Posted on February 5th, 2009 by admin
Category: Eating, Healthy Life
To get ideal weight you need to control your calories. If you eat more calories than your body consumes, you’re going to gain weight. You need to use the strategies in this section to keep your calories under control. But you don’t drop your calorie intake too low, especially if you exercise regularly. You can follow this guide to control your calories.
- Start with small portions.
- Be aware with fat-free foods, because many fat-free foods are plenty high in calories because they make up for the lost fat by adding sugar.
- Eat slowly. Many people eat so fast that they don’t taste anything and then rush back for seconds. Give your body a chance to feel full.
- Stop when you’re satisfied. People often eat for reasons other than hunger, such as depression and exhaustion. Make sure that you’re eating for the right reasons.
- Eat regular meals. Skipping meals sets you up for losing control and overeating.
Posted on February 4th, 2009 by admin
Category: Healthy Life
Drinking alcoholic beverages is an accepted social activity. Consumed in moderate amounts, alcohol relaxes you, stimulates your appetite, and produces mild euphoria. It also loosens inhibitions, making you feel more friendly and outgoing. While moderate drinking is not detrimental to your health, excessive drinking or binge drinking can eventually lead to alcoholism and other serious health problems.
Excessive drinking alcohol carries many health risks, including cancer of the liver, mouth, throat, and esophagus. Excessive alcohol consumption also increases your chances of having an accident, makes you more prone to violence, and makes you more apt to engage in risky behaviors such as illicit drug use or unsafe sex.
Alcohol affects every organ in your body, even in moderate amounts, but over consumption takes its most serious toll on the liver, heart, and brain. When you drink alcohol, some of the alcohol is absorbed in your stomach, but most enters the small intestine, where it passes into the bloodstream, which carries it throughout your body. As alcohol enters your brain, it numbs nerve cells, slowing down their ability to send messages to your body. If you continue to drink, the nerve centers in the brain may lose control over speech, vision, balance, and judgment, and you may have a blackout.
Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by admin
Category: Healthy Life
The risk of developing lung cancer is 10 times greater for cigarette smokers than for nonsmokers. Decades of study in many countries have shown a direct link between smoking and lung cancer. Since cigar and pipe smokers do not inhale as much tobacco smoke, they have a slightly lower risk of lung cancer, but the risk is still significantly higher than it is for nonsmokers. Tar and nicotine, as well as smoke, play a role in the development of lung cancer. The risks for lung cancer increase proportionately with the number of cigarettes smoked, the length of time the person has smoked, the age at which the person started smoking, and the amount of smoke inhaled.
Other types of cancer caused by cigarette smoking include cancers of the throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, and mouth. Pipe and cigar smokers also have an increased risk for cancers of the lip and mouth. Since some of the tars in tobacco are swallowed, there is also an increased risk of stomach cancer. Respiratory diseases associated with smoking include chronic bronchitis, sinusitis, and emphysema. Each year in the United States, these diseases account for tens of thousands of deaths from respiratory failure. Cigarette smoking slows
down the action of the cilia, tiny hairlike projections that line the airways and help clean the lungs. When the cilia are immobilized, dust and dirt particles are able to invade the lungs and cause inflammation. As a result, cigarette smokers also have more chronic coughs, phlegm production, wheezing, and other respiratory symptoms. People with allergies and asthma are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of cigarette smoke.