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Heartburn – The Ins And Outs
Heartburn is the condition with characteristic irritation around the breast area and back. Heartburn is often misconceived as any heart diseases because of the discomfort in the chest, however, the fact is that heartburn is not related to heart disease, but it is purely a digestive disorder.
Heartburn occurs when the digestive contents in the stomach deviate from its normal digestive path and retrieve back to esophagus. Heartburn becomes worse with serious complications such as GERD and esophagus cancer when it becomes frequent. Heartburn has to be clearly distinguished from acid indigestion, which is the irritation in the duodenum. Most people consider occasional heartburn as the indication of the body’s incompatibility with any particular food or consequences of unhealthy eating habits however, it is advised to have an expert consultation to avoid future complications.
Causes
The irritation is caused because the esophagus lining cannot withstand the acidic gastric juice. Heartburn occurs as a result of the faulty condition of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) muscle of the esophagus. The underlying factors for the condition are not so evident. Hiatal hernia, a condition in which the change of the place of stomach and diaphragm weakness occurs, is suspected as a major reason for heartburn. Improper diet, such as spicy or acidic and bad habits such as cigarette, alcohol may disturb the muscles. The faulty posture also will contribute.
Symptoms
The characteristic symptom of heartburn is the burning sensation in the chest area which can be felt as far as the abdomen. The exact position of the irritation will be lower the breast bone which is the gullet of esophagus while in some cases the irritation will be also felt in the midline of the back. In severe cases, irritation will be transformed into pain.
Diagnosis
Physician can easily diagnose heartburn from its characteristic symptoms. Only in chronic conditions diagnostic tests such as endoscopy and pH monitoring are performed.
Treatment
Usually heartburn patients resort to over the counter tablets however, it has to be avoided since it may lead to complications. Physicians usually prescribe antacids such as Gelusil, Maalox and Mylanta to neutralize the acidity. H-2 receptor blockers and proton pump inhibitors are also prescribed to reduce the recurrence of the symptom. Alternative medicines suggest drinking neutralizing drinks to reduce the irritation while drinking water will be an immediate remedy to alleviate the heartburn.
Prevention
As heartburn is mostly associated with life style factors, strict control of the triggering factors can help to control it. The avoidance of risky factors such as excessive eating, spicy and acidic diet, and wearing tight waist clothes will help to reduce the occurrence of heartburn. Maintaining a high head position, can avoid it, while lying down.
Heartburn is a common disease which does not need to be serious. However, special attention has to be taken in its frequent recurrence as it may be an indication of other serious disorders.
Dollars Don’t Make Health
Americans now spend over $1.5 trillion annually on medical care. There is no end in sight to rising costs. From the medical communityâs standpoint, why should there be? If you have a cash cow you milk it for all it is worth.
The publicâs and the governmentâs only protestation is when there isnât enough money. The question is not whether we need more drugs, vaccines, diagnostic machines, lab tests, surgeries and hospital facilities, but rather how will it be paid for. The medical behemoth is considered as essential to life as food and water and thus it is petted, pampered and protected. While it gorges itself and swells to obscene size, everyone clamors for unlimited access to it by way of insurance and government entitlement programs.
Now then, if the medical system we have in place were truly decreasing disease, optimizing peopleâs health, increasing healthy life span and decreasing mortality that would be one thing. But as we have learned from the foregoing, that is not at all the case. Modern medical care does not prevent disease or improve health; it is the number one killer. Medical consumers are lambs being led to the slaughter. They protect, cuddle, honor and take pride in its techno-wizardry, and then wonder why it is getting so rotund as they feed it by marching zombie-like right into its mouth.
The gorging and human sacrifice is ignored because it is assumed that the esoteric scientific sophistication, shiny stainless steel and elaborate machines are the best there is and if it is failing in any respect then it just needs more dollar–to do what it is doing but only more and better. Isolated heroic successes lead everyone to believe everything is surely on track and that all it will take is more dollars and everyoneâs cure will be a heroic success.
Time to step back, take a deep breath and oxygenate the brain a little.
What does it say about our society when a huge percentage of the gross national product is centered on illness? Shouldn’t it ring an alarm â other than the cry to increase taxes and create medical entitlement programs and insurance to guarantee that everyone can participate even more and grow it even further?
