Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world. In America, every 39 seconds a person dies from the disease. In addition to a healthy lifestyle, what we eat has a big impact on heart health.
These are the 4 types of foods should be avoided if you do not want to suffer from heart disease.
1. Trans fats
Trans fats are the main enemy of the heart. Why is it dangerous? Such as saturated fats, trans fats also increase the levels of bad cholesterol and lowers good cholesterol number. The American Heart Association recommends that fat is limited to less than one percent of total calories. If you eat 2,000 calories a day, you should only be mengasup two grams of trans fat.
The easiest way to reduce trans fats is to avoid foods that contain "hydrogenated oil" or "partially hydrogenated oil" on packaging labels. Other sources of trans fats are margarine, biscuits, snacks, cheese, and so on.
2. Saturated fat
Saturated fat will increase the amount of bad cholesterol so long will form plaque deposits in blood vessels. Limit saturated fat about 5 percent of your total calories.
3. Salt
Restricting salt intake will reduce the risk of high blood pressure. In addition to table salt, a lot of food that tastes away from salty, but actually contain high salt, such as sausage, gravy, canned foods, and much more.
4. Added sugar
Excessive consumption of added sugar in the daily diet will increase the risk of high blood pressure, triglyceride levels, as well as other heart disease risk factors. Added sugar such as corn sugar, honey, fruit juice concentrate, high fructose corn syrup, syrup, and much more.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Most Koreans Love to Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery is becoming increasingly popular. In 2011 alone go down 15 million people around the world do this operation. Country South Korea ranks first as the most populated country like doing makeovers body.
In 2012, 20 percent of women aged 19-49 years in the city of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, plastic surgery. The most popular type of surgery is to reduce the excess skin on the upper eyelids (double eyelid surgery) so that the eyes appear wider.
Similarly, according to data from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS) which has a membership of more than 20,000 plastic surgeons in the world.
An estimated 1 out of 77 women in South Korea plastic surgery. Even Yu-Mi Kim, Miss Korea 2012 admitted he did plastic surgery to improve her appearance for the beauty contest.
He acknowledged the operation after his picture at school that looks very different from its appearance now scattered. "I never said that I was born beautiful," he told the Korean media.
Although in general the most frequent Korean plastic surgery, but the total number of procedures for skin tightening, liposuction, etc., Americans are at the top.
Different countries turned out different operations preferred. For the rich Brazilian beaches, the most popular type of surgery is male breast reduction surgery, buttock implants, and vaginal rejuvenation.
Surgical repair of the nose (rhinoplasty), either make sharp or streamline the nose, is more popular in Asia, such as China, Japan, and South Korea.
While most states breast augmentation surgery is the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and China. America and Brazil also ranks first for eye skin tightening and downsizing the stomach.
Lipoplasty or procedure for destruction of fat under the skin using sound waves are kind of noninvasive surgery of the most popular in the world. More than 1.2 million performed worldwide producer.
In second place was breast augmentation (1.2 million), operating firming the skin around the eye (703,610) and tummy tuck or tummy tuck in the fourth. In fifth place is rhinoplasty.
In 2012, 20 percent of women aged 19-49 years in the city of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, plastic surgery. The most popular type of surgery is to reduce the excess skin on the upper eyelids (double eyelid surgery) so that the eyes appear wider.
Similarly, according to data from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS) which has a membership of more than 20,000 plastic surgeons in the world.
An estimated 1 out of 77 women in South Korea plastic surgery. Even Yu-Mi Kim, Miss Korea 2012 admitted he did plastic surgery to improve her appearance for the beauty contest.
He acknowledged the operation after his picture at school that looks very different from its appearance now scattered. "I never said that I was born beautiful," he told the Korean media.
Although in general the most frequent Korean plastic surgery, but the total number of procedures for skin tightening, liposuction, etc., Americans are at the top.
Different countries turned out different operations preferred. For the rich Brazilian beaches, the most popular type of surgery is male breast reduction surgery, buttock implants, and vaginal rejuvenation.
Surgical repair of the nose (rhinoplasty), either make sharp or streamline the nose, is more popular in Asia, such as China, Japan, and South Korea.
While most states breast augmentation surgery is the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and China. America and Brazil also ranks first for eye skin tightening and downsizing the stomach.
Lipoplasty or procedure for destruction of fat under the skin using sound waves are kind of noninvasive surgery of the most popular in the world. More than 1.2 million performed worldwide producer.
In second place was breast augmentation (1.2 million), operating firming the skin around the eye (703,610) and tummy tuck or tummy tuck in the fourth. In fifth place is rhinoplasty.
