Fighting the fat,How and when to eat

The most concerning phenomenon making the health professionals think is obesity. It is not only harmful but also responsible in bringing other dangerous diseases like diabetes and blood pressure with it. Changing the habit some-how contribute to lessen the fat. The most important among those habits is "eating". Below are some tips as recommended by the doctors.

start early:Eating breakfast is key according to the researchers.It makes you better able to manage food during the rest of the day.It also matters what you eat.

Eat more often:According to the experts you should never feel starved. One should take small amount of healthy foods in less intervals.

Find your favourites:We should choose some healthy food that we enjoy and should stick with them.We should have high fibre cereal for breakfast. Some light food for lunch. Mind it that you eat because you are hungry-- not because you want to taste new tastes.

Watch the weekends:Researchers say that adults aged 19 to 50 eat an extra 115 calories per
weekend days like Friday,Saturday and Sunday. We should be careful about that.

Natural protein heals the heart cell damage

Scientists have found out that natural protein can heal the tissues that are damaged in a heart attack. It was previously believed that Nerve growth factor{NGF} was previously was acting on nerve cells but later it was found out that it acts on muscle cell of heart.

A Bristol Heart Institute team tested NGF in rats and this had promising results, Cell Death and Differentiation journal reports.
They are hopeful that this result will be successful in case of human. Heart attacks happen when one of the coronary arteries carrying oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle is blocked. If the blood supply is cut off, a part of the heart muscle dies. And this can lead to complications such as heart failure.
The new study in rats has put light on new way of tackling effect after heart attack.

Dr Costanza Emanueli and her colleagues found that injecting the gene for NGF into the hearts of rats having a heart attack stopped heart cells dying off.

Dr Emanueli said NGF may be a novel way of protecting the heart from further damage following a heart attack.
This is a good news for patients with heart disease.

Breast feeding leads to better IQ:Study

Scientists have identified a gene which leads children to have higher IQs if they are breastfed, according to a study. In this study scientists confirmed that intellectual development is influenced by both environmental and genetic factors.
Researchers examined more than 3,000 breast-fed infants in Britain and New Zealand and found that the child's IQ was an average of 6.8 points higher if the child had a particular version of a gene called FADS2.
Ninety percent of the children had at least one copy of version of the gene which yielded higher IQ if they were breast-fed. The IQ scores of the other 10 percent were not influenced by breastfeeding, according to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The gene was studied because it produces an enzyme found in breast milk which has been associated with higher IQ. The enzyme helps convert dietary fatty acids into the polyunsaturated fatty acids that have been shown to accumulate in the human brain during the first months after birth.
Now-a -days mothers are not breast feeding their babies in fear of loss of figure,but it should not be. We cant change the nature.

Disability may be an outcome of obesity

Obesity is the most common problem in USA. Researchers found that obesity is bringing problems of disability as well as chronic kidney problem.

"Obesity is more hazardous to the health of the elderly than we previously suspected," said Dawn Alley of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "For an older person, suffering from obesity means they are much less likely to be able to walk to the front door or pick up a bag of groceries," she said.

Another study found that chronic kidney diseases are on rise among the aged population due to obesity. Chronic kidney disease patients who are also obese are much more likely than normal-weight patients to have a condition called hyperparathyroidism, which raises their risk of heart problems and death,according to US researchers.

Obesity is now a challenge to the society. We should be careful from the childhood.

Onion is good for heart

It is well known fact that fruits,redwine etc reduces the risk of heart disease but now researchers have found that onions also contribute to lessen the heart disease risk.

Research shows that compounds called flavonoid reduces the preliminary risk of heart disease. We should eat foods that are rich in flavonoid compound. Onion is one among them.

An Institute of Food Research team focused on one of the compounds, quercetin, which is found in tea, onions, apples and red wine. Those foods were shown to help prevent the chronic inflammation which can lead to thickening of the arteries.
The research found that, in the case of one inflammatory process, a lower dose of the compounds - achievable by eating 100g to 200g of onions - actually had a bigger impact.

Considered to be mentally healthy

written by M.hussain

Both physical and mental health are required for human to face the world. Mental health is most important because it gives power to face the world. Below are the qualities by which a man is considered mentally healthy.

1) The mind should be under the control of will.2) Emotional maturity: The ability to control and rule emotions. It means that a person should be able to regulate emotions in the positive, constructive and productive manner.3) The mind (mental processes) should be moderate, balanced and trained.4) Proper functioning of mind.5) Good memory power.6) Positive, constructive and productive mental attitude.7) The ability to handle situations.8) The ability to face emergencies, facts and realities of life with courage and patience.9) The ability to understand, resist and deal effectively with negative and destructive thoughts, emotions, circumstances, environment, words and mental attitude of our own and others. 10) The ability to plan correctly.11) The ability to solve problems without getting frustrated.12) The ability to resist frustration, failures, disappointments without being disturbed.13) The ability to stay always mentally relaxed.14) Patience, perseverance, confidence, courage, empathy, etc.15) The ability to concentrate on the wished object.16) Sense of responsibilities.17) Common sense.18) A mentally healthy person very well knows himself - his will-power, attitude, weaknesses and qualities.19) A mentally healthy person evaluates himself, accept his weaknesses and try to overcome them.20) A mentally healthy person believes in his abilities. He has confidence that he can accomplish the tasks that he undertakes.If a person lacks any of the above mentioned qualities, he needs to be treated by physician