You would think that with all the money thrown at the problem, health would be improving. But it is not, in spite of the propaganda that health solutions are in a pill, on a surgery table or just around the corner … if we would just fund more research. Doesn’t the outrageous growth of medical expenditure in the absence of proportionate salubrious results speak to the failure of the system, not its success? Shouldnât health care, by definition, be moving in the opposite direction and be self-eradicating?
When something is so clearly amuck, itâs time to take a close look at the philosophical underpinnings and assumptions. The underlying premise of modern medicine is reductionistic materialism. However, the body is not only fundamentally not matter, it is all one, it is holistic and intimately linked with the rest of the world. The materialistic assumption that we are a mere amalgam of data, parts and pieces that can be manipulated at will, and a chemical soup held in by a membraneâa sort of test tube made of skinâis neither scientific nor rationalâ¦nor does it work.
Materialism also leads to the quick-fix approach. Hey, if a chemical in the body is out of whack, take a chemical to neutralize it. If your gizzard is acting up, get it taken out. If the medicine you are taking is making you sick, take another medicine for that. If eating fries and pop cause a burning in the gullet, take a pill. People want to think of their bodies as an easily repaired machine, and doctors go right along.
The quick-fix approach fills the bill for an instant-gratification society. It is also simple, profitable and eliminates probing into peopleâs lives to see what is really the cause: run a test, check a number, give a pill and send a bill. But is counter to the way the body operates. We are a self-healing mechanism, infinitely complex, finely tuned and holistic, not just an assemblage of pulleys, pipes, levers, protons and valves. To force the body into submission with drugs or mechanical alterations throws it out of balance because we do not fully understand what it is we are even tinkering with. Manipulating parts without consideration for the balance of the whole is doomed.
I am speaking here of the chronic degenerative illnesses â cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and so on, not crises such as anaphylactic shock or an operable tumor pressing on the heart. Modern medicine can work miracles with these sorts of conditions because they are mechanical â as opposed to metabolic and systemic â failures and thus respond to mechanical solutions. The great degenerative disease killers today result from longstanding problems of lifestyle imbalance and are not solved by Band-Aids no matter how expensive they are.
People who spend years in esoteric and costly medical training donât figure anyone other than them has a right to speak with authority on the subject. That creates pompous and closed minds. Health and healing is not the place for that. Lives and suffering are at stake. This is not to impugn the efforts of the many hard working and often underpaid health care workers. But intent does not erase result. As shown in a previous chapter, people who submit to medical care are far more likely to be injured or killed than by any other life choice they make. It must also be admitted that financial motive and ego to one degree or another weave their way into the medical psyche.
Most doctors come to understand that disease is self-inflicted through improper lifestyle choices. Few, however, have the financial courage to tell people that they need to change their lives, not get another pill or have surgery. Patients will just go elsewhere where they will be told what they want to hear. Or the doctor might even be threatened with suit for offending a patient. Case in point is a New Hampshire doctor who was turned in to the Board of Medicine and the attorney general for telling a patient she needed to lose weight. (Washington Post Aug 24, 2005)
As hard as doctors try to do what is right, there is the constant financial pressure. There are bills to pay and the potential for a lavish lifestyle. Doctors also feel entitled. A long and costly education, long hours, law suits, malpractice insurance and putting up with an endless procession of patients who will do nothing to help themselves seems deserving of more than average pay. The solution is doing more. Conveniently, the medical standard of care (what doctors are taught to do to avoid liability) encourages more of about everything. More lab tests, longer hospitalization, more diagnostics, more drugs and exploratory surgery. So, although in many cases the best advice to a patient is to go home and make life changes, doctors too often do that which is safe and creates income, which just so happens to be what the patient wants anyway.
Medical insurance is not the solution. It shares the blame for the explosion in healthcare costs. Give anyone access to a bottomless vat of money that promises cure and they will dip in with gusto. If patients were made to pay as they go, people would do more shopping and use more discernment. Doctors would be forced to use judgment as well. The net result would be a lot less unnecessary medical care. When responsibility shifts to individuals to take care of themselves, there will be more health and a lot less medical injury.