Other Forms Shingles Chicken Pox
People who have had chicken pox in childhood was still able to catch shingles in adulthood. Keeping the immune system is the key to preventing infection.
Chicken pox and shingles are caused by the same type of virus, Varicella zoster, but its different serotype. Both diseases that have similar clinical symptoms, preceded by fever and inflammation of the skin that appear characterized by the formation of bubbles filled with water.
According dr.Ari Fahrial, Sp.PD, an expert in internal medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, in contrast to chickenpox, herpes zoster attack only specific neural regions.
"That abnormalities or nodule-bintilnya only in certain body areas or just half of the body. While the chicken pox spread throughout the body," he explained.
In herpes zoster areas of the body most commonly affected include the chest area and arms, although other areas of the body can also be affected.
In addition to rashes on the skin, herpes zoster infection is also characterized by pain in the muscles and bones. The pain caused by nerve stimulation.
Unlike chickenpox, shingles is not very contagious. But the varicella zoster virus is contagious to people who have never had chicken pox. People who are infected will develop chickenpox, not shingles.
Provision of antiviral drugs will speed the healing. Meanwhile vitamin necessary to increase endurance and given an antibiotic ointment to prevent secondary infections of the skin.
Actually chicken pox or herpes zoster can be prevented by vaccination. But in Indonesia, it has not been common. According to Ari, vaccination is only given in the event of an outbreak. Because it's the best way to prevent infection is to maintain optimum body resistance.
Chicken pox and shingles are caused by the same type of virus, Varicella zoster, but its different serotype. Both diseases that have similar clinical symptoms, preceded by fever and inflammation of the skin that appear characterized by the formation of bubbles filled with water.
According dr.Ari Fahrial, Sp.PD, an expert in internal medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, in contrast to chickenpox, herpes zoster attack only specific neural regions.
"That abnormalities or nodule-bintilnya only in certain body areas or just half of the body. While the chicken pox spread throughout the body," he explained.
In herpes zoster areas of the body most commonly affected include the chest area and arms, although other areas of the body can also be affected.
In addition to rashes on the skin, herpes zoster infection is also characterized by pain in the muscles and bones. The pain caused by nerve stimulation.
Unlike chickenpox, shingles is not very contagious. But the varicella zoster virus is contagious to people who have never had chicken pox. People who are infected will develop chickenpox, not shingles.
Provision of antiviral drugs will speed the healing. Meanwhile vitamin necessary to increase endurance and given an antibiotic ointment to prevent secondary infections of the skin.
Actually chicken pox or herpes zoster can be prevented by vaccination. But in Indonesia, it has not been common. According to Ari, vaccination is only given in the event of an outbreak. Because it's the best way to prevent infection is to maintain optimum body resistance.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Scientists Make Skin Grow New Hair Follicles By Itself
US scientists have found a way to make the skin of laboratory mice gives rise to new fully working hair follicles complete with new hair by using a protein that stimulates follicle generating genes in skin cells under wound conditions. They hope this discovery may one day lead to treatments for baldness and abnormal hair growth.
The study is published in the journal Nature.
Dr George Cotsarelis and colleagues from the Department of Dermatology, Kligman Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in Philadelphia, US, found that when skin is wounded, the cells of the epidermis take on the properties of stem cells and generate new hair follicles that are capable of growing new shafts of hair.
So far the results have only been achieved in mice, but the hope is the same is true of human skin.
The company Follica, which Dr Cotsarelis helped to set up and in which he has a stake, hopes to develop and market a human follicle regrowth treatment based on a patent currently being filed by the university.
The researchers envisage a commercial application similar to that used to treat teenage acne. A dermabrasion gel that gently damages the skin and kicks off the wounding process, together with a topical cream to switch on the follicle generating genes.
It's still early days according to Dr Cotsarelis:
"If it all went perfectly then possibly in two to three years we would have a product, but that's very optimistic," he said.
Dr Cotsarelis and colleagues took patches of skin from mice and observed the wounds as they healed over the following weeks. They noticed that skin cells that had not previously been associated with hair follicles started to behave like stem cells and express genes that generate hair follicles during skin development.
"The regenerated hair follicles establish a stem cell population, express known molecular markers of follicle differentiation, produce a hair shaft and progress through all stages of the hair follicle cycle," they wrote.
Hair growth occurred irrespective of the age of the mice, although the hair was colourless.
In a second experiment they used genetically engineered mice that expressed higher levels of a protein called Wnt. These mice produced twice the density of hairs in the normal mice under the same wounding conditions.
The research team concluded that:
"These remarkable regenerative capabilities of the adult support the notion that wounding induces an embryonic phenotype in skin, and that this provides a window for manipulation of hair follicle neogenesis by Wnt proteins."
