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Sunday, September 30, 2012

When Do Women Get Used to Motherhood?

Now you are mother! Greetings! You feel great, right?

Well, in some cases you may be slightly confused because this little baby brings a whole new world! Your lifestyle noticeably change, alternate sleepless nights coupled with fatigue and stress. But this selfless devotion is deserved, because to immerse yourself in the magic of motherhood are needed not only love, but also courage and luck.

AWFUL! Mother Has ALLERGY to Her Own Child

There is no doubt that the first days and months after the birth are quite heavy

In the early days of motherhood, many women think that it will never end … researchers found that “hell” has an end and it occurs after exactly 4 months and 23 days of birth.
This is the average time it takes for the mother to cope with the “revolution”, changing her life dramatically. In fact, after five months young mothers come in form and are now fully confident that they can handle the duties that they are being overwhelmed. They know what each cry of her baby, imaging experts describe the situation.
The mother stops worrying when goes on walk, always ready, possessing reserves of clothes, diapers and baby food. She no longer cries to the occasion and more rarely disappoints, the researchers noted.

UNIQUE! See How a Boy and a Girl Are Carrying Their Baby „Together”
There is no doubt that the first days and months after the birth are quite heavy. Mother should be strong, full of energy and confident because the stress she is experiencing is not less than that of my baby. It’s needed quick recovery so that we fully take care of our child.
How to cope with postpartum depression?
Almost all women feel so happy after birth that they feel they can love everybody.
But that heady feeling is very short and quickly replaced by a sense of helplessness, anxiety, impatience, irritability … The mother is often sad, crying for no reason, suffering from insomnia and is very impatient. This is undoubtedly the symptoms of postpartum depression. Statistics show that 50 to 75 percent of new mothers suffer from frequent mood swings and meet all the symptoms that characterize this type of depression. They usually occur 4 to 6 days after birth.

PROVEN! Smoking during Pregnancy Threatens Your Children’s Health!

Not yet clarified the reasons for postpartum depression, scientists say it is due to the change in hormone levels and chemical processes that occur in a woman’s brain. The most common symptoms subside within ten days, but in general the process is very individual for each lady. To be able to successfully deal with this type of depression appear to be particularly useful conversations with close people is indispensable help of my dad. And since caring for the baby totally confuse the diet of the mother, the intake of a healthy and balanced diet is essential. Furthermore, you can take advantage of the time when the baby is sleeping to exercise, because the active lifestyle combined with moderate exercise will help to accelerate out of the depression.

Source : dailyhealtharticles[dot]com

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Cancer-Proofing Your Body

Lifestyle medicine pioneer Nathan Pritikin was an unlikely candidate to spark a nutrition revolution. He wasn’t a doctor or dietician but an engineer. As featured in my 2-min. NutritionFacts.org video Engineering a Cure, he reversed his own heart disease with a plant-based diet and went on to help millions of others. He even saved the life of my own grandmother, which is what inspired me to go into medicine.

Pritikin’s work has continued though his research foundation. Once Dean Ornish proved that Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped, the focus shifted from heart disease to cancer. In the video I feature above, I describe an elegant series of experiments in which people were placed on different diets and their blood was then dripped on cancer cells in a petri dish to see which diet was more effective at suppressing cancer growth.

As you can see, even the blood of those on a standard American diet (SAD) fights cancer, but the blood of those on vegan diets fights about 8 times better. The blood circulating within the bodies of vegans appears to have nearly 8 times the stopping power when it comes to cancer cell growth. That was after maintaining a plant-based diet for a year though. Subsequent studies against breast cancer showed the power of eating plants for just two weeks. Watch the video above to see the remarkable results.

This dramatic strengthening of cancer defenses was after 14 days of a plant-based diet and exercise—they were out walking 30 to 60 minutes a day. Although Pritikin started out reversing chronic disease through diet alone, later—to his credit—he added an exercise component as well. That’s great for the patients, but scientifically it makes it hard to tease out which intervention is doing what. Maybe the only reason their blood started becoming so effective at suppressing cancer growth was because of the exercise—maybe the diet component had nothing to do with it. This had to be put to the test.

In my 4-min. video Is It the Diet, the Exercise, or Both? I describe the experiment. Three groups were compared: a plant-based diet and exercise group, an exercise only group, and a control group that did neither. The diet and exercise group had been on a plant-based diet for 14 years along with moderate exercise as simple as walking every day. The second group was exercise and hardcore exercise at that: 14 years of daily, strenuous, hour-long exercise like calisthenics, but they ate the standard American diet. Which group was better at fighting cancer?