Since everything seems to move by the force of dollars, why not shift the rewards? We could do it like it was done in ancient times and even more recently in the Far East: Pay doctors as long as the patient is well. If the patient becomes ill, the doctor forfeits the pay. But that’s too rational. There are too many money interests fighting tooth and claw to keep things exactly as they are. It also does not fit the fable that disease is “just one of those things” to which we may innocently fall victim. Why hold the doctor (or ourselves, more appropriately) accountable for an “act of God?â
As philosophically flawed as modern medicine is, it is by and large an effect, not a cause. Medical commerce is driven by consumer demand. If the market were not there, the business of increased profit for increased health failure could not exist.
People like to shift responsibility to others and follow physics down the path of least resistance and effort. Heaven forbid that we might have to change our lifestyle or become informed. Let’s just let someone else take care of everything for us. All it takes is money. You know, like if the basement is leaking, the car wonât start or smoke comes out of the computer. Money cures these things so why would it not cure us? So it is easily reasoned in our consumer/repair/expert-oriented society, that if any problem is not being solved, more money is the answer.
Don’t wait for things to change. You change. You can decide not to participate in the nonsense. You can learn to take control and optimize your health by being the best you can be by giving your mind and body the lifestyle and food it was designed for. Money really has nothing to do with the solution to the problem. In fact, money can spell your demise by not only the unhealthy lifestyle of indulgence it permits, but by making it too easy to obtain the best and most that modern medicine has to offer.
If people would learn how to take care of themselves and take ownership of their own health, the medical sinkhole would shrivel and the tidal wave of chronic degenerative diseases would dry up to a trickle.
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8 Reasons to Quit Smoking
Smoking tobacco was probably started in 1000 BC by the Mayan Civilisation and was never really commercialised until the 17th century. It was made popular during the second world war where soldiers were given cigarettes to boost their fighting morale. However, it was also around this period that the first ill effects of smoking were reported.
I was hoping that cigarettes were never invented. Why? They are nothing but trash. They are basically pieces of paper wrapped around tobacco leaves and then laced with thousands of poisons. They hook you up with one single puff, and leave millions craving for their attention. Many others are dying, dead or suffering.
Before you light your next cigarette, here are 8 solid reasons to quit smoking. Do not be part of the dead, dying or suffering statistics.
1.It makes your heart work harder. Most people die younger from circulatory problems than lung cancer. Cigarettes contain 2 main important chemicals namely nicotine and carbon monoxide. Nicotine speeds up the heart by about 20 heartbeats per minute with every cigarette. It also makes arteries all over the body become smaller, causing the heart to pump harder through the ’shrinking’ arteries. Carbon monoxide combines with the oxygen in your blood to deny you of oxygen in your body. So here is what you get, an overloaded heart!
2.It dresses up your lungs with a thick black coat. Tar from cigarettes get stuck to your lungs (and mouth and lips and throat and gullet). This is the very same raw material used to build roads. So there you go, a nice, well-tarred respiratory system!
3.It turns people off. Most people do not like smokers. I used to be a smoker, and I didn’t even
like smokers around me! The main reason is the ‘choking’ and smelly smoke that cigarettes produce. It stinks your breath and clothes. It stains your teeth as well.
4.It robs you of your hard-earned money. Cigarettes are very expensive in my home country, Singapore. Rather than use the money to finance these tobacco companies, why not use it to travel or buy the things you like.
5.It keeps you awake. Nicotine is a stimulant and therefore it will keep your mind awake. This will definitely worsen the situation for people suffering from insomnia.
6.Smoking destroys our male sex cells, making it more difficult to conceive a baby. Pregnant women who smoke have an increased risk of miscarriage or premature birth. The child might also suffer from reduced verbal and mathematical ability.
7.Unless you live in an island of your own, you are exposing your smoke to your loved ones. Those around you have to suffer from your second-hand smoke. Passive smokers are at a higher risk of contracting the nasty diseases related to smoking than smokers. Do think of your loved ones!
8.You age faster. It causes premature wrinkling. So if you do not wish to look like 40 years at the age of 30, it’s time to snuff out that butt, for good!
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Acid Reflux, Heartburn, Gerd, Symptoms, Stomach Ulcer Protonix
Acid reflux is a condition where gastric juices containing acid travel back from the stomach into the esophagus (gullet or swallowing tube). Acid reflux is also the cause of heartburn and in severe cases, this can be very troublesome, it can last several months or longer if not treated. Acid reflux is mainly caused due to regurgitation or refluxing of partly digested food back to esophagus. Acid reflux is a chronic condition which if not treated properly in early stages it can lead to several other severe complications. Acid Reflux treatment includes medications along with certain dietary and lifestyle changes.
