help others grasp the importance of embracing difference.

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