The researchers took petri dishes brimming full of human prostate cancer cells and dripped blood from each of the three groups on different dishes to see whose blood kicked more cancer butt. Watch the diet vs. exercise video to see actual photomicrographs of the effects on cancer cells. Basically they found that strenuous exercise worked, but good diet with just moderate exercise worked better.

Even though diet appears more powerful than exercise in terms of rallying one’s cancer defenses it doesn’t mean we can’t do both! In fact eating certain plants can improve athletic performance—check out my video series that starts with Doping With Beet Juice and ends with So Should We Drink Beet Juice Or Not?.

In health,
Michael Greger, M.D.

PS: If you haven’t yet, you can subscribe to my videos for free by clicking here and watch my full 2012 presentation Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death.

Image credit: Dr. Raowf Guirguis / National Cancer Institute / Wikimedia Commons

Source : care2[dot]com

Green Living Simplified

Green living is easier than it sounds, and you don't have to completely overhaul your lifestyle and give up luxuries to be good to the environment.

By Diana Rodriguez

Medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH

Do you want to have a positive impact on the environment, but are not sure where to start? It’s easy — right from your own home you can make small waste-reduction and recycling efforts that will help conserve the earth's resources. And the concepts are simple: use less, trash less, and pollute the earth less.

How to Start Living Green Today

Green living won't cost you more money; in fact, it might help you to save. When trying to make green living changes at home, consider these four basic principles of conservation and waste reduction:

Recycle. Recycle paper, plastic, electronics, batteries, and everything else you can, curbside or at a local drop-off.
Reduce. Overall, reduce the amount of material you buy, use, and throw away, and reduce your chemical impact on the environment by cutting back on household cleaners, pesticides, and more.
Reuse. Think of how many disposable products are cluttering landfills — paper plates and napkins, plastic cups, disposable razors. Stick to reusable materials and skip single-use products whenever possible.
Re-buy. You don't always have to buy everything new. Purchase used items, borrow materials from someone else instead of buying your own, or buy goods made from recycled materials as often as you can.

Living by these environmentally sound principles will get you thinking about — and changing — how you use consumer products and treat the environment.

10 Tips for Waste Reduction

Why aren't more people giving green living a try? Thirty-four percent of those surveyed by the Nature Conservancy said that they didn't quite know what changes to make to have an impact on the environment. And as many as 29 percent didn't think the changes they made would really have an environmental impact.

But everyday green-living changes are simple to make, and they do have an impact — a big impact — especially when many people adopt these changes. You can start by implementing these 10 effortless conservation tips:

Opt for e-billing. Just think of how many paper bills you get in your mailbox each month. No one is excited to see those in the mail anyway, so switch all of your billing to electronic bills that you receive via e-mail. You can turn around and pay them online, or even over the phone, to save paper (plus the ever-rising cost of stamps).
Change your lightbulbs. Compact fluorescent light bulbs use significantly less energy than regular incandescent bulbs, and they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and wattages to give you whatever type of lighting you need.
Walk more. Do you really need to get in the car for your weekly two-minute drive to the bank or drugstore? You'll save on gas, spare the environment from pollution, and get some extra exercise.
Be economical with your car. Carpool, skip unnecessary trips, schedule one day for all your errands, take the bus, and consider buying a hybrid vehicle. These are all great ways to save money, conserve fuel, and reduce air pollution.
Conserve energy at home. Using fewer utilities is a great way to conserve resources and save money. Turn off lights and electronics when you aren't using them, limit your water use, and be frugal about setting heating and air conditioning thermostats.
Carry your own reusable grocery bag. Instead of choosing between paper or plastic, take reusable bags to the grocery and other stores whenever you shop. Think of how much clutter and waste you'll save by using the same cloth bags over and over again. Keep an empty one in your car for unexpected purchases.
Buy local. One of the treats of summer is being able to shop at local farmer's markets for the freshest produce you can get. Buying local produce is a green concept because it doesn't take as much fuel to get them to you — they may be grown just down the street instead of across the country or in another country.
Reuse and borrow. You don't have to always buy new or buy at all. Check out books from your local library, borrow tools and yard supplies from your neighbors or use a tool library, and consider secondhand appliances, tools, and other gadgets.
Boot the bottled water. Maybe you think it tastes better, but think of all the plastic water bottles you go through in a year, then add up everyone else's, too. Consider using a water filter at home instead, and tote your water in a BPA-free reusable bottle.
Dine fancy. Who likes eating off plastic plates anyway? It may be convenient to toss them after a meal, but one moment of convenience equals a lifetime in a landfill. So purge your home of all disposable products (paper napkins, towels, plates, and cups, and plastic utensils) and use only the good stuff.

Green living is just that simple. In addition to easing pressure on the environment, conservation and waste reduction can save you a lot of money that will quickly add up over months and years, and who doesn't want that?

Last Updated: 09/03/2009

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