Acid reflux occurs when liquids and food from the stomach regurgitate or reflux into the esophagus and sometimes out the mouth. Acid reflux also referred by Gastric reflux disease, GORD (Gastro-esophageal reflux disease) or GERD (Gastro esophageal reflux disease) is a very painful disease as it may last from few to several years.
Acid reflux may also cause too much injury by developing ulcers near the stomach and oesophagus, also pronounced as esophagus, narrowing of oesophagus or oesophageal reflux, a rare type of cancer. Acid reflux is very difficult to be detected in children or infants. Acid reflux is a disorder where the acidic juices of the stomach flow back (reflux) into the esophagus. Acid reflux can be diagnosed and treated so that the symptoms are relived. Acid reflux is a particularly unpleasant problem, but it doesn’t have to be a debilitating one.
Acid Reflux Treatment there are many different treatment options available for acid reflux and heartburn. Heartburn, the burning sensation in the middle of the chest that is usually triggered after eating, is actually the most common symptom of a more complex disorder called GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease) or acid reflux a condition where the stomach refluxes or backs up its liquid content to the esophagus.
Heartburn symptoms caused by GERD are usually relieved by drugs called proton pump inhibitors (Prilosec, Prevacid, Aciphex, Protonix, and Nexium). Treatment for GERD depends on how severe symptoms are, where the treatment may just include lifestyle changes, such as changing what one eats or drinks. Gastroesophageal reflux disease, commonly referred to as GERD or acid reflux, is a condition in which the liquid content of the stomach regurgitates (backs up or refluxes) into the esophagus. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a more serious form of gastroesophageal reflux (GER), which is common. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a chronic disease that causes recurrent acid reflux.
PROTONIX® (pantoprazole sodium) Delayed-Release Tablets are indicated for the short-term treatment of duodenal ulcer, erosive esophagitis, gastric ulcer, gastroesophageal reflux disease, helicobacter pylori infection, peptic ulcer, zollinger ellison syndrome, stress ulcer prophylaxis. Protonix is commonly called in Canada as Pantoloc and it is generically in the medical world as Pantoprazole. Protonix is the used for the reduction of the amount of acid produced in the stomach. Protonix is a medicine indicated for the treatment of esophageal damage caused by GERD or Gastroesophageal reflux disease. Protonix inhibits or blocks (H+,K+)-ATPase by forming a bond to two sites of the enzyme system, and as a result, suppresses the final step in gastric acid production. Protonix Delayed- Release Tablets should be swallowed whole, with or without food in the stomach. Protonix is used to treat damage to the esophagus associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and other conditions involving excessive stomach acid production (e. Protonix may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide. Protonix can be taken with or without food. Protonix can also be used for other purposes aside from the ones stated in this medical guide.
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Harmful Effects of Smoking
Harmful Effects of Smoking
If you go out to public places, you may realize that there are many No Smoking signs placed everywhere. Why is this so? On one hand, shop owners would want people to stop smoking in their shops in order to avoid disturbing others. However, on the other hand, the truth remains that smoking does indeed have harmful effects and all smokers should attempt to stop smoking today. Whether it is through using quit smoking fake cigarettes or free patches, it is crucial to protect one’s health and body from the harmful effects of smoking. Although you will feel withdrawal symptoms from stopping smoking, you will be able to avoid extensively damaging effects of smoking as highlighted in this article.
One of the strategies to quit smoking is to look at its extremely horrifying effects on your body. Smoking harms and damages your mouth and throat. First, it can cause you to have permanently stained teeth and extremely bad breath. This is very unattractive, and if you want to have a presentable image and look good, you should follow the “stop smoking” advice that is readily available in stop smoking organizations and seminars.
Surface looks aside, smoking can also lead to gum diseases and seriously damage your sense of taste. If the damage has gotten to such a far extent, then it is ideal to get quit smoking help immediately. Gum diseases can lead to the rotting of your mouth and teeth, and damaging your senses is simply not wise. Not only will you be able to enjoy food, it will also lead to basic difficulties in your eating habits and indirect harms to your oral hygiene and health.