Half a century ago scientists suggested that follicle regrowth might be possible but until now nobody had proved it. It has been generally accepted that once hair follicles die off, through baldness or skin damage, they are lost for good.
Perhaps it's because the regeneration occurs after skin damage that it has taken so long to discover wondered Dr Cotsarelis:
"Most people studying skin wounding don't pay a lot of attention to hair follicles. They view wound closure as the end-point," he said.
The discovery also opens up new avenues into how skin works, it "provides convincing evidence that the skin has remarkable powers of regeneration, not just repair," said Desmond Tobin, a cell biologist at the University of Bradford, UK, in an introductory article in the same edition of the journal.
Existing baldness treatments are described as "long and slow" by Carol Michaelides, a consultant at the Philip Kingsley Trichological Clinic in London, and the chances of success decrease with age and the amount of hair loss.
"The accepted baseline is 30 hairs per square centimetre," said Michaelides. This compares with several hundred in a healthy head. If the human scalp can be induced to make its own follicles, it would be "a huge step forward", she added.
"Wnt-dependent de novo hair follicle regeneration in adult mouse skin after wounding."
Mayumi Ito, Zaixin Yang, Thomas Andl, Chunhua Cui, Noori Kim, Sarah E. Millar and George Cotsarelis.
Nature 447, 316-320 (17 May 2007).
doi:10.1038/nature05766
Abstract.
Written by: Catharine Paddock
Writer: Medical News Today
Copyright: Medical News Today
Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
The study is published in the journal Nature.
Dr George Cotsarelis and colleagues from the Department of Dermatology, Kligman Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in Philadelphia, US, found that when skin is wounded, the cells of the epidermis take on the properties of stem cells and generate new hair follicles that are capable of growing new shafts of hair.
So far the results have only been achieved in mice, but the hope is the same is true of human skin.
The company Follica, which Dr Cotsarelis helped to set up and in which he has a stake, hopes to develop and market a human follicle regrowth treatment based on a patent currently being filed by the university.
The researchers envisage a commercial application similar to that used to treat teenage acne. A dermabrasion gel that gently damages the skin and kicks off the wounding process, together with a topical cream to switch on the follicle generating genes.
It's still early days according to Dr Cotsarelis:
"If it all went perfectly then possibly in two to three years we would have a product, but that's very optimistic," he said.
Dr Cotsarelis and colleagues took patches of skin from mice and observed the wounds as they healed over the following weeks. They noticed that skin cells that had not previously been associated with hair follicles started to behave like stem cells and express genes that generate hair follicles during skin development.
"The regenerated hair follicles establish a stem cell population, express known molecular markers of follicle differentiation, produce a hair shaft and progress through all stages of the hair follicle cycle," they wrote.
Hair growth occurred irrespective of the age of the mice, although the hair was colourless.
In a second experiment they used genetically engineered mice that expressed higher levels of a protein called Wnt. These mice produced twice the density of hairs in the normal mice under the same wounding conditions.
The research team concluded that:
"These remarkable regenerative capabilities of the adult support the notion that wounding induces an embryonic phenotype in skin, and that this provides a window for manipulation of hair follicle neogenesis by Wnt proteins."
Half a century ago scientists suggested that follicle regrowth might be possible but until now nobody had proved it. It has been generally accepted that once hair follicles die off, through baldness or skin damage, they are lost for good.
Perhaps it's because the regeneration occurs after skin damage that it has taken so long to discover wondered Dr Cotsarelis:
"Most people studying skin wounding don't pay a lot of attention to hair follicles. They view wound closure as the end-point," he said.
The discovery also opens up new avenues into how skin works, it "provides convincing evidence that the skin has remarkable powers of regeneration, not just repair," said Desmond Tobin, a cell biologist at the University of Bradford, UK, in an introductory article in the same edition of the journal.
Existing baldness treatments are described as "long and slow" by Carol Michaelides, a consultant at the Philip Kingsley Trichological Clinic in London, and the chances of success decrease with age and the amount of hair loss.
"The accepted baseline is 30 hairs per square centimetre," said Michaelides. This compares with several hundred in a healthy head. If the human scalp can be induced to make its own follicles, it would be "a huge step forward", she added.
"Wnt-dependent de novo hair follicle regeneration in adult mouse skin after wounding."
Mayumi Ito, Zaixin Yang, Thomas Andl, Chunhua Cui, Noori Kim, Sarah E. Millar and George Cotsarelis.
Nature 447, 316-320 (17 May 2007).
doi:10.1038/nature05766
Abstract.
Written by: Catharine Paddock
Writer: Medical News Today
Copyright: Medical News Today
Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
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