One of the main reasons to stop smoking is the increased risk of seriously damaging your mouth and throat area. The chances of you getting cancer in your gullet, throat, voice box, tongue and lips are increased significantly if you smoke regularly, and do not find ways to quit smoking. The consequences are dire – if you do not stop smoking, you may have long term suffering, be on lifetime medication and have to undergo chemotherapy. Needless to say, the most harmful effect of smoking is death. Hence, it is in your interest to quit smoking if you want to have a smoke free and fulfilling life ahead.
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Detox Diet Benefits
What to Expect when Detox Dieting
All detox diets are a little bit different. Some restrict food down to almost nothing while others allow for mostly veggies, beans, fruit, and rice. There are a few things that you should expect when beginning a detox diet, so that you can receive the full detox diets benefits.
Your body is significantly used to adjusting to toxins and poisons running through your body. One of the greatest detox diet benefits, naturally, is that you will rid your body of these toxins and poisons. There are side effects of receiving these detox diet benefits. If you are particularly used to that steaming cup of caffeinated beverage in the morning, you will experience caffeine withdrawal. While it may not seem like it while you are experiencing caffeine withdrawal, this is one of the detox diet benefits. Once your body has adjusted to the absence of caffeine, you should find that you have more energy.
Constipation is considered a leading cause of lethargy and fatigue. One of the detox diet benefits is the cleansing of the colon, which can cure even long term constipation. I had a room mate that was on narcotic pain relievers for over a year due to a severe injury. The narcotics kept her chronically constipated. The day she was finally through with her narcotic pain relievers, she went through a detox diet. She found that the detox diet benefits included relieving her body of the narcotic dependency as well as relieved her chronic constipation. She now regularly cleanses and detoxifies her colon when she is having difficulty going to the restroom, with obvious detox diet benefits as she returns from the restroom with a pleased grin on her face instead of the anguish she used to live in.
Even with the detox diet benefits, some people report feeling a bit weak about one week into the detox diet. Most detox diets do reduce food consumption, which can have an effect. The basic key is knowing how to elongate the effects of the foods you do eat. Those who really struggle with the lowered food consumption report that splitting the lunches into 2 meals works better for them than eating just the suggested breakfast and lunch. This still gives them the detox diet benefits but doesn’t introduce additional foods into the scenario. Most detox diet experts state that provided you are not adding additional foods to the diet, segregating the meals into smaller snacks is perfectly acceptable.
The excessive water consumption associated with the detox diet is going to encourage your system to flush, which means you will be visiting the rest room much more often. This is a positive detox diet benefit. The more water that flushes your system the more toxins that will exit your body when you excrete it, and excreting it often will enhance the productivity of the entire process.
One of the little known detox diet benefits is the regeneration of the liver that can occur while following a detox diet. Milk thistle is typically recommended as part of the supplementation of the detox diet. Milk thistle aids in the liver’s ability to regenerate. It’s not a cure for liver disease, however it can help in the prevention of a liver disease, along with other changes to your lifestyle.
What Not to Expect when Detox Dieting
Detox dieting is designed to alleviate the ailments associated with large quantities of toxins that are built up in the human body. Detox dieting is not a “cure” for every disease. While most people experience great relief from every day annoying symptoms, detox dieting does not eliminate diseases that are already in the system. For instance, you can not rid you body of cancer cells by detox dieting. The cancer cells, for starters are not an actual toxin. They may have been caused by toxins, but the cells themselves are not something that can be flushed away.
Most people drop several pounds when detox dieting. There are those who drop a significant amount of weight when detox dieting. This is normal, and while some of it can be contributed to the flushing of fat cells, water weight, and calorie reduction, there is some permanent weight loss happening provided you do not return to eating habits that are probable for weight gain. This means that if you were prone to eating potato chips and cookies prior to detox dieting and you return to eating potato chips and cookies after detox dieting, you will gain the weight back. This may seem obvious, but there are plenty of foods that people believe contain a low calorie and low fat content but in reality they contain quite the opposite. An avocado for example contains nearly three times the amount of fat and calories as a measured serving of enriched white rice. While detox dieting, learn to recognize the foods you are putting into your body and what they actually do once they enter your gullet.
Detox dieting is not a cure for serious emotional or mental conditions, such as clinical depression. While many people admit to feeling less “depressed” during and after detox dieting, there is a difference between situational depression and clinical depression. Clinical depression requires medication. Detox dieting can not take the place of medication that is necessary to function on a day to day basis. Situational depression may be alleviated through detox dieting simply because you are taking control of your body, your health, in essence, your situation. These two depressions are significantly different.
How is Detox Dieting Different from Other Diet Plans?
Diet plans are a dime a dozen. There are grapefruit diet plans and the Atkins diet plan and the green tea diet plan and the national chain diet plans. An individual can spend countless hours and thousands of dollars “trying on” various diet plans. Some will work while others will ultimately fail. Why? Because not all diet plans will work for everyone. Does detox dieting work for everyone? Yes. Why? Because losing weight is a by product of the goal. The goal is to clean the body of the various toxins and wastes which have accumulated over the years. This is a process of ridding the body of the ailing chemicals we introduce it to on a daily basis while eliminating the build up of residual toxins. Weight loss occurs as a result of numerous factors, but weight loss in not the primary goal of a detox diet plan.
Keep in mind that not all detox diet plans are the same. Some detox diet plans are put together by professionals who understand the body’s ability to cleanse itself of these harmful chemicals. While diet plans are typically put together by an entrepreneurial spirit, the detox diet plan was actually something that originated by a naturopathist, an individual who studies the various body types and how they process things on their own unique level. Since the detox diet plan was developed, there have been a remarkable number of “knock off” detox diet plans that have shown up on the market. These are all plans that suggest you stop eating and drink only diluted juice for several days (beyond twenty four hours this becomes unhealthy) and then limits food intake so dramatically that people find it impossible to stick to. If you’re going to try any diet plan at all, it would simply make sense to start at the beginning. The beginning of healthy weight loss is a healthy body.
The dramatic detox diet benefits is that people who tried to detoxify their bodies using the original detox diet plan found themselves losing weight as a welcome surprise. Detox dieting has grown in popularity due to its dual effect. Detox dieting cleanses the body of the toxins and as a result, weight loss occurs. There simply isn’t another diet plan that can match that no matter what they claim.
We live in a cluttered and chemically enriched society. Compare our lifestyles, our food products, and our basic need for heat and eat meals to the lifestyles and foods of people in remote and natural regions such as the Pacific Islands. People in natural regions are healthier overall. They eat natural foods that haven’t been laced with chemicals and they live natural lives that don’t revolve around the constant breathing of polluted air. Their bodies are not only healthier, but they are naturally thinner. They have fewer health complaints such as headaches and toothaches and stomach cramping.
The detox diet plan can help you jumpstart your body toward a healthier state of being. Naturally, effective detox dieting requires an effective detox diet plan. You really shouldn’t just linger out there in cyberspace hoping the right detox diet plan will pop up into your browser. There are very few detox diet plans that I would dare put my stamp of approval on. However, one in particular I have found has excellent reviews by some actual detox dieters. Finding an authentic detox diet plan that is effective, safe, and of course reliable shouldn’t be left to luck.
Smoking Versus Heart Diseases
There exists an amazing extent of indication that a multiplicity of appalling diseases materialize frequently in smokers than non-smokers and these diseases are: Lung cancer; emphysema causing thinning and weakening of lung tissue; cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx, gullet, bladder, and pancreas; coronary thrombosis causing snarl-up of arteries to the heart; angina pectoris causing pain due to contraction of arteries to the heart; and chronic bronchitis with phlegm. Moreover, Smoking materialize due to delay in healing of stomach ulcers; it trims down the senses of smell and taste; slows down reflexes which causes smokers more prone to accidents; and gives an distasteful smell from the breath, clothes, and homes of smokers. Very contemporary survey exemplifies that smoker’s cause danger to the health of non-smokers. Pregnant women smokers tend to have smaller babies than non-smokers, and their babies are more to be expected to be born dead or die a few days after birth. Besides such tremendously adverse affects, the children of smoking parents have more lung infections in the first years of life than the children of non-smokers.
During one hour in a smoky room, a non-smoker can gasp as much cancer-causing substances as some one smoking 15 filter-tip cigarettes. Infirmity consistent to smoking is very expensive. In U.K., France, Germany, China and USA, it results in the loss of about 60 millions working days a year, treatment costs several hundreds thousands dollar a day, and it causes the death of over a million people a week. However, those who give up smoking greatly trim down their chances of developing diseases. Hence it is obvious that smoking has been halfhearted every times and as such, even in general advertisement to sell their product, the work of publication of product’s brand name and packaging system to point toward the quality of the product has been proscribed.
A heart is the crucial point of human beings and as such, due to cause of blood transmission problems, lots of heart diseases come about. Blood circulation system takes place from the heart and arteries and veins are the carriers of it where as veins carry pure blood and entire circulation system remains in the state of continuous flow of balanced form of humans’ survival as a tentative flow.
Hypertensive heart disease:
It means high pressure. It is the most common disease affecting the heart and blood vessel. When pressure remains high, the heart uses more energy in pumping. Due to the increased effort, the heart muscle thickens and the heart becomes enlarged. It needs more oxygen; untreated high blood pressure can lead to decreased diameter of the arteries and arterioles causing atherosclerosis, strokes, heart attacks and kidney failure.
Heart Attack:
The most common heart problems result from faulty coronary circulation. A heart attack as well as cardiac infection is the death of an area of cardiac tissue because of an interrupted blood supply. This may result from a plaque in the arterial wall. The severity of the attack bedded on how much of the heart tissue is damaged. The heart will lose some of the strength after an attack.
Leukemia
It is a malignant disease; it occurs due to uncontrolled production of immature white blood cells. Cells which lack the genetic ability to reach immaturity anemia and bleeding are commonly seen due to the crowding out of normal bone narrow cells, over production of immature cells, preventing normal production of red blood cells and platelets. In order to protect from leukemia, we should take the following measures:
To take blood under the prescribed prescription of the physicians relevant to the heart diseases
To check heart complicacies, regular physical exercise is virtually important.
The patient of heart casualties should take regular physical exercise.
He should take cholesterol free as well hydrolysis type of foods like fats and oils free foods
Atherosclerosis
It is a process in which fatty things, particularly cholesterol and triglycerides are deposited in the walls of medium sized and large sized arteries. Smooth muscle cells of the arteries accumulate more of the cholesterol, and a plaque can be formed in the blood vessel. This can block the artery and present the blood flow. If this clot becomes dislodged, it can travel to other areas of the body and block the normal flow of the blood. We can prevent this by prohibiting fats and oil type of foods. We can also undertake physical exercise.
Stroke:
The most common brain disorder is stroke. The common cause s of stroke is as follows:
Blood clots
Ruptured brain arteries. If such brain disorder takes place, very few people survive.
For Prevention of such state physical disorder, the following precautions need to be adopted virtually:
To lead a tension free life
To undertake regular physical exercise
A balanced food is virtually inevitable.
Coronary Thrombosis:
The build up athermancy makes blood vessel narrower and cuts down the flow of blood. This increases the brisk of blood clots forming. A clot can block a blood vessel and for such hyper critical state of mental affairs, a thrombus is formed and ultimately it tends to heart blockage which emanates severe consequences of death. Suffice it say, such heart blockage is quite responsible for a quarter of deaths around the world. More people in the world’s developed countries’ die each year and even if the affected part of the heart is damaged and sometimes a heart attack is so severe that the heart stops beating altogether, due to such sort of complication known as cardiac arrest, the humans can die unless the heart starts beating within a moment.
In view of the above, it is evident that Smoking is tremendously harmful for creating health hazards which has tremendous adverse affects upon overall mental affairs of the humans’ physical state. A man who enjoys sound sleep as well as sound body is really a healthy man. For healthy and tension free life, we need to abandon smoking adversely affecting upon physical and mental virtual health in a systematic manner. A heart is the focal point of human beings and as such, due to cause of blood transmission problems, lots of heart diseases fall out. Blood circulation system takes place from the heart and arteries and veins are the carriers of it where as veins carry pure blood and entire circulation system remains in the state of continuous flow of balanced form of humans’ endurance ideally.
Kh. Atiar Rahman was born in the former district of kushtia. From his student life he has started his writing contribution in national dailies and magazines. He has unlimited number of publication in national and international publication media.At present he is working in Financial Management Reform Program as a Counter Par officer under Ministry of Finance.